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Filter by:The study aims to develop a test for early detection of ovarian cancer using DNA from a growth involving the ovary found in a washing of the uterus (womb), and proteins found in the blood. The samples of the wash and the blood will be taken before surgery. After surgery, doctors will determine whether the participant had ovarian cancer or a benign disease of the ovaries. The tests of the washings and the blood will be examined to see how much the participants with ovarian cancer can be separated from the participants with a benign ovarian disease by the tests. Small amounts from the washing and the blood samples will be sent to four sites for analysis. Statistical analyses of these data will compare tumor DNA found in the washing of the uterus with proteins in the blood to detect cases of ovarian cancer. The primary goal is to find tests that are mostly positive for cases of ovarian cancer and mostly negative for patients with benign disease. It is hoped that if the tests work for participants with symptoms of the disease that these tests will also work when testing women who have no symptoms. A new study would be needed to see if the tests worked in this situation. If the tests work, this could lead to increasing the number of cases detected in early stage disease and decreasing the number of cases detected in late stage disease. If this change in late stage is large, it will likely reduce deaths due to ovarian cancer.
Prehabilitation refers to interventions aiming to improve patients' resilience and functional capacity before a known stressful event, e.g., scheduled surgery. These interventions usually consist of physical activity and psychological and nutritional support. There is substantial evidence of the positive effect of multimodal prehabilitation among patients treated surgically for non-gynaecological cancers; however, no prospective data are available in gynaecological cancer patients. PHOCUS trial is a prospective randomised trial aiming to evaluate the role of multimodal prehabilitation in patients with gynaecological cancer. Sixty-four patients will be randomised in single institution within 36 months with a 1:1 ratio into ARM A: control arm which will be provided with a basic information and standard of care support; ARM B: active arm undergoing multimodal prehabilitation composed of physical activity and psychological and nutritional support. All patients will be assessed at standard intervals (three times during the trial) by a spectrum of non-invasive tests, evaluating physical functional capacity, postoperative morbidity, nutritional status, level of stress and anxiety, and quality of life.
A pragmatic, two armed, study comparing 2 standard doses of an anti-cancer drug called bevacizumab, given in combination with Chemotherapy. The study will be offered to ovarian cancer patients whose disease is platinum chemotherapy resistant . Higher doses of anti-cancer based drugs are not always better than lower doses and can cause more side effects without improvement of cancer. These patients will be randomly assigned either 7.5 mg/kg or 15mg/kg of bevacizumab combined with chemotherapy . Comparing these two doses will determine if the lower dose-level is non-inferior, and could lead to practice changes.
Retrospective observational study of patients treated with niraparib in an individual patient access program in Norway.
This phase II clinical trial studies the effect of lenvatinib, pembrolizumab, and paclitaxel in treating patients with endometrial, epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer that has come back (recurrent). While all 3 study drugs are FDA approved, and 2-drug combinations have been studied, the 3- drug combination has not been studied yet. The investigators believe that the addition of pembrolizumab to weekly paclitaxel and lenvatinib (or weekly paclitaxel to pembrolizumab and lenvatinib) is highly effective and safe with manageable side effects in both recurrent endometrial and platinum resistant ovarian cancer. The purpose of this trial is to study how well lenvatinib, pembrolizumab, and weekly paclitaxel work together in women who have recurrent endometrial cancer and/or recurrent platinum resistant ovarian, fallopian tube, and primary peritoneal cancer, and what kind of side effects patients may experience.
PARP inhibitors are most effective in homologous recombinant (HR) deficient tumors. There are clear indications that besides BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutated EOC, there is an additional group of EOC having deficiencies in HR (i.e. BRCAness) that might benefit from treatment with PARP inhibitors. Assessment of HR in high grade EOC might therefore serve as a better predictive biomarker and allow the identification of a larger group of patients that could benefit most from platinum based chemotherapy and maintenance treatment with a PARP inhibitor. We recently developed a robust ex vivo functional assay (RAD51 assay;) to test HR in viable tumor tissue. In the proposed study, we will evaluate whether the RAD51 assay predicts sensitivity to therapy with olaparib, in patients with recurrent EOC. With the RAD51 assay we aim to identify a larger number of patients who will benefit from treatment with the PARP inhibitor olaparib than patients with a germline or somatic BRCA mutation only. Furthermore, we aim to identify molecular markers (including genomic markers) that are associated with the outcome of the RAD51 assay. Finally, we will explore whether these molecular markers can be measured in liquid biopsies by analysing ctDNA.
This is a monocentric prospective observational pilot study of translational research in women with advanced ovarian epithelial cancer. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the predictive value of response to treatment with bevacizumab of the circulating levels of Ang1, Tie2 and VEGF before start of therapy. Secondary aims of the study are to explore the predictive value of response / resistance to bevacizumab of changes in circulating levels of Ang1 and Tie2 during treatment and at progression of disease, and to explore the possible role of circulating VEGF in the modulation of bioavailability of bevacizumab.
The tumor organoids platform can provide the precise genetic information and phenotype, as well as the heterogeneity of the tumor, thus provide information on drug sensitivity specific to the patient.This is an exploratory research to see if organoids testing could help guide precision treatment for ovarian cancer(OC) patients.
This phase II trial investigates the effect of irinotecan liposome and bevacizumab in treating patients with ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer that shows less response to platinum therapy (platinum resistant), has come back (recurrent), or does not respond to treatment (refractory). Irinotecan liposome may help block the formation of growths that may become cancer. Bevacizumab is a monoclonal antibody that may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Giving irinotecan liposome and bevacizumab may kill more cancer cells.
EFFECTS OF CYTOTOXIC CHEMOTHERAPY AND PARP INHIBITION ON THE GENOMIC CONTEXTURE OF OVARIAN CANCER: TR_NACT_OV/17 In order to approach the above open questions, ultimately aiming in understanding the effects of cancer drugs on tumor biology and hence in selecting the proper drugs for the patients in the context of Precision Medicine, the objective of this study is to study the genomic characteristics of ovarian tumors before and after treatment with classic neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) and with the more recently approved PARP inhibitor olaparib.