Active clinical trials for "Adenocarcinoma"

To determine the effect of ABT-869 plus mFOLFOX6 compared to bevacizumab plus mFOLFOX6 on disease progression in advanced colorectal cancer.

This trial will be conducted to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of a combination of gemcitabine plus sorafenib in comparison of gemcitabine plus placebo as a first-line palliative therapy in chemo-naive advanced or metastatic CCC. There is strong scientific rationale for exploring the role of sorafenib in combination with gemcitabine in advanced CCC. Sorafenib is a novel signal transduction inhibitor that prevents tumor cell proliferation and angiogenesis through blockade of the Raf/MEK/ERK pathway at the level of Raf kinase and the receptor tyrosine kinases VEGF-R2, R3 and PDGFR-β. Mutations in these signaling pathways display by far the most common genetic alterations in CCC and overexpression correlates to poor prognosis. Furthermore, there is no evidence of a consistent or meaningful pharmacokinetic interaction between sorafenib and gemcitabine, suggesting that sorafenib can safely be combined with gemcitabine. Clinical results of a combination of sorafenib and gemcitabine in a phase I study in pancreatic cancer suggested a therapeutic effect, and the safety and efficacy results together with the knowledge of the molecular pathology of CCC provide a rationale for a randomized, placebo-controlled phase II trial consisting of gemcitabine plus sorafenib in advanced CCC.

There are limited treatment options available for patients with advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness and safety of the drugs capecitabine and oxaliplatin in patients who have been diagnosed with advanced and metastatic PDAC treated in the first and second lines.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as capecitabine, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Sunitinib malate may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth and by blocking blood flow to the tumor. It is not yet known whether capecitabine is more effective when given alone or together with sunitinib malate in treating patients with metastatic esophageal cancer or gastroesophageal junction cancer. PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying how well capecitabine works compared with capecitabine given together with sunitinib malate as first-line therapy in treating patients with metastatic cancer of the esophagus or gastroesophageal junction.

This randomized clinical trial studies how well cholecalciferol supplement works in treating patients with localized prostate cancer undergoing observation. Cholecalciferol may help prostate cancer cells become more like normal cells, and to grow and spread more slowly.

Patients with locally advanced or metastatic gastric carcinoma or carcinoma of the esophagogastric junction without prior palliative therapy will be treated with 8 cycles of the FLOT scheme (up to 12 cycles if the response is favourable). Prior to enrollment a unique and detailed clinical evaluation of the dissemination of the disease will be done which includes a differentiated regard of the metastatic status. patients will be classified as having either (A) locally advanced, (B) limited metastatic, or (C) extensive metastatic disease. In arms A and B surgical intervention is planned if operability is reached. The hypothesis is that by classifying patients more individually by the state of their disease, patients in arm B will have a significantly prolonged overall survival compared to patients in arm C.

This is a multicentric randomized phase III trial comparing adjuvant chemotherapy with gemcitabine versus 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, irinotecan and oxaliplatin (mFolfirinox) in patients with resected pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

This study will evaluate the role of Gemcitabine and Abraxane in the treatment of resectable and borderline-resectable pancreatic cancer by giving the chemotherapy before surgery.

This is a multi-centre phase II, open-label, randomized (1:1), parallel-arm, study of panitumumab in combination with chemotherapy (P-GEMOX) versus chemotherapy alone (GEMOX). Eligible subjects will be enrolled and randomized to receive first-line combination therapy consisting of panitumumab and GEMOX (experimental arm) or GEMOX alone (control arm).The ame of the Stuy is to evaluate the clinical activity of the P-GEMOX (Panitumumab and GEMOX) combination compared to GEMOX alone in patients with previously untreated surgically unresectable or metastatic biliary tract carcinoma (KRAS wild-type)and To evaluate the safety profile of the P-GEMOX combination; to assess the objective response rate; to assess overall survival; to study the correlation between biomarkers with activity and efficacy.

The investigators will conduct the randomized trial to determine the role of Gefitinib monotherapy as first-line setting in adenocarcinoma patients with no history of smoking, as compared with the standard combination chemotherapy. This is a randomized, open label, parallel group, phase III study in never-smokers with advanced or metastatic adenocarcinoma of lung. After stratification by gender, performance status, and disease stage, patients will be randomized to one of the two treatment arms to receive either gefitinib or standard chemotherapy until clinical or objective disease progression, unacceptable toxicity or patient's refusal, whichever is sooner. The chemotherapy will be administered for no more than nine cycles.