Active clinical trials for "Neoplasm Metastasis"

Comparative evaluation of recurrence-free survival (RFS) time and 3 year overall survival (OS) time between the treatment groups (L-BLP25 plus cyclophosphamide versus placebo and saline infusion).

A study is being conducted by the University of Rochester Cancer Center (URCC) in which patients with liver cancer will be treated with high dose conformal radiation therapy. This type of radiation uses new techniques which aim the radiation to the sites of disease allowing the tumor to receive a high dose and the surrounding normal liver tissue to receive a low enough dose that the normal tissue should remain free from injury. The purpose of the study is to determine if the conformal radiation therapy is safe, tolerable and effective in treating liver cancer and to determine the side effects caused by this treatment. A second objective is to determine if the levels of a special type of protein (called cytokines) found in the blood are related to this treatment.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate a new blood test as a way to follow the effect of Zometa in treating bone metastases due to lung cancer.

The study aimed to pilot the viability of a full scale randomised comparison of 2 steroid doses in malignant spinal cord compression, to establish safety of high dose dexamethasone in this setting in Australia, to test web registration and randomisation and to compare different functional outcome measures.

The intra-/perilesional application of interleukin-2 seems to be a safe and effective treatment of skin and soft tissue metastases in malignant melanoma. Especially in case of intransit metastases the overall survival rate is still 20-30%. However, the management of intransit metastases is sometimes difficult because of frequent recurrences. IL-2 intralesionally seems to be an non-invasive option as pilot studies indicate. In this study the safety and efficacy of IL-2 are evaluated.

It is the aim of this clinical study to evaluate the skeletal-related event rate and tolerability of zoledronic acid in patients with prostate cancer patients and bone metastases.

Previously untreated patients with malignant melanoma receive a new chemotherapy drug currently under development. CP-4055 is given intravenously on days 1-5 every four weeks until complete response or disease progression.

Dendritic cells (DCs) are the professional antigen-presenting cells of the immune system. As such they are currently used in clinical vaccination protocols in cancer patients. We evaluate the ability of mature DCs pulsed with carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA)-peptide (arm A) or electroporated with CEA-mRNA (arm B) to induce CEA-specific T cell responses in patients with resectable liver metastases from colorectal cancer. To evaluate immune responses, CEA-specific T cell reactivity is monitored in peripheral blood, resected abdominal lymph nodes, tumor tissue and biopsies of vaccination sites and post-treatment DTH skin tests. Patients are vaccinated intradermally and intravenously with CEA-peptide pulsed mature DCs three times prior to resection of liver metastases. In 2007 a side-study has been added (arm C), in which patients with stage III or high-risk stage II colorectal cancer that are amenable for standard adjuvant oxaliplatin/capecitabine therapy are vaccinated with CEApeptide-pulsed DCs. Also in this group, safety and immune responses in peripheral blood and the DTH-skin test are the primary endpoints. Results are compared with the results obtained in arm A.

Zoledronic acid is a medication that slows the breakdown of bone. This study will assess the efficacy and safety of zoledronic acid in Chinese patients with multiple myeloma or other solid tumors with bone metastases.

This study will test the safety and efficacy of TroVax in patients undergoing surgical resection of colorectal cancer with liver metastases. TroVax potentially works by encouraging the immune system to react against the 5T4 protein on the surface of bowel cancer cells. The immune system is then able to recognise 5T4 and kill cells that carry it. The hope is that if tumour cells started to grow again after the main tumour has been surgically removed, the immune system would be able to find and destroy them.