Active clinical trials for "Ovarian Neoplasms"

The main purpose of this Pilot Study is to test the safety, tolerability and quality of life in women who take Fermented Wheat Germ Extract (FWGE), to determine if an active form of FWGE can be detected in the blood, and determine whether short-term therapy with FWGE has any effect on the tumor marker, cancer antigen 125 (CA-125).

Background: - Some people with gastrointestinal or ovarian cancer also have ascites. That is free fluid built up in the abdomen. Researchers want to see if a new drug can affect some of the immune cells in the ascites. This may also treat the cancer. Objective: - To look at the immune markers the ascites of people with gastrointestinal or ovarian cancer. Eligibility: - Adults age 18 and older with a malignancy of the gastrointestinal tract (GI) tract or metastatic ovarian cancer. As a result, they have ascites in the abdomen. Design: Participants will be screened with: Medical history, physical exam, and blood tests. Echocardiogram: sound waves make images of the heart. Electrocardiogram: measures electrical activity of the heart. Paracentesis: a needle will be inserted in the abdomen and will remove some of the ascites fluid. They may have a tumor biopsy. Participants will get AZD9150 through a vein for 3 hours. They will get this 6 times in cycle 1 and 4 times all other cycles. Each cycle is 28 days. Each cycle, participants will: Have a physical exam. Have blood tests weekly. Be asked about how they feel and any medicines they are taking. After every 2 cycles (about every 2 months), participants will have scans and x-rays of their tumor. Participants will have paracentesis 2 more times during the study. They will have another echocardiogram. At the end of therapy, participants will have a physical exam and blood tests. They will be asked about how they feel and any medicines they are taking.

This is an open-label, pilot study in patients with a diagnosis of recurrent ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal carcinoma who have undergone standard cytoreductive surgery following by adjuvant chemotherapy. It is expected that this first surgery was optimal - as defined as no residual tumor > or = 1 centimeter. Patient has clinical evidence of a first recurrence. The patient undergoes surgery and isotonic normal saline (perfusate) heated and administered into the abdomen, followed by hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy infusion (HIPC) administering carboplatin (chemotherapy). Six weeks after surgery patients will receive adjuvant chemotherapy with Paclitaxel and Carboplatin for 6 cycles.

The purpose of this study is to understand relationships between behavioral factors, hormones, and chemicals produced by the body that may help tumor growth in ovarian cancer.

The best way to treat MBO in patients with ovarian cancer has not been studied enough by trials that assess how more than one treatment arm (surgical, chemotherapeutic, supportive care approaches) affects clinical outcomes like resolution of bowel obstruction, survival, and quality of life. To improve patient outcomes, we must assess which patients will do better with palliative surgery, chemotherapy, or best supportive care. This study will gather safety information, and how reasonable it is to give chemotherapy and BSC to patients with advanced ovarian cancer and MBO who are non-surgical candidates. This study will also look into the effects of chemotherapy and BSC on the quality of life and resolution of bowel obstruction, in hopes to perform future studies that lead to the best management of MBO.

This trial will compare the efficacy of docetaxel/carboplatin versus docetaxel/liposomal doxorubicin in pretreated patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma and treatment free-interval of at least six months

The primary objective of this study is to determine the efficacy of Temsirolimus in patients with ovarian cancer with CA125 only relapse after first-line platinum-based chemotherapy.

The goal of this clinical research study is to learn if bevacizumab, when given in combination with gemcitabine, docetaxel, melphalan and carboplatin, or with topotecan, cyclophosphamide and melphalan (if you are older than 60 or have an allergy to carboplatin), can help to control ovarian cancer during a stem cell transplant. The safety of this drug combination will also be studied.

The goal of this clinical research study is to find the highest safe dose of intraperitoneal tgDCC-E1A that can be given in combination with paclitaxel as a treatment for patients with recurrent, platinum-resistant ovarian cancer. How the cancer responds to this treatment will also be studied. Researchers will also ask the patients if they will allow additional tumor samples to be collected and extra blood samples to be drawn. These samples will be used to learn about the biological response before and after treatment.

Patients with epithelial ovarian cancer, fallopian tube or peritoneal cancer who receive surgical cytoreduction and platinum/taxane containing chemotherapy have a significant chance of entering complete clinical remission but about 70% will eventually relapse. Relapse more than 6 months following first line chemotherapy is regarded as platinum/taxane sensitive disease. Reinduction chemotherapy with platinum/taxane is known to be an effective treatment option. Therapy induced anemia is a common problem resulting in decrease of quality of life. The rationale of this trail is to evaluate the effects of epoetin alpha on reduction of therapy induced anemia, rate of transfusions and on quality of life.