Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma, Squamous Cell"

Primary Objective: To determine the efficacy of the combination of imatinib mesylate and docetaxel in recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell cancer by serial measurements of tumor response (extent, frequency, duration). Secondary Objectives: To assess the safety and tolerability of imatinib mesylate and docetaxel in patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell cancer. To explore the biologic effects of imatinib mesylate and docetaxel on tumor tissue by immunohistochemical analysis of microvessel density and phosphorylation of Platelet-derived growth factor receptors (PDGF-R). To explore the effects of imatinib mesylate and docetaxel on surrogate markers in serum. To assess the rate of survival.

The purpose of this study is to investigate if zalutumumab in combination with Best Supportive Care (BSC) is superior to BSC in non-curable patients with head and neck cancer

To evaluate the rate of clinical complete response 6-8 weeks after treatment with docetaxel plus cisplatin and 5-fluorouracil followed by chemoradiotherapy and after chemoradiotherapy alone in patients with locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

Primary Objective: To determine the maximum tolerated doses (MTDs) of pemetrexed when given with dexamethasone. (Please note: One of the three treatment groups will not receive dexamethasone) Secondary Objectives: To assess dose limiting toxicity (DLT), which is defined as grade 4 neutropenia > 7 days duration, neutropenic fever, grade 4 thrombocytopenia, or any grade 3 or 4 non-hematologic toxicity excluding nausea/vomiting and excluding grade 3 transaminase toxicity. To determine objective response rate, as defined as complete response (CR) or partial response (PR), confirmed by 2 CT scans at least 6 weeks apart in patients treated with pemetrexed as a single agent with advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

RATIONALE: Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage tumor cells. Radiosensitizing drugs, such as cytochlor and tetrahydrouridine, may make tumor cells more sensitive to radiation therapy. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cisplatin work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Combining radiosensitizers with chemotherapy and radiation therapy may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of cytochlor when given together with tetrahydrouridine, cisplatin and radiation therapy in treating patients with advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity (mouth) or oropharynx (throat).

RATIONALE: Erlotinib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking the enzymes necessary for their growth. Giving erlotinib after chemoradiotherapy may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of adjuvant erlotinib when given after completing chemoradiotherapy in treating patients with locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma (cancer) of the head and neck.

The goal of this clinical research study is to find the highest safe dose of the drugs OSI-774 and docetaxel that can be given together along with radiation treatment for advanced head and neck cancer.

The purpose of this clinical trial is to determine if Allovectin-7®, an experimental gene-based immunotherapy, can shrink head and neck tumors. The trial will also examine if treatment can boost the immune system and if this treatment can improve the time to disease progression.

This is an exploratory qualitative study among People Living With HIV (PLWH) of diverse racial/ethnic and sexual and gender minority (SGM) identities to explore individual, interpersonal, and structural oral health equity factors that serve as barriers or facilitators of accessing oral health care, knowledge and perceptions of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) /Oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC), and to collect recommendations on how to increase access to oral health care and engage PLWH in OSCC/OPSCC prevention.

Anal cancer can be prevented through detection and treatment of a recognised precancerous lesion, known as anal intra-epithelial neoplasia (AIN), specifically the anal high-grade squamous intra-epithelial lesion (aHSIL) subtype. Assessment of changes in disease burden is an important feature in the clinical evaluation of a treatment. Existing trials in aHSIL have predominantly used disease response outcomes based on histological and cytological changes to measure the effects of treatment. Several limitations to this approach have been identified. Lesion characteristics such as lesion size and number represent potential indicators of disease response to treatment and might overcome some of the limitations. We aim to develop a disease measurement instrument capable of describing disease burden such that it can be used to evaluate disease response to treatment in addition to histological and cytological based measurements further strengthening the quality of disease response outcomes. The disease measurement instrument will be developed over 4 stages: A meeting of AIN experts to determine a longlist of lesion measurement items capable of capturing disease burden; A series of disease assessments will be undertaken in participants known to have aHSIL to assess disease burden using the measurement items identified in stage 1; Data analysis to determine the best performing measurement items and comprise a disease measurement instrument; Pilot-testing of the proposed disease measurement instrument. Two trained disease assessors (experienced clinicians familiar with the assessment of anal intraepithelial lesions) will assess disease burden per participant. Disease burden will also be captured photographically. We will undertake disease assessments on 20-30 participants. By analysing the results of the clinician assessments and digital analysis of the photographic representation of disease burden, we will be able to determine the most acceptable, feasible, reliable and reproducible ways of measuring disease burden and use these to inform a disease measurement instrument.