Active clinical trials for "Prostatic Neoplasms"

This is a Phase 2, open-label study in subjects with androgen-independent prostate cancer who have progressed following treatment with an LHRH agonist. Up to 22 subjects will be enrolled. Enrollment will be monitored to ensure that not all subjects are enrolled based on rising prostate specific antigen (PSA) criterion only. Subjects will be treated with abarelix (Plenaxis) 100 mg intramuscularly (IM) every 2 weeks for 12 weeks (total dose of 600 mg).

Vaccines made from a gene-modified virus may help the body build an effective immune response to kill tumor cells. Biological therapies, such as GM-CSF, may stimulate the immune system in different ways and stop tumor cells from growing. Androgens can cause the growth of prostate cancer cells. Drugs, such as bicalutamide and goserelin, may stop the adrenal glands from making androgens in patients whose tumor cells continue to grow. Giving vaccine therapy together with GM-CSF and, when needed, androgen ablation may be a more effective treatment for prostate cancer. This phase II trial is studying how well giving vaccine therapy together with GM-CSF works in treating patients with prostate cancer that progressed after surgery and/or radiation therapy.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as liposomal doxorubicin, use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Microwave thermotherapy kills tumor cells by heating them to several degrees above body temperature. Combining liposomal doxorubicin with microwave thermotherapy may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of liposomal doxorubicin when given together with microwave thermotherapy in treating patients with prostate cancer.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether Reiki energy healing affects anxiety and disease progression in patients with localized prostate cancer who are candidates for radical prostatectomy.

This is a multi-center, open-label, dose finding study of CV787 adenovirus in patients with hormone refractory metastatic prostate cancer. Patients will receive treatment intravenously at one of up to nine dose levels, each containing three to six patients.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of priming vaccinations, and subsequent boosting vaccinations with Human GM-CSF Gene Transduced Irradiated Prostate Allogeneic Cancer Cell Vaccines (Allogeneic Prostate GVAX®). Clinical observations and laboratory measurements will be monitored to evaluate safety and toxicity. Additionally, the antitumor effects of Allogeneic Prostate GVAX® on serum PSA levels will be evaluated and antitumor responses will be quantitated.

This is a multi-center, open-label, Phase 1/2 study of SU011248 (sunitinib malate, SUTENT) in combination with docetaxel and prednisone for the first-line treatment of metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer (mHRPC).

This study has been designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a 20-mg dose of tadalafil administered "on demand" to patients with erectile dysfunction (ED) after external-beam radiotherapy (EBRT) of prostate cancer.

Permanent prostate implants are a type of radiation therapy in which a high dose of radiation is delivered to cancerous tissue by many small radioactive "seeds". Studies of early-stage prostate cancer patients treated in this way and followed for 10 - 12 years indicate a cure rate of about 80%. This result is similar to surgery and other forms of radiotherapy, but comes with fewer side effects and greater convenience for the patient. Further studies show that the radiation dose delivered is the most important factor in achieving a cure. At present this dose is estimated by a computer, using a computed tomography (CT) scan of the patient and a simple calculation method. The dose estimate is not as accurate as it could be, however, because the precise extent of the prostate is hard to determine from the CT scan, and the calculation method does not make use of information about patient body tissues. The researchers propose to eliminate these inaccuracies by using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to identify the prostate gland and by developing an improved dose calculation algorithm that includes information about patient tissues. This new approach will allow physicians to assess implant quality with greater certainty, improve their implant technique, and ultimately increase the cure rate to as much as 95%.

The main purpose of this study is to find out what effects (good or bad) trabectedin (ET743) has on men with advanced prostate carcinoma.