Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma, Hepatocellular"

Primary: To compare the efficacy of TACE and TAIE. Secondary: To compare the side effects of TACE and TAIE. The outcome measurements include survival benefit and tumour regression induced by the two therapies.

Combination therapy with pegylated interferon-alpha plus ribavirin has greatly improved the treatment efficacy and is the mainstream of treatment for chronic hepatitis C infection. The efficacy and safety of pegylated interferon-alpha plus ribavirin combination therapy and its impact on the outcome in chronic hepatitis C patients concomitant with hepatocellular carcinoma deserve to be elucidated. The purposes of this study are: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of pegylated interferon-alpha 2a plus ribavirin combination therapy in chronic hepatitis C patients concomitant with hepatocellular carcinoma. To investigate the role of baseline and on-treatment factors on the response to pegylated interferon-alpha 2a plus ribavirin combination therapy in chronic hepatitis C patients concomitant with hepatocellular carcinoma.

The purpose of this study is to determine efficacy of SB injection in Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC).

Primary objective: To evaluate the overall response rate of tegafur/uracil (UFUR®) and thalidomide in the treatment of advanced or metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma. Secondary objectives: To determine the disease stabilization rate; To assess the progression-free survival and overall survival; To establish the safety profile; To evaluate the changes of circulating factors indicating the angiogenesis activity and their correlation with objective tumor response.

The mTOR has been examined in hepatocellular carcinomas as well. This pathway is up-regulated in a proportion of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and that rapamycin inhibits cell proliferation and blocks S6K phosphorylation. Inhibition of mTOR had been shown to suppress substantially the liver tumor growth. Nevertheless, inhibition of mTOR was demonstrated to have a clinical response in some cancer types. These reports imply that inhibition of mTOR could be a promising therapeutic strategy in the treatment of HCC. Therefore, we hypothesize that RAD001, a rapamycin analog, can inhibit the mTOR, and subsequently suppress the liver tumor in the treatment of HCC patients. This study is aimed to investigate the safety, efficacy, pharmacokinetics, pharmacogenetics and feasibility of RAD001 in advanced HCC patients. This study will be a randomized phase I study with dose escalation and subsequently a phase II study of intent to treat, as well as pharmacokinetic, pharmacogenetic and surrogate marker study of RAD001.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the leading malignancies in Taiwan. Surgery and local ablative therapy remain the treatment of choice for curative purpose. Transarterial chemoembolization has been the mainstay of intrahepatic control for patients not being candidates for local modalities of treatment. Sorafenib is recently integrated into the treatment options, mainly for intrahepatic or extrahepatic wide spread disease contraindicated for the other modalities. External radiotherapy (RT) has been selectively used for patients with the localized hepatic tumor(s) refractory to the above treatment options. The data from the retrospective studies were biased by the patient selection and uncontrolled comparison with patients not receiving RT. The obstacles for RT to HCC remain unanswered with heterogeneity in dose of radiation and lower tolerance of liver to RT in viral hepatitis carriers. Such a sublethal dose might be associated with unsatisfactory tumor control, intra-/extra-hepatic metastasis, and radiation-induced liver disease in a significant proportion of HCC patients. The purposes of this phase I study are primarily to determine the maximally tolerated dose of RT, and secondarily to evaluate the tumor control, to assess patterns of failure and survival, to analyze the characteristics of radiation-induced liver disease, as well as to collect blood samples for translational research. HCC patients who are hepatitis B virus carriers and graded as Child-Pugh A cirrhosis are enrolled. This dose escalation trial is conducted with the 7-Gy increase in 2 fractions (3.5 Gy per fraction) for a total of four levels, from 42 Gy up to 63 Gy. Conformal RT with three-dimensional design, intensity modulated RT, or volumetric modulated arc therapy is used with the defined dose-volume threshold for normal liver and the other structures. Five patients are treated for each dose level, with dose limiting toxicity in less than 2 patients judged to be acceptable. A minimum of 15 patients are required for the starting dose level of 49 Gy if the treated tumor diameter is less than 10 cm. Imaging modalities are used for estimating treatment response and detecting metastasis. Serum analyses are done for evaluating hepatic function, viral load, hematological toxicity, and translational research for angiogenic and inflammatory studies.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as doxorubicin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping the cells from dividing. Chemoembolization kills tumor cells by blocking the blood flow to the tumor and keeping chemotherapy drugs near the tumor. It is not yet known whether doxorubicin is more effective with or without chemoembolization in treating unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer). PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying doxorubicin given by infusion to see how well it works compared to doxorubicin given by chemoembolization in treating patients with advanced liver cancer than cannot be removed by surgery.

This is a prospective, one-arm, exploratory clinical study to observe and evaluate the efficacy and safety of Anlotinib hydrochloride capsules in patients with advanced liver cancer.

Title: Single-center, open clinical study on the efficacy and safety of c-Met/PD-L1 T cell injection in the treatment of primary hepatocellular carcinoma Stage: Phase I clinical trial Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of c-Met/PD-L1 CAR-T cells in patients with primary hepatocellular carcinoma Object: patients with primary hepatocellular carcinoma Sample size: 50 cases Number of centres：1 Study design: CT, MRI, PET and blood biochemical tests were performed before treatment to evaluate the state of HCC. Peripheral blood of the patient was extracted and PBMC was isolated. CAR-T cells were obtained by tranducing PBMC with c-Met/PD-L1 CAR lentivirus, and the proliferation capacity and immune phenotype of the cells were tested. After passing the inspection, the cells were re-injected into the patient three times. The efficacy and safety of c-Met/PD-L1 CAR-T cells was assessed respectively at 4 week, 12 week, 24 week and 48 week after treatment. Trial product: c-Met/PD-L1 CAR-T cells Course of treatment: 3 days for a course of treatment, only one course of treatment. A second course is given as appropriate if the treatment is beneficial to the patient.

Evaluation the Treatment Outcome for RFA in Patients With BCLC Stage B HCC in Comparison With TACE