Active clinical trials for "Adenocarcinoma"

This study evaluates the use of NanoDoce injected directly into tumors in the kidney of people with renal cell carcinoma.

This is a phase II, single center, open label, multi-cohort platform study to identify a signature in tumor tissues, blood or stool that might help identify participants who are more likely to experience tumor shrinkage or side effects from the combination of the study drugs durvalumab and oleclumab. In addition, this study will see if participants with certain types of advanced cancer benefit from the experimental drug combination of durvalumab and oleclumab, will evaluate the safety and tolerability of durvalumab and oleclumab, and to understand the effects that durvalumab and oleclumab have at a molecular level in tumor cells and their effects on the immune system. This study will look at subjects with locally advanced or recurrent/metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), non-small-cell carcinoma (NSCLC) and squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck (SCCHN). Within each cancer type, 40 patients will be enrolled (for a total of 120 patients on study): 20 patients will be enrolled with locally advanced disease ("window") and treated with durvalumab 1500 mg given by IV x 1 dose and oleclumab 3000 mg x 2 doses every 2 weeks prior to definitive therapy (e.g. surgery), and 20 patients will be enrolled with recurrent/metastatic ("metastatic") disease and treated with durvalumab 1500 mg given by IV every 4 weeks and oleclumab 3000 mg given by IV every 2 weeks x 4 doses then IV every 4 weeks till disease progression, toxicity, withdrawal of subject consent, or another discontinuation reason. For locally advanced PDAC patients, approximately 10 of the 20 subjects may receive 6-8 cycles of modified FOLFIRINOX (mFFX) prior to the administration of durvalumab and oleclumab.

This research study is examining whether Neratinib has any activity in participants with prostate cancer that has spread and is no longer responding to hormonal treatment. - The names of the study drug involved in this study is neratinib.

This is an open-label Phase I trial designed to determine the phase 2 recommended dose (RP2D) of belinostat in combination with nivolumab with or without ipilimumab.

Methadone is an opioid that has been used for over 80 years to treat various types of pain, including cancer pain. Despite its increasing popularity as a co-analgesic and first-line treatment for cancer pain, there remain some outstanding questions regarding its use in treating cancer pain, such as its efficacy compared to other opioids and its appropriateness as a first-line treatment. The investigators will conduct a Vanguard Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT) to estimate the efficacy of methadone compared to morphine for the treatment of a newly defined type of cancer pain, which the investigators have termed 'adenocarcinopathic' pain (ACPP).

