Active clinical trials for "Neoplasm Metastasis"

Clinical Efficacy and Safety of EGFR-TKI Combined With Nimotuzumab in the Treatment of Leptomeningeal Metastases From Lung Cancer.

One lung ventilation (OLV) is essential during thoracic surgery. During OLV, intrapulmonary shunt can be increased resulting hypoxemia. Although OLV technique had been advanced so far, hypoxemia during OLV reaches about 10% in spite of inspired oxygen fraction 100%. Iloprost is a prostaglandin analogue used for pulmonary hypertension, which can decrease pulmonary artery resistance by selectively dilating pulmonary artery. In this prospective, randomized, double blind study, the investigator is planning to investigate the effects of iloprost on respiratory physiology (intrapulmonary shunt, deadspace, oxygenation, etc) in obese patients.

The prognosis of patients with metastatic right-sided colon cancer is worse than that of patients with metastatic left-sided cancer. Different guidelines have different recommendations on specific conversion therapy for colorectal liver metastases. The United States NCCN guidelines do not recommend standard chemotherapy combined with anti EGFR monoclonal antibody for patients with right colon cancer. The European ESMO guidelines recommend that patients with Ras / BRAF wild-type right-sided colon cancer should first consider three drugs ± bevacizumab, but considering the objective response rate results, standard chemotherapy + anti EGFR monoclonal antibody is still one of the choices. China CSCO guidelines recommend standard chemotherapy ± bevacizumab, and also recommend standard chemotherapy + cetuximab for patients with right-sided colon cancer. Therefore, the targeted therapy for RAS / BRAF wild-type metastatic right colon cancer is still controversial. Therefore, we are ready to carry out the clinical trial of cetuximab and bevacizumab in conversion therapy for RAS / BRAF wild-type metastatic right colon cancer. The conversion resection rate is the primary point, and the objective response rate, perioperative safety and long-term survival are the secondary points.

The investigators assessed whether the addition of a preoperative regimen of Bevacizumab regimen to improves R0 resection rate and survival among patients with potentially resectable gastric cancer with liver metastasis.

This project is aim to explore non-increased-intracranial-pressure symptomatic brain metastases of NSCLC, and if the OS of secondary brain radiotherapy after recurrence with Erlotinib is better than Erlotinib with concurrent brain radiotherapy. Treatment group are treated with Erlotinib until brain tumor progression, then gave brain radiotherapy, and continued to take Erlotinib till extracranial lesions progression. Control group are Erlotinib with concurrent brain radiotherapy, and continued to take Erlotinib after radiotherapy until recurrence or termination for other reasons.

In this study, the investigators assessed the effect of Cetuximab in combination with chemotherapy in the treatment of unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer.

Brain metastasis (BM) is among the most feared complications in cancer because even small tumors may cause incapacitating neurologic symptoms. It is observed in more than 50% of patients with lung cancer and 15% to 25% of patients with breast cancer. Temozolomide (TMZ) is an oral alkylating agent that crosses blood-brain barrier (BBB). This pilot study aims to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) plus concomitant TMZ in lung cancer and breast cancer patients with BM.

Vasoconstrictive signaling via endothelin receptors is not limited to primary pulmonary arterial hypertension, but has also been documented in secondary pulmonary hypertension due to congestive heart failure, including cardiac valve disease. The investigators aim to examine the clinical and physiologic effects of bosentan therapy in patients with secondary pulmonary hypertension due to severe, inoperable cardiac valve disease, using a single-center, prospective, open-label, non-randomized study of oral bosentan in outpatients with severe mitral stenosis due to childhood rheumatoid fever. Primary end-point will be exercise capacity at six months determined by six-minute walking distance and cardiopulmonary exercise testing. Secondary end-points will be symptomatic relief, echocardiographic left ventricular function and pulmonary pressure, serum pro-brain natriuretic peptide, and adverse events at six months.

OBJECTIVES: Determine response and survival of patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis treated with cytoreductive surgery plus intraoperative peritoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy with cisplatin and mitomycin Assess the quality of life of patients treated with this regimen. OUTLINE: Patients are randomized into IPHC group and control group. In the former group, the patients undergo cytoreductive surgery plus intraoperative hyperthermic peritoneal perfusion with cisplatin and mitomycin over 60 minutes. Patients in the control group just underwent routine cytoreductive surgery. All patients in both groups receive the standard conventional chemotherapy after surgery. Quality of life is assessed at study initiation, at 1, 3, 6 months. Patients are followed at 4 weeks, every 3 months for 1 year, and then every 6 months for up to 3 years.

This is a single arm, open-label phase II study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Capecitabine plus oxaliplatin (XELOX) in the peri-operative treatment of patients with potentially resectable liver metastasis from colorectal cancer.