Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma"

The purpose of this study is to compare progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with advanced/metastatic breast cancer who have a BRCA mutation when treated with niraparib as compared to those treated with physician's choice

Partially HLA-matched irradiated donor lymphcyte infusion alone resulted in 27% overall response rate (ORR) in advanced renal cell carcinoma without significant toxicities. In addition, high-dose interleukin-2 (IL-2)showed an ORR of 6-21% in metastatic melanoma or renal cell carcinoma with a durable response in patients who achieved complete remission. Therefore, irradiated donor lymphocyte infusion plus high-dose IL-2 might show a synergistic anti-tumor activity agaist relapsed or metastatic melanoma or renal cell carcinoma.

This is an open-label, non-randomized, phase 2 study to assess the feasibility of using cabozantinib in recurrent/metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma patients that progressed after platinum-based therapy.

Primary Phase I:To determine dose limiting toxicities and maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of the oral administration of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) in conjunction with transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) in treating hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). A conventional 3+3 design will be utilized. Primary Phase II: To evaluate the complete response rate in a cohort of patients treated at the MTD, A Simon's Optimal Two-stage design will be utilized.

Targeted therapies are associated with (acquired) resistance after a median of 5-11 months of treatment, resulting in disease progression, while almost no tumors are intrinsically resistant in the first line setting. The investigators recently published that tumor cell resistance to sunitinib may be directly related to lysosomal sequestration of sunitinib. This resistance mechanism was shown to be transient, since a drug-free culture period could normalize the lysosomal storage capacity for sunitinib and resulted in recovery of drug sensitivity. In two reports it has been suggested that patients with metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma who responded to sunitinib in the first-line setting may benefit from rechallenge with sunitinib after failure of second-line treatment. However, these data are retrospective. A prospective trial to investigate a rechallenge with sunitinib is needed to determine whether this strategy is of benefit for patients with mRCC with prior clinical benefit to sunitinib but who stopped treatment because of overt clinical resistance.

There is no standard treatment for Merkel cell carcinoma(MCC), as no randomized trials have been conducted to establish standard of care. Despite a sizable number of objective responses induced by combination cyototoxic chemotherapy, a prolongation of patients overall survival has never been demonstrated. This open-label, randomized, double-arm, multi-centre, phase II study of F16IL2 in combination with paclitaxel versus paclitaxel monotherapy, proposes to test the therapeutic efficacy of F16IL2 plus paclitaxel in patients with metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma, who are not amenable to surgery. A total of 90 patients with Merkel cell carcinoma will be enrolled and treated during the study; 45 patients will receive the combination treatment of F16IL2 and paclitaxel (Arm A), and 45 patients will receive paclitaxel monotherapy (Arm B).

The primary objective of this open label Phase Ib/II trial is to evaluate the clinical and pharmacological activity of IPH2201 as a single-agent in treatment-naïve pre-operative patients with operable Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Oral Cavity . 43 patients are planned to be enrolled. The first 6 patients will receive IPH2201 at a dose of 4 mg/kg q2w x 4. Subsequent patients will be treated at a dose of 10 mg/kg q2w x 4. Standard loco-regional treatment with surgery followed by adjuvant therapy will be initiated after the last administration of IPH2201.

Primary cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) are epithelial carcinomas with a high frequency of EGF-R expression. EGFR is an important regulator of tumour progression and proliferation in several types of cancer. Mechanism of action of Lapatinib in the EGFR and/or HER2 expressing oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) cells is attributed to inhibition of cell proliferation and induction of apoptosis. Based on the data from oesophageal SCCs the investigators hypothesise that EGFR signalling pathway and its interactions play an important role in the SCC pathogenesis and represent a good therapeutic target from these tumours. Primary Objectives: To evaluate the tumour response macroscopically in patients with primary cutaneous SCC lesions and in concomitant SCC in situ (AK). Secondary Objectives: To evaluate tolerability of a single dose regimen of systemic lapatinib therapy in patients with SCC as measured by time to first AE or SAE within the study period. To investigate the molecular tumour response of squamous cell carcinoma lesions in patients under lapatinib treatment using a set of variables. Trial with medicinal product

Whether low-dose radiation in addition to Taxotere and Erbitux improves the response rate of patients with recurrent unresectable head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Clinical study to evaluate safety and pharmacokinetics (primary objectives) and efficacy (secondary objective) of ET1402L1-CART-cells in patients with AFP+ HCC