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in France, Europe and the world. 50% of lung cancers are of the adenocarcinoma subtype. 60% of patients present with a metastatic disease (stage IV) at the time of diagnosis. Approximately 10% of patients present with a mutation of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) requiring an EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (EGFR-TKI), namely erlotinib, gefitinib or afatinib. For the majority of chemotherapy-naïve patients without addictive mutation, platinum-based chemotherapy, frequently the platinum - pemetrexed doublet, provides disease control rate of up to 70% and improves survival from approximately 4.5 with best supportive care alone to 15 months. However, patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) usually relapse within 4 to 6 months and benefit from a second-line chemotherapy. Authorized drugs in this setting are pemetrexed, docetaxel and erlotinib. The prescription of erlotinib for unselected patients whose tumor does not harbor an EGFR mutation is questionable . In the second line setting, docetaxel provides less than 10% of partial responses and progression-free survival of 10 to 12 weeks. There are no standard options following failure of two previous lines of standard chemotherapy. In view of these modest results, new agents and therapeutic strategies are greatly needed for this patient population. Neurotensin (NTS) is a 13 amino acids peptide, present and biologically active in the central nervous system and in periphery. At the peripheral level, NTS is released by the endocrine cells of the intestinal mucosa after meals and acts as an endocrine hormone involved in the postprandial regulation of the motor functions of the gastrointestinal tract. The effects of NTS are mediated by three subtypes of receptor: NTSR1 and NTSR2 exhibit high and low affinity for NTS, respectively, and belong to the family of G protein receptors; NTSR3 is a single transmembrane domain receptor. Exogenous activation of NTSR1 leads to cell proliferation, survival, mobility and invasion in cancer cells from diverse origin. These effects are the result from the activation of kinases and effectors, such as PKC, MAPK, FAK, RHO-GTPase, RAS and Src. The PKC activation may induce MAPK by direct stimulation of Raf-1, or by transactivation of the EGFR. The activation of MAPK via NTSR1 is mainly associated with uncontrolled cell growth. Both NTS and NTSR1 are expressed in 40% of lung tumors, whereas they are never expressed in the normal tissue. NTSR1 high expression is a negative prognostic factor in stage I to III operated lung adenocarcinomas. Sustained stimulation of NTSR1 results in the activation of MMP1, the release of EGF "like" ligands such as HB-EGF as well as neuregulin 1 NGR1 (a specific ligand for HER3) followed by EGFR, HER2 and HER3 overexpression and activation. Accordingly, xenografted tumors expressing NTS and NTSR1 show a positive response to erlotinib, whereas tumors void of NTSR1 expression have no detectable response. Afatinib (BIBW2992) is a small molecule, selective and irreversible erbB family blocker. In preclinical models it effectively inhibits EGFR, HER2 and HER4 phosphorylation resulting in tumour growth inhibition and regression of established subcutaneous tumours derived from four human cell-lines known to co-express ErbB receptors. Our claim is that patients harbouring the NTS/NTSR complex, without EGFR mutation, will respond to afatinib due to the sustained activation of EGFR/HER2 under neurotensin activation. Presently, only EGFR mutated tumors are eligible to receive EGFR TKI representing 10% of all lung cancer patients. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of afatinib, an EGFR TKI, on lung adenocarcinomas, EGFR wild-type, bearing the NTS/NTSR1 complex with a high level of expression. This subpopulation of patients represents approximately 20% of lung adenocarcinomas.

This research study is being down to find what, effects, good and/or bad, adding Pembrolizumab to standard chemotherapy mFOLFOX before and after surgery have on the patient and the patient's cancer.

Research Hypothesis: The combination of ionizing radiation and immunotherapy (durvalumab) is well tolerated and stimulates a clinically significant pancreas-cancer specific immune response. The primary objective will be to evaluate whether the combination of RT and durvalumab can improve median PFS compared to chemotherapy historical control data in metastatic pancreas cancer patients who have progressed through first-line chemotherapy. The primary intent of RT in this study is to augment a pancreatic cancer-specific immune response when given with durvalumab.

The decreased Estrogen Receptor beta (ERβ) expression in the non adenomatous mucosa of ApcMin/+ mice favours intestinal neoproliferation. The dietary supplementation with a blend of ERβ agonists and lignin has been shown to recover ERβ to the healthy wild type levels, and a reduced polyp number and lower dysplasia was also observed in the adenomatous mucosa. In this randomised, double blind and placebo controlled study, we assessed if ERβ similarly guides the apoptotic control of cell proliferation in the non adenomatous colon mucosa of patients affected from sporadic adenopolyposis, prone to polyp recurrence. For 60 day in advance of the screening colonoscopy, patients were supplemented with a dietary blend of ERβ agonists and lignin (Eviendep, CM&D Pharma Limited, London, UK) on top their common diet (left unchanged during the study period), to study if the pro-proliferative behavior of the non adenomatous mucosa was effected. Sixty patients naïve from previous and concomitant hormonal or anti-inflammatory CRC chemoprevention were sequentially 1:1 randomised to active or placebo supplementation. ERα and ERβ (mRNA, Western Blotting, Elisa, immunostaining), TUNEL, caspase-3 and Ki-67 (immunostaining) were assessed in bioptic normal colon mucosa samples. Study power: 80%, type 1 error: .05 (two-tails). Statistics: Non parametric Wilcoxon test for efficacy. MANOVA for proliferative and apoptotic biomarkers relationships to the common diet and to the 60 day supplementation.

The goal of this study is to determine the effect of chemotherapy on decreasing the size of unresectable pancreas cancer thereby allowing it to be surgically removed. In addition, this study may provide information on how tumors behave when exposed to certain types of chemotherapy.