Active clinical trials for "Cholangiocarcinoma"

The objective of this observational study is to identify patients with locally advanced cholangiocarcinoma treated with nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine-cisplatin chemotherapy. In this clinical study, peripheral blood and tumor tissues will be analyzed at baseline and every 3 cycles after systemic drug treatment in patients with locally advanced cholangiocarcinoma, and correlation with treatment was analyzed. This is an exploratory study to discover biomarkers that are highly correlated with treatment response.

To find out if adding pembrolizumab to standard of care chemotherapy drugs (cisplatin and gemcitabine) will improve long-term response of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma after surgery, compared to treatment with surgery and standard chemotherapy alone.

The primary objective of this study, sponsored by Travera Inc. in Massachusetts, is to validate whether the mass response biomarker has potential to predict response of patients to specific therapies or therapeutic combinations using isolated tumor cells from various specimen formats including malignant fluids such as pleural effusions and ascites, core needle biopsies, fine needle aspirates, or resections.

This study is a prospective, multicenter, open, real-world clinical study. All eligible patients were assigned to experimental group (TACE combined with multi-target drugs and PD-1 inhibitors), and control group (conventional intravenous chemotherapy), to explore the efficacy and safety of TACE combined with multi-target drugs and PD-1 inhibitors as first-line treatment compared with traditional systemic intravenous chemotherapy in the treatment of unresectable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC).

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of normal temperature and 37℃ non-ionic contrast agent acting on ERCP-related cholangeitis after endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) in the treatment of hilar cholangiocarcinoma.

Liver transplantation has become an important treatment in hepatocellular cancer (HCC). While the generally determined malign indication in the world is HCC, some centers perform liver transplantation in both cholangiocarcinoma and mixed type hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma diseases and investigate the differences in recurrence and survival outcomes compared to HCC. Although liver transplantation for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas of small diameter <2cm is a popular topic of discussion around the world, a common consensus has not been established.

This study is to learn if certain risk factors (environmental, viral, behavioral, medical, and dietary), tumor markers, and genetic changes can predict the development and outcome of biliary tree cancers. Establishing biomarkers models from patients may help doctors to further understand how biliary tree cancer is affected by different treatments, and why some people's cancer responds differently than others.

Oncolytic viruses can selectively replicate in and destroy tumor cells. Recent studies indicate that recombinant human adenovirus type 5 (H101), which is the first approved oncolytic virus drug in the world, shows anti-tumor effects on liver cancer. This study aims to further verify the effect and safety of recombinant human adenovirus type 5 combined with HAIC in the treatment of intrahepatic mass-forming cholangiocarcinoma.

To evaluate the predictive value of ctDNA in response, relapse for liver cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors

The PIONEER Initiative stands for Precision Insights On N-of-1 Ex vivo Effectiveness Research. The PIONEER Initiative is designed to provide access to functional precision medicine to any cancer patient with any tumor at any medical facility. Tumor tissue is saved at time of biopsy or surgery in multiple formats, including fresh and cryopreserved as a living biospecimen. SpeciCare assists with access to clinical records in order to provide information back to the patient and the patient's clinical care team. The biospecimen tumor tissue is stored in a bio-storage facility and can be shipped anywhere the patient and the clinical team require for further testing. Additionally, the cryopreservation of the biospecimen allows for decisions about testing to be made at a later date. It also facilitates participation in clinical trials. The ability to return research information from this repository back to the patient is the primary end point of the study. The secondary end point is the subjective assessment by the patient and his or her physician as to the potential benefit that this additional information provides over standard of care. Overall the goal of PIONEER is to enable best in class functional precision testing of a patient's tumor tissue to help guide optimal therapy (to date this type of analysis includes organoid drug screening approaches in addition to traditional genomic profiling).