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Filter by:Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a cancer of grave prognosis, with only about 10% of patients alive at 5 years after diagnosis. Primary surgical resection is feasible in about 10-15% of patients with an early-stage disease. Another 30-35% of patients have locally advanced disease with invasion into major vasculature but without detectable metastases. Surgery offers a chance of cure. The introduction of adjuvant multi-agent chemotherapy has improved prognosis after surgery. In the management of patients with PDAC, the role of neoadjuvant therapy is less certain. Neoadjuvant therapy for pancreatic cancer can in theory control early systemic spread and improve rate of having no macroscopic or microscopic residual tumor (R0 resection). In the The European Study Group for Pancreatic Cancer (ESPAC-5) study, neoadjuvant combination chemotherapy did not increase rate of resection who had borderline-resectable disease but appears to improve overall survival (OS). Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy may represent a new paradigm in the treatment of pancreatic cancer. Mesothelin (MSLN) is a 40 kDa membrane protein not expressed in normal cells, but highly expressed in a variety of cancer cells, such as mesothelioma, lung, breast, ovarian, gastric and pancreatic cancer. MSLN is expressed about 80% of PDAC. There are several immunotherapies targeting MSLN for PDAC treatment, including antibody-based drugs (monoclonal antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, immunotoxins), vaccines, and CAR-T cell therapy. The safety of CAR-T cells targeting MSLN in the treatment of cancers has also been verified in several clinical trials on lung cancers (NCT01583686, NCT02414269, NCT01355965). Professor Li Peng's group at the Chinese Academy of Science designed third generation CAR-T cells targeting MSLN and validated their use in both human PDAC cell lines, animal models, and in 4 patients with advanced malignancies. In a 42-year-old man with metastatic PDAC, the MSLN targeted CAR-T treatment led to complete response follow several hepatic artery infusion and intravenous infusion. These early cases confirmed the safety of these MSLN targeted CAR-T cells. In the current proposed feasibility study, the researcher hypothesise that Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-guided injection of MSLN targeted CAR-T cells into PDAC can induce a tumor response, improve rate of R0 resection and translate into better patient survival.
A unique approach for cancer treatment employing intratumoral diffusing alpha radiation emitter device for advanced pancreatic cancer
Gemcitabine-based chemotherapy or combination with FOLFIRINOX is the leading treatment of pancreatic cancer. However, the overall response rate of pancreatic cancer to gemcitabine is less than 20%. Resistance to gemcitabine is the most important reason. There is an urgent need to develop new combination therapies to improve the efficiency of chemotherapy, avoid toxicity limitations, and improve the overall prognosis of pancreatic cancer. At present, it has been found that canagliflozin can reduce the expression level of PD-L1 in pancreatic cancer and restore the vitality of CD8+ T cells. Canagliflozin combined with gemcitabine may improve the efficiency of chemotherapy.
This study is a multicenter, open-label, phase II study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK), immunogenicity, pharmacodynamics (PD) and anti-tumor activities of AK104，a PD-1/CTLA-4 bispecific antibody, in combination with gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel as first-line therapy in subjects with advanced unresectable or metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
A key aspect of the trial is that functions of anti-neoplastic T cells and natural killer (NK) cells, may be inhibited by immunosuppressive signals from myeloid cells, in particular reactive oxygen species (ROS) produced by several subsets of myeloid cells. In cancer, such immunosuppressive cells are commonly denoted myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs), which are immature monocytes and granulocytes that impede immune-mediated clearance of malignant cells by multiple mechanisms, including the formation of immunosuppressive ROS via myeloid cell NADPH oxidase (NOX2). The presence of MDSCs within or adjacent to tumor tissue is assumed to facilitate the growth and spread of tumors and may also dampen the efficacy of cancer immunotherapies. The underlying hypothesis for this clinical trial is the administration of HDC/IL-2 will reduce surgery-induced inflammation and reduce metastasis. A phase I/II open label, single-center study of the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of peri- and postoperative therapy with histamine dihydrochloride and low-dose interleukin-2 treatment in subjects with primary pancreatic cancer.To assess the frequency and extent of adverse events associated with low dose interleukin-2 and histamine dihydrochloride when used as perioperative therapy.To determine progression free survival and overall survival following surgery, and compare with matched historical controls from the Swedish Cancer Registry.
laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy(LPD) and Robot Pancreaticoduodenectomy (RPD), as two minimally invasive methods of pancreaticoduodenectomy(PD), have obvious advantages over traditional open pancreaticoduodenectomy(OPD) in terms of reducing surgical trauma and hospitalization time, but there are few studies on their perioperative safety and prognostic effects.However, there are few studies on the perioperative safety and prognostic effects of both procedures. In this trial, the perioperative data and prognosis of both procedures were collected and analyzed through a prospective, multicenter approach to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of both procedures.
Further studies are needed to investigate the prognosis and perioperative safety of patients undergoing robotic-assisted pancreaticoduodenectomy. In this study, clinical data and prognostic data of patients undergoing this procedure were prospectively collected and analyzed to explore its safety and efficacy.
EXCEED is a non-interventional post-authorisation safety study aiming to assess the risk of developing pancreatic cancer among type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients who initiated exenatide compared to those who initiated other non-glucagon like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RA) based glucose lowering drugs (GLDs). Study data will be collected from secondary data sources across 7 European countries. The study will be conducted as a multi-country, long-term, retrospective, observational database study. Initiators of exenatide will be matched to initiators of non-GLP-1 RA based GLDs (comparator group) based on propensity score and calendar period of study entry. All analyses for pancreatic cancer will be conducted in the matched study population using an "intention-to-treat" approach. The study will use information from 8 data sources in 7 European countries (France, Spain, The United Kingdom, Finland, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden). Patients with T2DM, aged 18 years or older, who initiated treatment with exenatide or non-GLP-1 RA based GLDs during the study period, 2006 to 2023, will be included. Exposure to exenatide and non-GLP-1 RA based GLDs will be ascertained from recordings of prescriptions or insurance claims registrations as available in the different data sources. The outcome of pancreatic cancer will be defined as a primary diagnosis of pancreatic cancer during follow-up.
The goal of this research study is to asses the safety and efficacy of the combination of AGEN1423 and Balstilimab with or without chemotherapies, gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel, for the treatment of advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) which has progressed after at least one previous line of cancer therapy. The names of the study drugs involved in this study are: - AGEN1423 - Balstilimab Participants will receive study treatment for about 2 years and will be followed for 1 year after.
Ablative dose magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) guided hypofractionated radiation therapy delivered using daily adaptive dose planning has shown to improve overall survival, relative to patients receiving lower radiation doses, in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer, without increasing the rate of serious gastrointestinal toxicity. The next step is to determine how these results compare to chemotherapy alone. This is a prospective, randomized controlled trial (2:1) comparing induction chemotherapy followed by ablative Stereotactic MR-guided on-table Adaptive Radiation Therapy (SMART) versus chemotherapy alone in locally advanced pancreatic cancer patients. Overall survival outcomes at 2-years will be evaluated.