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Filter by:This study will examine the combination of pembrolizumab and tadalafil for safety and efficacy in advanced head and neck cancer.
To determine whether special tumor fighting cells that is taken from participants' tumors and grown in the laboratory and then given back to the participant will fight the participant's cancer when their immune system is suppressed from attacking these special tumor fighting cells. This is called transfer of autologous (they came from you) tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (the cells that have been grown in the laboratory. Participants getting these cell infusions will also be treated with interleukin-2 (IL-2).
The prognoses of recurrent/metastatic head and neck epithelial tumors after first-line platinum-based chemotherapy is poor. The efficacy of second-line chemotherapy for those patients that cannot be re-irradiated or re-operated is limited according to NCCN guideline and other published data. This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of endostatin combined with second-line chemotherapy for patients of recurrent/metastatic head and neck epithelial tumors that cannot be re-irradiated or re-operated after fist-line platinum-based chemotherapy.
Summary Design Phase II observational Treatment - 60 Gy/50 fx / 10W-1 at 1.2 Gy/fx o i.e. EQD2 tumor=56 Gy, EQD2 late=50.4 Gy at α/β= 10 and 3, respectively - Proton radiotherapy - Concomitant cisplatin for eligible patients* - Nimorazole recommended for SCC* *The concurrent medical treatment (weekly cisplatin and nimorazole) are prescribed according to the national treatment guidelines, and are not part of the experimental treatment. Endpoints - Primary: o Any new late toxicity grade >=3 according to CTC AE 5.0 - Secondary - Side effects according to DAHANCA scoring system - Quality of life and PROM according to EORTC C30 and HN43 - Loco-regional control (LRC) - Overall survival (OS)
In France, 11 316 new cases of upper aero-digestive tract cancer were estimated in 2012. These cancers are treated with a triple-therapy combining surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy/targeted therapies. Treatment-induced sequelae are often burdensome: reduction in mouth opening, eventually on to trismus, limitation of lips and tongue mobility, deterioration in oral hygiene, pain due to inflammation and muscle fibrosis. Trismus is defined as a mouth opening of less than 35mm in patients with head and neck cancers. It can be induced by treatments (surgery or radiotherapy) but is also reported at the time of diagnosis, due to the local evolution of the tumour. Management of trismus and its consequences is currently mostly based on physiotherapy of maxillary constrictions in order to limit or decrease the reduction of mouth opening in these patients. Exercise protocols have been set up and evaluated in the literature, but with various results. The benefit of a physiotherapy intervention on trismus prevalence, mouth opening, and patients' quality of life has not yet been shown. Our hypothesis is that at least 30% of patients treated with radiochemotherapy are affected by trismus. According to the nutrition national recommendations in oncology, patients the most at-risk of loco-regional complications are those who receive radiotherapy doses of 54Gy or more in the oropharynx and concomitant chemotherapy. It is thus essential to provide these patients with an early and preventive management of trismus and its consequences, during the whole duration of the treatment.
This study is a randomized trial examining the impact of expiratory muscle strength training (EMST) on oral intake, swallowing function, and swallow-related quality of life in persons treated for cancer of the head and neck (HNCA) with radiation therapy or chemoradiotherapy (RT/CRT) at least 5 years previously.
Radiotherapy is the main treatment for locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (SCCHN). Many advances regarding tumor control and patient survival have been made over the past decades. However, treatment-induced toxicity remains a crucial problem, leading to reduced quality of life and permanent impairment for many survivors. Xerostomia is up to this day the leading cause of late toxicity for these patients. Toxicity has been reduced by implementation of modern image guided radiotherapy (IGRT) and intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), but the low soft-tissue contrast of routine x-ray image guidance does not allow exact planning adaptation and daily imaging is associated with high radiation exposure. Furthermore, despite the routinely use of IMRT, rates of clinically relevant xerostomia (i.e. grade 2 or worse) are still common and reported in approximately 38%. Recently developed hybrid machines (MRidian®-CE approval since 2016), consisting of a linear accelerator and an integrated low-field MRI, could allow a) better visualization of tumor and organs at risk, such as parotid glands during patient positioning and daily treatment, b) daily imaging without additional radiation exposure, c) narrowest established safety margins for the treatment volumes, and finally d) repetitive adaptation of target volumes according to changes in patient weight and tumor anatomy during the radiotherapy course. These procedures would facilitate a high-precision treatment and help reduce dose exposure of critical structures.
This study aims to explore the safety and outcome of lymph drainage mapping(LDM) to individually tailor the elective nodal irradiation (ENI) to the ipsilateral neck only. The goal is to exclude the contralateral negative neck from the irradiation fields when there is no contralateral draining sentinel node. In case contralateral lymph drainage is found on SPECT/CT, a contralateral sentinel node procedure (SNP) is performed to remove the draining node. The patient will only receive contralateral ENI if (micro/macro)metastasis are found in this contralateral sentinel node.
This trial is a translational, open-label, multicentric, prospective cohort study of 900 patients aiming to describe the PD-1 (programmed death) expression in T cells (T lymphocytes) in different solid tumors. The study will be conducted on a population of patients with local and/or metastatic malignant solid tumor and who are followed within a standard of care procedure or clinical trial. Patients with any of the following tumor types may be enrolled in the trial: - Head and neck cancer, - Ovarian cancer, - Cervical cancer, - Pre-invasive CIN III cervical cancer (Cervical Intra-epithelial Neoplasia III cervical cancer), - Other solid tumor types (including glioblastoma, NSCLC (Non-small cell lung cancer), anal cancer) Each tumor type will be considered as an independent cohort. For each included patient, biological specimen (tumor sample, blood samples and ascites samples if applicable) will be collected. Study participation of each patient will be 5 years.
This trial was designed to investigate the survival outcomes, response rates, and safety of patients with advanced Head/Neck Squamous cancer via intra-tumor or intra-artery versus vein infusion of PD1/PDL1/CTLA4 inhibitors.