Active clinical trials for "Melanoma"

A prospective phase I and consecutive phase II, twoarm, randomized multi-center trial of temsirolimus in combination with pioglitazone, etoricoxib and metronomic low-dose trofosfamide versus dacarbazine (DTIC) in patients with advanced melanoma Phase I: To determine the dose of temsirolimus to be used in phase II part of the study Phase II: To determine overall survival Secondary objectives To evalulate response rate To evaluate time to progression (TTP) To evalulate time to partial response (time to PR or better)(TPR) To evaluate quality of life To evaluate tolerability and safety

In this phase I study, the investigators want to vaccine with THERAVAC® (an inactivated toxin coupled to melanoma antigen) some patients with advanced metastatic melanoma disease. The primary objective is to analyze the safety of the inreasing doses of vaccine. The secondary objective is to document whether this vaccine can induce tumor regression in immunized patients.

The Aim is to evaluate safety and efficacy of TACE with doxorubicin-loaded DC beads in melanoma patients with liver metastasis. This is a pilot study with the aim of recruiting 20 patients, this is a feasibility study. the patients profile is patients with stage IV Melanoma with liver metastases.

Multicenter, double-blinding, randomized controlled, phase II clinical trial on combined chemotherapy of Endostar (Recombinant Human Endostatin) for untreated patients with advanced melanoma, To compare the efficacy and safety of Endostar combined with Dacarbazine and monotherapy of Dacarbazine for advanced melanoma

This project seeks to understand differences in the serum vitamin D levels and immune status in cutaneous malignant melanoma patients with different UV exposure histories in New Mexico.

RATIONALE: Studying samples of blood from patients with cancer, hepatitis C, or Crohn disease in the laboratory may help doctors learn more about changes that occur in DNA and identify biomarkers related to cancer and other diseases. PURPOSE: This laboratory study is looking at the effect of biological therapy on biomarkers in patients with untreated hepatitis C, metastatic melanoma, or Crohn disease.

This is a multicenter, randomized, phase II study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of oral ATN-224 plus temozolomide in patients with advanced melanoma. Patients will be randomized (1:1) between temozolomide and ATN-224 and temozolomide followed by ATN-224. Patients assigned to the sequential treatment group will receive temozolomide until progression of disease is documented and then receive ATN-224 as a single agent until documentation of progression of disease using the last tumor assessment on temozolomide therapy as the baseline assessment.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of IVIG in the treatment of metastatic cancer of the prostate, colon and melanoma.

The study protocol is being conducted to compare intermittent high-dose i.v. administation of interferon alpha-2b with the standard high-dose treatment by Kirkwood with distant metastasis free survival (DMFI) as a primary endpoint.

RATIONALE: Interferon alfa may interfere with the growth of cancer cells. It is not known whether giving high-dose or low-dose interferon alfa is more effective than no further therapy in treating patients with stage III melanoma. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of high- or low-dose interferon alfa with that of no further therapy following surgery in treating patients who have stage III melanoma.