Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma, Squamous Cell"

A phase II study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Docetaxel-PM in recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

The aim of this study is to explore whether endostar combined with NVB and DDP as treatment could improve progression-free surial time (PFS) and to evaluate the safety of the chemotherapy regimens

To compare the Disease free survival (DFS) rate of a preoperative cetuximab treatment followed by operation and postoperative radiation-cisplatin-cetuximab treatment paradigm for advanced oral cavity cancer, , with the DFS rate of historical controls (from the RTOG 9501 and EORTC 22931 studies in which treatment was with surgery followed by radiotherapy and cisplatin) with a similar stage of the disease.

This phase I trial studies the side effects and the best dose of paclitaxel and carboplatin after cisplatin and radiation therapy in treating patients with stage IB-IVA cervical cancer. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cisplatin, paclitaxel, and carboplatin, 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 x-rays to kill tumor cells. Giving paclitaxel and carboplatin after cisplatin and radiation therapy may kill more tumor cells.

Nab-paclitaxel and carboplatin showed better treatment response compared with cremophor-based paclitaxel and carboplatin as first-line therapy in advanced non-small cell lung cancer, especially for squamous cell cancer. The regimen of weekly nab-paclitaxel, carboplatin and concurrent radiotherapy was well tolerated in a phase I study. Given nab-paclitaxel, carboplatin and concurrent radiotherapy in patients with local advanced squamous cell lung cancer may have promising result.

Oxaliplatin is a platinum analogue that has significant antitumor activity with better tolerability than cisplatin. The objective of the study is to evaluate the safety and activity of leucovorin and 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin and 5-fluorouracil plus oxaliplatin combination chemotherapy given as adjuvant therapy for curatively-resected, node-positive esophageal cancer.

Goals The primary goal of this phase II trial is to: evaluate the response rate of combination chemotherapy with docetaxel and oxaliplatin in patients with stage IIIB/IV non-adenocarcinoma, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) as second-line treatment Secondary goals are to: evaluate the treatment-related toxicities of this combination, investigate progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in this population Design The proposed clinical trial is an open label, non-comparative, multicenter phase II trial according to the two stage testing design by Simon two-stage testing procedure

This study is to evaluate disease control rate (DCR) at 8 weeks of BKM120 administered as therapy for patient with recurrent/metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Head & Neck squamous cell carcinomas are the commonest cancers afflicting the developing countries. Traditionally surgery or radiotherapy alone in the early stages and surgery with postoperative radiotherapy in advanced stages have been the mainstay of treatment. Of late there has been a paradigm shift in the management of these cancers, particularly those of the oropharynx and laryngopharynx, where chemoradiation has been advocated as part of organ preservation protocol with good outcomes. Conventional radiotherapy involves the use of 2 or 3 field technique with or without compensators to encompass the volume at risk to radical doses of 66-70 Gy typically needed to sterilize gross disease. This strategy however is associated with considerable acute morbidity (mucositis, dysphagia, dermatitis) and debilitating late toxicity (xerostomia). Three dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT) and intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) have the potential to improve the dose distribution, with increased doses to the target volumes and reduced doses to surrounding normal structures, thereby improving the therapeutic ratio.

Definitive chemoradiotherapy with cisplatin with cisplatin plus 5-fluorouracil is the standard in Western countries in esophagus cancer.But in China because of its toxic reaction, most of patients stop the halfway.Because low toxicity, Capecitabine is widely used in the chemotherapy of esophageal cancer. The purpose of this experiment was to study the different cycle on capecitabine with chemotherapy for esophageal cancer chemoradiation effect.We are prepared to within 2 years study recruited 200 patients with esophageal cancer.The primary endpoint is overall survival and the secondary endpoints include progression-free survival, response rate,pathologic complete response rate and adverse events.