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Filter by:The purpose of the study is to determine if eniluracil/5-FU/leucovorin in metastatic breast cancer (MBC) may have efficacy and tolerability advantages over capecitabine monotherapy.
This study will evaluate the activity of single agent trastuzumab or lapatinib in patients not previously treated for HER-2 positive (FISH positive) metastatic breast cancer. A companion biological study will assess factors correlated with sensitivity or resistance to either one of the compounds
This is a phase IB/II trial of sorafenib, a new tyrosine kinase inhibition of multiple genes that is active against renal cancer, plus vinorelbine, a chemotherapy agent active in breast cancer. The investigators are combining these 2 drugs in order to determine if the investigators can increase the activity of vinorelbine in metastatic breast cancer patients. Patients with measurable metastatic breast cancer without previous chemotherapy for metastatic disease are eligible for the protocol. They will be treated with 2 different dose levels of sorafenib in order to determine the most tolerable dose.
The study uses a molecule or particle that is found only on cancer cells and is unique to cancer cells, as it is not detected on normal tissue. The molecule is known as "oncofetal antigen" or OFA. Because OFA is unique to cancer, the investigators feel OFA could be used to educate the patients' own defenses to more effectively fight the cancer on her own, he or she is harboring. Although investigators found OFA to be present in large concentrations on all cancers, it was found to be especially abundant in breast cancers. Therefore, the investigators feel that this molecule would be a good target for stimulating patient defenses especially against breast cancer cells. To accomplish this, certain defense cells (immune cells) will be washed out from the patients' blood using a machine to which the patient is connected through two small cannulas placed into veins located in the patients' arms. Those cells will be manipulated in the laboratory with artificially engineered OFA. These "reeducated" cells will be injected into the skin of patients. There will be a series of three skin injections in 4 week intervals. It is hoped that this treatment will convert the patients' defenses to a point that effective anti cancer responses will be induced. Effectiveness of the treatment will be monitored with blood tests and assessment of the size of the cancers.
One important approach to change the natural history of advanced breast cancer is that of designing new combination chemotherapies in which the best drugs already available are used together with new anticancer agents devoid of clinical cross-resistance. The possibility of exploiting the combined use of cetuximab and trastuzumab represents an option of potential great impact on the probability of response and long-term therapeutic results for patients with advanced breast cancer and HER2 overexpression.Therefore, patients with tumors that demonstrate EGFR expression and clear-cut erbB-2 overexpression (3+) or limited erbB-2 overexpression (+ or 2+) will be included in the study. Patients will be treated with trastuzumab and cetuximab to study the pharmacokinetics and potential drug/drug interaction of both antibodies as well as the safety and tolerability of this novel combination treatment.
To study the pharmacokinetic profile of the therapeutic schedule in order to demonstrate absence of negative interactions among the 3 drugs administered
This is a phase II trial of Doxil on day 1 and vinorelbine on days 1 and 2 in women with metastatic breast cancer. Administered every 28 days. A study to assess the safety and efficacy of Doxil and vinorelbine in metastatic breast cancer.