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Filter by:RATIONALE: Aflibercept may stop the growth of cancer cells by blocking blood flow to the cancer. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well aflibercept works in treating patients with advanced refractory, relapsed, or untreated acute myeloid leukemia.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety of combined chemotherapy treatment (CLAG regimen) with Imatinib Mesylate (Gleevec) in patients with AML.
This is a double blind, placebo controlled clinical trial, where patients with an advanced form of blood cancer are treated with haploidentical allogeneic peripheral blood progenitor cell (PBPC) transplant after which they are randomised to receive either placebo or a keratinocyte growth factor (Palifermin or Kepivance®). The function of Kepivance® is to stimulate the growth of epithelial cells. This drug has also been suggested to have an ability to help improve the reconstitution, or development, of the immune system after the transplantation. The hypothesis is that the patients T-cell dependent humoral immune response to recall antigen (PrevenarTM) will be higher in in palifermin treated patients than in the placebo control group
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as fludarabine and pixantrone, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Monoclonal antibodies, such as rituximab, can block cancer growth in different ways. Some block the ability of cancer cells to grow and spread. Others find cancer cells and help kill them or carry cancer-killing substances to them. It is not yet known whether giving fludarabine together with rituximab is more effective with or without pixantrone in treating indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma. PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying fludarabine and rituximab to compare how well they work with or without pixantrone in treating patients with relapsed or refractory indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
This research is being done to see if acupuncture helps relieve mucositis pain in patients with leukemia who are undergoing chemotherapy. Many patients receiving chemotherapy develop mucositis (painful sores or blisters in the mouth or throat). Mucositis is not only a frequent complication in cancer care and extremely painful, but also increases the risks of infection and malnutrition and often leads to discontinuing or delaying the chemotherapy treatments.
To compare the efficacy and safety of combination treatment with Genasense, fludarabine, and rituximab versus combination treatment with fludarabine and rituximab in previously untreated subjects with CLL.
Since there is no standard rescue therapy for refractory CLL or relapsed to the purine analogous, our target is to carry out a rescue therapy combining several chemotherapy agents (CHOP) adding the synergistic effect of Rituximab in order to act against tumour-like CLL forms, with assessable size lymph nodes. Afterwards, based in other studies, we shall study the role of Alemtuzumab as drug for consolidation or improvement of responses obtained with the initial therapy (CHOP-R), acting by "cleaning" from peripheral blood and bone marrow the CLL lymphocytes that may have had remain as residual after chemotherapy induction therapy. More precisely, the addition of Alemtuzumab as maintenance treatment would increase the complete responses with negative residual disease number and may prolong the duration of the response. For this, it is necessary to have not only an adequate and rigorous clinical follow-up but also biological, i.e. being able to analyze minimal residual disease by molecular biology techniques. This is the reason of writing this phase II clinical trial protocol.
RATIONALE: Antiemetic drugs, such as aprepitant and ondansetron, may help lessen nausea and vomiting caused by opioids. It is not yet known whether aprepitant is more effective than ondansetron in treating nausea and vomiting caused by opioids in patients with cancer. PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying aprepitant to see how well it works compared to ondansetron in treating nausea and vomiting caused by opioids in patients with cancer.
LCH III is an international, multicentric, prospective clinical study comprised of: - a randomized clinical trial for multisystem "RISK" patients and - a randomized clinical trial for multisystem "LOW RISK" patients and - a pilot study for patients with single system MFB and localized "SPECIAL SITES"
This is a Phase 2, open-label, multicenter, efficacy, safety, and pharmacodynamic study of CX-3543 in patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).