Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma, Renal Cell"

Reported in the 2018 NEJM (378; 1277) article, the combination of checkpoint inhibitors ipilimumab (anti-CTLA-4 antibody) and nivolumab (anti-PD-1 antibody) phase III trial Checkmate 214 demonstrated statistically significant (P<0.0001) improvement of overall response rate (ORR) at 42% (95% confidence interval (CI), 37-47%) compared to standard of care (SOC) sunitinib at 27% (95% CI, 22-31%) in treatment naïve advanced or metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). This study also showed increased survival benefit of Ipi+Nivo over sunitinib in the IMDC intermediate-poor risk ccRCC patients. Accordingly, the Ipi+Nivo was just approved by U.S. FDA in April 2018 for treating metastatic ccRCC. Hence, the investigators hypothesized that the combination of durvalumab and tremelimumab is similarly efficacious in advanced or metastatic RCC. Furthermore, the investigators also hypothesize that the administration of personalized neoantigen DNA vaccine will further enhance anti-tumor immune response in RCC.

Despite the success of anti-angiogenic therapy in multiple treatment settings, a fraction of patients are refractory to vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitor treatment while the majority of patients will eventually develop evasive resistance and exhibit disease progression while on therapy. It is proposed that mesenchymal-epithelial transition factor (c-MET) and its ligand hepatocyte growth factor (HGF or scatter factor) contribute significantly to VEGF inhibitor resistance such that combining a c-MET inhibitor with a VEGF inhibitor will provide additional clinical activity compared to VEGF inhibitor alone. This hypothesis will be tested using the cMET/ALK inhibitor, crizotinib, in combination with individual VEGF inhibitors. Three combinations will be prioritized, namely crizotinib plus axitinib, crizotinib plus sunitinib and crizotinib plus bevacizumab, with a fourth combination, crizotinib plus sorafenib to be tested only if crizotinib does not combine with either axitinib and/or sunitinib.

The current study will test single agent IL-2 in stage IV melanoma and kidney cancer.

The overall response to standard therapies and to the newer antiangiogenesis therapies is not curative, and treatment-associated toxicities may be severe. Therefore, continued evaluation of therapies, with different mechanisms of action, is needed for patients with metastatic RCC.

Study aimed to assess the reproducibility of PET imaging using AH111585 (18F) Injection. Subjects are evaluable if they undergo 2 administrations of AH111585 (18F) Injection (3 to 8 days apart) and the corresponding PET acquisitions, and tumors demonstrate detectable levels of 18F uptake on PET.

RATIONALE: Talabostat may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well talabostat works in treating patients with metastatic kidney cancer.

RATIONALE: Diagnostic procedures, such as positron emission tomography and computed tomography scan (done before and after cellular adoptive immunotherapy), may help doctors predict a patient's response to treatment and help plan the best treatment. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well positron emission tomography and computed tomography scan predicts response in patients with metastatic melanoma or kidney cancer who are undergoing cellular adoptive immunotherapy on a Surgery Branch clinical trial.

RATIONALE: Peripheral stem cell transplantation may be able to replace immune cells that were destroyed by chemotherapy and radiation therapy used to kill cancer cells. Sometimes the transplanted cells can be rejected by the body's tissues. Mycophenolate mofetil, tacrolimus, and donor white blood cells may prevent this from happening. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of chemotherapy followed by peripheral stem cell transplantation in treating patients who have metastatic or recurrent kidney cancer.

This is a Phase II, prospective, non-randomized, open-label trial involving cancer patients with known inflamed tumor types. Patients with previously treated advanced/metastatic non-small cell lung cancer or renal cell cancer will be recruited in near equal distribution. All patients must have documented response or prolonged stable disease to previous immunotherapy. At present, we plan to enrol 55 patients, to be treated with durvalumab and oleclumab. The regimen will consist of durvalumab 1500 mg given by vein every 4 weeks and oleclumab 3000 mg given by vein every 2 weeks x 4 doses then IV every 4 weeks till disease progression, withdrawal of subject consent, or another reason for discontinuation. Estimated total duration from time to first subjects consent to last subject's last visit is approximately 36 months.

The aim of this study is to evaluate whether Hemostatic Agents (HA) make a significant clinical difference in patient outcomes when used for Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy (RALPN). The result of this trial will determine whether HAs are necessary for use during RALPN or if they can be omitted from the surgical tools available during this procedure. This study has a direct clinical implication on a patient's outcomes following RALPN, specifically whether patients will have better, worse, or unchanged outcomes with RALPN if HAs are used.