Active clinical trials for "Neoplasm Metastasis"

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of hypofractionated stereotactic radiation treatments (SBRT) on children, teenagers and young adults malignant tumors.

Despite the advances in the medical treatment of unresectable liver metastases from colorectal cancer there is currently no curative treatment option available for these patients. Decitabine is a cytidine analog with proven anti-neoplastic activity in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes. Decitabine causes demethylation of the DNA strands of replicating cells. Hereby decitabine treatment demethylates the promoter regions of tumor suppressor- and cancer testis antigen encoding genes leading to expression of these genes by the cancer cells. The hepatic arterial route for administration of cytotoxic drugs has been widely explored in treatment of colorectal cancer liver metastases because these metastases depend for their blood flow from this artery (as opposed to the normal liver tissue that is mainly dependent from the portal vein). By investigating the administration of decitabine by hepatic arterial infusion the investigators intend to explore the potential advantage of minimizing the systemic exposure (and toxicity) and maximizing the concentration of decitabine within the liver metastasis. The primary objective of this phase I will be to establish the recommended dose for decitabine by HAI for further use in phase II trials. The most important secondary objective will be to document the effect of decitabine by HAI on the expression of cancer testis antigens by the colorectal cancer cells, serving as a reference for potential further exploration of decitabine by HAI in combination with cancer immunotherapy

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety of a study drug known as LY3164530 in participants with cancer that is advanced and/or has spread to another part(s) of the body.

In this dose-escalation study, the safety and tolerability of escalating dose levels of RRx-001 administered intravenously twice a week in subjects with brain metastases receiving whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT) will be assessed. Once a maximum tolerated dose is identified, further (up to approximately 30) participants will be recruited. The study will use MRI to monitor changes in tumor blood flow associated with RRx-001.

Early-stage colorectal cancer(CRC)is localized and resectable, but 20% of the patients have metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis and 50% of all patients eventually die of the disease. The most frequent site of colorectal metastases is the liver, which accounts for 30% to 60% of cases. In these patients, the extent of liver disease is the main determinant of survival. Hepatectomy is the only potentially curative therapy for colorectal liver metastases (CLM), but when traditional criteria for resectability were used, only 10% of patients were candidates for surgical resection. Although adjuvant systemic therapy after resection of primary colorectal tumors is well established, there are relatively few data on the use of postoperative therapy vs. surgery alone in patients who have undergone resection of liver metastases. In this trial, the absolute increase in the 3-year PFS rate with the addition of FOLFOX4 was a modest but significant 9% in patients who had resection (from 33% to 42%; P = .025). For improving survival in patients with CLM, several studies with biologic agents have been tried. The use of bevacizumab, a monoclonal antibody against vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), has resulted in increased response rates in patients with stage IV colorectal cancer and improved OS and PFS. In an ongoing phase II trial presented in ASCO 2008, in patients who were potentially curable through resection of liver metastases, perioperative treatment with capecitabine and oxaliplatin (XELOX) plus bevacizumab yielded an overall response rate of 73% with stable disease in 21% and a mean PFS of 27 months. Response to chemotherapy significantly correlated with a prolonged PFS (P < .001). On the basis of these backgrounds, we designed a phase II study to compare the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy with perioperative or postoperative bevacizumab treatment in patients with CLM.

This randomized phase II trial studies how well giving sipuleucel-T with or without radiation therapy works in treating patients with hormone-resistant metastatic prostate cancer. Vaccines may help the body build an effective immune response to kill tumor cells. Radiation therapy uses high energy x rays to kill tumor cells. It is not yet known whether giving sipuleucel-T vaccine is more effective with or without radiation therapy in treating prostate cancer

This study is designed to assess the efficacy and safety of etelcalcetide (AMG 416) compared with placebo in the treatment of SHPT in CKD patients receiving hemodialysis.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate efficacy and safety of mFOLFOX6+bevacizumab and mFOLFOX6+cetuximab for liver only metastasis from KRAS Exon 2 wild type (under protocol 1.0-1.2 edition) and RAS wild type (under protocol 2.0 edition) colorectal cancer.

This research study is being done to measure the clinical benefit associated with cabozantinib (XL184) in men who have prostate cancer that has spread to visceral organs (organs other than bone or lymph nodes) and no longer responds to initial hormonal (castration) therapy. This type of prostate cancer is called metastatic, castrate-resistant prostate cancer.

Treatment of patients with colorectal cancer having liver metastases is currently based on systemic chemotherapy. Triple therapy with 5FU, oxaliplatin and irinotecan intravenously was effective in terms of response and secondary resectability, however it is particularly toxic. Hepatic intra-arterial chemotherapy (HIA) has been the subject of several studies. It has shown good efficacy with oxaliplatin and FUDR. However, the procedure is difficult to set up and reserved for experienced centers. The objective of this protocol is to use a triple therapy based on 5FU and oxaliplatin associated to irinotecan which is administered by hepatic intra-arterial route, loaded onto microbeads (DEBIRI). Furthermore, the procedure for chemo-embolization DEBIRI is limited to 2 sessions, and therefore could be more easily generalized.