Active clinical trials for "Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma"

The investigators designed this study to evaluate the efficiency and the acute toxicities of recombinant human endostatin (endostar) combined with chemotherapy in the metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC).

This is a open,randomized phase II trial comparing effectiveness and safety of local use of rhGM-CSF and Compound Vitamin B12 to Compound Vitamin B12 solution alone treating oral mucositis in primary nasopharyngeal cancer. The main end point is the incidence of grade II and less oral mucositis at the end of treatment.The hypothesis of the study is that the local use of rhGM-CSF and Compound Vitamin B12 can decrease the incidence of grade III and more oral mucositis at the end of treatment compared to local use of Compound Vitamin B12 alone.

The purpose of this study is to verify that simultaneous integrated boost IMRT (SIB-IMRT) alone is non-inferior to SIB-IMRT combined with concurrent chemotherapy for low-risk locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

This study will evaluate the safety of PD-1 knockout EBV-CTL cells in treating EBV (Epstein-Barr virus) positive advanced stage malignancies. Blood samples will also be collected for research purposes.

The study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Apatinib for later treatment of patients(after second-line treatment for locally recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma), including overall survival (OS), distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS) and locoregional relapse-free survival (LRRFS); the relationship between EBV DNA copy number and survival after radiotherapy or radiochemotherapy; Quality of life score (QoL); evaluation of drug safety.

A Phase II Trial of S-1 as Maintenance Treatment After Gemcitabine Plus Cisplatin Regimen Chemotherapy in Patients With Recurrent and/or Metastatic Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.

A total of 300 patients with pathologically confirmed Locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma were enrolled. Patients were randomly divided into two groups, with 150 patients in each group. One group was treated with Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy combined with Endostar and the other group was treated with Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy. The short term efficacy and the toxic and side effects of these treatments were evaluated. The 1-year, 3-year, 5-year overall survival and progression-free survival of patients were analyzed. The investigators data may provide an alternative option for the treatment of Locoregionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma with high efficacy and low toxicity.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is an Epstein-Barr virus(EBV) related malignancy and is an endemic disease in Southeast Asian countries. EBV had been identified as a therapeutic target in some EBV related cancer such as lymphoma and NPC. In cancer cell, EBV was in latent phase and expressed 8-11 genes for maintaining EBV proliferation. After switching to lytic phase, almost all the EBV encoding genes were expressed including thymidine kinase (TK) and some highly immunogenetic genes. These latent-lytic phase swifter included DNA methyltransferase inhibitors, various histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Recently, combined chemotherapy and viral lytic therapy, cytolytic viral activation therapy (CVAT) had been shown some promising result in pilot study of NPC. In our patient derived xenograft (PDX) animal model drug sensitivity screening, gemcitabine (GEM) was shown to be the most effective drug. Furthermore, CVAT with GEM + Valproic acid (VPA) + ganciclovir (GCV) maintaining chemotherapy may benefit but reduce chemotherapy related side effect and prolonging treatment response duration. The following phase I clinical trial will be proposed to test the optimal combination of these drugs. Number of patients: total 18 patients are needed Inclusion criteria:(1) used as 2nd line regimen in recurrence/metastasis NPC patients with tissue proved of World Health Organization (WHO) type II or type III.(2) Performance status: eastern cooperative oncology group performance status (ECOG PS) ≤2. Chemotherapy regimen: Gemcitabine (GEM, TTY) + Valproic acid (VPA, generic medicine) for viral activation + Valganciclovir (VGC, Roche) for antiviral medication This treatment cycle of 28 days was repeated maximum 6 times. (Q4wks/cycle, max: 6 cycles) Dosage: (1) GEM: 600, 800, 1000, 1250 mg/m^2, D1 & D8, intravenously. (2) VPA 12.5 mg/kg/day D1~14, per os. (3) VGC (2-3) x 450 mg/day D9~15, per os. 6. Objectives: primary: to find the best combination of these 3 drugs in recurrent/metastatic NPC patients. second: to evaluate the response and disease control rate in this pilot study. Key words: NPC, cytolytic viral activation therapy, gemcitabine, valproic acid, ganciclovir.

The present study is designed as a two arm randomized trial to evaluate the impact of accelerated radiotherapy delivered by image guided radiotherapy with rapid arc technique in carcinoma nasopharynx. The study will evaluate a pure acceleration schedule of 6 fractions per week with concurrent chemotherapy and without any radiotherapy dose escalation.The control arm will receive standard chemoradiotherapy using image guided radiotherapy with rapid arc technique.

This study is a randomized, phase II, prospective, multicenter clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of sufficient chemoradiotherapy plus oral capecitabine/S-1 for 1 year in the treatment of oligometastatic Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma