Active clinical trials for "Rectal Neoplasms"

Colorectal cancer is a common malignancy in Viet Nam. Laparoscopic surgery becomes a standard treatment in many centers. Today, robotic surgery is a new option for treating colorectal cancer with some advantages such as magnified 3D view, precise movements. Answer on safety and feasibility of robotic surgery for colorectal cancer are not available in Viet Nam. Therefore, the investigators conducted a study " Robotic versus Laparoscopic Approach for Rectal Cancer Surgery".

In this study, the investigators assessed the difference in efficacy and safety among robotic-assisted versus laparoscopic abdominoperineal resection for patients with low rectal cancer.

Transanal Endoscopic Rectosigmoid Resection with Laparoscopic Assistance was developed at Massachusetts General Hospital and performed successfully to remove cancer of the lower rectum. Based on the outcomes, the research doctors believe that this investigational surgery may be as safe and effective as standard laparoscopic or open surgery performed to remove rectal cancer, may facilitate the operation and reduce the size of the abdominal incisions. In this research study, the investigators are looking to see if this investigational procedure is a safe and effective approach to remove rectal cancer of the mid and lower rectum.

This study is proposed to evaluate whether giving part of the chemotherapy prior to radiotherapy and surgery (as opposed to standard of care, which involves giving all the chemotherapy after radiotherapy and surgery) for patients with node positive operable rectal cancer will result in higher patient compliance to chemotherapy.

The main purpose of this study is to find the maximum tolerable dose of sorafenib when administered along with another drug called 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) and to find out more about whether these drugs, along with radiation, can help people with rectal cancer when given before surgery. 5-FU and radiation are both approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in people with rectal cancer. The investigators will utilize a standard 3 + 3 phase I study design. In the phase I part of the study, the investigators will attempt dose escalation of sorafenib in combination with standard infusional 5-FU and external beam at standard doses. Clinical staging should be done by endorectal ultrasound (ERUS) and/or pelvic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for T and N stage; chest and abdomen computed tomography (CT) for staging of metastatic disease; undergo sigmoidoscopy and/or colonoscopy done by crude odds ratios (CORS); biopsy is taken for diagnosis and extra is sent for tissue bank. At the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of sorafenib we will expand the cohort to 6 more patients to further evaluate toxicity profile and efficacy.

This phase I trial studies the side effects and best dose of trametinib when given together with fluorouracil and radiation therapy before surgery in treating patients with stage II-III rectal cancer. Trametinib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as fluorouracil, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill tumor cells. Giving trametinib together with fluorouracil and radiation therapy before surgery may make the tumor smaller and reduce the amount of normal tissue that needs to be removed

The FOLFIRINOX protocol seems a promising protocol as attack treatment of a rectum cancer, with an objective response rate of about 70 %. This phase II is to investigate if this systematic attack chemotherapy could control at the same time the rectal tumor and the synchronous metastasis without compromising secondarily the tumor or the metastasis resection or a radiochemotherapy administration. The main objective of the trial is to investigate the tumoral control rate at 4 months, according to the RECIST criteria (version 1.1). The secondary objectives are: safety of the treament, rate of local failure and local complication (occlusion, important bleedings, resistant pains with morphinic treatment, perforation), survival without local failure (radiological or clinical progression of the rectal cancer or local complication), rectal tumor response rate (CT scan, MRI and endocopy), metastasis response rate, disease free survival after complete resection (of primitive tumor and metastases), progression free survival (local or distal), overall survival, quality of life (QLQ-C30 + CR 29).

This is a phase I study incorporating bavituximab into the care of patients with rectal adenocarcinoma simultaneously treated with capecitabine and radiation therapy. There is no reference therapy as we are trying to identify the MTD of bavituximab in this combination.

This pilot phase I trial studies the side effects and best dose of CPI-613 when given together with fluorouracil in treating patients with colorectal cancer that has spread to other parts of the body and cannot be removed by surgery. CPI-613 may kill tumor cells by turning off their mitochondria. Mitochondria are used by tumor cells to produce energy and are the building blocks needed to make more tumor cells. By shutting off these mitochondria, CPI-613 deprives the tumor cells of energy and other supplies that they need to survive and grow in the body. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as fluorouracil, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Giving CPI-613 with fluorouracil may kill more tumor cells.

This phase I study is designed to determine the maximum tolerant dose of capecitabine when used in preoperative concurrent chemo-radiation for locally advanced rectal patients over 75 years old.