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Filter by:This randomized phase II/III trial studies how well pazopanib, when combined with chemotherapy and radiation therapy or radiation therapy alone, work in the treatment of patients with newly diagnosed non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcomas that can eventually be removed by surgery. Radiation therapy uses high energy x-rays to kill tumor cells. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as ifosfamide and doxorubicin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Pazopanib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. It is not yet known whether these therapies can be safely combined and if they work better when given together in treating patients with non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcomas.
To study the feasibility of reducing the dose of preoperative radiotherapy in MLS (Myxoid Liposarcomas) from 50 Gy to 36 Gy while maintaining comparable clinicopathological responses.
This phase I trial studies the side effects and best way to give NY-ESO-1 specific T cells after cyclophosphamide in treating patients with advanced synovial sarcoma or myxoid/round cell liposarcoma. Placing a gene that has been created in the laboratory into white blood cells may make the body build an immune response to kill tumor cells. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cyclophosphamide, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving NY-ESO-1 specific T cells with cyclophosphamide may kill more tumor cells.
Although regorafenib was approved for use in patients who had progressive GIST despite imatinib and/or sunitinib on the basis of phase II and phase III data, it has not been examined in a systematic fashion in patients with other forms of sarcoma. Given the activity of sorafenib, sunitinib and pazopanib in soft tissue sarcomas, and evidence of activity of sorafenib in osteogenic sarcoma and possibly Ewing/Ewing-like sarcoma, there is precedent to examine SMOKIs (small molecule oral kinase inhibitors) such as regorafenib in sarcomas other than GIST. It is also recognized that SMOKIs (small molecule oral kinase inhibitors)such as regorafenib, sorafenib, pazopanib, and sunitinib have overlapping panels of kinases that are inhibited simultaneously. While not equivalent, most of these SMOKIs (small molecule oral kinase inhibitors) block vascular endothelial growth factor and platelet derived growth factors receptors (VEGFRs and PDGFRs), speaking to a common mechanism of action of several of these agents.
This pilot clinical trial studies the effect of recombinant interferon gamma on tissue in treating patients with soft tissue sarcoma. Interferon gamma may interfere with the growth of tumor cells.
Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) are a rare group of malignant heterogenous tumors (> 50 histological subtypes, including liposarcoma, the commonest subtype of STS) with distinct genetic, pathological and clinical profiles, and varying patterns of tumor spread. The optimal cytotoxic treatment for this group of patients remains uncertain. Single agents which are most effective include doxorubicin and ifosfamide, but objective response rates and progression-free survival times remain modest. There is clearly a need to improve treatment options for liposarcoma. Eribulin, a antimicrotubule agent that targets the protein tubulin in cells, interfering with cancer cell division and growth , has demonstrated activity in STS. Therefore, it is reasonable to explore whether other anti-microtubule agent like cabazitaxel have a role in STS. Cabazitaxel has been shown to be a relatively safe, effective and tolerated. This drug has been approved by FDA for prostate cancer. The main objective of this trial is to determine whether cabazitaxel demonstrate sufficient antitumor activity for liposarcoma.
Liposarcomas are soft tissue sarcomas most frequent. We distinguish three subtypes on the basis of their histological and cytogenetic characteristics: well-differentiated liposarcoma / dedifferentiated, myxoid liposarcoma and / or round cell liposarcoma and pleomorphic. Dedifferentiated liposarcomas (LDD) represent 20% of liposarcomas and are characterized by well-differentiated component associated with a contingent sarcomatous differentiation and fat-usually high grade. The LDD are most often rétropértionéal seat. Thus, their development is very long asymptomatic. At diagnosis, tumor volume is often very important making surgical removal impossible in a high proportion of cases. Operable tumors have also a risk of local recurrence by about 50% and about 20% metastatic. Chemotherapy is the only treatment of these advanced forms. However, the currently available drugs (adriamycin, ifosfamide) have only very limited effectiveness. Progression-free survival of patients does not exceed 2 months. The LDD is characterized cytogenetically by the constant presence of two amplicons (1p32 and 6q23) respectively targeting genes MAP3K5 and JUN. These two genes encode proteins involved in the signaling pathway Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK). Activation of JNK is involved in the loss of adipose differentiation and tumor aggressiveness of LDD. The plitidepsin is a drug capable of inducing apoptosis of tumor cells carrying a functional activation of the JNK pathway. This drug has such a pro-apoptotic and anti-proliferative in vitro models of LDD. plitidepsin could represent the treatment of choice for patients with advanced LDD. The objective of this study is to evaluate the anti-tumor activity of plitidepsin patients with locally advanced dedifferentiated liposarcomas and / or metastatic.
