Active clinical trials for "Brain Neoplasms"

RATIONALE: Inserting the gene for herpes virus into a person's cells may improve the body's ability to fight cancer or make the cancer more sensitive to chemotherapy using antiviral drugs such as ganciclovir. PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectivenesss of gene therapy in treating patients with primary brain tumors.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so that they stop growing or die. bone marrow transplantation and peripheral stem cell transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy followed by bone marrow transplantation and/or peripheral stem cell transplantation in treating patients who have recurrent medulloblastoma or CNS germ cell tumors.

RATIONALE: Monoclonal antibodies can locate tumor cells and either kill them or deliver tumor-killing substances to them without harming normal cells. PURPOSE: Phase I/II trial to determine the effectiveness of monoclonal antibody therapy in treating patients who have primary or metastatic melanoma or brain tumors.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying two different combination chemotherapy regimens and comparing how well they work in treating children with low-grade astrocytomas or other residual tumors of the brain.

RATIONALE: Current therapies for adults with primary malignant brain tumors that have not responded to standard therapy provide very limited benefit to the patient. The anti-cancer properties of Antineoplaston therapy suggest that it may prove beneficial in the treatment of adults with primary malignant brain tumors that have not responded to standard therapy. PURPOSE: This study is being performed to determine the effects (good and bad) that Antineoplaston therapy has on adults with primary malignant brain tumors that have not responded to standard therapy.

RATIONALE: Monoclonal antibodies can locate tumor cells and deliver tumor-killing substances, such as radioactive iodine, to them without harming normal cells. PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of radiolabeled monoclonal antibody after radiation therapy in treating patients with newly diagnosed primary brain tumors that can be surgically resected.

Use of Mayfield skull clamp during craniotomies; results in a sharp and intense noxious stimulus which results in a severe hemodynamic pressor response. Many strategies have been reported to blunt this undesirable pressor effect. This prospective, double blind, and randomized study is the first to evaluate the effect of MgSo4 on attenuation of hemodynamic pressor activity after head clamp application during craniotomies.

For patients with cerebral oligometastases who are in adequate clinical condition stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is the treatment of choice, being recommended by international guidelines for the treatment of one to four lesions. Newer findings have shown that for patients with more than four lesions SRS can be considered as a favorable alternative to whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT), the currently established standard-of-care treatment. With modern techniques highly conformal SRS of multiple lesions has become feasible with comparable clinical effort and minimal toxicity as compared to WBRT. Developments in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI- imaging) have produced highly sensitive contrast-enhanced three-dimensional fast spin echo sequences such as SPACE that facilitate the detection of very small and early-stage lesions in a fashion superior to the established Magnetization Prepared Rapid Gradient Echo (MPRAGE) series. Since it has been established that the response of brain metastases to SRS is better for smaller lesions and that WBRT can come at the price of significant neurotoxicity, the investigators hypothesize that 1) earlier detection of small brain metastases and 2) early and aggressive treatment of those by SRS will result in an overall clinical benefit by delaying the failure of repeated localized therapy and thus preserving quality of life and potentially prolonging overall survival. On the other hand however, overtreatment might be a valid concern with this approach since it has yet to be proved that a clinical benefit can be achieved. The current study aims to stretch the boundaries of the term "cerebral oligometastases" by performing SRS for up to ten cerebral metastases, compared to the established clinical standard of four, given that existing data supports the non-inferiority of this approach and given that modern Cyberknife SRS facilitates the treatment of multiple lesions with minimal treatment-associated toxicity.

This phase I trial studies the side effects and best dose of ribociclib and everolimus and to see how well they work in treating patients with malignant brain tumors that have come back or do not respond to treatment. Ribociclib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as everolimus, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Giving ribociclib and everolimus may work better at treating malignant brain tumors.

Trastuzumab-Deruxtecan (T-DXd; DS-8201a) in HER2-positive Breast Cancer Patients with newly diagnosed or progressing Brain Metastases