View clinical trials related to Ovarian Cancer.
Filter by:The purpose of this study is to try to understand the biology of development of breast, ovarian, fallopian tube, peritoneal or endometrial cancer from persons at high genetic risk for these diseases. The influence of environmental factors on cancer development in individuals and families will be studied. The efficacy of treatments for these diseases will be evaluated.
A study to examine the combination of temsirolimus and Caelyx® (chemotherapeutic) in advanced or recurrent breast, endometrial and ovarian cancer.
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as paclitaxel and cisplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving more than one drug (combination chemotherapy) may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying the side effects of giving paclitaxel together with cisplatin as first-line therapy and to see how well it works in treating patients with stage I, stage II, stage III, or stage IV ovarian epithelial cancer.
RATIONALE: Learning about the effect of nutritional supplements on quality of life in patients receiving chemotherapy for cancer may help doctors plan the best treatment. PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying nutritional supplements to see how well they work in improving quality of life during first-line chemotherapy in patients with metastatic gynecologic cancer.
RATIONALE: Studying tissue and blood samples from patients with cancer in the laboratory may help doctors learn more about changes that occur in DNA and identify biomarkers related to cancer. It may also help doctors predict how patients respond to treatment. PURPOSE: This laboratory study is evaluating DNA to see how well it predicts response to treatment in patients with stage I, stage II, stage III, or stage IV ovarian epithelial cancer.
RATIONALE: Collecting samples of tissue from patients with cancer to study in the laboratory may help doctors predict how well patients will respond to treatment with certain chemotherapy drugs and plan the best treatment. PURPOSE: This laboratory study is looking at tumor tissue samples to predict response to chemotherapy in patients with ovarian cancer, fallopian tube cancer, or primary peritoneal cancer.
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as paclitaxel-loaded polymeric micelle and carboplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving more than one drug (combination chemotherapy) may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase I/II trial is studying the side effects and best dose of paclitaxel-loaded polymeric micelle and carboplatin and to see how well they work as first-line therapy in treating patients with advanced ovarian cancer.
This study aimed to compare the activity of Thymidine Kinase 1 in serum of two groups of woman at high and normal risk for breast/ovary cancer.
Ovarian cancer is the first mortality rate of gynecologic malignancies. The incidence of ovarian cancer increased in recent 10 years and it has become the ninth cause of malignancies in the women in Taiwan. From the above-mentioned data, ovarian cancer indeed is a disease that should be respected, however, there were only few of research work focusing on it in Taiwan. Despite the widespread use of aggressive cytoreductive surgery and the introduction of chemotherapy regimens, the overall survival has changed little over the last two decades. The basic problem in treating epithelial ovarian cancer is that once it has spread beyond the ovary, it is exceedingly difficult to control and ultimately to cure. More than 70% of ovarian cancer patients were advanced stage when diagnosed. To study the mechanisms of carcinogenesis, progression, and metastasis of ovarian cancer will help us understand this disease and develop new treatment strategies for ovarian cancer in the future. We have established an ascites-generating intraperitoneal tumor cell line-WF3 in the mouse model in our previous two-year project of NSC grant (grant number (NSC90-2314-B-002-457 and NSC91-2341-B-002-315). Our group found that, mesothelin, this molecule is highly related with the carcinogenesis, tumor progression and tumor metastasis in our animal model and human cancer tissues. To further evaluate the role of mesothelin in ovarian cancer and elucidate the potential of mesothelin as a target antigen for immunotherapy,
Cancer is the leading cause of mortality in our country, and ovarian cancer becomes a more and more important disease gradually in the field of gynecologic malignancies. According to the statistics of the Department of Health, the incidence of ovarian cancer increased in recent years and the mortality rate was the highest among all gynecologic malignancies in Taiwan. Early diagnosis for ovarian cancer is difficult due to the lack of obvious and specific initial symptoms. Therefore, it is usually at advanced stage when the diagnosis is confirmed. The prognostic parameters for ovarian cancer include tumor stage, histological subtype and grade, residual tumor after surgical intervention and the response to chemotherapy. However, the possible mechanism of ovarian cancer is still not clear now, which has considerable influence on the management and prognosis of the patients. Malignancy is considered as a multi-factorial disease, and the influence of immunologic mechanism on progression and prognosis of cancer is more and more important. The natural CD25+CD4+ regulatory T cells actively suppress pathologic and physiological immune response, contributing to the maintenance of immunological self-tolerance and immune homeostasis. The development and function of regulatory T cells depend on the expression of the transcription factor forkhead box P3 (FOXP3). The mechanisms of suppression are still not known well. Whatever the mechanisms of suppression are, it is necessary to control the magnitude of regulatory T cells-mediated suppression for the benefit of the host because too much suppression might lead to immunosuppression and render the host susceptible to infection and cancer. We will collect the tumor tissue, ascites and peripheral blood during operation. Through this research we will set up the immunological profiles in the changes of lymphocytes, humoral immunity and cell-mediated immunity in ovarian cancer patients. The kinetic changes and associations between regulatory T cells and the severity and progression of disease will also be evaluated. Therefore, the role of regulatory T cells would be defined in the patients with ovarian cancer. We will also correlate the regulatory T cells with the clinical prognosis of ovarian cancer patients. Finally, we will try to find an efficient therapeutic strategy for the cancer patients.