Active clinical trials for "Glioblastoma"

This trial is a translational, open-label, multicentric, prospective cohort study of 900 patients aiming to describe the PD-1 (programmed death) expression in T cells (T lymphocytes) in different solid tumors. The study will be conducted on a population of patients with local and/or metastatic malignant solid tumor and who are followed within a standard of care procedure or clinical trial. Patients with any of the following tumor types may be enrolled in the trial: Head and neck cancer, Ovarian cancer, Cervical cancer, Pre-invasive CIN III cervical cancer (Cervical Intra-epithelial Neoplasia III cervical cancer), Other solid tumor types (including glioblastoma, NSCLC (Non-small cell lung cancer), anal cancer) Each tumor type will be considered as an independent cohort. For each included patient, biological specimen (tumor sample, blood samples and ascites samples if applicable) will be collected. Study participation of each patient will be 5 years.

This study is to collect and validate regulatory-grade real-world data (RWD) in oncology using the novel, Master Observational Trial construct. This data can be then used in real-world evidence (RWE) generation. It will also create reusable infrastructure to allow creation or affiliation with many additional RWD/RWE efforts both prospective and retrospective in nature.

This study provides a work package for a larger programme of research developing Precision Surgery for Glioblastomas by developing individualised treatment volumes for surgery and radiotherapy. This study will recruit a cohort of patients with tumours in different brain regions and involve imaging pre- and post-operatively to outline the area of 'injury' to normal brain. The investigators will then correlate anatomical disruption with changes in measures of quality of life, visual functioning and visual fields and neuropsychology.

Open label phase I study in subjects with glioblastoma at first progression to explore two different administration schedules of lomustine for the combination with L19TNF (ARM 1 and ARM 2). Patients will be assigned in an alternating fashion to ARM 1 "Fractionating lomustine" or ARM 2 "Priming with L19TNF" as long as both treatment arms are open. Should one treatment arm be stopped as more or equal to two dose limiting toxicities occur in this treatment arm, then all remaining patients will be assigned to the treatment arm that is still open until also this treatment arm will be stopped.

This is a pilot or feasibility study to test the study plan and to find out whether enough participants will join a larger study and accept the study procedures. Eligible participants (adults with newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme [GBM] and had a good tumour resection [>= 70% of initial tumour volume] and plan to receive 6 weeks of chemoradiation followed by up to 6 months of chemotherapy) are asked to donate their own stool samples at 4 different time points during their treatment course. Participants will also complete a 7-day diet diary and two questionnaires about their health-related quality of life. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive form of primary brain cancer in adults. The current best evidence-proven treatment for GBM includes maximum safe tumour resection, brain radiation over a 6-week period given with chemotherapy pills called temozolomide (Brand name: Temodal or Temodar), followed by approximately 6 months / cycles of temozolomide. Despite these treatments, the average life expectancy is generally less than 2 years. Researchers are recognizing that the immune system has an important role in directing the effectiveness of chemotherapy, radiation, and newer therapies such as immunotherapies. Some immunotherapies have been quite successful in improving cancer control and survival in other cancers like melanoma (an aggressive skin cancer), but when these drugs were given to patients with GBM, there appeared to only be a small effect. Therefore, finding ways to make existing and new treatments work better should be a priority. Recent scientific studies have shown that the bacteria that make up our stool, often referred to as the gut microbiome, play a major role in regulating the immune system. For example, researchers were able to make patients with melanoma who previously did not respond to immunotherapy become responsive to the treatment after receiving a stool transplant from responders to immunotherapy. This provides proof of concept that we could modify the body's immune environment to favour cancer killing by changing a person's gut bacteria environment. The role of the gut bacteria in patients with brain cancer is poorly understood as very few studies have been published about it in this population. We believe that understanding the composition of the gut microbiome and how it relates to the effectiveness and side effects of treatments in GBM patients will be an important first step to understanding how we can modify the gut microbiome to improve outcomes for patients living with GBM.

This will be a prospective, open label, single center, phase I lead-in study of 10 patients to a single arm phase-II study of 37 additional patients to assess the effectiveness of pembrolizumab and lenvatinib combination therapy for recurrent glioblastoma (rGBM) patients wearing TTFields electrodes.

The goal of this interventional study is to evaluate the efficacy of APG-157 in combination with Bevacizumab in subjects with recurrent high-grade glioma. The main questions the study aims to answer are: Progression-free and overall survival of patients receiving this combination; Quality of Life (QOL); and Tumor response on imaging The participants will take APG-157 daily by dissolving two pastilles in their mouth at around breakfast, lunch and dinner time (total of six pastilles per day). The pastilles dissolve in the mouth. The participants will continue to receive Bevacizumab as standard of care.

This is a phase 2 study to evaluate the safety and preliminary evidence of effectiveness of azeliragon, in combination with radiation therapy, as an initial treatment of a form of glioblastoma. Glioblastoma is a type of brain cancer that grows quickly and can invade and destroy healthy tissue. There's no cure for glioblastoma, which is also known as glioblastoma multiforme. Treatments, including surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy might slow cancer growth and reduce symptoms. New treatments of glioblastoma are needed.

The study envisages NGS analysis on tumor tissue from patients treated with regorafenib for recurrent glioblastoma as per standard care, with the aim to identify predictive biomarkers for response.

This is a single institution, open-label, multi-arm, phase I study assessing the safety and immunogenicity of a personalized neoantigen-based personalized DNA vaccine combined with PD-1 blockade therapy in subjects with newly diagnosed, MGMT promoter unmethylated glioblastoma (GBM). Immune checkpoint blockade, specifically those targeting the PD-1/PD-L1 pathways, has shown efficacy in multiple solid and hematologic malignancies. Furthermore, as has been demonstrated in metastatic melanoma, combining PD-1/PD-L1 blockade with other immune checkpoint inhibitors has shown improved objective response rates, though there is a significant increase in serious immune-related adverse events. As such, current trials are exploring different doses, administration schedules, and immune checkpoint agents. One alternative approach, however, is to introduce a tumor-directed therapy such as a personalized neoantigen vaccine combined with these immune modulating agents (i.e. immune checkpoint blocking antibodies) to maximize the tumor-specific response but minimize the toxicity associated with increasing non-specific systemic immune activation by generating a potent and focused neoantigen specific immune response. This study will test the hypothesis that a personalized neoantigen DNA vaccine in combination with concurrent administration of immune checkpoint blockade therapy will enhance the magnitude and breadth of neoantigen-specific T cell responses while maintaining an acceptable safety profile. The overall goal of this study is to identify the optimal vaccine plus adjuvant platform that can be tested in a subsequent phase II study to determine the efficacy of a personalized neoantigen vaccine approach in patients with GBM.