Active clinical trials for "Liver Neoplasms"

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of T900607 in treating patients who have unresectable liver cancer.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one chemotherapy drug may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of gemcitabine plus docetaxel in treating patients who have unresectable or metastatic liver cancer.

Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of vaccine therapy with or without sargramostim in treating patients who have advanced or metastatic cancer. Vaccines may make the body build an immune response to kill tumor cells. Colony-stimulating factors such as sargramostim may increase the number of immune cells found in bone marrow or peripheral blood. Combining vaccine therapy with sargramostim may make tumor cells more sensitive to the vaccine and may kill more tumor cells

RATIONALE: Heating melphalan to several degrees above body temperature and infusing it to the affected area directly around the tumor may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of hepatic arterial infusion with melphalan in treating patients who have unresectable liver cancer.

RATIONALE: Celecoxib may stop the growth of tumor cells by stopping blood flow to the tumor. Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining celecoxib with epirubicin may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase I/II trial is studying the side effects and best dose of epirubicin when given together with celecoxib and to see how well it works in treating patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer).

Protocol Synopsis Title A Humanitarian Device Exemption Use Protocol of TheraSphere® For Treatment of Unresectable Primary or Secondary Liver Neoplasia Supplier BTG International Canada Inc. Type of Clinical Use Post-Marketing: TheraSphere® commercially distributed under HDE # 980006 Objectives • Provide supervised access to TheraSphere® therapy at this institution Evaluate response to treatment Evaluate toxicities and adverse experiences associated with TheraSphere® treatment Evaluate survival time Number of Patients Up to 100 patients per year, expandable following completion of the first cohort. Patients will be excluded: if they have pre-existing diarrhea/illness, or if they have a co-morbid disease or condition that would preclude safe delivery of TheraSphere® treatment and place the patient at undue risk. Required Lab Parameters AST or ALT <5 times ULN For HCC: Bilirubin ≤ 2.0 mg/dl (unless segmental infusion is used) Negative pregnancy test in premenopausal women For other primary or secondary liver neoplasia, bilirubin levels specific to the primary or secondary liver neoplasia will be determined to confirm suitability for TheraSphere® treatment Negative pregnancy test in premenopausal women Endpoints Provide TheraSphere® for patients who it is determined by their treating physicians and/or tumor board that the device is appropriate for the treatment of unresectable HCC in accordance with the FDA recommendation of use of a HUD within its approved indication or for the treatment of the patient's other primary or secondary liver neoplasia and is in accordance with the FDA recommendation of use of a HUD outside of its approved indication. Evaluate SAE's associated with TheraSphere® treatment. TheraSphere® Treatment: Suggested Table of Time and Events. TIME Pre-Treatment Evaluation First Treatment First Follow-up Visit Second Treatment3 Post-Treatment Follow-up3 EVENTS -30 to -5 Days Day 0 Day 21 - 42 Day 30 - 90 3 months 24 months

This proof of concept study proposes targeted delivery of a broad-spectrum cytotoxic agent (doxorubicin), via a specially formulated LTSL (ThermoDox®) activated by mild hyperthermia, by using focused ultrasound (FUS), to achieve enhanced intra-tumoural doxorubicin concentrations for the same systemic dose. Adult patients with incurable confirmed hepatic primary or secondary tumours received a single cycle of LTLD, followed by ultrasound-mediated hyperthermia to a single target liver tumour. The primary endpoint relates to evidencing enhanced delivery of doxorubicin from LTLD at the target tumour site, by comparing intratumoural concentrations of the drug before and after focused ultrasound (FUS) exposure.

This is an open-label, multi-center, dose escalation study in adult subjects with advanced colorectal, gastric, hepatic or pancreatic cancer. The study will evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) of SM04755 administered orally. Upon determination of the maximum tolerated dose (MTD), expansion cohorts may be enrolled.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether fusion technique of pre-radiofrequency ablation (RFA) cross-sectional imaging (CT or MR) and real-time ultrasonography would improve feasibility of RFA in patients with liver tumor in comparison with ultrasonography guidance alone.

This protocol is a phase I/II, study of ascorbic acid (AA) infusions combined with treatment with sorafenib versus treatment with sorafenib alone in subjects with metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma. The phase I aspect will assess the safety and efficacy of the concurrent treatments and the phase II aspect will utilize CT (computer-tomography) scans to assess overall tumor response rate and evaluate disease progression