Active clinical trials for "Brain Neoplasms"

This is a ten subject, phase 1 study. The purpose of the Phase 1 study is to demonstrate drug safety in a target group of subjects with high grade brain cancer. This population represents a potential clinical population that may benefit from this PET imaging tracer. The study will also begin collection of baseline imaging data and allow us to gain information to improve design and conduct of future trials.

The purpose of this study is to examine the safety and efficacy of XERECEPT (human Corticotropin-Releasing Factor, or hCRF) compared to dexamethasone in patients with primary malignant glioma who require increased dexamethasone doses to control symptom of peritumoral brain edema.

Primary Objective: The primary objective is to evaluate the efficacy of photodynamic therapy in the treatment of malignant intracranial tumors. Secondary Objective: The secondary objective is to evaluate the safety of photodynamic therapy in the treatment of malignant intracranial tumors.

This phase I/II trial studies the side effects and best dose of epidermal growth factor receptor bispecific antibody (EGFRBi)-armed autologous T cells and how well it works in treating patients with glioblastoma that have come back or does not respond to treatment. EGFRBi-armed autologous T cells coated with antibodies (proteins used by the immune system to target and kill foreign objects such as cancer cells) may have great ability to seek out, attach to, and destroy glioblastoma cells.

This phase II trial studies the safety of NovoTTF-100A in combination with bevacizumab and carmustine and to see how well they work in treating patients with glioblastoma multiforme that has returned for the first time. NovoTTF-100A, a type of electric field therapy, delivers low intensity, alternating "wave-like" electric fields that may interfere with multiplication of the glioblastoma multiforme cells. Monoclonal antibodies, such as bevacizumab, may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as carmustine, 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 NovoTTF-100A together with bevacizumab and carmustine may be an effective treatment for glioblastoma multiforme.

The main purposes with this trial is to investigate the potential of MRI with diffusion and blood volume, flow in brain to diagnose and to measure treatment effects in patients with intracranial tumors, especially gliomas and metastases in a prospective trial, to evaluate the possibilities to individually adjusted treatment in this category of patients depending on treatment outcomes measured by MRI, to perform clinical follow up in connection with MRI to evaluate a correlation and to perform testing of cognitive ability before, during, and after treatment and to investigate if given treatment causes any decrease in the patients habitual state.

The goal of Part 1 of this clinical research study is to find the highest tolerable dose of cabazitaxel that can be given to patients with glioblastoma. The goal of Part 2 is to learn if cabazitaxel can help to control glioblastoma. The safety of the study drug will also be studied in both parts. Cabazitaxel is designed to interfere with the growth of cancer cells by stopping cell division.

The specific purpose of this study is to obtain data on safety and efficacy of combination chemotherapy with Temozolomide and Topotecan in patients with CNS metastases of solid tumors. Up to 35 patients will be accrued over 2-3 years and followed for up to 5 years and will receive 8 cycles of chemotherapy. The primary endpoint is the determinant median overall survival and progression-free survival of this regimen, time to progression of the brain metastases, and assessment of toxicity levels in this regimen.

Primary Objective: To determine if treatment with SRS followed by a HER-2 directed therapy regimen results in a 6-month distant brain relapse rate of less than 30%. Secondary Objectives: Describe the natural history of neurocognitive function for women with brain metastases treated with SRS and HER-2 directed systemic therapy and establish a reference benchmark to generate hypothesis for future design of a phase III trial. Describe patterns of distant brain relapse after SRS for all patients and compare them between (a) patients with 1-3 vs. 4-10 brain metastasis and (b) between patients treated with each systemic therapy regimen Describe patterns of neurologic death Describe patterns of local brain relapse Describe patterns of re-irradiation with WBRT or SRS Describe adverse events

To estimate the presence of hypoxia in individual lesions after radiotherapy in patients with brain metastases from breast cancer as identified by F18 EF5 PET/CT imaging.