Active clinical trials for "Uterine Cervical Neoplasms"

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of etoposide in treating patients who have refractory, recurrent, or metastatic ovarian or cervical cancer.

Rationale: Computer systems that allow doctors to create a 3 dimensional (3-D) picture of the tumor may help in planning radiation therapy and may result in more tumor cells being killed. Specialized radiation therapy that delivers a high dose of radiation directly to the tumor may kill more tumor cells and cause less damage to normal tissue. Drugs, such as cisplatin, may make tumor cells more sensitive to radiation therapy.

The scope of the trial is to assess the efficacy of the association gemcitabine-cisplatin + radiotherapy followed by an adjuvant chemotherapy

The treatment of cervical cancer with chemotherapy and radiation will make women post menopausal (no estrogen from the ovaries), if a woman is not already in menopause. Estrogen plays a key role in maintaining bone health. Therefore, these women are at higher risk of getting osteoporosis (decrease minerals in the bone) and bone fractures. The overall purpose of this research is to look at the effects of zoledronic acid (Zometa) on preventing bone loss. Studies have also shown that zoledronic acid may prevent metastasis to the bone which can occur in women with cervical cancer. Zometa is investigational (not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)) in this study to prevent metastasis to the bone in women with cervical cancer. Therefore, the goal of this study is to also look at the effects of zoledronic acid (Zometa) on circulating tumor cells in the bone marrow and blood. This study is being done to find a way to prevent bone loss and metastasis to the bone in women undergoing chemotherapy and radiation for cervical cancer. An additional component of the study is to assess the importance of stress on immune markers in blood during standard treatment.

This randomized phase III trial is studying cisplatin, radiation therapy, and tirapazamine to see how well they work compared to cisplatin and radiation therapy in treating patients with cervical cancer. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cisplatin and tirapazamine, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill tumor cells. Internal radiation uses radioactive material placed directly into or near a tumor to kill tumor cells. Cisplatin and tirapazamine may make tumor cells more sensitive to radiation therapy. It is not yet known whether giving cisplatin together with radiation therapy is more effective with or without tirapazamine in treating cervical cancer.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combining gemcitabine and cisplatin in treating patients who have refractory or recurrent cancer of the cervix.

To evaluate whether a less radical surgical approach with sentinel lymph node biopsy is non-inferior to treatment with systematic pelvic lymphadenectomy. The null hypothesis is that the recurrence rate after SLN biopsy is non-inferior to the reference recurrence rate of 7 % (at the 24th month of follow-up) in patients after systematic pelvic lymphadenectomy, but that the less radical surgery is associated with significantly lower postoperative morbidity.

This research study is a Phase II clinical trial. Phase II clinical trials test the safety and effectiveness of the investigational drug in combination with radiation to learn whether the drug(s) works in treating a specific disease. In this study, researchers are studying three treatment arms, each using standard chemotherapy, with the drug cisplatin and radiation and the drug Nivolumab. Each treatment Arm will test the addition of Nivolumab at a different time point

This is an open-label, multicenter, basket trial Phase II study to evaluate the antitumor activity of simlukafusp alfa in combination with atezolizumab in participants with advanced and/or metastatic solid tumors. Currently the focus is on participants with Head and Neck, oesophageal and cervical cancers with confirmed squamous cell carcinoma histology type.

Locally advanced cervix cancers (stage 1B-IV) are usually treated with radiotherapy, concomitant cisplatin chemotherapy and brachytherapy. Failure to achieve locoregional control (LRC) remains a problem, especially in the setting of stage III/IV disease. More importantly, however, the dominant unresolved problem remains the occurrence of distant metastatic relapse. With the knowledge that 99% of all cervix cancer is associated with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection, there is a strong rationale to consider immunomodulatory strategies in the radical management of this disease. Therefore, in this research protocol the investigator will treat patients with stage 1B-IVA carcinoma of the cervix planned to receive radical radiotherapy with concomitant cisplatin and brachytherapy. The research involves adding a new therapy in the form of an antiPD1 monoclonal antibody (pembrolizumab) to the standard treatment of radiotherapy combined with cisplatin chemotherapy and brachytherapy. This treatment seeks to activate the patient's own immune system to attack the cancer cells - and the investigator believes that adding this treatment during standard treatment may be particularly effective. Patients will receive an initial dose of pembrolizumab 2 weeks before starting a course of chemoradiotherapy and brachytherapy. In the first instance, patients will receive 100 mg of pembrolizumab and, if this is safe and tolerable in the first 3 patients, the dose will be increased to 200 mg for all other patients. Radiation will be delivered on 28 occasions with chemotherapy given intravenously in weeks 0, 1, 2 and 3. Brachytherapy will be given on 3 occasions after completion of the radiation. Additional doses of pembrolizumab will be given every 3 weeks for a further 7 doses. The investigator will assess the feasibility and safety of the combination of pembrolizumab with radiotherapy and cisplatin.