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Filter by:At present there is no validated prognostic tool for patients with resectable pancreatic cancer (RPC) to determine how best to tailor individual therapy. This study is to see if tumor features in blood and imaging prior to surgery correspond with tumor heterogeneity in the specimen after surgery.
The investigators hypothesized that with the administration of the nutritional supplement Ocoxin-Viusid® is expected to improve the quality of life and enhance tolerance to chemotherapy in at least 70% of patients diagnosed with advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma, treated at the "Hermanos Ameijeiras" Surgical Clinical Hospital. Phase II clinical trial, open, multicenter, nonrandomized.
When gemcitabine based chemo and fluorouracil based chemo regimes are failed in late-stage or recurrent pancreatic cancer patients, there is no alternative options. Anti-PD-1 antibody has became a promising anti-cancer drug. While it showed limited efficacy in pancreatic cancer. Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy has been a new method to locally treat metastatic cancer. This study is aimed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the combination of SBRT and anti-PD-1 antibody in late-stage or recurrent pancreatic caner who failed in second-line chemotherapy.
Patients are randomized into two arms. Arm A patients will receive Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) and Arm B patients with receive conventional concurrent chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
The purpose of this study is to treat participants with the combination of CPI-613 (the study drug) with FOLFIRINOX (the standard combination of drugs) to determine if it is safe and effective for participants with localized and unresectable pancreatic cancer. This study is specifically for participants who have a pancreatic cancer that is localized and not considered resectable or removable by a surgeon, without additional treatment.
The purpose of this study is to see if a combination of paclitaxel protein bound (also known as nab-paclitaxel), gemcitabine, and cisplatin when given with high dose Ascorbic Acid will be safe and effective in individuals with untreated metastatic pancreatic cancer. Vitamin C is a nutrient found in food and dietary supplements. It protects cells and also plays a key role in making collagen (which provides strength and structure to skin, bones, tissues and tendons). High-dose vitamin C may be given by intravenous (IV) infusion (through a vein into the bloodstream) or orally (taken by mouth). When taken by intravenous infusion, vitamin C can reach much higher levels in the blood than when the same amount is taken by mouth. Some human studies of high-dose IV vitamin C in patients with cancer have shown improved quality of life, as well as improvements in physical, mental, and emotional functions, symptoms of fatigue, nausea and vomiting, pain, and appetite loss. Intravenous high-dose ascorbic acid has caused very few side effects in clinical trials.
The use of epidural catheters for postoperative analgesia in pancreatic surgery is recommended by the guidelines of the ERAS society. Some studies claim it may expose to hemodynamic alterations that may compromise outcome and increase postoperative complications, attributable to a malfunction of the catheter itself, often linked to a bad positioning, since this is usually positioned with LOS technique. Our hypothesis is that a positioning made using the radiographic guide the day before the intervention can significantly reduce the number of catheter's dysfunctions.
Resection with negative margins (R0) followed by adjuvant chemotherapy is today the standard of care and the only chance of cure for patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA). Incomplete microscopic resection margin (R1) after pancreatic resection has been reported to occur in 17 to >80% of cases depending on the nonconsensual definition of R1 status. This discrepancy is reflected in conflicting reports regarding the prognostic relevance of R1 resection. Currently, neither the definition of the margin involvement nor the surgical technique to clear the margins is consistently applied, resulting in conflicting data in the literature. The Radical Antegrade Modular Pancreatosplenectomy (RAMPS) was described by Strasberg et al. in 2003 to increase the rate of R0 resection for left PDA. However, there is no grade A recommendation and surgical practices still remain heterogeneous as many surgeons still consider the "retrograde" technique as the standard procedure. The invasion of the resection margins is often poorly evaluated, including in large clinical trials. The surgical specimens are not systematically inked and the microscopic invasion of the splenic vessels is underreported, leading to inaccurate pathologic evaluation. A French prospective multicenter study (Delpero JR et al; ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00918853) was previously conducted for pancreaticoduodenectomy specimens. A recent update (Ann Surg 2017, in press) has emphasized the value of a standardized pathology protocol to accurately assess the impact of R0 resection and improve patient's stratification. Today, no recommendations are available regarding the surgical procedure and histological analysis for DP specimen handling. The primary endpoint of this multicenter randomized control trial (RCT) is to investigate the benefit of the RAMPS procedure in comparison to standard distal pancreatosplenectomy (SDPS) on the R0-resection rate using a high-quality pathology protocol. To date, there are no prospective data assessing the superiority of the RAMPS technique over standard resection. This study will be the first RCT on the subject. This study could improve the surgical practices and define a surgical standard of care. The pathology protocol used for the study could help to standardize histopathology report on margin status. It could also provide a better evaluation of the impact of adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapies on local control. This study should lead to improved selection of patients for upfront surgery and give appropriate perioperative treatment tailored to a well-defined disease stage. Furthermore, guidelines for surgical practices and standardization of histological examination may represent a significant step forward in the design of future trials to assess perioperative strategies.
GSK-3β is a potentially important therapeutic target in human malignancies. The Actuate 1801 Phase 1/2 study is designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of 9-ING-41, a potent GSK-3β inhibitor, as a single agent and in combination with cytotoxic agents, in patients with refractory cancers.
The study consists in a co-clinical trial by using zebrafish embryos. Specifically, an observational prospective clinical trial on patients operated of epato-biliar-pancreatic cancers and gastro-intestinal cancers undergoing a chemotherapy treatment will be run concurrently to an animal trial on zebrafish embryos xenotransplanted with patient cancer cells in order to demonstrate that zebrafish model is able to predict the therapeutic regimen with the best efficacy for each patient.