Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma, Renal Cell"

This phase II trial is studying how well ispinesib works in treating patients with metastatic or unresectable kidney cancer. Ispinesib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth.

A phase II study to allow patients with advanced kidney cancer access to sunitinib malate treatment and to find out the good and bad effects of taking 37.5 mg sunitinib malate in a continuous daily regimen (once per day) for one year.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility, safety, and tolerability of administering ZYC300 with Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan).

The purpose of this study is to better understand the safety, tolerability and distribution of CNTO 328 in the bloodstream.

RATIONALE: A peripheral stem cell transplant or bone marrow transplant from a brother or sister may be an effective treatment for kidney cancer. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well a donor peripheral stem cell or bone marrow transplant works in treating patients with relapsed or refractory metastatic kidney cancer.

Cutaneous leiomyomas are benign tumors of smooth muscle origin. They can be very painful, and current treatments for the tumors and for the associated pain do not produce satisfactory results. One potential treatment for localized severe muscle pain involves injections with botulinum toxin A. This study will investigate the effectiveness, side effects, and dosage of botulinum toxin A (BOTOX) as a treatment for patients with pain associated with cutaneous leiomyomas. This study will include 18 subjects, all of whom will be 18 years of age and older, who have pain associated with cutaneous leiomyomas. For the 24-week study, patients will be randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups. Neither the study team nor the patient will know to which group patients have been assigned. Before the study begins, all participants must provide a full medical history for research and evaluation purposes, fill out pain and quality-of-life questionnaires, and undergo an ice test in which researchers will apply ice to the site of the cutaneous leiomyomas and ask participants to evaluate the level of pain before and after ice application. Both groups will be required to keep a pain diary throughout the study to record their level of pain on a daily basis, and will be asked to avoid or restrict the use of specific medications or other remedies to treat the pain. At the first visit (Week 0), one group will receive a prescribed dose of botulinum toxin A, which will be administered as an injection into the leiomyoma, and the other (control) group will receive a placebo injection of a saline solution. Patients will return 4 weeks later, at which time they will undergo a medical examination, and the ice test, and complete questionnaires to assess responses and level of pain. Patients will return in Week 12, at which time the group assignment will be revealed (un-blinded) to investigators and patients. Patients who received placebo injections will be offered the opportunity to receive injection of botulinum toxin A into their leiomyomas. All patients will undergo a medical examination, the ice test, complete questionnaires, and continue completing their daily pain diaries at home. The final visit, in Week 24, will follow the same procedure as the Week 4 visit. At the end of the study, patients may be eligible to have one or more of the painful cutaneous leiomyomas surgically removed if the researchers believe that the skin lesions can be removed with a reasonable cosmetic result.

Background: -Although IL-2 can shrink tumors in about 20 percent of patients with metastatic kidney cancer and in 15 percent of patients with metastatic melanoma, it is not fully known how the drug works. Objectives: -To better understand how IL-2 causes tumors to shrink. Eligibility: -Patients 18 years of age or older with metastatic kidney cancer or metastatic melanoma Design: 135 patients with melanoma and 110 patients with kidney cancer may be enrolled. Patients are hospitalized for about 7 days for each treatment. They receive IL-2 intravenously (through a vein) over 15 minutes every 8 hours for up to 4 days or 12 doses. This constitutes one treatment cycle. Research blood samples are collected daily during the first treatment cycle and for one or two days following the last dose. Patients may be asked to undergo leukapheresis, a procedure for collecting large quantities of white blood cells. This involves collecting blood through a needle in an arm vein. The blood is directed through a cell separator where the white cells are extracted. The rest of the blood (red cells, platelets, and plasma) is returned to the patient through the same needle or through a needle in the other arm. About 7-10 days after discharge from the hospital, patients return for a second treatment cycle but without research blood sampling. 2 months after therapy, patients are evaluated with scans, and x-rays, and blood tests to evaluate the tumor and the effects of the treatment on immune cells. Patients whose tumors shrink or remain stable may continue treatment (without repeating the full set of research blood samples) as long as they benefit from the treatment and do not develop unacceptable side effects. Patients who continue treatment are evaluated every 2 months for 3 to 4 times and then every 3 to 6 months.

This Phase I, dose finding study evaluates the safety and tolerability of lapatinib, a dual tyrosine kinase inhibitor, and GW786034, an anti-angiogenesis agent, when given together. The study first will find the best doses using safety and blood concentration data of both agents. This is done enrolling stepwise, cohorts of 3 patients each and the last patient enrolled must reach at least Day 22 of continuous daily dosing before the next cohort at an increased dose can begin. If a patient in a cohort has a dose limiting toxicity before Day 22, then 3 more patients are studied at that same dose. If 2 of 6 patients have dose limiting toxicities within the first 22 days, the next cohort receives the next lowest dose. Otherwise each cohort has an increasing dose of one of the two agents. The second stage of the study will administer the best doses of the agents to about 16 patients to further study safety and collect more blood concentration data (more blood samples in the second phase compared to the first phase). The second stage has the advantage of using the best dose (decreases chance of receiving a sub-therapeutic dose) while it collects more blood samples and requires slightly more long clinic visits.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining chemotherapy with peripheral stem cell transplant may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more cancer cells. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well allogeneic stem cell transplant works in treating patients with metastatic kidney cancer.

Determine whether patients receiving adjuvant HSPPC-96 treatment after surgically resected, locally advanced renal cell carcinoma have improved recurrence-free survival as compared to subjects with no adjuvant treatment.