Active clinical trials for "Mesothelioma"

Rationale: Pemetrexed is a multi-targeted folate antagonist, which is primarily indicated for the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and mesothelioma. Dosing of cytotoxic agents like pemetrexed requires balancing the dual risk of sub-therapy and toxicity. Administration of pemetrexed to patients with a creatinine clearance <45 ml/min is currently not advised. Pemetrexed is dosed based on body surface area (BSA), while renal function and dose are the sole determinants for systemic exposure. This causes 3 major issues: In patients with renal dysfunction, BSA-based dosing may lead to haematological toxicity Patients have to discontinue treatment due to declining renal function, and are withheld effective treatment Even in patients with adequate renal function (GFR >45 ml/min) treatment may be improved by individualized dosing based on renal function, resulting in less toxicity. Also, BSA-based dosing may lead to ineffective therapy in patients with above average renal function. The investigators aim to address these problems. Objective: The overall main objective is to develop a safe and effective individualized dosing regimen for pemetrexed. Study design: IMPROVE-III is an explorative microdosing study to assess the extrapolability of microdose-pharmacokinetics to the pharmacokinetics of a therapeutic dose. Study population: IMPROVE-III includes 10 patients of IMPROVE-I and/or IMPROVE-II. Intervention: patients will be administered a microdose with subsequent pharmacokinetic assessment. Main study endpoints: The predictive performance of microdosing to predict full dose pharmacokinetics

Mesothelioma is a relatively rare cancer which is becoming more common. It can affect one of two areas; the pleura (the lining of the lung) or the peritoneum (the lining of the abdomen). Cancer affecting the pleura is the more common of these and is called Pleural Mesothelioma. This is most commonly caused by exposure to asbestos. Unfortunately mesothelioma is usually diagnosed at an advanced stage and so treatment is based around controlling the disease and managing the symptoms, rather than curing the disease. The standard treatment for Advanced Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma is a combination of two anticancer drugs; Pemetrexed and Cisplatin. The trial will look into whether there are benefits of adding a third drug called Vorinostat to the treatment.

A phase Ib study investigating the safety, the immunogenicity and the optimal administration frequency of the S-588210 5-peptide vaccine in MPM patients without progression after pemetrexed-based chemotherapy will be conducted. Additionally, to identify more accurate predictive biomarkers of response to S-588210, T-cell-receptor-sequencing (TCR) pre- and post-vaccination will be performed in blood samples of patients treated with the vaccine. Immunohistochemical analysis of the vaccine oncoantigens will also be correlated with induction of antigen-specific T-cell responses. Finally, to explore the infiltration of tumors with T-cells and the potential presence of an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment, immunohistochemistry for immune checkpoints (including PDL1/PD1, CTLA4) and immune suppressive cell subsets (T-regs, macrophages) will be performed.

The goal of this phase 2 study trial is to evaluate the utility of the radiolabel 18F-FSPG used before and after treatment to diagnose, predict, and evaluate response to therapy in patients with a wide variety of metastatic cancers.

This is a national, single arm, phase II trial in patients with diagnosis of unresectable or advanced malignant pleural mesothelioma who experienced progression after platinum-based chemotherapy.

This research study is studying a new drug combination of Pembrolizumab and Defactinib followed by surgical resection possible treatment for resectable Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma (MPM). The names of the study drugs involved in this study are: Pembrolizumab Defactinib

REFIT-MSS is a non-randomized, multicenter, open-label, multi-cohort, 2-stage, phase II trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of regorafenib in combination with tislelizumab (referred as Rego-Tisle) in adult patients with select advance, previously treated, Mismatch Repair-Proficient/Microsatellite (pMMR/MSS) stable solid cancers. The multi-cohort design will allow for the examination of 8 separate cohorts of different cancers to determine whether further examination may be warranted in the individual indications.

This will be a single institution non-randomized phase I/II trial for patients with malignant mesothelioma stage II and above, who have not received prior chemotherapy for their disease. The purpose of this phase is to select a dose of VEGF-AS (antiangiogenesis drug)to be given with standard doses of pemetrexed followed by cisplatin on day 1 of a 21-day cycle.

Obtaining pleural biopsies in cases of malignant mesothelioma to detect molecular mechnisms and signal transduction

The primary objective of this study, sponsored by Travera in Massachusetts, is to validate whether the mass response biomarker has potential to predict response of patients to specific therapies or therapeutic combinations using isolated tumor cells from varying cancers and biopsy formats.