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Filter by:This is a single-arm, phase II trial of SOM230 in patients with documented recurrent or progressive intracranial meningioma who have failed conventional therapy and are not candidates for complete surgical resection of their tumors and/or radiation at the time of study entry. At the time of the final analysis, all patients who are receiving treatment with SOM230 will complete the core phase of the study and will continue on the extension phase. During this time, additional data on response duration, PFS, and safety will be collected.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of XL888 in subjects with solid tumors. XL888 is a potent and selective inhibitor of HSP90, a key component of a molecular chaperone complex that promotes the conformational maturation and stabilization of diverse client proteins. Many HSP90 client proteins play critical roles in signaling pathways implicated in tumor cell growth, proliferation, and survival.
To determine the safety, tolerability, and the highest dose of this drug given once every 3 weeks or once every week, (per 21 day cycle) in adult subjects with relapsed or refractory solid tumors.
The goal of this study is to evaluate the safety of melphalan and autologous PBSCT (peripheral blood stem cell transplantation - stem cells that come from your own body) in combination with bortezomib, a new FDA approved drug used to treat myeloma.
This is an open label, Phase II, multi-center study designed to evaluate the effect of AVR118 when administered to patients with systemic symptoms related to recurrent or metastatic cancers who may or may not be undergoing anti-cancer treatment. During the initial, induction treatment phase of the study, AVR118, 4.0 mL, will be given subcutaneously each day for 28 days. Patients who respond to the trial period dosing will be eligible to continue on AVR118 if they and their physicians believe it would be beneficial, and if no safety concerns are raised.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, efficacy, and side effects of the CryoSpray Ablation(TM) System (CSA(TM) System) to treat neoplastic lesions on the parietal pleural surface.
This study will confirm safety and tolerability and determine the MTD of BGT226 in Japanese patients with advanced solid tumor.
The primary purpose of this study is to find out what the maximum tolerated dose is for an experimental drug called AZD6918 based on the side effects experienced by patients with advanced solid malignancies that receive daily AZD6918 alone. It is possible that AZD6918 will be administered twice daily. Then maximum tolerated doses in combination with either gemcitabine or pemetrexed will also be investigated.
The purpose of this study is to determine the maximum tolerated dose of ALB 109564(a), a novel tubulin inhibitor, and to assess safety, pharmacokinetics, and anti-tumor activity in subjects with advanced solid tumors.
Today, available therapies for hilar cholangiocarcinomas (CCA) are not satisfactory. Although these tumors are rare, their study is important because of the high death rates in afflicted patients, rivaling that of pancreatic cancer. Surgical resection offers the only current hope for long-term survival, averaging only 20% in major series1. The reality is such that for the majority of patients, CCA is a diagnosis of despair. Although surgery has offered the only hope of cure, one of the major limiting factors in achieving long-term survival following surgical resection of CCA is the technical ability to achieve negative resection margins. The presence of malignant cells at the surgical margins following resection is a major prognostic factor predicting recurrence and death. Theoretically, the likelihood of achieving negative margins can be increased with total hepatectomy and orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). Previous experience with OLT performed in isolation for hilar CCA's has been discouraging with dismal survival rates. However, a recent report has demonstrated that long-term survival can occur in carefully selected patients by combining the benefits of radiotherapy, chemosensitization, and OLT. With this strategy, patients survival rates of 92%, 82%, and 82% at 1, 3, and 5 years after transplantation have been achieved. It is not clear that these preliminary results can be confirmed at other centers, nor is it clear what selection criteria should optimally be used for this treatment strategy. Our hypothesis is that select patients undergoing liver transplantation for CCA in the context of multi-modality neoadjuvant therapy exhibit survival equivalent to other established indications for liver transplantation as previously demonstrated. We will also attempt to extend previously published criteria for liver transplantation in the setting of CCA by offering this protocol to patients with evidence of intrahepatic disease and regional nodal disease. Patients undergoing transplantation for CCA will be followed longitudinally for their entire post-transplant course and compared with a matched cohort of liver transplant recipients in regard to post-transplant survival, survival on the waiting list, as well as complications pre-and post-transplantation. Explanted livers will be examined for the presence of residual tumor. Data will be collected on the rate of regional lymph node metastasis, invasion of adjacent organs and tissues, and the rate of peritoneal metastases. The rate of tumor recurrence, site, and time to recurrence will also be assessed.