Active clinical trials for "Brain Neoplasms"

Objective:Patients with asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic Stage IV EGFR-positive NSCLC with baseline intracranial metastases. Aim: To investigate the timing, efficacy and safety of radiotherapy in patients with EGFR positive brain metastases treated with armatinib alone or combined with stereotactic radiotherapy. Method: Almonertinib: specification 55mg/tablet; The dosage is 110 mg / day (2 tablets / day) orally once a day; SBRT: 3-5 doses of 27-40 Gy

This clinical trial is looking at a drug called entrectinib. Entrectinib is approved as standard of care treatment for adult patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) which have a particular molecular alteration called ROS1-positive, and patients 12 years of age or older with solid tumours which have another type of change in the cancer cells. This means it has gone through clinical trials and been approved by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the UK. Investigators now wish to find out if it will be useful in treating patients with other cancer types which have the same molecular alteration (ROS1-positive). If the results are positive, the study team will work with the NHS and the Cancer Drugs Fund to see if these drugs can be routinely accessed for patients in the future. This trial is part of a trial programme called DETERMINE. The programme will also look at other anti-cancer drugs in the same way, through matching the drug to rare cancer types or ones with specific mutations.

Overall Design: This is a phase I, open-label, multicenter clinical study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and preliminary anti-cancer efficacy of ABM-1310 in patients with BRAF V600-mutant relapsed and drug resistant primary malignant brain tumors. The study including four periods of screening (28 days), treatment (no more than 2 years), safety follow-up and survival follow-up. This study consists of two stages: dose escalation and dose expansion. During the dose escalation stage, a classic "3+3" design will be used to guide dose escalation to determine MTD and RP2D. Three to six subjects are expected to be enrolled in each dose group and at least 6 subjects are enrolled in the MTD/highest dose group. The total number of subjects enrolled during the dose escalation stage will depend on the amount of DLT and the total number of dose levels explored. If DLT is not observed in the first 3 subjects enrolled for each dose level, the Safety Monitoring Committee (SMC, including investigators, pharmacologists, and the sponsor's medical specialists, and other experienced members specially invited as necessary) will review the cumulative safety data of subjects at each dose level and decide whether to proceed with dose escalation upon the completion of study treatment at least for the DLT evaluation period (28 days of Cycle 1). The dose expansion stage in this study will be initiated at the MTD or the optimal dose determined by the SMC as a fixed dose level (MTD or the optimal dose needs to be reviewed by the SMC and subjects are safe and tolerable at that dose level). The dose expansion stage is expected to include the following two cohorts of relapsed and drug resistant primary malignant brain tumors with BRAF V600 mutations:Cohort 1: GBM, N = up to 25 patients; Cohort 2: In addition to GBM, other primary malignant brain tumors, N = up to 15 patients. In this study, the corresponding sample size for each cohort/tumor type may be determined according to the actual efficacy and safety data obtained. After each cohort included the first 10 patients, the available safety, efficacy, and PK data were analyzed. Based on the analysis results, the sponsor decided whether to continue recruiting patients for the study.

The goal of the present pilot single-cohort feasibility trial is to investigate the feasibility and understand potential mechanisms of efficacy for Neuromodulation-Induced Cortical Prehabilitation (NICP) in adults with brain tumours and eligible for neurosurgery. The main questions it aims to answer are: is the intervention feasible, in terms of adherence, retention, safety and patient's satisfaction; what are the mechanisms of neuroplasticity primed by NICP Participants will undergo a prehabilitation protocol, consisting of daily sessions (total: 10-20 sessions) structured as follows: Intervention 1: non-invasive neuromodulation (TMS/tDCS). Intervention 2: motor and/or cognitive training, during or immediately after non-invasive neuromodulation, for about 60 minutes. The timeline is structured as follows: T1: baseline (before NICP) T2-T3: NICP period T4: after NICP T5: surgery T6: after surgery Clinical, neuroimaging and neurophysiology assessments will be performed before NICP (T1), after NICP (T4), and after neurosurgery (T6). Feasibility outcomes will be determined during NICP protocol (T2-T3). The objective of the proposed intervention is to progressively reduce the functional relevance of eloquent areas, which are healthy brain areas close with the tumour and thus exposed to the risk of being lesioned during surgery. In fact, previous studies have shown that temporary inhibition of eloquent areas (by neuromodulation) coupled with intensive motor/cognitive training promoted the activation of alternative brain resources, with a shift of functional activity from eloquent areas to areas functionally related, but anatomically distant from the tumour. By moving the activation of key motor/cognitive functions away from the tumour, the risk of postoperative functional sequelae will be reduced; which in turn will falicitate a more radical tumour excision by the neurosurgeon.

This is a multi-site, global, open-label study that includes a phase 1b evaluation of elacestrant in combination with abemaciclib in women and men with with or without brain metastases from ER-positive, HER-2 negative breast cancer. Phase 1b is designed to select the recommended phase 2 dose and will be followed by a phase 2 evaluation of elacestrant in combination with abemaciclib in patients with active brain metastases from ER-positive, HER-2 negative breast cancer.

Patients with brain injury secondary to stroke, surgery, or trauma frequently suffer from homonymous hemianopia, defined as vision loss in one hemifield secondary to retro- chiasmal lesion. Classic and effective saccadic compensatory training therapies are current aim to reorganize the control of visual information processing and eye movements or, in other words, to induce or improve oculomotor adaptation to visual field loss. Patients learn to intentionally shift their eyes and, thus, their visual field border, into the area corresponding to their blind visual field. This shift brings the visual information from the blind hemifield into the seeing hemifield for further processing. Patients learn, therefore, to efficiently use their eyes "to keep the 'blind side' in sight". Biofeedback training (BT) is the latest and newest technique for oculomotor control training in cases with low vision when using available modules in the new microperimetry instruments. Studies in the literature highlighted positive benefits from using BT in a variety of central vision loss, nystagmus cases, and others.The purpose of this study is to assess systematically the impact of BT in a series of cases with hemianopia and formulate guidelines for further use of this intervention in vision rehabilitation of hemianopia cases in general.

This phase III trial compares the addition of stereotactic radiosurgery before or after surgery in treating patients with cancer that has spread to the brain (brain metastases). Stereotactic radiosurgery is a type of radiation therapy that delivers a high dose of radiation only to the small areas of cancer in the brain and avoids the surrounding normal brain tissue. Surgery and radiation may stop the tumor from growing for a few months or longer and may reduce symptoms of brain metastases.

The purpose of the study is to see if stereotactic radiosurgery/SRS is an effective treatment for people with a new diagnosis of brain metastases from small cell lung cancer/SCLC.

HYPOTHESIS: MW151 intervention will attenuate radiation induced cognitive impairment caused by hippocampal-avoidant whole brain radiation therapy (HA-WBRT) for brain metastases. RATIONALE: There is non-clinical evidence that MW151 reduces brain inflammation and improves neurocognitive outcomes in animal models of radiation therapy induced cognitive dysfunction, and in animal models of other CNS disorders. PURPOSE: This feasibility trial will study MW151 as a mitigator of cognitive dysfunction caused by HA-WBRT in adult patients with brain metastases from solid tumors, as compared with a control group of patients receiving HA-WBRT and placebo.

This study aims to investigate the efficacy and safety of utidelone in combination with bevacizumab in the treatment of advanced breast cancer with brain metastases, and thus provides a new systemic treatment strategy for those patients.