Active clinical trials for "Ovarian Neoplasms"

This is a study of CDX-1127, a therapy that targets the immune system and may act to promote anti-cancer effects. The study enrolls patients with hematologic cancers (certain leukemias and lymphomas), as well as patients with select types of solid tumors.

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is alternative treatment option to upfront cytoreductive surgery to treat advanced ovarian cancer. Paclitaxel plus carboplatin is most frequently selected chemotherapeutic regimen for neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Docetaxel had similar therapeutic efficacy compared to paclitaxel in adjuvant chemotherapy trials in ovarian cancer. However, docetaxel had more favorable toxicity profile. Therefore, the investigators aimed to evaluate the efficacy of docetaxel plus carboplatin as neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with advanced ovarian cancer.

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of veliparib in ovarian cancer patients with known BRCA 1/2 mutations who do no longer respond to conventional chemotherapy.

In patient with a platinum sensitive ovarian cancer recurrence is demonstrated that the re-challenge with a compound of platinum-based, or a treatment with carboplatin in combination with paclitaxel , determines a rate of clinical response similar to the primary treatment, which is all the more important as the longer the time to progression from the primary therapy.In the clinical setting there are many studies that have shown activity of oxaliplatin and docetaxel in patients with advanced ovarian cancer. Two recent studies have shown clinical efficacy of the combination carboplatin / docetaxel in the first line oxaliplatin / paclitaxel to recurrence of disease, confirming the data already obtained from studies of activity in a single agent.In surgery it has been demonstrated in a meta-analysis including approximately 7000 patients in advanced stages of disease, that the extent of cytoreduction is the most powerful determinant of survival.The role of secondary surgical cytoreduction in case of recurrent disease has yet to be determined because of the lack of prospective randomized clinical studies that may highlight the superiority of such aggressive treatment.The combination of aggressive cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal intraoperative chemotherapy (CHIP) used in recent clinical studies showed a prolonged time to progression and disease-free survival in patients with ovarian cancer. However, these studies were conducted on groups of patients with very different among themselves and with other drugs, it is difficult to draw definitive conclusions.Given the activities of oxaliplatin and docetaxel and their non-cross-resistance we designed a Phase 2 clinical trial on treatment of patients with recurrent ovarian cancer, platinum-sensitive, treated with surgical cytoreduction with hyperthermic oxaliplatin-based intraoperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy and following consolidation treatment with oxaliplatin and docetaxel systemically every 21 days.

Folate binding protein (FBP) is highly over-expressed in breast, ovarian and endometrial cancers and is the source of immunogenic peptides (E39) that can stimulate cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) to recognize and destroy FBP-expressing cancer cells in the laboratory. The purpose of this study is to test whether a peptide-based vaccine consisting of the E39 peptide mixed with the FDA-approved immunoadjuvant granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) is safe and effective at inducing an in vivo peptide-specific immune response. Furthermore, the investigators intend to determine the best dose of the vaccine to utilize to produce this immunity most efficiently. The investigators will determine whether immunity to FBP will prevent clinical recurrence. Additionally, the investigators will compare these results with results from a trial utilizing the E75 peptide (from the HER2/neu protein) in ovarian and endometrial cancer patients in preparation for studying a combination vaccine.

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 aminocamptothecin in treating patients with recurrent or refractory ovarian epithelial cancer or primary cancer of the peritoneum.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more cancer cells. PURPOSE: Phase I/II trial to study the effectiveness of topotecan combined with carboplatin and paclitaxel in treating patients who have stage II, stage III, or stage IV ovarian cancer.

RATIONALE: Inserting the p53 gene into a person's cancer cells may improve the body's ability to fight cancer or make the cancer more sensitive to chemotherapy. PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of gene therapy using the p53 gene in treating patients with advanced recurrent or persistent ovarian cancer or primary peritoneal cavity cancer.

RATIONALE: Stereotactic radiosurgery can send x-rays directly to the tumor and cause less damage to normal tissue. PURPOSE: This clinical trial studies stereotactic radiosurgery using CyberKnife works in treating women with advanced or recurrent gynecological malignancies.

The current recommended guideline for patients receiving moderately emetogenic chemotherapy (MEC) is the combination of a 5-HT3 receptor antagonist and corticosteroid. Incidence of chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is approximately 50% in patients receiving MEC. An incidence rate of 25-38% for delayed emesis and 55-60% for delayed nausea has been observed. Hence, there is clearly a need for more effective prevention of CINV in patients receiving MEC, especially in women with ovarian carcinoma who are particularly susceptible to these symptoms. Therefore the investigators designed a study with the objective to evaluate if new combination (Aprepitant/Ramosetron/Dexamethasone) may improve actual CINV control in ovarian carcinoma patients treated with taxane/carboplatin.