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Filter by:The study purpose is to establish the safety and tolerability of IMA202 product in patients with solid tumors that express melanoma-associated antigen 1 (MAGEA1).
This is a multicentre prospective study of the feasibility and clinical value of a diagnostic service for identifying therapeutic targets and recommending personalised treatment for children and adolescents with high-risk cancer.
Background: - Immune-based approaches in colorectal cancer have unfortunately with the notable exception of immune checkpoint inhibition in microsatellite instable (MSI-hi) disease been largely unsuccessful. The reasons for this are unclear but no doubt relate to the fact that in advanced disease colorectal cancer appears to be less immunogenic, as evidenced by the lack of infiltrating lymphocytes with advancing T stage - Pexa-Vec (JX-594) is a thymidine kinase gene-inactivated oncolytic vaccinia virus engineered for the expression of transgenes encoding human granulocyte- macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and beta-galactosidase. Apart from the direct oncolytic activity, oncolytic viruses such as Pexa-Vec have been shown to mediate tumor cell death via the induction of innate and adaptive immune responses - Tremelimumab is a fully human monoclonal antibody that binds to cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein 4 (CTLA-4) expressed on the surface of activated T lymphocytes and causes inhibition of B7-CTLA-4-mediated downregulation of T-cell activation. Durvalumab is a human monoclonal antibody directed against programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1). - The aim of the study is to evaluate whether the anti-tumor immunity induced by Pexa-Vec oncolytic viral therapy can be enhanced by immune checkpoint inhibition. Objective: -To determine the safety, tolerability and feasibility of Pexa-Vec oncolytic virus in combination with immune checkpoint inhibition in patients with refractory metastatic colorectal cancer. Eligibility: - Histologically confirmed metastatic colorectal cancer. - Patients must have progressed on, been intolerant of or refused prior oxaliplatin- and irinotecan-containing, fluorouracil-based, chemotherapeutic regimen and have disease that is not amenable to potentially curative resection. Patients who have a known Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog (KRAS) wild type tumor must have progressed, been intolerant of or refused cetuximab or panitumumab based chemotherapy. - Patients tumors must be documented to be microsatellite-stable (MSS) either by genetic analysis or immunohistochemistry OR microsatellite-high with documented disease progression following anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (PD1)/Programmed death-ligand 1 (PDL1) therapy. - Patients must have at least one focus of metastatic disease that is amenable to pre- and on-treatment biopsy. - Willingness to undergo mandatory tumor biopsy. Design: -The proposed study is Phase I/II study of Pexa-Vec oncolytic virus at two dose levels in combination with immune checkpoint inhibition in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.
This is a single-center, open-label, single arm,exploratory clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of Apatinib in patients with local progressive/metastatic refractory thyroid cancer.
This is a phase 1 study of investigational drug CFI-400945 in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome. The purpose of this phase 1 study is to see how safe and tolerable the study drug is and to determine the best dose (maximum tolerated dose or recommended phase 2 dose) that can be given in this patient population.
This is a phase 2 study of the Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor, PCI-32765 (ibrutinib), in combination with bendamustine and rituximab (BR) in subjects with previously treated aggressive B cell non Hodgkin lymphoma (aB-NHL) including any subtype of diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) primary mediastinal B cell lymphoma (PMBCL), double and triple hit DLBCL, transformed indolent lymphoma, unclassifiable aggressive B cell lymphoma between DLBCL and Burkitt lymphoma. Patients with CNS involvement (primary or secondary) will be excluded. Ibrutinib (IMBRUVICA®; PCI-32765; JNJ-54179060) is a first-in-class, potent, orally-administered covalently-binding small molecule inhibitor of Bruton's tyrosine kinase currently FDA approved for the treatment of relapsed Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) and waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia (WM).It is under constant investigation for the treatment of other B-cell malignancies. The initial approval of ibrutinib was received on 13 November 2013 by the United States Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of adult patients with MCL who have received at least 1 prior therapy. Ibrutinib has not been approved for marketing for the treatment of aggressive B cell lymphoma although Phase I trial in this setting has already been published. In Israel ibrutinib is registered for the treatment of MCL and CLL.
