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Filter by:QUILT 3.071 NANT Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Vaccine: Phase 1b/2 NANT CRC Vaccine vs Regorafenib in Subjects with CRC Who have Previously Treated with SOC.
This study aims to determine the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of the sequential addition of immune-modulating therapy to standard-of-care therapy of microsatellite-stable (MSS)/mismatch repair-proficient (pMMR) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).
This is a prospective study investigating the disease course of patients with colorectal cancer that have had their cancer spread to their liver. The aim of this study is find potential biomarkers for disease recurrence and therapeutic targets for prognostic information.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) has the third highest cancer incidence in the world. There is mounting evidence that the intestinal microbiota plays an important role in colorectal carcinogenesis. but there is no information on protozoa of intestinal microbiota except Blastocystis hominis, although data on this issue is scarce. In this study we are going to evaluate the prevalence of intestinal helminthes and protozoa in CRC patients and control group that includes random residents. Patients will be examined before, after surgery and chemotherapy. Parasites and protozoan infection intensity will be estimated by triple coproscopy.
Background and rationale: EGFR represents the main and more studied signal activation pathway in the development of colorectal carcinoma. KRAS, NRAS, BRAF and PI3KA mutations and ERBB2 and MET amplification are responsible for most of the cases of primary resistance to anti-EGFR antibody treatments. Despite the identification of these resistance mechanisms, a primary resistance to the therapy was detected in a certain percentage of cases, in which tumour bio-molecular characteristics would suggest a possible response to anti-EGFR antibody treatment. In these cases, pathway activation mechanisms should exist, which act in an alternative, complementary or parallel way than the EGFR one, allowing tumour progression despite of EGFR pharmacological deactivation. Skin toxicity is a characteristic of drugs having EGFR as a target and it shows itself mainly as a sterile acneiform folliculitis together with neutrophils perifollicular infiltrates but also as skin xerosis and paronychia starting from the earliest cycles of treatment. This skin toxicity seems to be closely related to EGFR activation of pro-inflammatory cytokines able to activate specific inflammatory activators, which induce neutrophils granulocytes chemotaxis. Lycopene is a compound belonging to carotenoid group, largely contained in tomatoes and their derivatives, which has an extreme antioxidant activity. In Dermatology, prolonged use of β-carotenoids in general and of lycopene in particular in the diet showed to be effective in skin protection from ageing, sunlight and radiotherapy damages because these compounds may accumulate in skin and thus contribute to reduce free radicals and inflammation effects. Moreover, lycopene ability to induce apoptosis and to inhibit cell cycle progression in some types of tumour cells, both in vitro and in vivo, has already been described. Lycopene seems to be able to suppress significantly PCNA (Proliferating cell nuclear antigen, cofactor of DNA polymerase-β) and β-catenin nuclear expression in neoplastic cells, essential substrate of WNT/β-catenin pathway, which is itself closely connected to activating pathways often involved in carcinogenesis of some kinds of tumours, in particular of colorectal carcinoma, like Akt/GSK3β/β-catenin and Hippo pathways. For its proved skin anti-inflammatory activity as powerful free radicals scavenger, lycopene, which accumulates itself specifically in skin, could be effective in reducing anti-EGFR drugs toxicity. Contemporary use of lycopene could have a positive effect on anti-EGFR drugs treatment effectiveness in patients with metastatic colorectal carcinoma due to its ability to interfere with pathways involved in neoplastic cells proliferation. Estimated population:100 patients (50 for each of the two groups of treatment) Study Framework: In this study, patients suffering from metastatic colorectal cancer and submitted to therapy with panitumumab would be enrolled. According to indications, panitumumab would be used: in first line combined with Folfox or Folfiri; in second line combined with Folfiri or treatments containing Irinotecan in monotherapy in any therapeutic line in patients resistant to Fluoropyrimidines, Oxaliplatin and Irinotecan or intolerant to these drugs. Standard schedules of these treatments would be used. This is a phase-II, randomized, double-blind study between experimental prophylactic treatment with Lycopene vs placebo: - Treatment A - lycopene tablets 20 mg - Treatment B - placebo tablets Patients should take orally Lycopene/placebo after dinner (to promote its absorption), starting the day before the beginning of treatment with panitumumab for the entire duration of the therapy, until progression of the disease or definitive drug suspension for toxicity. Objectives of the study Primary objective: to assess the effectiveness of lycopene versus placebo in reducing skin toxicity induced by panitumumab in patients treated for metastatic colorectal carcinoma. Secondary objective: to assess lycopene pharmacokinetics Exploratory objectives: to assess lycopene effectiveness versus placebo in increasing panitumumab effectiveness in terms of Disease Control (DC), Objective Response (OR) and Stabilisation of the Disease (SD). To assess lycopene effectiveness versus placebo in increasing panitumumab effectiveness in terms of Progression Free Survival (PFS). As far as randomization is concerned, the two groups will be balanced according to sex, therapeutic line and institution in which patients will be treated.