Retro peritoneal liposarcomas are rare (less than 15% of sarcomas) whose prognosis is locoregional. In the treatment of retroperitoneal liposarcomas main prognostic factor is the quality of the surgical resection. The effect of radiotherapy combined with surgery is uncertain and until now limited perhaps because of limited prescribed doses (of the order of 45Gy to 50Gy) due to high risk of organ toxicity nearby. The helical tomotherapy is an innovative equipment radiotherapy to make conformational radiotherapy modulation intensity and is particularly suitable for irradiations precision (imaging mode associated with daily scanner) in large complex volumes. Increasing doses (increase of the prescribed dose to 54 Gy, thus potentially curative), the helical tomotherapy should allow to improve the efficacy of radiotherapy.
The purpose of this study is to find the optimal dose of trabectedin for Chinese patients with locally advanced or metastatic L-sarcoma (liposarcoma or leiomyosarcoma) who were previously treated (in any order) with at least an anthracycline and ifosfamide containing regimen, or an anthracycline containing regimen and 1 additional cytotoxic chemotherapy regimen (Part 1) and to evaluate whether the overall survival (OS) of the trabectedin group is superior to dacarbazine group (Part 2).
Soft tissue and bone sarcomas are rare malignant tumors, which encompasses a large family of more than 50 histologically distinct tumor subtypes, all of which share a putative mesenchymal origin. In the case of soft tissue sarcomas (STS) surgical excision is the mainstay of treatment, but despite curative surgery, around half of patients develop distant metastases and die from disease. Few therapeutic approaches are currently available to patients with unresectable, locally advanced, or metastatic STS and only anthracyclines, ifosfamide and trabectedin have shown activity, with response rates of 20-40% in previously untreated patients. Recent and ongoing trials have investigated a variety of combination chemotherapeutic regimens (variously employing ifosfamide, doxorubicin, gemcitabine, temozolomide, vincristine, cisplatin, and dacarbazine, among others) as well as targeted therapies, which in some cases have yielded improvements in response rate but which have had little impact on survival. No other medical option is currently available, and the median survival of patients with soft-tissue sarcoma with non-resectable metastases is around 12-15 months, and approximately 8 months after second line chemotherapy. Liposarcomas are STS which account for at least 20% of all STS in adults. They can be further classified into 3 histologically and biologically different subtypes: well-differentiated liposarcoma/dedifferentiated liposarcoma (ALT-WD), myxoid or round cell liposarcoma and pleomorphic liposarcoma. ALT-WD liposarcomas are locally aggressive rarely metastasizing tumors characterized by ring or giant marker chromosomes on the cytogenetic analysis and by amplification of the 12q13-21 region on Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) (MDM2, CDK4 and HMGIC). They account for about 40% iv of liposarcomas with a 5 year Overall survival (OS) around 80%. In a series of WD/DD treated with several regimens response rate was 12.5% OS 15 months and median PFS 3.6 months(95 confidence interval (CI): 3.3-5.9) Mixoid /round cell liposarcoma accounts for 45-50% of all liposarcomas. They tend to metastasize to unusual soft tissue and bone locations. High histologic grade with more than 5% of round cell component is associated with a 5-year OS of 50% approximately. They are characterized by t(23;16)(q13-14;p11) which leads to the fusion of CHOP and TLS genes Pleomorphic liposarcoma accounts for approximately 5-10% of all liposarcomas, characterized by high grade features with frequent and early lung metastasis and cytogenetically by high chromosome counts and complex structural rearrangements. VEGF is expressed in many STS in which increased expression is associated with higher grade and worse prognosis. Pazopanib is an oral angiogenesis inhibitor that targets mainly VEGFR, PDGFR and c-kit. Recently the results of a phase II trial of pazopanib in STS have been published. It was a four-cohort 2-stages study. The liposarcoma stratum was closed after the first stage because of a PFS at 12 weeks of 17% (3 out of 17 patients did not progressed after 12 weeks). After central pathologic review, 2 other patients initially classified as other STS were found to have liposarcoma with stable disease at 12 weeks (5/19: 26% PFS12w), thus fulfilling criteria for cohort expansion. Phase II study had been completed and in phase III study patients with liposarcomas were excluded so therefore data on the liposarcoma cohort are inconclusive. Furthermore the positive results of the phase III study PALETTE have been recently communicated, encouraging this treatment in other sarcomas: progression-free survival (PFS) per independent review was significantly prolonged with pazopanib (median: 4.6 vs 1.5 months; HR=0.31, 95% CI 0.24-0.40; P<0.0001). The interim analysis for overall survival shows a statistically non-significant improvement of pazopanib vs placebo (median: 11.9 vs 10.4 months, HR=0.83, 95% CI 0.62-1.09). Soluble factors associated with efficacy and toxicity of pazopanib in these patients had been also reported. Decreases in VEGFR2 and increase in PlGF were both associated with toxicity (HTA and TSH elevation) and poorer prognosis.