Active clinical trials for "Gallbladder Neoplasms"

The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of a collaborative care intervention to manage cancer-related symptoms and improve health related quality of life in patients diagnosed with hepatobiliary carcinoma.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as capecitabine and gemcitabine, use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Palliative chemotherapy may improve the quality of life in patients who have locally advanced or metastatic biliary tract cancer and may help them live more comfortably. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of adjuvant capecitabine and gemcitabine in improving quality of life in patients who have locally advanced or metastatic biliary tract cancer.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility, efficacy and safety of target therapy according to genomic and proteomic profiling combined with GEMOX in advanced or recurrent extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder carcinoma.

Endoscopic placement of a self-expandable metal stent (SEMS) is the principle method for palliation of inoperable malignant distal biliary obstruction. However, none of bare, covered, and anti-reflux metal stent alone constantly demonstrated superiority over the others in the stent patency. To compensate for the limitations of each stent, a double stent system in which both covered and bare SEMSs are integrated into one stent system was introduced. In the current study, the investigators aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of this stent in patients with inoperable malignant distal biliary obstruction.

It has been shown that patients who undergo liver resection surgery are at high risk for postoperative acute kidney injury (AKI). Sevoflurane may increase the risk for postoperative AKI because of production of compound-A. Therefore, we have planned to investigate the effects of different anesthetic agents on postoperative renal function. Patients undergoing liver resection surgery are randomized into 2 groups. One of the groups receives sevoflurane and the other group receives desflurane. Blood and urine specimen are sampled both pre- and postoperatively, and several biomarkers are compared between the groups.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility, efficacy and safety of target therapy according to genomic and proteomic profiling combined with FORFIRINOX in advanced or recurrent extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder carcinoma.

RATIONALE: Gathering information from patients who received treatment for metastatic cancer while participating in a phase II or phase III randomized clinical trial and from patients receiving standard treatment off-trial may help doctors learn more about the psychological and emotional results of being in a clinical trial. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is comparing the psychological and emotional impact of participating in a randomized clinical trial with the impact of standard treatment in patients with metastatic cancer.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility, efficacy and safety of FORFIRINOX in advanced or recurrent extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma and gallbladder carcinoma.

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel, Multi-Center Study to Assess the Efficacy of BRCX014 Combined with Standard-Of-Care Treatment in Subjects with Glioblastoma Multiforme, Multiple Myeloma, and GI Malignancies

This phase I trial is to investigate the safety and the possible side effects of bi-specific antibody armed T-cell therapy when given together with low-dose IL-2 in treating patients with Her2-positive neoplasms of digestive system. Expanded autologues T cells that have been coated with bi-specific antibodies, such as anti-CD3 and anti-human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2), may stimulate the immune system in different ways and stop tumor cells from growing. Interleukin-2 may stimulate white blood cells to kill tumor cells.