This study is a single center open label phase I study of AZD6738, DNA damage repair/novel cancer agent, in combination with paclitaxel in metastatic cancer patients who have failed standard chemotherapy. AZD6738 is an orally dosed selective and potent inhibitor of Ataxia Telangiectasis and Rad3 Related (ATR) kinase with good selectivity against other Pi3 kinase family members. ATR is a serine/threonine protein kinase and member of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase related kinase (PIKK) family. During normal replication, ATR is recruited at stalled replication forks which can progress to double strand breaks if left unrepaired. ATR is also recruited to single strand DNA coated with Replication Protein A (RPA) following single strand DNA damage or the resection of double strand breaks. Recruitment and activation of ATR leads to cell cycle arrest in the S phase while the DNA is repaired and the stalled replication fork resolved, or nuclear fragmentation and entry into programmed cell death (apoptosis). In the clinic ATR inhibitors are expected to cause growth inhibition in tumour cells dependent upon ATR for DNA repair e.g. ATM-deficient tumours. In addition to monotherapy activity, ATR inhibitors are also predicted to potentiate the activity of cytotoxic DNA damaging agents and radiotherapy (through inhibition of ATR-dependent DNA repair processes) when used in combination. While significant enhancement of anti-tumour activity may be achieved, data with AZD6738 suggest the potential need to reduce the ATR inhibitor dose and intensity (relative to monotherapy dose) and introduce dosing breaks to allow normal tissue recovery when used in combination with systemic DNA damaging chemotherapy agents, in order to maintain tolerable therapeutic margins. The mechanism of action of AZD6738 suggests the potential to combine it with a number of anti-cancer treatments, resulting in either synergistic or additive activity. This study is evaluating the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and anti-tumour activity of AZD6738 at increasing doses, in combination with paclitaxel as one of standard salvage regimen in patients with advanced cancer. The study will consist of two parts, each evaluating the safety and tolerability of a specific combination agent, paclitaxel with different drug schedules. An oral formulation of AZD6738 will be used. The PART A will be in combination with paclitaxel; the starting dose of 40 mg AZD6738 OD will be escalated to reach a maximum tolerated dose in patients with advanced solid malignancies, as defined by dose-limiting toxicity. The PART B will be an independent parallel PK expansion cohort with cycle 0 of AZD6738 on D1, D8~D21 monotherapy followed by combination therapy with weekly paclitaxel from cycle 1. Investigators will modify to recruit the minimum or maximum number of patients depending on data generated from other studies using AZD6738.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of the investigational drug VLX600 in patients with refractory advanced solid tumors.
■ Unmet medical needs for Refractory cancer Conquest - Many advanced cancers are still detected Despite remarkable technological advances for the early diagnosis of cancer in the field last 20 years. In the type of progressive carcinoma is very high malignancy despite a variety of therapeutic target treatment for refractory cancer. The refractory cancer patients who main focus of this research defined as the adult solid tumor patients who have failed standard therapy according to the criteria NCCN / ASCO (American Society of imsangam) / KCSG (Study Group for chemotherapy). The survival rate of refractory cancer patients are estimated to be 30-40% of the total patients with metastatic solid tumors and these refractory cancers are difficult to deal with or control to conventional treatment so shows almost close to 100% mortality. Therefore the new development of therapies for conquer of refractory cancer are urgently required. ■ Preclinical translational research Unmet Needs of Bio-new drug development for conquer of refractory cancer - The stage of preclinical translational research (Translational Research) connects between the early stages of development and clinical trials in the stage drug development. The establishment of foundation based on the translational research is very necessary and this must have proven ability to treat refractory cancer. The most anti-cancer drugs developed by existing preclinical testing method actually does not show a remarkable effect in many cases in the clinical trials, even if showed a remarkable inhibitory cancer effect in animal testing. The exact molecular diagnosis to treat targets and paradigm for the development of new drugs at the same time requires for target treatment. The tailored cell lines by patients and the proven technology by animal models and unmet need for preclinical translational research is increasing
The purpose of this study is to find out what effects, good and/or bad, BIBW 2992 (Afatinib) has on patients and their advanced prostate cancer which does not respond to hormone or chemotherapy any more. Only patients with tumors which have an increased amounts of a protein called HER2 on their cell surface will be included. BIBW 2992 (Afatinib) is a drug which in advanced clinical testing in lung and breast cancer.