View clinical trials related to Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors.
Filter by:This study will assess time-to-disease progression in patients with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) previously treated with imatinib ≥600 mg.
With discovery of KIT (CD117) mutations and the advent of KIT tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib, there has been substantial improvement in overall survival in patients with advanced and/or metastatic gastrointestinal tumors (GIST). Recently, sunitinib showed activity as second-line therapy in GIST patients after failure with imatinib. However, virtually all patients will eventually progress or become intolerable after imatinib and sunitinib. In preclinical models, sorafenib inhibits KIT activity and cell growth of imatinib-resistant tumors. The objective of this multi-center, non-randomized phase II study is to evaluate the safety and activity of sorafenib given as third-line therapy for GIST.
Patients with advanced GIST are treated with imatinib. This study seeks to look at a new therapeutic agent at the time of tumor progression following treatment with 600-800 mg daily of imatinib. The study is looking to see if Nilotinib (tasigna) alone or in combination with imatinib (gleevec) is more effective at controlling disease.
The purpose of this research study is to determine the safety and activity of regorafenib in participants with advanced gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) if the standard approved therapies, imatinib and sunitinib, have failed to control the disease. Regorafenib is a drug that blocks abnormally active signaling enzymes called "tyrosine kinases" which are important to the growth of GIST. This "tyrosine kinase inhibition" is similar to the way that both imatinib and sunitinib work; however, regorafenib blocks certain additional signaling pathways that are not blocked by imatinib or sunitinib. Regorafenib has been not been tested in GIST participants before this research study.
Our research of the biology of upper gastrointestinal cancers involves the study of tissue samples and cells from biopsies of persons with gastric or esophageal cancer or blood samples from upper gastrointestinal cancer patients and persons at high inherited risk for these cancers. We hope to learn the role genes and proteins play in the development of gastric and esophageal cancer.
The purpose of this study is to determine if STA-9090 is effective in the treatment of patients with metastatic and/or unresectable GIST.
To develop new methods to detect malignant and premalignant conditions of the gastrointestinal tract.
The purpose of this study is to determine if escalating the dose of imatinib to keep the drug blood level at ≥ 1100 ng/ml leads to better outcomes for patients.
The objective is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of AB1010 at 7.5 mg/kg/day in the treatment of non pre-treated, inoperable patients with locally advanced/metastatic GIST.
In patients who are receiving nilotinib, nilotinib plasma levels will be measured after 1 month of nilotinib treatment. The relationship between surgery type and nilotinib pharmakokinetic properties will be investigated in this study.