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Filter by:Famitinib is a tyrosin-inhibitor agent targeting at c-Kit, VEGFR2, PDGFR, VEGFR3, Flt1 and Flt3. Phase I study has shown that the toxicity is manageable. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety profile of Famitinib in patients with advanced or metastatic Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether ERCC1(excision repair cross-complementation 1 ) expression has effects on platinum-based chemotherapy for patients with locally advanced or metastatic gastric cancer, and to explore if ERCC1 can act as a biological predictor for the individual therapy of gastric cancer
Patients with advanced gastric cancer have showed poor prognosis. Only 81% of the patients could underwent curative surgery. In those, about 60% of patients would survive after 5 years from the surgery. As a result, role of chemotherapy has been increased. In ACTS-GC trial, S-1 adjuvant therapy after D2 gastrectomy increased overall survival rate in advanced gastric cancer patients. However, subgroup analysis showed that S-1 adjuvant therapy was insufficient in patients with stage III or IV (according to the AJCC 6th criteria) gastric cancer. In addition, CLASSIC trial demonstrated that oxaliplatin plus capecitabine adjuvant therapy could increase disease-free survival after D2 gastrectomy in advanced gastric cancer patients. Notwithstanding these trial, optimal adjuvant regimen of advanced gastric cancer has not been established. We aimed to evaluate efficacy of S-1 plus oxaliplatin as adjuvant chemotherapy after D2 gastrectomy in stage III (according to the AJCC 7th criteria) gastric cancer patients.
The prognosis for patients with advanced oesophago-gastric cancer is poor. Approximately 16,000 patients in the United Kingdom die from the disease. In spite of new chemotherapy regimens, the average survival for these patients is around 9 months from diagnosis. Omegaven is an infusion comprising omega-3 fish oils. There is evidence that omega-3 fish oil supplementation can improve general well-being and quality of life in patients receiving palliative chemotherapy for a number of different cancer types. It has also been suggested that omega-3 fish oil supplementation may reduce the toxicity of chemotherapy. This clinical trial aims to see whether the addition of Omegaven to EOX chemotherapy, the most widely used regimen for patients with advanced oesophago-gastric cancer, will make this drug regimen more effective at killing oesophago-gastric cancer cells, such that disease progression is delayed. Forty-five patients who have been diagnosed with advanced oesophago-gastric cancer will be recruited over a two year period to receive standard chemotherapy and omega-3 fish oil supplementation. The results in these 45 patients will be compared to a matched historical control group of patients who have received identical chemotherapy. If results suggest that the combination of EOX and Omegaven is sufficiently effective, tolerable and feasible then it will be the intention of the trial team to take the combination forward to treat patients with advanced oesophago-gastric cancer in a randomised study.
If surgery remains the main treatment for gastric cancer without distant metastases; perioperative-chemotherapy increased the likelihood of progression free survival. Perioperative chemotherapy appears to have many advantages : to reduce the tumor volume, to improve the R0 resection rate, and to act on micro-metastases. Therefore, peri-operative chemotherapy combining cisplatin, epirubicin and 5-Fluorouracile is a validated strategy to treat gastric cancer. However, several pitfalls remained. Particularly, only 42% of patients could received post-chemotherapy, due to post-operative complications and toxicities. To overcome this limitation, the investigators will conduct a phase II clinical trial assessing the clinical interest of a dose-dense preoperative chemotherapy combining cisplatin (P), epirubicin (E) and paclitaxel (T). The increasing evidence of taxane's role in gastric cancer treatment, as well as the biological synergisms reported in paclitaxel/cisplatin and paclitaxel/epirubicin combinations, sustain the development of dose density based on PET combination in gastric carcinoma. The aim of the IPEC-GC study is to evaluate the effectiveness of this PET preoperative regimen
Gastric cancer remains a major health issue and a leading cause of cancer death worldwide, although the prevalence and mortality of the disease have gradually decreased. The investigators have very few options for patients with advanced disease. The trastuzumab for Gastric Cancer (ToGA) trial, a pivotal randomized clinical trial of patients with HER-2 positive advanced, mostly metastatic, gastric cancer, proved the efficacy of trastuzumab (anti-Her 2 therapy) in combination with chemotherapy. The median overall survival was significantly prolonged in the trastuzumab-containing arm (13.8 vs. 11.1 months; HR 0.74; p=0.0046) without unexpected toxicity including cardiac events. The survival benefit was most pronounced in the subgroup of high HER-2/neu protein overexpression (median overall survival of 16 months). Only 20% of the patients screened and subsequently enrolled for this study were found to be HER2-positive when utilizing both immunohistochemistry and FISH. Her2 testing is recommended for all patients with advanced gastric cancers and type III oesophageal adenocarcinomas. Data on Indian patients is lacking. Hence, the investigators plan to test for Her 2 in 100 patients with IHC and FISH in 2+ and 3+ patients.
This study will evaluate overall survival of nimotuzumab in combination with irinotecan compared to irinotecan alone in subjects with EGFR overexpressed advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction cancer.
To determine whether the combination of MM-111 plus paclitaxel and trastuzumab is more effective than paclitaxel and trastuzumab alone
The purpose of this study is to identify the non-inferiority of the combination therapy of Capecitabine and Oxaliplatin compared with the combination therapy of Fluorouracil/Folinic acid and Oxaliplatin in patients with advanced gastric cancer.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether staining of the gastric mucosa increases the number of detected (pre)malignant foci of intestinal and diffuse type gastric cancer, in first degree relatives of individuals with familial gastric cancer.