Active clinical trials for "Neoplasm Metastasis"

Capecitabine, oxaliplatin, irinotecan and bevacizumab as perioperative strategy of borderline and/or high risk resectable colorectal cancer liver metastases

Phase 1, Multiple dose Study of MPC-6827 in Subjects with Refractory Brain Metastases.

Bone metastasis is one of the most frequent end complications of the cancer. Radiation therapy is the mainstay of treatment in this disease. Single fraction radiotherapy in both single and multiple bone metastasis is widely used, but optimization of the single dose fractionation is needed. Two different regimens of radiotherapy dose fractionation will be investigated in both single and multiple bone metastasis and endpoints will include pain relief as well as toxicity and quality of life.

An innovative therapeutic strategy to increase the complete resection rate is of utmost importance in order to enhance survival in colorectal cancer patients with unresectable liver-only metastasis. Therefore, the investigators propose a prospective study of neoadjuvant chemotherapy using FOLFOX6 plus cetuximab to convert initially unresectable liver metastasis to potentially resectable disease.

Phase I dose escalation study of Triciribine Phosphate Monohydrate (TCN-PM) in patients with metastatic cancer whose tumors must be shown to be p-Akt positive. Study patients will be recruited from a Moffitt Cancer Center companion study (MCC-14474) "Immunohistochemical study of phosphorylated Akt in solid malignancies." Each treatment cycle will consist of four weeks with TCN-PM being administered weekly (days 1, 8 and 15 every 28 days). Labs, vital signs (BP, HR, Resp Rate, Temp), and hematology and serum chemistry profile are to be performed weekly and/or prior to each treatment dose. Body Surface Area (BSA) should be calculated approximately every 8 weeks. Imaging studies (CT/MRI of chest, abdomen, and pelvis) and tumor response assessments will be performed every eight weeks or more frequently if indicated. Unless unacceptable toxicity occurs, the duration of treatment will be based on tumor reassessment.

The primary objective of the study is to describe the nature and to estimate the prevalence the health needs of patients with metastatic cancer and their main caregivers, between the period from diagnosis to death. As secondary objectives, the study aims: to determinate the proportion of patients with an indication for palliative care according to Hui et al., and to describe the adequation of health needs and the services for them; to study the association between clinical pathway and the indication of targeted palliative care; to study the association between the integration of palliative care service and the adequation of health needs service of patients; to study the factors such as the disease, the practice and the care, contribute to the patient's survivor of 1 year.

The investigators hypothesize that a low number of SCC in OTR will metastasize.

Secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS) is a subtype of multiple sclerosis (MS) for which there are no existing therapies that alter the disease course. This research will utilize cutting edge functional electrical stimulation (FES) cycling technology with the goal of improving walking in individuals with SPMS. The investigators hypothesize that FES cycling will improve walking in subjects with SPMS.

This will be a phase I, open, multicenter, international study performed by 3 participating centres across two countries (Italy and Switzerland). Fifteen to 24 patients affected by SPMS will be enrolled, according to a "standard" phase I design over 18 months. All patients will enter a 3 months run in phase. Thereafter they will receive one of four different doses of allogenic hNSCs (dose A=5 millions hNSCs; dose B=10 millions hNSCs; dose C=16 millions hNSCs; dose D=24 millions hNSCs). Following hNSCs injection, all SPMS patients will receive immunosuppression with tacrolimus for 6 months. Patients will be clinically followed monthly for 1 year and then every 6 months for the 5 years following the study completion (possibly all life long). MRI assessments will be performed monthly for the first 6 months and then every 3 months for 5 years following the study completion.

The purpose of this registry is to determine if select patients with CNS metastatic disease can be safely observed rather than treated. The investigators hypothesize that there is a subset of patients with small asymptomatic CNS mets that do not require treatment, these patients can simply be observed and will not have CNS progression.