Active clinical trials for "Pancreatic Neoplasms"

Data of 100 patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer who received stereotactic radiotherapy or ct-guided radioactive 125I seed implantation in the multicenter of the research group from July 2019 to June 2021 were collected, as well as follow-up data.To evaluate the clinical efficacy of stereotactic radiotherapy and ct-guided 125I seed therapy with 3D printing template in pancreatic cancer;In addition, the local control rate and side effects of ct-guided radioactive 125I particles in the treatment of pancreatic cancer lesions were explored, and the efficacy and safety of different doses of stereotactic radiotherapy were determined.

This is a Phase III Randomized, Open-Label Clinical Study of Napabucasin (GB201) in Combination with Weekly Paclitaxel and Low-dose Gemcitabine in Patients With Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Following Front-Line Chemotherapy Failure

The main adverse reaction of EGFR seen in patients is rash. EGFR treated patients have a 24-95% incidence of rash depending on the type of treatment they receive. Skin toxicity may occur in more than 80% of patients treated with cetuximab. If a severe rash (Grade 3 or 4) occurs, a dose reduction or discontinuation of treatment may be required. Also, infections are the main secondary side effect caused by the rash. The aim of the study is through a randomized clinical trial feasibility study to investigate the effectiveness of an educational intervention in patients receiving EGFRI therapy. It will be randomly selected which patients will belong to the intervention group and who in the control group. The type of program involves educational intervention.

The study is being conducted to evaluate the tolerability, safety and efficacy of maintenance Fluzoparib monotherapy in patients with gBRCA/PALB2 mutated metastatic pancreatic cancer whose disease has not progressed on first line platinum based chemotherapy.

Pancreatic cancer is the eighth most common occurrence in Korea. In the United States, pancreatic cancer is expected to be the number two cause of death from cancer in 2030. The prevalence of pancreatic cancer is also on the rise in Korea. The 5-year survival rate of pancreatic cancer in Korea is 10.8%. According to the 2017 cause of death statistics, pancreatic cancer mortality is ranked fifth. It is known to have the worst prognosis of cancer in the body. The median survival period of unresectable pancreatic cancer is only six months, and resection is the only treatment that can be expected to be completely cured, but only about 10% of cases are possible to be operable at the time of diagnosis. In the 2000s, the studies began to emerge on diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic cancer with intermediate anatomical and imaging characteristics of resectable and locally advanced pancreatic cancer. Margin negative resection plays an important role in the long-term survival rate in surgical treatment of pancreatic cancer. Prior to 2001, pancreatic cancer with invasion of vein was considered impossible to perform radical resection. However, the studies have been published that a satisfactory long-term survival rate and margin negative resection could be obtained when venous resection was performed along with radical resection. Since the 2006, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guideline, after performing radical resection among locally advanced pancreatic cancers without remote metastasis, pancreatic cancers with high risk of margin positive resection and treatment failure were classified as "borderline resectable". In the borderline resectable pancreatic cancer, neoadjuvant therapy was recommended before surgery. In recent years, the neoadjuvant therapy has been reported to raise the survival rate in resectable pancreatic cancer. Furthermore, a prospective study is in progress to demonstrate the effectiveness of neoadjuvant therapy with FOLFIRINOX in resectable pancreatic cancer. If pancreatic cancer is located in the head of pancreas, jaundice can be occurred often. In the case of preoperative jaundice, the possibility of postoperative complications increases. So biliary drainage is performed before surgery. In biliary drainage, usually the plastic stent was inserted through the endoscope. If the metal stent is inserted in the biliary obstruction, it can cause severe inflammation around the bile duct due to the radial force, and it is difficult to remove in the surgery. However, the meta-analysis comparing the groups of metal and plastic stents in the recent preoperative biliary drainage showed no difference of postoperative complication, and postoperative pancreatic fistula was lower in the group of metal stents (5.1% vs. 11.8% p=0.04). In addition, fewer re-intervention cases before surgery were found in the group of metal stents (3.4% vs.14.8% p < 0.0001). Not only in the borderline resectable, but also in the resectable pancreatic cancer, neoadjuvant therapy has recently been actively performed in the cases of large tumor size, high CA 19-9, large lymph nodes, severe weight loss, and severe pain. The comparison study of the efficacy between plastic and metal stents in preoperative bile drainage in pancreatic cancer with neoadjuvant therapy has not yet been prospectively performed. However, retrospective studies have shown that metal stents have a lower re-treatment rate than plastic stent (0.24 vs 0.54), and that there is no difference in post-operative complications. Therefore, we planned the study to compare the efficacy and safety between metal and plastic stent in biliary drainage performed in patients undergoing neoadjuvant therapy with pancreatic cancer.

To evaluate the combination of ABI-007 with gemcitabine or with LV5FU2.

The primary end point is to evaluate the 9-month progression free survival rate and safety profile after FOLFIRINOX versus GOFL induction chemotherapy followed by concurrent chemoradiotherapy in locally advanced pancreatic cancer. The secondary end points are to evaluate the disease control rate, overall survival time, toxicity profile and compliance after induction chemotherapy and concurrent chemoradiotherapy as well as the disease control rate after inductional chemotherapy alone in locally advanced pancreatic cancer. Translational research including pharmacogenomic study and biomarker study will also be done concomitantly.

Chemotherapy is often used to help shrink the cancer temporarily and may improve survival for patients with incurable pancreas cancer that has spread to other organs. In Canada, the gemcitabine chemotherapy is used to treat pancreas cancer that has spread. The combination of oxaliplatin with other chemotherapies, including 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, and irinotecan has also been studied and has benefit for patients with advanced pancreas cancer. To date, there is no test that can be done on a patient's tumour to tell if chemotherapy will work in pancreatic cancer. Human equilibrative nucleoside transporter 1 (hENT1) has been shown to be a possible predictor that gemcitabine may or may not work but this needs to be proven in a randomized study where patients get treated with gemcitabine or a different kind of chemotherapy while their tumours get tested for hENT1. This study is being done because we want to prove that hENT1 can predict if gemcitabine will work in advanced pancreas cancer and if it can, we also would like to show that a different chemotherapy combination called FOLFOX (a combination of 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, and oxaliplatin) will be helpful for patients whose tumours don't have hENT1.

The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy and safety of nanoparticle albumin-bound paclitaxel (nab-paclitaxel) plus S-1 as first-line treatment in Chinese patients with advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA).

The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of epidermal growth factor receptor mutations on the efficacy of erlotinib and gemcitabine in metastatic pancreatic cancer.