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Filter by:A. Pancreatic cancer background In 2012, 1,172 new pancreatic cancer patients were diagnosed in Switzerland. Only 20% of the patients with newly diagnosed pancreatic cancer are candidates for surgical resection, the only potential treatment for cure. Over 30% of the patients initially present with locally advanced disease. Patients with locally advanced disease have no evidence of metastatic spread to the liver, lung, and peritoneum but present with local involvement of vital structures that prohibits reasonable tumor resection. Currently, those patients are evaluated for palliative chemotherapy +/- radiation therapy. However, even with best conventional medical therapy, median survival of patients with locally advanced disease is mostly below 1 year. Over the last years, loco-regional therapies gained increased attention including radiofrequency-, cryo-, and microwave ablation as well as electrochemotherapy. However, all those entities are criticized by their complication rates leading to morbidity and mortality, limited area of application given the complex anatomical structures around the pancreas, and ill-defined improvements in overall survival. B. Irreversible electroporation (IRE): Irreversible electroporation is an emerging ablative modality that gained enormous interest over the last five years. For locally advanced pancreatic cancer, it was introduced in 2009. IRE is mainly non-thermal and primarily works through apoptosis. Its well studied safety profile allows ablation also within the context of locally advanced pancreatic cancer given it mainly spares vessels from destruction. Increasing evidence shows that IRE for locally advanced, unresectable pancreatic cancer is effective compared to historic controls with a significant prolongation of local progression free survival, distant progression free survival and overall survival. The improvement in overall survival is about double the amount of what is seen with best new chemotherapy and chemoradiation regimens used at the present time. Those results are even more impressive given the discouraging improvements among palliative systemic options. The NanoKnife IRE device (Angiodynamics, Queensbury, NY) is commonly used to perform IRE procedures in pancreatic cancer patients and is commercially available since 2009 and got Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510K clearance for soft tissue ablation in October 2011 in the United States. C. Quality of life and nutritional status/long term outcomes Given the overall poor long-term outcomes of patients with pancreatic cancer, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures are of utmost importance when treatment recommendations are discussed with patients. This is especially true for patients with more advanced staged disease where definitive surgical resection with curative intent is not possible. However, HRQoL reports for patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer undergoing IRE are very limited. To the best of the investigators' knowledge, no other specific investigations exist that assessed HRQoL measures for patients undergoing IRE for locally advanced pancreatic cancer, no specific assessment exists that focuses on nutritional status for this patient group. In addition, impact on local and distant recurrence as well as cancer-specific and overall survival are still ill-defined and further information is needed.
To compare the efficacy of pegilodecakin in combination with FOLFOX versus FOLFOX alone in participants with metastatic pancreatic cancer as measured by overall survival.
This is an open-label, non-randomized, sequentially enrolling single arm phase II trial to evaluate the activity of TAS-102 in previously treated metastatic and locally advanced unresectable pancreatic cancer after progression through or intolerance to first or second line chemotherapy. Trial therapy will consist of TAS-102 (Lonsurf®) 35 mg/m2 to be given orally twice daily on days 1-5 and 8-12 with cycles repeating every 28 days. The primary endpoint is to determine the progression free survival (PFS) in subjects with unresectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
The purpose of this study is to test any good and bad effects of the study drug called PEGPH20. PEGPH20 alone is considered investigational. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved the marketing or sale of PEGPH20, but have authorized its use in research studies with humans. PEGPH20 could shrink the cancer but it also can cause side effects. PEGPH20 is an enzyme that breaks down a specific tissue component called hyaluronan produced by some tumors. Pancreatic tumors often have a large amount of hyaluronan. The removal of hyaluronan from tumors may decrease tumor growth.
This study evaluate the additional effect of adding chemotherapy prior to resection of a pancreatic head malignancy. The patients will be randomized into two groups; surgery first (control group) and neoadjuvant chemotherapy (intervention). Primary endpoint is overall survival after resection
The purpose of the study is to compare two particular techniques of tissue (capillary vs wet-suction techniques) sampling during endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration/biopsy (EUS-FNA/FNB) of a solid lesion to determine the diagnostic yield and procedure logistics (e.g. procedure time).
The pancreatic surgery causing some pancreatic collections. And in a number of case, this surgery can require a surgical resumption, a percutaneous drainage or an endoscopic drainage. The endoscopic care of the treatment of pancreatic collections post-surgery is not yet standardized. After failure of the medical treatment, the drainage of collections by echo-endoscopy was described. There are not much series on this specific subject. Only 2 series contain more than 20 patients with 31 patients for the most important. The timing and the technical choice of the endoscopic treatment as well as the long-term follow-up are not clear. The purpose of this study is to estimate the success and the complications of the endoscopic drainage by echo-endoscopy according to the techniques of drainage and the timing of the endoscopic treatment. The not estimated long-term follow-up will be also considered.
This study is to define the safety profile and to determine the Maximal tolerated dose regimen and preliminary efficacy of AbGn-107 administered every 14 days (Q2W regimen) or 28 days (Q4W regimen) in patients with chemo-refractory locally advanced, recurrent or metastatic gastric, colorectal, pancreatic or biliary cancer.
The aims of this three-year study are to: 1. explore the change of fatigue, nutritional status, quality of life and care needs in patients with operable pancreatic cancer perioperatively and following surgery within 3 months. 2. develop and evaluate the effect of patient-centered cancer prehabilitation care program on improving fatigue, nutritional status and quality of life (QOL) in this population.
Pancreatic cancer is associated with an extremely poor prognosis, reflected by a 5-y survival probability of less than 5% when all stages are combined. At present, only approximately 10%-20% of patients are considered candidates for curative resection. The majority of patients (50%-60%) are present with metastatic disease, and substantial number of patients (approximately 30%-40%) are considered ''locally advanced'' at the time of diagnosis. Replication-competent Adenovirus-mediated Double Suicide Gene Therapy (Theragene®,Ad5-yCD/mutTKSR39rep-ADP) showed an anti-cancer effect in patients with prostatic cancer in phase I study. From the experience of prostatic cancer, the safety of combination with standard chemotherapy with Theragene treatment is assessed in this study.