Active clinical trials for "Liver Neoplasms"

The HEPAR study is aimed at determining the safety of radioactive holmium containing microspheres for the treatment of tumors in the liver. These microspheres will be administered by infusion in the liver artery using a arterial catheter in the femoral artery.

The study will consist of two parts. In Part 1 the study will start enrolling 38 patients and then further 25 patients up to a total of 63 eligible patients. If the study gives good results it can be expanded to a total of 160 patients. SU011248 will be administered orally daily for 4 weeks followed by a 2-week rest at a starting dose of 50 mg [milligrams] with provision for dose reduction based on tolerability. All patients will receive repeated cycles of SU011248 until disease progression, occurrence of unacceptable toxicity, or other withdrawal criteria are met. After discontinuation of treatment, patients will be followed up in order to collect information on further antineoplastic therapy and survival

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one chemotherapy drug may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of gemcitabine plus docetaxel in treating patients who have unresectable or metastatic liver cancer.

Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of vaccine therapy with or without sargramostim in treating patients who have advanced or metastatic cancer. Vaccines may make the body build an immune response to kill tumor cells. Colony-stimulating factors such as sargramostim may increase the number of immune cells found in bone marrow or peripheral blood. Combining vaccine therapy with sargramostim may make tumor cells more sensitive to the vaccine and may kill more tumor cells

RATIONALE: Heating melphalan to several degrees above body temperature and infusing it to the affected area directly around the tumor may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of hepatic arterial infusion with melphalan in treating patients who have unresectable liver cancer.

This is a pilot study of Onconzene Microspheres for intra-arterial delivery of doxorubicin for the treatement of patients with unresectable hepatocellular cancer.

Given the role of mTOR signaling and probable synergistic activity of combining sirolimus and metformin in patients with advanced solid tumors, the investigators hypothesize that: The combination of metformin plus sirolimus will result in reduction of p4EBP1, p70S6K and pAKT more than sirolimus alone in peripheral blood T cells (PBTC). The combination of metformin plus sirolimus will result in decreased levels of serum biomarkers including fasting insulin, C-peptide, glucose, triglycerides, LDH, IGF-1, IGF-1R, IGF-BP and leptin, but an increase in adiponectin in peripheral blood. Expression of active forms of AMPK, mTOR, PI3K, PTEN loss, AKT, LKB1, P62, LC3, and/or ULK1 in the tumor tissue (original pathology) will be predictive of response to combination therapy. This will be an exploratory hypothesis for this study. Sirolimus induced toxicity, especially hyperglycemia and hypertriglyceridemia, will be mitigated by combining sirolimus with metformin. Metformin plus sirolimus will have promising anti-cancer activity and this activity will correlate with decreases in the above biomarkers. This will be an exploratory hypothesis for this study.

This is an open-label, multi-center, dose escalation study in adult subjects with advanced colorectal, gastric, hepatic or pancreatic cancer. The study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of SM04755 administered orally. Upon determination of the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), expansion cohorts may be enrolled.

This proof of concept study proposes targeted delivery of a broad-spectrum cytotoxic agent (doxorubicin), via a specially formulated LTSL (ThermoDox®) activated by mild hyperthermia, by using focused ultrasound (FUS), to achieve enhanced intra-tumoural doxorubicin concentrations for the same systemic dose. Adult patients with incurable confirmed hepatic primary or secondary tumours received a single cycle of LTLD, followed by ultrasound-mediated hyperthermia to a single target liver tumour. The primary endpoint relates to evidencing enhanced delivery of doxorubicin from LTLD at the target tumour site, by comparing intratumoural concentrations of the drug before and after focused ultrasound (FUS) exposure.

In this study, effects of γδT cells on human hepatocellular liver cancer in combination with tumor reducing surgery, for example cryosurgery going to be investigated.