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Filter by:Background: - Some people have cancers that don't respond to standard treatments. In these cases, doctors may try to use drugs to slow the growth of the cancer. Objectives: - To test the safety and efficacy of the drug combination of ganetespib and ziv-aflibercept. Eligibility: - Adults age 18 and over with advanced cancer of the colon, lung, urinary tract, and sarcomas. Design: - Participants will be screened with medical history, blood tests, and scans to measure their tumors. - Participants will have one or two eye exams, with dilating eye drops. - Participants will get the study drugs at the clinic as an infusion in a vein. Ganetespib will be given once a week on the same day for 3 weeks in a row, followed by a 1-week rest period. Ziv-aflibercept will be given once every other week. The drugs will be given in 28-day cycles. - Participants may have a small piece of their tumor collected once or twice. This is done using a small needle during computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or ultrasound scan. - Participants will have their blood pressure checked at each visit. They will check it at home every day of the study. - Participants may have one or more whole-body positron emission tomography (PET) scans with 89Zr-panitumumab. A small amount of a radioactive chemical will be injected through a tube in an arm. Participants will lie on a bed that slides in and out of the donut-shaped PET scanner. They will have small amounts of blood drawn. - Participants may stay in the study as long as they are tolerating the drugs and their tumor is not getting worse.
This randomized clinical trial studies survivorship care in reducing symptoms in young adult cancer survivors. Survivorship care programs that identify the needs of young adult cancer survivors and ways to support them through the years after treatment may help reduce symptoms, such as pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, depression, and distress, in young adult cancer survivors.
The purpose of this study is to find out what effects, good and/or bad, radiation has on the lungs has on the patient and on synovial sarcoma which has spread to the lungs. The standard treatment for synovial sarcoma which has spread to the lungs is chemotherapy with or without surgery to remove the tumors in the lungs. However, tumors often come back in the lungs after chemotherapy and/or surgery. Since synovial sarcoma is known to be sensitive to radiation, this study is looking at whether radiation therapy which is targeted to the entire lung can further reduce the chances of the cancer returning. This type of radiation is commonly used in other types of sarcoma to treat the cancer once it has spread to the lungs and it may be very useful in synovial sarcoma as well. In this study, a special type of radiation will be used, called Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT). With IMRT the radiation beams are more customized to focus more radiation on the tumor cells while delivering less radiation to areas like the heart. The goal of this study is also to measure pulmonary toxicity and see if IMRT is feasible and has less toxicity.
This randomized phase II/III trial studies how well pazopanib, when combined with chemotherapy and radiation therapy or radiation therapy alone, work in the treatment of patients with newly diagnosed non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcomas that can eventually be removed by surgery. Radiation therapy uses high energy x-rays to kill tumor cells. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as ifosfamide and doxorubicin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Pazopanib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. It is not yet known whether these therapies can be safely combined and if they work better when given together in treating patients with non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcomas.
This pilot phase I clinical trial studies the side effects and best dose of toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) agonist glucopyranosyl lipid A (GLA)-stable-emulsion (SE) when given together with radiation therapy in treating patients with soft tissue sarcoma that has spread to other parts of the body (metastatic) or cannot be removed by surgery (unresectable). TLR4 agonist GLA-SE may stimulate the immune system to kill sarcoma cells. Radiation therapy uses high energy x rays to kill tumor cells. Giving TLR4 agonist GLA-SE with radiation therapy may be a better treatment to treat sarcoma that cannot be removed by surgery.
This study will be with pediatric patients who have refractory/recurrent solid tumors. They will receive standard chemotherapy (ICE) and we are investigating if the addition of a new drug, ODSH, will help to increase the time of their platelet recovery after ICE chemotherapy.The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of ODSH in pediatric patients receiving "ICE" chemotherapy.
The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility (ability to be done) of experimental technologies to determine a tumor's molecular makeup. This technology includes a genomic report based on DNA exomes and RNA sequencing that will be used to discover new ways to understand cancers and potentially predict the best treatments for patients with cancer in the future.
This phase II trial studies the effects, good and bad, of gamma secretase inhibitor PF-03084014 and to see how well it works in treating patients with acquired immune deficiency virus (AIDS)-associated Kaposi sarcoma. Gamma secretase inhibitor PF-03084014 may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth and may shrink the tumor.
The randomized, controlled trial is aiming at comparing local control rate between two surgical resections, barrier resection and local wide resection with 1cm or equivalent normal tissues. This is based on the fact that the goal of local surgical treatment is to remove the tumor with negative margin and best functional outcome, but there is a lack of standard principle of surgery. Some surgical oncologists recommended enlarging surgical field in which case the associated muscle was removed from origin to insertion, the previous surgical scar and radiation field were also grossly remove, though there would be extra trauma and unacceptable function impairment, they believe that patients would benefit from "big operations". Most other surgeons would perform a sarcoma resection through normal tissues, and reported a fair local control as long as a negative margin was obtained. As reported by various authors, recurrent STSs are associated with higher risk to develop further recurrence as compared to primary STSs, thus, efforts should focus on this category of STSs to improve outcome.
Alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS), a rare subset of STS (<1%) harbors t(X;17)(p11;q25) translocation and produces resultant ASPL-TFE3 fusion protein. Due to its nature of high expression of angiogenic factors, sunitinib and cediranib produced overall response rates of 55% and 43%, respectively. However, the efficacy of pazopanib is unknown in metastatic ASPS.