Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma"

Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare endocrine malignancy. Despite complete resection of early-stage disease recurrence rates in ACC are very high (60%.70%). Patients with Ki67 ≥ 10% are considered at high risk for ACC recurrence, whereas patients with Ki67<10% are considered to have low/intermediate risk for recurrence. No study are ongoing on adjuvant systemic therapy in ACC patients that are at high risk of relapse. These patients represent 70-80% of all ACC radically operated. In this setting mitotane is widely prescribed. The efficacy of mitotane is known to be dependent on the attainment of serum drug levels in the so called therapeutic range that is above 14 mg/l. However, ACC patients with high relapse risk may develop disease recurrence before mitotane serum levels attain the target concentration. Chemotherapy with cisplatin containing regimen was shown to be efficacious in the management of ACC in few phase II trials. Based on the background, there is a strong rationale of administering chemotherapy in radically operated ACC patients with high risk of relapse defined as follows: stage I-III ACC (according to the ENSAT classification) with either microscopically complete resection (R0), microscopically positive margins (R1), or undetermined margins (RX) and Ki67≥10% (for a further definition of this condition, see the study population paragraph). In clinical practice, adjuvant mitotane alone or cisplatin-based chemotherapy or the combination of both are used worldwide in patients at high risk of relapse, but there is no prospective validation of these treatments. The investigators will test the efficacy of the combination of cisplatin plus etoposide (plus/minus mitotane according to the investigator preference) in comparison with the actual best routine practice consisting of mitotane or no therapy (according to the personal belief of clinical investigator). This study is parto of the international trial registry ADIUVO-2 coordinated by MD Anderson Center of Huston (Texas).

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of first-line with recombinant anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody（SCT200）and standard chemotherapy in patients with Recurrent and/or Metastatic Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma.

This clinical trial is a prospective, open label, single arm oncological phase I/II trial in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma and WNT signaling alterations. The trial consists of two parts: Part A is a phase I study investigating the safety of DKN-01 administered as mono- as well as combination therapy with sorafenib in a 2 step dose escalation.Part B is a phase II study to investigate the anti-tumor activity and safety of DKN-01 in patients with advanced HCC. DKN-01 is administered at the recommend phase II dose (RP2D) for monotherapy and at the recommend phase II dose for combination therapy established in Part A.

The aim of this prospective, randomized study is to compare TRA vs TFA for superselective embolization of HCC using bland microparticles performed by multiple operators. In particular, main objectives are to compare: the success rates of TRA and TFA including crossing over events between techniques the inter-operator outcomes in terms of time to complete the vascular access and the vessel catheterization access-related adverse events patient preference and reported discomfort

Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) is one of the most frequent malignancies worldwide, and an increasing incidence has been documented over the past decades. Despite optimal initial approach, which can be curative in the majority of cases, a proportion of patients present with locally advanced or unresectable disease, leading to significant morbidity. In addition, metastases of cSCC may affect 2 to 5% of individuals diagnosed with this disease. In the setting of advanced cSCC, no standard systemic treatment has been established, and treatment options are frequently adapted from those applied to squamous cell carcinoma arising from other sites, based on a low level of evidence and often with short-lived benefits. cSCC are potentially immunogenic neoplasms with an unmet need for therapeutic options, having sun exposure and chronic inflammation as the most significant risk factors. Using the anti-PD1 monoclonal antibody nivolumab to treat patients with cSCC and planned scientific correlates, investigators believe that the safety and efficacy of immune activating therapy for this disease can be assessed. This is a multi-center, Simon two-stage, phase II study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the anti-PD1 monoclonal antibody nivolumab for systemic-treatment-naïve patients with metastatic and/or locally advanced cSCC. The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the efficacy, as assessed by the best objective response rate (complete response + partial response) at 24 weeks according to RECIST criteria, of nivolumab in patients with advanced cSCC. Secondary objectives are to assess the safety/tolerability of the treatment, to determine the progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) rates at 24 weeks, and to evaluate the objective response rate as assessed by immune-related response criteria (irRC). Treatment will be given every 14 days until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity or withdrawal of consent/patient decision. If the patient continues to benefit from treatment with nivolumab, treatment will be continued for up to 12 months. Patients will be reassessed at week 12 and every 12 weeks thereafter until week 52, and then as per discretion of the treating investigator. A tumor biopsy will be performed before treatment initiation, unless contraindicated and optional biopsies will be performed at week 13 and following disease progression. Serial blood samples will be obtained at baseline, during, and after treatment.

This is a Phase III randomized controlled multi-center trial comparing anlotinib plus Gemcitabine/Cisplatin with placebo plus Gemcitabine/Cisplatin in previous untreated patients with recurrent/metastatic Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, in order to verify the efficacy and security of anlotinib in mNPC patients.

Human papillomavirus infections 16 (HPV16) is known to be a high-risk factor to induce cervical cancers. To date, HPV16-related cervical cancer is still a major concern in developing countries where vaccination is not prevalent. Concurrent therapies for cervical cancers have limited response rate and high chance of relapse. However, HPV16-induced cancers provided an ideal target for T cell-based immunotherapy due to the non-self origins. Engineered T cells bearing a TCR (TCR-T) that can specifically recognize the presented HPV antigen become a viable approach to treat this type of cancer. Though engineered T therapies have been well-recognized in hematological cancers, solid cancer treatment has been a major hurdle due to the immune-suppressive tumor microenvironment. One key mechanism of tumor-elicited suppression is the PDL1-PD1 interaction which induces T cell exhaustion. Therefore, TCR-T cells armed with a PD1 antagonist could further enhance the efficacy of TCR-T in solid cancers.

To investigate the molecular mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine constitution, the investigators proposed a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase II trial to recruit 120 patients with nasopharyngeal cancer. Next generation sequencing, immune repertoire, gut microbiota, traditional Chinese medicine constitution and tongue diagnosis would be examined before/after 16 weeks of treatment of Danggui Buxue Tang from the beginning of concurrent chemoradiotherapy in this project. The correlation between different examinations would be analyzed to investigate the molecular mechanism of traditional Chinese medicine constitution. Disease survival, recurrence, and quality of life would be also followed up for two years to evaluate the benefit of Danggui BuxueTang.

Gemcitabine plus cisplatin (GC) is more effective than fluorouracil plus cisplatin in the treatment of recurrent or metastatic NPC (R/M-NPC). GC is the standard first-line chemotherapy regimen for this population. However, the median progression-free survival was only 7 months for GC regimen. Anlotinib is a kinase inhibitor of receptor tyrosine with multi-targets, especially for VEGFR2、VEGFR3、PDGFRβ and c-Kit, which has strong effect of anti-angiogenesis. This study is aim to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the combination regimen of anlotinib plus GC as first-line treatment for R/M-NPC.

Researchers already did trials that showed Sorafenib and Regorafenib worked for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (most common liver tumor type). In this trial, they want to learn more about the same patient group in which Sorafenib or Regorafenib is given after other drugs. Patients participating in this study will be observed until 12 months after the last patient has been enrolled to collect data on how safe the drugs are and how well they are working when used as second line or beyond treatment.