Currently, chemotherapies are empirically administered to patients treated for colorectal cancer (CRC). Selection is based on the efficacy of a protocol previously determined on the largest number (consensus treatment), the decision-making process being weighted by patient's intrinsic criteria. However, each patient is unique, due to the inter- and intratumoral heterogeneity inherent in any cancer, partly explaining the unsatisfactory response rates observed for available chemotherapies. Functional sensitivity tests offer the possibility to adapt the treatment to each patient: they are based on an ex vivo study of the responses of the tumor cells (survival / death) to the different molecules / therapeutic combinations (chemotherapy or targeted therapy) likely to be administered to the patient. This response, translated into a tumor-specific sensitivity profile, can be used by the clinicians to determine the most appropriate therapeutic protocol. By increasing the therapeutic efficacy from the first line and reducing the deleterious side effects associated with multiple drug cycles, the sensitivity test transforms the consensus approach into personalized medicine, providing patients with improved progression free survival (PFS) associated with an improvement in the quality of life. Oncomedics has developed Oncogramme®, a CE-labeled in vitro diagnostic medical device that has already demonstrated the ability to predict chemosensitivity in a recent pilot study of metastatic CRC (prediction with 84% chance of success of tumor sensitivity to chemotherapy, vs. 50% maximum for chemotherapy administered according to the consensus method). The hypothesis that patients treated with a metastatic CRC for which systemic chemotherapy is adapted using Oncogramme® have better response rates, PFS and quality of life than patients treated according to usual practice, with optimization of the costs of care. To our knowledge, this is the only fully standardized test available, where each step and reagents of the procedure are mastered. The reliability of the procedure makes it possible to render a personalized result for each patient in 97% of the cases. In addition, the analysis is specifically centered on tumor cells using a method using fully defined, developed and validated media and reagents for each cancer, including CRC. The method of revealing the effect of the therapies identifies the proportion of dead cells in each condition, whatever their physiological state (proliferation / quiescence), by determining the percentage of living and killed cells, thus ensuring high sensitivity
Adenocarcinoma of the colon and rectum is a common, serious disease and it is the second cause of death from cancer in Spain. The prognosis of CRC depends to a great extent on its stage when diagnosed. Patients with advanced disease, who present up to 40% of all patients, have a poor prognosis. Although the application of modern chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments obtains median survival periods of around 24 months, the proportion of patients with advanced disease who obtain a cure is low. Systemic treatment of advanced CRC has changed considerably in the last ten years with the introduction of active drugs such as oxaliplatin, irinotecan, and capecitabine. The most commonly used first line regimens are 5-Fluorouracil-Leucovorin-Oxaliplatin (FOLFOX), Capecitabine-Oxaliplatin (XELOX), 5-Fluorouracil-Leucovorin-Irinotecan (FOLFIRI) and, to a lesser extent, Capecitabine-Irinotecan (XELIRI). Chemotherapy regimens are combined with different agents against therapeutic targets, three of which are effective in colon cancer: bevacizumab, which targets vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and cetuximab or panitumumab, which target the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). The use of cetuximab and panitumumab is not recommended in patients with KRAS mutations and the combination of a VEGF and EGFR agents is not beneficial. Two recent studies results have identified KRAS mutations as frequent drivers of acquired resistance to cetuximab and panitumumab in colorectal cancer patients. The conclusions indicate that the emergence of KRAS mutant clones can be detected non-invasively months before radiographic progression by a DNA Blood Test (Inostics´BEAMing Technology). Centro Integral Oncológico Clara Campal (CIOCC) is aiming to undertake a pioneer project aimed at integrating the analysis of KRAS switch status by BEAMing Technology in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, tumor KRAS wild-type and BEAMing wild-type treated with first line FOLFIRI-cetuximab In naive chemotherapy tumor-KRAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer patients, who are BEAMing positive (KRAS mutated in blood) before treatment may have worse evolution in terms of PFS (progression Free Survival) and response rate than BEAMing negative (KRAS native in blood) patients. To know the proportion of patients who are BEAMing positive (KRAS mutation can be detected in circulating extracellular DNA) at the beginning of treatment, could be of great importance for treatment efficacy.
STRATEGIC-1 is a study designed to determine the best sequence of therapy in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.
The purpose of this interventional study is to assess the progression free survival (one year) of patients with treatment of FOLFIRI and cetuximab, combined with an optional dermal prophylaxis. Further Objectives: 1. Development of acneiforme follicular exanthema >= grade 2 2. Duration until development of acneiforme follicular exanthema >= grade 2 3. Development of paronychia 4. Development skin fissure (hand and foot) 5. Objective remission according RECIST 1.1 6. Rate of secondary resections of liver metastasis with a curative approach 7. Assessment of safety and tolerability 8. Overall survival 9. Progression free survival