Active clinical trials for "Pancreatic Neoplasms"

To determine the rate of response and the duration of the response following therapy with Aroplatinin patients with advanced solid malignancies.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. It is not yet known whether nitrocamptothecin is more effective than fluorouracil for pancreatic cancer. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of nitrocamptothecin with that of fluorouracil in treating patients who have recurrent or refractory pancreatic cancer and who have been treated previously with gemcitabine.

To determine the optimal second line treatment strategy in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer who underwent a therapy with gemcitabine.

This is an open-label, single center, non-randomized, phase I trial to evaluate safety and efficacy of using the combination treatment of SHR-1210 with Paclitaxel-albumin and gemcitabine of metastatic PDAC.

This is an single arm, open-label, phase II trial to evaluate safety and efficacy of using the combination of Camrelizumab with apatinib as second-line therapy for advanced PDAC.

This study examines heart rate monitoring variability for the early detection of pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer is a very difficult disease to detect early. This study is being done to observe the heart rate variability in patients with pancreatic cancer compared to undiagnosed individuals with increased risk of developing pancreatic cancer. This may help researchers determine if pancreatic occurrences/recurrences (chance of coming back) can be detected sooner through monitoring heart rate and activity.

Pancreatic fistula (PF) represents the Achille's heel of pancreatic surgery and is the main cause of postoperative morbidity since it can determine the onset of others complications such as abdominal abscesses, surgical wound infections, sepsis and bleeding, that can sometimes be fatal. During a previous study conducted at the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Department of General Surgery there were identified cut-offs of amylase levels on the abdominal drainage fluid dosed in I postoperative day (POD1) and III postoperative day (POD3) which can significantly predict PF and in particular clinically relevant fistulas as well as abdominal collections and biliary fistulas, if related to some specific findings of the abdominal CT routine performed in POD3. The aim of this research project is to validate the cut-offs of the amylase levels on drainage fluid identified during the previous research in order to identify patients at risk of clinically relevant PF and to validate the use of abdomen CT without contrast in POD3 in patients with increased risk of biliary fistula.

This study assumes that to achieve significant therapeutic efficacy in advanced pancreatic cancer with immunotherapy, the immune system must remain relatively intact. Therefore, early use, low tumor load, adequate organ function, and slow growth of the tumor are the key points. Stage IV pancreatic adenocarcinoma patients with limited metastatic lesions and adequate organ function will be enrolled. Gemcitabine plus S-1 (GS) will be administered initially, and then CA 19-9 will be evaluated. Those fulfilling pre-defined criteria of CA 19-9 will receive nivolumab add-on therapy.

This study is a single-arm, multi-center, open-label prospective phase II clinical study designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of nab-paclitaxel and S-1 in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer. A total of 60 subjects who meet the criteria will be treated with nab-paclitaxel and S-1. The primary endpoint is 6 months progression free survival rate, and secondary endpoints include objective response rate, overall survival, progression free survival and toxicities.

This is a single arm, open-label Phase II clinical trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of the Combination of Nab-paclitaxel and Gemcitabine in Treating Patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer.