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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to compare best supportive care plus oxaliplatin/ folinic acid/ 5-FU versus best supportive alone in patients with gemcitabine refractory pancreatic cancer.
To evaluate the safety and efficacy of chemotherapy with or without enoxaparin. This study is powered to decrease the DVT/ VTE events rate from 10% to 3% with enoxaparin in the experimental arm. N=540pts, dropout-rate 15%, power 80 %, two sided, significant level 5%
It is hypothesized that OGF biotherapy may be safely administered in combination with gemcitabine to individuals with unresectable pancreatic cancer. The study includes two aims, the first is to evaluate the safety and toxicity of the combination of OGF and gemcitabine chemotherapy. The second aim of the trial is to study the efficacy of OGF and gemcitabine when used in combination.
This registry will collect data from patients routinely undergoing an ERCP and Cellvizio endomicroscopy procedure (and optionally an additional cholangiopancreatoscopy procedure) due to suspected pancreatic or bile duct cancer. The objective is to determine if endomicroscopy images collected using the marketed Cellvizio device may help endoscopists more accurately diagnose, in conjunction with traditional tissue sampling techniques, whether a suspected lesion is malignant or benign.
This is a two-part study. Part I is an observational study. Part II is a randomized clinical trial to see how well medical nutrition therapy works compared with standard care in treating patients with lung cancer, pancreatic cancer, or stage III or stage IV prostate cancer.
Objectives: Primary Objectives: - Phase I: Determine the maximal tolerated dose (MTD) of MK-0646 in combination with gemcitabine or gemcitabine plus erlotinib and recommended phase II dose. - Phase II: - Assess progression-free survival (PFS) with a) gemcitabine plus MK-0646 b) gemcitabine plus erlotinib plus MK-0646 and c) gemcitabine plus erlotinib. - Explore IGF1 tissue level as a predictive biomarker for MK-0646 therapy in phase II expansion cohort. Secondary Objectives: - Assess overall response rate (ORR), treatment toxicity, and overall survival (OS) with the addition of MK-0646 to gemcitabine or gemcitabine plus erlotinib. - Correlate PFS and OS with IGF-1, IGFBP-3 levels and the expression of p-IRS, IGF-1R, EMT biomarkers, Akt, Erk, mTOR, and PI13k in tumor cells. - To assess the incidence of single nucleotide polymorphisms of the IgF1R pathway related genes (IGF1, IGF1R, IRS1 and IRS2). These genotypes will be correlated with the clinical endpoints of this study, including OS, ORR and PFS.
To test the ability of new imaging techniques to monitor and predict response of pancreatic cancer to radiation and/or chemotherapy.
To determine whether biomarkers assessed in blood samples can be used to detect individuals at risk for developing blood clots or worsening of their underlying disease. The ultimate goal of the study is to identify key biomarkers derived from blood that are most characteristic and informative of individuals who will go on to develop a clotting complication.
Primary Objective: To assess margin positive resection rate (R1 resection rate; defined as "tumor within 2 mm of surgical margin on final pathology report") in patients treated with preoperative chemotherapy (gemcitabine and erlotinib) with or without external-beam radiation therapy followed by pancreaticoduodenectomy for adenocarcinoma of the pancreatic head. Secondary Objectives: - To assess disease free survival - To assess overall survival - To assess patterns of local and distant failure
The purpose of this study is to find out what effects, good and/or bad, proton radiation combined with chemotherapy and surgery has on you and your pancreatic cancer. This study will look at the side effects from the treatment and the quality of your life in relation to pain. It will also look at how the tumor responds to the combination of treatment with radiation, chemotherapy and surgery.