Active clinical trials for "Glioblastoma"

This is a multicenter study evaluating the safety and tolerability of Toca 511 administered intravenously to patients with recurrent or progressive Grade III or Grade IV Gliomas who have elected to undergo surgical removal of their tumor. Patients meeting all of the inclusion and none of the exclusion criteria will receive an initial dose of Toca 511 administered as an intravenous, bolus injection, followed approximately 11 days later by an additional dose injected into the walls of the resection cavity at the time of planned tumor resection. Approximately 6 weeks later, patients will begin treatment with oral Toca FC, an antifungal agent, and repeated every 4 weeks. All patients enrolled in this study will be encouraged to participate in a continuation protocol that enables additional Toca FC administration and the collection of long-term safety and response data.

Dual center, single arm, two-stage, non-blinded, prospective study of combination therapy bevacizumab at 10mg/kg and TH-302 at 670mg/m2 every 2 weeks (6 week cycle) until disease progression.

This multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized study will evaluate the efficacy and safety of the addition of bevacizumab treatment to lomustine (in 2nd-line [2L] treatment) and SOC (in 3rd-line [3L] and subsequent lines of treatment) following first-line disease progression (PD1) in participants with newly diagnosed glioblastoma. All enrolled participants will receive 1L treatment with radiotherapy, temozolomide, and bevacizumab. At PD1, eligible participants will be randomized (1:1) to receive 2L treatment with either bevacizumab plus lomustine or placebo plus lomustine. After second-line disease progression (PD2), participants will receive 3L treatment and will continue blinded bevacizumab or placebo with the addition of an SOC agent. Following third-line disease progression (PD3), participants will receive subsequent lines of treatment and will either continue blinded bevacizumab or placebo (at the discretion of the investigator), or switch to open-label bevacizumab (at the choice of the participant).

The first weekly KD meal package will be given to the patient at the study site. The patient will be instructed in how to process the week-long meal plan package content. Participants will measure urine ketone bodies with Ketostix 2x day and blood for glucose and ketone levels using self-administered Precision Xtra® Meter (Abbot Diabetes Care, Alameda, CA, USA) starting with the first day of the diet. Self-administered blood checks for glucose and ketone bodies will be done in fasted state in the morning and 2 hours post-prandially in the evening. Participants will be seen on day 7 of treatment by the study nutritionist and a study investigator-physician (separately) to review possible AEs, and for further education about the diet. Study staff will review and evaluate the participant's method of urine ketone and blood glucose and ketone levels testing. Subsequently, participants will be seen at one, 2 weeks, and 4 weeks after KG diet initiation, and then monthly. KD treatment will last until exit criteria are met or for 6 months, whichever comes first. Exit criteria are the primary outcome measures, the first of either (a) cerebral edema requiring steroid rescue therapy or (b) death. Treatment will occur in outpatient office setting at the Mid-Atlantic Epilepsy and Sleep Center, Bethesda, MD. The location of subsequent treatment administration may change to hospital setting at Holy Cross Hospital should a patient need hospitalization during the study for any reason, as determined by the patient's clinical care needs.

This is an open-label, multi-center, sequential groups, dose-escalation study of CBL0137 administered intravenously in participants with metastatic or unresectable advanced solid malignancies.

BKM120 is a newly discovered drug that has been used in other research studies. Information from those other research studies suggests that BKM120 may help to slow or stop the growth of malignant gliomas. The purpose of this study is to see how well BKM120 works in patients with malignant gliomas. Patients on this study will be treated in two groups: patients who are going to receive surgery and those who will not receive surgery. This study is trying to determine how effective BKM120 is in stopping cancer cells from growing. For patients receiving surgery the research will also try to determine if an effective level of BKM120 can penetrate the brain before surgery.

RATIONALE: Monoclonal antibodies, such as bevacizumab, can block tumor growth in different ways. Some block the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Others find tumor cells and help kill them or carry tumor-killing substances to them. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as lomustine, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. It is not yet known which regimen of bevacizumab given together with lomustine is most effective in treating patients with glioblastoma multiforme in first recurrence. PURPOSE: The primary objective of this study is to investigate whether the addition of bevacizumab to lomustine improves overall survival (OS) in patients with recurrent glioblastoma compared to treatment with lomustine alone.

First in human, open-label, sequential dose escalation and expansion study of AMG 232 in subjects with advanced solid tumors or multiple myeloma

Studies which have separately studied bevacizumab for recurrent gliomas and bevacizumab for newly-diagnosed glioma have shown good results and the regimens have been well-tolerated by patients. This study seeks to investigate the use of bevacizumab with the standard therapy (radiation therapy and temozolomide) in newly diagnosed patients, followed by bevacizumab and temozolomide with the continuation of bevacizumab following progression. Two critical questions remain- the role of bevacizumab maintenance and bevacizumab at the time of progression in a patient previously treated with bevacizumab at the time of initial diagnosis.

RATIONALE: heat shock protein gp96-peptide complex made from a person's tumor cells may help the body build an effective immune response to kill tumor cells. PURPOSE: This trial is studying the safety and effectiveness of autologous gp96 treatment of glioblastoma and to see how well it works in treating patients with newly diagnosed supratentoria glioma.