Active clinical trials for "Pancreatic Neoplasms"

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cisplatin and gemcitabine, work in different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Giving low-dose interferon alfa on a metronomic (regularly timed) schedule may stop the growth of cancer by stopping blood flow to the tumor. Fever-range (above 101° F) whole-body hyperthermia kills tumor cells by heating them to several degrees above normal body temperature. Combining cisplatin, gemcitabine, and low-dose interferon alfa with fever-range whole-body hyperthermia may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving cisplatin, gemcitabine, and metronomic low-dose interferon alfa together with fever-range whole-body hyperthermia works in treating patients with inoperable or metastatic pancreatic cancer.

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.

The present study is intended to investigate the safety and efficacy of the patients with confirmed advanced pancreatic cancer after treating with the combination of raltitrexed for injection and nab-paclitaxel.

In view of the existence of malignant ascites in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, we put forward the heat abdominal cavity perfusion chemotherapy combined albumin paclitaxel and gemcitabine compared with albumin paclitaxel and gemcitabine prospective clinical study, to assess abdominal albumin hot perfusion chemotherapy combined control of ascites and taxol in improving patients' quality of life, survival, exploring the feasibility of celiac hot perfusion chemotherapy combined albumin paclitaxel and side effects.

This is an open-label, non-randomized, single-arm phase Ⅱ study aiming to evaluate the efficacy and safety profile of above-mentioned combination strategy in first-line therapy-failed advanced pancreatic cancer. Totally 53 patients with locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer are to be enrolled and receive anlotinib plus toripalimab and nab-paclitaxel.

The present study is intended to investigate the objective response rate (ORR) and the progression-free survival (PFS) of the patients with histologically- or cytologically-confirmed metastatic pancreatic cancer after treating with the combination of camrelizumab, gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel, and to investigate the overall survival (OS) and the adverse event (AE) of the patients with histologically- or cytologically-confirmed metastatic pancreatic cancer after treating with the combination of camrelizumab, gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel.

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.

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.

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.