Active clinical trials for "Eye Neoplasms"

Some tumors are difficult to treat with chemotherapy or radiation. One of the reasons is that areas of the tumor do not have many blood vessels, which makes it difficult for drugs to reach those areas. One way that researchers have recently tried to overcome this problem is by injecting special kinds of bacteria into the tumors. These bacteria have been genetically changed to remove the chemicals that are poisonous to humans, but are still able to cause tumor cells to break down and die. The idea is that these bacteria may be able to assist chemotherapy drugs in fighting cancer. The goal of this clinical research study is to find the highest tolerable dose of one of these bacterial therapies (Clostridium novyi-NT spores) that can be given in combination with pembrolizumab to patients with advanced solid tumors. The safety of this drug will also be studied, as well as whether it can help to control the disease. This is an investigational study. Clostridium novyi-NT is not FDA approved or commercially available. It is currently being used for research purposes only. Pembrolizumab is FDA approved for the treatment of melanoma and different types of head and neck and non-small cell lung cancers. It is investigational to use these drugs in combination with each other in various types of advanced cancers. The study doctor can describe how the study drugs are designed to work. Up to 18 participants will be enrolled in this study. All will take part at MD Anderson.

Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common type of cancer inside the eyes of adults. Almost half of all patients diagnosed with UM will eventually develop metastases. Once metastases occur, the median patient survival is short. In this trial, we will test if treatment with Melatonin after primary tumor diagnosis can prevent or delay the development of metastases. 100 patients diagnosed with primary UM will be randomized to either treatment with Melatonin tablets (20 mg at night), or to a control group. Both groups will be followed for 5 years. At 5 years, the number of patients that have developed metastases in the Melatonin and control groups will be compared (primary outcome measure).

The goal of this clinical research study is to learn whether delivering spine radiosurgery in a single large dose is better than delivering spine radiosurgery over 3 smaller doses. Researchers also want to learn about the effects of a single dose on participant's symptoms, pain, and quality-of-life.

Rare diseases generally refer to diseases whose prevalence rate is lower than 1 / 10 000 and the number of patients is less than 140000. Rare diseases are generally faced with the dilemma of a lack of qualified doctors, difficulty in large-scale screening, and a lack of rapid and effective channels for medical treatment. Studies have shown that 42% of patients say they have been misdiagnosed, and each patient with a rare disease needs to go through an average of eight doctors in seven years to see a corresponding rare disease specialist. More importantly, most rare diseases seriously affect the health and quality of life of patients. The ocular surface malignant tumor is a typical rare disease, and its incidence is less than 1 / 100000. The ocular surface not only affects the patient's appearance, but also damages the visual function, and the malignant tumor may even affect life. These uncommon malignant tumors are often hidden in the common black nevus on the eye surface, which is easy to be ignored and has great potential risks. With the improvement of people's living standards, people start to pay attention to rare diseases. In recent years, the rapid development of digital technology has also provided new opportunities for the prevention and treatment of rare diseases. Our team established the database of rare ophthalmopathy in China in the early stage, which provided a solid foundation for the digitization of precious clinical data. This study intends to develop an intelligent screening system for ocular surface malignant tumors, using the mobile phone for real-world verification and scale screening, and explore it to improve the ability of doctors to diagnose and treat rare diseases. This study is expected to improve the ability to screen malignant tumors on the ocular surface and provide a novel model for the universal screening of rare diseases.

This study is being done due to a new imaging method that may help others in the future to improve evaluation of diseases in the eye and eye socket and to help make a decision concerning best treatment of the disease. Previous studies suggests that dynamic contrast enhanced MRI is ideally suited to show small structures in the eye and eye socket as well as to provide information about the eye socket such as blood circulation. This research may also provide information about the likelihood of the tumor spreading from the eye into other organs as well as correlate the study images with all other clinical imaging

While 95% of patients with retinoblastoma can be cured nowadays, treatment of relapse remains challenging, ending often in enucleation and/or radiotherapy. In the last 10 years, new treatment modalities have been developed to give the chance of cure also in relapse, avoiding enucleation which results in esthetic sequelae and orbital growth problems, and radiotherapy which significantly increases the risk of secondary cancers in hereditary retinoblastoma. The current protocol aims at covering all types of relapses in retinoblastoma, with treatments adapted to the site of relapse, at harmonizing the new eye- and vision-preserving treatment procedures, and evaluating their efficacy and toxicity.

The purpose of this study is to determine the safest dose of d-methadone that can be given, without causing severe side effects in most patients with chronic pain. Patients are being asked to participate in the Phase I portion of this study.

The purpose of this open, monocenter pilot trial is to evaluate the tolerance of the SclerFIX product, an allograft of umbilical cord lining membrane, in the reinforcement of ocular implants in patients who underwent enucleation due to an eye malignant tumor resection.

RATIONALE: Vaccines made from a peptide may make the body build an immune response and kill tumor cells. PURPOSE: Randomized phase I trial to study the effectiveness of vaccine therapy in treating patients who have metastatic cancer that has not responded to previous therapy.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage tumor cells. O6-benzylguanine may help carmustine kill more tumor cells by making tumor cells more sensitive to the drug. It is not yet known whether radiation therapy and carmustine are more effective with or without O6-benzylguanine. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of radiation therapy plus carmustine with or without O6-benzylguanine in treating patients who have newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme or gliosarcoma.