Active clinical trials for "Kidney Neoplasms"

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of oxaliplatin in treating patients who have metastatic bladder cancer.

RATIONALE: Vaccines may make the body build an immune response to kill tumor cells. PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of vaccine therapy in treating patients who have advanced kidney cancer.

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 cancer cells. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy in treating patients who have advanced cancer of the urothelium with decreased kidney function.

This phase II trial studies how well gemcitabine works in preventing urothelial cancer from coming back within the bladder (intravesical recurrence) in patients with upper urinary tract urothelial cancer undergoing radical nephroureterectomy. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as gemcitabine, 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. Instilling gemcitabine into the bladder during surgery, may reduce the chance of recurrence of upper urinary tract urothelial cancer.

This phase II trial studies the side effects of avelumab and how well it works in combination with fluorouracil and mitomycin or cisplatin and radiation therapy in treating participants with muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Monoclonal antibodies, such as avelumab, may interfere with the ability of cancer cells to grow and spread. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as fluorouracil, mitomycin, and cisplatin, 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. Radiation therapy uses high energy beams to kill tumor cells and shrink tumors. Giving avelumab with chemotherapy and radiotherapy may work better in treating participants with muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

Oral anticancer treatments account a quarter of cancer treatments. These oral treatments are allowed at home, avoid hospitalization and limit the use of central venous routes. Oral treatments cause many side effects and patients are reluctant to report them because they are afraid that their treatment will be changed. But when these side effects are poorly managed, they can reduce adherence to treatment. The main hypothesis of this randomized study is that the combination of an initial consultation with a trio (nurse, doctor, pharmacist) and a weekly telephone nurse follow-up during the administration of oral anticancer treatments decreases the rate and duration of side effects. The main objective is to evaluate the impact at 3 months of a optimized management by an initial consultation with a trio nurse, doctor, pharmacist and a weekly nurse telephone follow-up versus a standard management on the level of digestive, skin and mucosal side effects of grade 3 in patients with oral chemotherapy. This randomized study is realized in patients with kidney or breast cancer.

Disease and Stage: naïve metastatic kidney cancer. A multicenter, randomized, a Phase 2 BIOmarker driven trial with Nivolumab and Ipilimumab or VEGFR tKi in naïve metastatic Kidney cancer

This is an open label, multi-institutional, single arm study of dose escalation phase Ib cohort, followed by a phase II cohort of anti-PD-1 antibody MK-3475 in combination with bevacizumab. No randomization or blinding is involved.

Background: - The drug 18F-VM4-037 is being tested for use in cancer imaging studies. It may help tumor tissue show up more clearly during scans. Researchers want to see how well it works for scans for people who have kidney cancer. Objectives: - To test the safety and effectiveness of 18F-VM4-037 during imaging studies of kidney cancer. Eligibility: - Adults at least 18 years of age with kidney cancer that will be treated with surgery. Design: Participants will be screened with a physical exam and medical history. Blood and urine samples will be collected. Participants will have two positron emission tomography (PET) scans of their kidneys. They will have the scans before and after receiving an injection of 18F-VM4-037. The scans will take about 2 hours to complete. About 3 weeks after the PET scans, participants will provide tumor tissue samples from their kidneys. This is a scanning study only. Treatment will not be provided as part of this study.

The multimodal analgesia for postoperative pain aims for optimal analgesia through additive or synergic drug effects. The multimodal analgesia results in the use of smaller doses of opioids and lowering opioid-related side effects. Non-opioid analgesics, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), propacetamol (prodrug of acetaminophen), nefopam are often given along with opioids as part of multimodal analgesia after major surgery. NSAIDS, commonly used non-opioid analgesics, have gastro-intestinal, renal, and cardiac side effects. In contrast, propacetamol or nefopam, two drugs with central analgesic effects, can be safely used as analgesic adjuvants with opioid after nephrectomy, because these drugs do not alter renal function or cause hemorrhagic complications. Recent study demonstrated that the antinociceptive properties of paracetamol (intravenous acetaminophen) associated with the analgesic effectiveness of nefopam could explain the observed synergy of the combination. The aim of this randomized, double-blinded study is to compare the opioid-sparing effect and analgesic efficacy, as well as quality of recovery, of nefopam-propacetamol combination and propacetamol in patients undergoing laparoscopic nephrectomy.