Active clinical trials for "Pancreatic Neoplasms"

Neuroendocrine neoplams (NENs) are uncommon, but with a significant increasing incidence and prevalence with advances in diagnostic techniques. NENs can originate from various parts of the body and are highly heterogeneous. Neuroendocrine tumors (NET), dividing into G1, G2, G3, are well-differentiated types with slow growth and neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC) are poorly-differentiated with high malignancy. Pancreatic carcinoma is one of the malignant neoplasms with a very high mortality rate. For NET G3, NEC and pancreatic, there are limited treatment options especially for those who progressed on standard chemotherapy. Surufatinib is a novel multi-targeted kinase inhibitor on VEGFR-1, 2, 3, FGFR1, and CSF1R, which has required the China NMPA approval on unresectable NETs (G1&G2). The pivital phase III clinical trial on NEC is ongoing. Sintilimab is a PD-1 inhibitor with the approval on gastric cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma and Hodgkin lymphoma. Clinical evidence has shown the anti-tumor activity of surufatinib in combination with PD-1 inhibitor in solid tumors, including NEN, small-cell lung cancer, G/GEJ cancer, etc. The current study is to investigate the safety and efficacy of surufatinib in combination with sintilimab in the treatment of NET G3, NEC and pancreatic carcinoma, in order to provide more treatment options for the patients who failed standard chemotherapy.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of standard chemotherapy with or without a novel High Intensity Focused Ultrasound system (Code: Suizenji) in patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer who are refractory or intolerant to first-line chemotherapy.

PT217 is a bispecific antibody (bsAb) against human DLL3 (huDLL3) and human CD47 (huCD47). This is an open label, Phase I study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK) and preliminary efficacy of PT217 in subjects with advanced or refractory cancers. Patients with the following tumor types will be eligible for screening: unresectable or small cell lung cancer (SCLC), large cell neuroendocrine cancer (LCNEC), neuroendocrine prostate cancer (NEPC) and gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (GEP-NET). Subjects must have progressed after standard therapy (platinum-based chemotherapy) or standard therapy has proven to be ineffective, intolerable or was considered inappropriate.

Patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer and germline mutation in BRCA have benefit of therapy with PARP inhibitors. In addition, some studies have demonstrated that PDL-1 inhibitors synergize therapeutically with PARP inhibitors in tumours with homologous repair deficiency. Our hypothesis is that those patients with alterations in DNA damage repair genes (somatic and germline BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, RAD51C, RAD51D and other functional DDR genes) and who have benefit from platinum based therapy in first line might obtain an increased therapeutic effect with the combination of olaparib and durvalumab. This is an open-label, single-arm, multicentric phase II clinical trial of a combination of durvalumab and olaparib in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer with alterations in DDR genes, who have had benefit with platinum-based chemotherapy in first line setting. The primary objective is to investigate the efficacy of this combination in terms of ORR. Patients will be eligible for the study based on alterations in a panel of specific DDR genes including BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, RAD51C, RAD51D and other DDR genes, as determined by a local assay according to local practice or by the central laboratory (if local assay is not available).

A unique approach for cancer treatment employing intratumoral diffusing alpha radiation emitter device for advanced pancreatic cancer

The aim of the study is to compare the efficacy and toxicity of full-dose Gemcitabine and reduced-dose combination chemotherapy in patients with non-resectable pancreatic cancer, who are unfit for full-dose combination chemotherapy. The patients will be equally randomized to arm A or arm B: Arm A: Full-dose single agent treatment with Gemcitabine 1000 mg/m2 weekly on days 1, 8,and 15 every 4 weeks. Arm B: Reduced-dose (80%) combination-treatment with Gemcitabine plus Nab-Paclitaxel (Gemcitabine: 800 mg/m2 plus Nab-Paclitaxel: 100 mg/m2 on day 1, 8 and 15 every 4 weeks) Progression-free survival, overall survival and response rate will be estimated for each group, as well as toxicity and quality of life will be prospectively registered.

The goal of this study is to evaluate the consistency between in vitro tumor organoid drug sensitivity and the therapeutic efficacy of in vivo drug treatment. Participants are required to provide one of fresh tumor tissues (including ascites, pleural effusion, biopsy tissues, palliative surgery specimens, etc.) for the purpose of culturing tumor organoids.

This study is an open-label, international, multi-center, Phase 1 study in adult patients with solid tumors likely to express CLDN18.2.

This study is open to adults with advanced cancer in the biliary tract, pancreas, lung, or bladder. This is a study for people for whom previous treatment was not successful or no treatment exists. The purpose of this study is to find out whether a medicine called BI 907828 helps people with cancer in the biliary tract, pancreas, lung, or bladder. BI 907828 is a so-called MDM2 inhibitor that is being developed to treat cancer. All participants take BI 907828 as a tablet once every 3 weeks. Participants may continue to take BI 907828 as long as they benefit from treatment and can tolerate it. They visit the study site regularly. At the study site, doctors regularly check the size of the tumour and whether it has spread to other parts of the body. The doctors also regularly check participants' health and take note of any unwanted effects.

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the fourth cause of cancer death in Western countries. More than 50% of the patients with PDAC has a local advanced or metastatic disease at the time of the diagnosis. There is a growing interest in the investigation of novel and alternative therapeutic strategies which could be used in synergy with radiotherapy and chemotherapy. These methods include echoendoscopic (EUS) guided locoregional ablation to reduce the tumoral mass. The most studied technique is the radiofrequency ablation (RFA). Another interesting technique involves the use of the laser source at a wavelength of 1064 nm. Among all the ablative methods, LA is the only one that allows the use of a thinner needle. These features make LA a suitable option for treating focal lesions in high-risk areas or in hard-to-reach locations. A previous study demonstrated the feasibility of this technique in pancreatic solid lesions. In order to perform a study aimed at the complete treatment of the lesion, it is necessary to identify the laser parameters which are specific to the size and location of the lesion. The present protocol presents a prospective interventional study aimed at the analysis and applicability of predictive mathematical models for the calculation of laser settings in the ablation of pancreatic lesion by means of a EUS-guided LA.