Active clinical trials for "Pancreatic Neoplasms"

Phase II study of neoadjuvant treatment with Gemcitabine, Tarceva and Oxaliplatin followed by chemotherapy with Tarceva and Gemcitabine in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma with borderline resectability. The primary objective is to determine the resectability rate of patients with pancreas adenocarcinoma with borderline resectability determined radiologically, treated with Gemcitabine, Tarceva and Oxaliplatin followed by radiotherapy with Gemcitabine and Tarceva.

This is a phase II study. It is designed to provide information about if high-dose ascorbate (vitamin C) increases survival for pancreatic cancer patients. The hypothesis is that vitamin C is well tolerated and increases cancer treatment effectiveness, lengthening survival time for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer.

To determine the response rate and survival of gemcitabine and pazopanib in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer.

The only curative option for pancreatic cancer patients is surgery, but the patients within 20% of them are possible for a radical surgery. Accordingly, concurrent chemo-radiation therapy is generally used for palliation of unresectable pancreatic cancer patients. So far, the use of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) was the traditional method of chemotherapy. However, these days, oral anti-cancer medicine, capecitabine(Xeloda®), was developed and considered as an alternative medicine of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). Furthermore, according to the recent results of clinical trials, the clinical use of capecitabine(Xeloda®) with radiation therapy was proved to be very effective and safe. Proton therapy is a new radiation therapy which remaining energy is released when they reach the tumor, delivering the most effective dose of radiation and which can minimize the exposure to normal tissues. The purpose of this trial is to improve the therapeutic effects by using proton therapy and chemotherapy concurrently.

Pancreatic cancer has traditionally been treated with chemotherapy and radiation therapy with limited results. Preliminary studies of parts of this program in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer have produced favorable results with acceptable side effects. We feel that this treatment sequence may help to slow and/or control the growth of pancreatic cancer. This study will help doctors learn whether pancreatic cancer will respond to this treatment. This study will use the combination of two chemotherapy drugs, gemcitabine and cisplatin, before and after treatment with radiation therapy and an oral chemotherapy drug called capecitabine. This sequence of combination chemotherapy before and after radiation therapy, and radiation therapy with the drug capecitabine is what is under study. Parts of this sequence, for example, the combination of gemcitabine and cisplatin, have shown promising results in the treatment of pancreatic cancer. This research study is an attempt to combine these various parts.

The overall purpose of this research is to evaluate the safety and side effects of zoledronic acid (also known as Zometa) in patients before they have surgery to remove the cancer.

The purpose of this study is to find out the effects, good and/or bad, of the combination of two drugs, gemcitabine and bosutinib, in patients with resected pancreatic cancer and whether this combination can prevent pancreatic cancer from coming back.

The primary objective of the study is to assess the activity of TPI 287 as single agent therapy for patients with advanced, unresectable pancreatic cancer after failure of gemcitabine-containing therapy. Activity of TPI 287 will be determined by the 6-month survival rate.

RATIONALE: Dasatinib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well dasatinib works in treating patients with stage IV pancreatic cancer.

The main objective of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of aflibercept treatment by comparison to placebo in increasing the overall survival (OS) in participants with metastatic pancreatic cancer, treated with gemcitabine. The secondary objectives were to evaluate progression free survival, clinical benefit, overall response, safety and immunogenicity of aflibercept, in the two treatment arms (Arm 1: Aflibercept and Gemcitabine; Arm 2: Placebo and Gemcitabine). The study included an interim analysis of OS. In accordance with the study protocol, an interim analysis was performed for the purpose of futility and overwhelming efficacy. On the basis of the interim analysis, the Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) recommended that this study be terminated for futility based on predefined boundary rules.