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Filter by:RATIONALE: Sirolimus may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well sirolimus works in treating patients with advanced pancreatic cancer.
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as gemcitabine, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. WX-671 may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Giving gemcitabine together with WX-671 may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying how well gemcitabine works when given together with WX-671 or when given alone in treating patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer that cannot be removed by surgery.
In patients with unresectable advanced pancreatic cancer, non-inferiority of TS-1 monotherapy and superiority of GEM + TS-1 combination therapy to gemcitabine (GEM) will be verified using survival time.
This is an open-label, multi-center phase II study of erlotinib in patients with metastatic or locally advanced, unresectable pancreatic cancer who have received up to one line of gemcitabine based chemotherapy.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether early recurrence after curative resection of ductal pancreatic adenocarcinoma can be explained by either dissemination of cancer cells during intraoperative tumour manipulation, post-operative systemic immune suppression, alteration of biological properties of circulating cancer cells or a combination of these.
This study with pemetrexed is for patients with metastatic or unresectable pancreatic cancer who progressed after first line chemotherapy with gemcitabine.
RATIONALE: Measuring cadmium levels in urine samples from patients with chronic pancreatitis may help doctors predict which patients may develop pancreatic cancer. It may also help the study of cancer in the future. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying urine cadmium levels in predicting pancreatic cancer risk in patients with chronic pancreatitis.
RATIONALE: Diagnostic procedures, such as visceral lymphatic mapping using isosulfan blue, may help find cancer of the pancreas, colon, stomach, small intestine, or gallbladder and find out how far the disease has spread. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying the side effects and how well visceral lymphatic mapping using isosulfan blue works in patients with cancer of the pancreas, colon, stomach, small intestine, or gallbladder.
This is a phase I clinical trial examining the safety, feasibility, and toxicity of gemcitabine and erlotinib when given in combination with capecitabine in adult patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Treatment will be administered at Moffitt on an outpatient basis and consists gemcitabine once per week for 3 weeks, followed by a week off treatment. Erlotinib (tablet) taken by mouth continuously starting with day one of cycle 1 with capecitabine taken twice per day on days 1-14 of each cycle followed by a 2 week off treatment rest period. An accelerated dose-escalation scheme will be employed with 4 planned dose levels. Whenever patients have been enrolled at a given dose with at most 1 DLT, the protocol will be stopped and the dose will be called the maximum tolerated dose (MTD). Patients will be treated at the recommended phase II dose (RPTD) to confirm tolerability at that dose. In the absence of treatment delays due to adverse events, treatment may continue for 6 cycles or until disease progression and patients may continue on the study regimen unless they experience an adverse event that meets the criteria for a dose limiting toxicity.
RATIONALE: Determining how patients makes decisions about participating in a clinical trial may help doctors plan clinical trials in which more patients are willing to participate and are satisfied with their decision to participate. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how patients with stage II, stage III, or stage IV pancreatic cancer or stage III or stage IV colon cancer or rectal cancer make decisions about participating in a clinical trial.