Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma, Hepatocellular"

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of nano drug（Gemzar® mix with Compound Glycyrrhizin Injection） interventional therapy using digital subtraction angiography（DSA） for liver cancer.

Many investigators have studied for prevention and care of Hand-Foot Skin Reaction(HFSR), and urea cream is typical representative. Recent study was performed prevention effect of urea cream for Hand-Foot Skin Reaction(HFSR) on 871 Chinese. But the study did not designed as placebo-control group and it had big defect in double-blinded. Therefore, it needs complementary study as double-blinded placebo-controlled trial and effect of urea cream on Korean patient group.

Assessment of the long-term outcome of percutaneous ethanol alcohol injection (PEI) for the large and unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma: single center non-randomized trial.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third cause of death by cancer. For patients with inoperable advanced HCC, systematic therapy with Sorafenib, a multikinase inhibitor that has both antiangiogenic and antiproliferative effect, is the only therapeutic with proven survival benefits. However, the efficacy of Sorafenib remains inconstant with a media overall survival of 10,7 months and a disease control rate only 35 to 43%; moreover, the overall incidence of treatment-related adverse event is 80%. Thus, it appears essential to find an early and accurate way to determine which patients are best responding to therapy in order to avoid the toxicity and cost of ineffective therapy. Positron Emission Tomography (PET) with 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) has shown limited performance in the setting of HCC because of lack of sensitivity, in particular for well-differentiated tumours. However FDG uptake is related to proliferation rate and is an efficient marker survival following liver transplantation and selective internal radiation therapy. Moreover, the addition of a dynamic first-pass acquisition to the standard static scan provides better characterization of the tumour by adding information on tumour perfusion. FCH which reflects lipids metabolism and specifically choline kinase activity, has shown promising results for detection of HCC when compared with FDG alone. Moreover, choline activity is related to a kinase pathway in mammalian cells, which is specifically inhibited by Sorafenib. However FCH uptake remains inconstant in HCC, and is related to tumour differentiation, by opposition to FDG. Therefore, several studies have suggested that combined evaluation of tumour glucose and lipid metabolism could play a complementary role for the evaluation of HCC in the setting of detection, staging and to predict recurrence following surgical resection. Thus, the investigator hypothesize that the combination of FDG and FCH may be the most accurate imaging evaluation of HCC. Thus the aim of the present study is to determine the predictive performance of survival of lipid and glucose metabolism and perfusion changes during Sorafenib therapy in patients with advanced HCC.

This study enrolls patients who have a type of cancer that arises from the liver called hepatocellular carcinoma. The cancer has come back, has not gone away after standard treatment, has spread outside of the liver or the patient cannot receive standard treatment. This research study uses special immune system cells called GLYCAR T cells, a new experimental treatment. The body has different ways of fighting infection and disease. No single way seems perfect for fighting cancers. This research study combines two different ways of fighting cancer: antibodies and T cells. Antibodies are types of proteins that protect the body from infectious diseases and possibly cancer. T cells, also called T lymphocytes, are special infection-fighting blood cells that can kill other cells, including cells infected with viruses and tumor cells. Both antibodies and T cells have been used to treat patients with cancers. They have shown promise, but have not been strong enough to cure most patients. Investigators have found from previous research that they can put a new gene into T cells that will make them recognize cancer cells and kill them. In preclinical studies, the investigators made several genes called a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), from an antibody called GC33 that recognizes glypican-3, a protein found on almost all hepatocellular carcinoma cells (GPC3-CAR). This study will test T cells genetically engineered with a GPC3-CAR (GLYCAR T cells) in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma. The GLYCAR T cells are an investigational product not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. The purpose of this study is to find the biggest dose of GLYCAR T cells that is safe, to see how long they last in the body, to learn what the side effects are and to see if the GLYCAR T cells will help people with GPC3-positive hepatocellular carcinoma.

This is a phase I clinical study. Blood is drawn from the patient and brought to our laboratory for isolation of immune cells. These immune cells are then proliferated over a two week period and used to produce our patented product IKC (Immune Killer Cells). The IKC will then infused back into the patient to treat the cancer. Each patient will receive a total of six infusions.

The aim of the study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of using the new formulation (Lipiodol-cisplatin suspension) for TACE in the treatment of HCC as compared to the conventional formulation (Lipiodol-cisplatin emulsion). This is a prospective, parallel-group, open-label randomized, phase II study that is conducted in accordance to the Declaration of Helsinki and international standards of Good Clinical Practice, and approved by the institutional review board. Eligible patients were randomized into either a treatment arm of Lipiodol-cisplatin suspension or a control arm of Lipiodol-cisplatin emulsion with a 1:1 ratio.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the safety and efficacy of irreversible electroporation for unresectable Hepatic carcinoma close to the gallbladder, also Progress Free Survival (PFS) will be recorded.

Metformin treatment during 36 months could be associated with decreased risk of HCC occurrence and liver related death in patients with compensated HCV cirrhosis and insulinoresistance. This study is an ancillary of the observational study from the CIRVIR cohort in which more than 1200 patients with compensated HCV cirrhosis are currently included. participating centers : 26

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential role of Axitinib (AG-013736) in the treatment of unresectable/metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)