Active clinical trials for "Neoplasm Metastasis"

The study is a phase II with safety lead in, single arm, study using Nal-IRI in combination with pembrolizumab. Nal-IRI will be given IV every 2 weeks starting at 50mg/m2. Pembrolizumab will be given 400mg IV every 6 weeks. Treatment will continue until progression, intolerable side effects or patient/doctor decision to discontinue treatment.

To learn the usefulness of performing MRI scans in different positions and learn the best practice for spinal stereotactic body radiation therapy (spinal SBRT) planning and dose delivery.

This open-label, single arm prospective cohort study will assess the safety of dabigatran etexilate in secondary prevention of venous thromboembolism in paediatric patients. Children from 0 to less than 18 years of age will be eligible to participate.

The purpose of this study is to compare, in patients with prostate or breast cancer, the accuracy of 18F-NaF PET imaging to 99mTc whole body bone scans with single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).

This study will determine the safety and applicability of experimental forms of umbilical cord blood (UCB) transplantation for patients with high risk hematologic malignancies who might benefit from a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) but who do not have a standard donor option (no available HLA-matched related donor (MRD), HLA-matched unrelated donor (MUD)), or single UCB unit with adequate cell number and HLA-match).

The percentage of patients with defined unresectable metastatic disease who will benefit from a first-line treatment enabling secondary complete metastasectomy is unknown but limited. Definition of optimized treatment algorithms is difficult due to very inhomogeneous patient populations. This open label, multicentre Phase II study primarily aims to assess the resection rate achievable in a selected patient population with initially unresectable metastatic disease limited to the liver only in order to evaluate feasibility, safety and efficacy with regards to secondary resection of hepatic lesions in these patients. The trial aims to enrol only patients meeting defined criteria of unresectability with regards to their hepatic lesions and will exclude patients with extrahepatic lesions in order to examine the most appropriate, highly active treatment regimen for this group of unresectable patients with the highest probability of a successful secondary metastasectomy with curative intent. The trial will be conducted in highly specialized centres with a track record of successful interdisciplinary treatment approaches in the field of metastatic colorectal cancer to allow the precise assessment of the peri-operative safety parameters as well as an evaluation of the surgical treatment approaches. The IXO regimen selected for this study has shown in a phase I/II study promising efficacy and a favourable safety profile. Bevacizumab has demonstrated a significant survival benefit in combination with chemotherapy in metastatic colorectal cancer. Therefore the study will allow evaluation of its potential benefit in combination with the two most active current chemotherapy regimens in the first-line and post-operative treatment setting.

This study will be conducted in patients with metastatic cancer and either moderate, severe, or no hepatic impairment who have failed other antineoplastic therapies or for whom there is no standard therapy. The study will be conducted in two stages. Using an existing pixantrone population pharmacokinetic (PPK) model, a model-based strategy will be used to evaluate the findings from the first stage of the study conducted in patients with moderate hepatic impairment and matched controls. The PPK evaluation will be completed prior to enrolling patients with severe hepatic impairment and additional matched controls during the second stage of the study. Patients with hepatic impairment will be paired with matched control patients with normal hepatic function, matched on gender, age, and body surface area (BSA).

This is randomized study of neurocognitive outcomes in patients with five or more brain metastases treated with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), specifically the Gamma Knife (GK) system, or whole-brain radiation therapy (WBRT). The primary aim of this study is to compare the change in neurocognitive function outcome between baseline and 6 months in WBRT versus SRS treatment groups.

Brain metastases occur in 20-40% of patients with metastatic cancer. The standard treatment is based on whole brain radiation therapy and local treatment of metastases as neurosurgery or radiosurgery. However, many cases can not receive a standard local treatment, and local relapse occurs in almost 50% of cases treated with only whole brain irradiation. There are retrospective studies of increased radiation dose at the site of metastasis with hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (HSRT) with favorable results, but there are no controlled studies regarding the safety of radiation dose in these situations. This study is a phase I study to evaluate the maximum tolerance dose (MTD) with HSRT as a way to increase the dose of radiation after the WBRT for patients with 1-3 brain metastases not eligible for surgery or RS.

The study compares the established imaging techniques (CT, MRT, Contrast Ultrasound) with the new method of intraoperative contrast enhanced ultrasound to compare all methods for their rate of detection of colorectal liver metastasis.