Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma"

The purpose of this single arm,phase Ⅱ clinical trail is to determine the safety and efficacy of nedaplatin combined with gemcitabine in the treatment of recurrent and metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma

The investigators would like to compare the progression free survival, overall survival, quality of life, and safety outcomes of patients receiving versus not receiving a 2nd transurethral resection of bladder tumor.

The trial is open to patients who have metastatic renal cell carcinoma/urothelial (bladder) carcinoma with at least 2 measurable sites of disease. All eligible patients will be randomly assigned to immunotherapy(nivolumab/atezolizumab/pembrolizumab) versus immunotherapy (nivolumab/atezolizumab/pembrolizumab) plus radiotherapy, 10 Gy x3 (conformally or by intensity modulation radiation therapy/Image-guided radiation therapy (IMRT/IGRT) to maximally spare normal tissue), to one of their measurable lesions.

This randomized pilot clinical trial studies health care coach support in reducing acute care use and cost in patients with cancer. Health care coach support may help cancer patients to make decisions about their care that matches what is important to them with symptom management.

The purpose of this study is to estimate overall survival over a 5-year follow-up period among adult participants with advanced/metastatic kidney cancer, starting 1st line nivolumab and ipilimumab combination therapy or nivolumab monotherapy after prior therapy, in real-life conditions in Germany

The purpose of this research study is to look at the efficacy (the effect on tumor) and the safety (the effect on body) of the study drugs when given as a combination in patients with metastatic recurrent epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) negative inflammatory breast cancer. This is a phase II study of 2 drugs used in combination: nivolumab and ipilimumab. The combination of these drugs is already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat advanced melanoma (a type of skin cancer). Nivolumab and ipilimumab are not approved by the FDA for patients with metastatic recurrent HER2 negative inflammatory breast cancer, hence the treatment is considered experimental or investigational.

In this multi-institution phase I/II trial, the investigators have chosen paclitaxel and carboplatin using a schedule and doses identical to those used in the CROSS trial. Following a run-in with nivolumab alone at 240 mg IVPB every 2 weeks for 2 doses, nivolumab at 240 mg every 2 weeks will be added to paclitaxel and carboplatin, which will be dosed according to the standard of care established by the CROSS trial: paclitaxel 50 mg/m2 weekly for 6 weeks and carboplatin AUC 2 weekly for 6 weeks. Concurrent radiation will be administered with chemotherapy at 1.8 Gy/fraction × 28 fractions to a total dose of 50.4 Gy, the standard radiation dose administered in the United States for trimodality therapy that includes concurrent therapy with carboplatin and paclitaxel. A decrease in dose to 41.4 Gy per the protocol established by van Hagen, et al. will be permitted before discontinuing therapy due to unacceptable toxicity. While the CROSS study administered only 5 weekly doses of chemotherapy during the 5 weeks of radiation, the higher dose of 50.4 Gy (1.8 Gy/fraction ×28 fractions over 5½ weeks) utilized in this study permits for a sixth dose during the additional week of radiation.

Penile cancer is an uncommon disease, with devastating physical and psychological effects on patients. Penile carcinoma even in advanced stages is responsive to several chemotherapeutic agents. However, due to the low incidence of penile cancer, no large studies have been reported concerning chemotherapy. Various single agents were tested for activity en penile cancer in de 70s and 80s. Response rates ranged from 10 to 27% with cisplatin, 20 to 21% with bleomycin, and 0-62% with methotrexate. These agents in combination were tested in different studies. Other chemotherapy schemes have been studied, as combination of cisplatin with 5 fluorouracil with or without taxol, and cisplatin plus irinotecan. All of them in limited phase II studies, with described higher responses rates in some of them but without results confirmation in phase III studies. In conclusion, tested regimens so far have not been very successful in advanced stages of the disease. Antiangiogenic therapy has been demonstrated effective in the treatment of similar cancer types as lung and head and neck, so it can be postulated that antiangiogenic therapy can be effective in the treatment of penile carcinoma. Pazopanib is a new potent oral antiangiogenic therapy. Cytotoxic agents, such as paclitaxel, when administered at low doses and frequent intervals, may exert antiangiogenic effects, thereby enhancing anticancer activity. Recently, combination of pazopanib and paclitaxel administered in a metronomic schedule (80mg/m2 weekly 3 weeks every 4 weeks cycle) obtained a 40% response rate and an 80% of disease control in the first-line treatment of melanoma patients. Treatment was well tolerated. As paclitaxel and antiangiogenic drugs seem a very active treatment, combination of pazopanib and paclitaxel seems a good combination to be tested in patients with penile carcinoma.

This phase II trial studies how well real-time pharmacokinetic therapeutic drug monitoring works in preventing stomatitis from developing in patients with hormone receptor positive breast cancer, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, or kidney cancer that are receiving a type of cancer drug called everolimus. Stomatitis is a common side effect of everolimus that causes inflammation of the mouth, with or without oral ulcers, and frequently leads to patients discontinuing the medication. Monitoring the blood levels of everolimus and making adjustments in a patient's dose may be able to decrease the incidence of stomatitis, while maintaining the effectiveness of everolimus to treat the cancer.

This pilot research trial studies circulating tumor deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in predicting outcomes in patients with stage IV head and neck cancer or stage III-IV non-small cell lung cancer. Studying circulating tumor DNA from patients with head and neck or lung cancer in the laboratory may help doctors predict how well patients will respond to treatment.