Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma, Renal Cell"

The aim of this study is to assess whether functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques are able to detect which patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma will derive benefit from treatment with anti-angiogenic drugs early in their treatment. Early response assessment would allow selection of the most appropriate treatment option for each individual patient.

Evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of sorafenib in RCC patients underwent to metastasectomy

This trial is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of autologous type-1 polarized dendritic cell vaccines (patients' autologous DC1s loaded with multiple antigens CTL epitope peptide complexes), after radical resection for patients with stage III-IV renal cell carcinoma. Autologous cytotoxic of T lymphocytes (CTL) induced by type-1 polarized dendritic cells (DC1) loaded with MAGE-3/MAGE-4/survivin/ her2 /COX-2 CTL epitope peptides .

This pilot clinical trial compares the imaging results of contrast-enhanced ultrasound to contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT), the current clinical standard, in predicting treatment response in patients with kidney cancer undergoing cryosurgery (a procedure in which an extremely cold liquid or an instrument called a cryoprobe is used to freeze and destroy abnormal tissue). Using contrast-enhanced ultrasound that does not involve a dye may help patients avoid side effects from a dye that is usually used in MRI or CT and may help doctors measure blood flow and determine whether the cryosurgery procedure treated the kidney tumor.

Prospective observational study to assess bone predictive biomarkers for TKI response in RCC patients with bone metastasis and HRQoL with TKI in these patients as well as the sensitivity and specificity of whole body magnetic resonance versus bone scintigraphy and versus CT in the assessment of metastatic lesions at bone level and at other sites.

OPTIMISE is designed to provide knowledge regarding the use of Sunitinib as 1st line treatment and 2nd line treatment selected (Sunitinib-different sequence) with respect to efficacy outcomes, adverse events, and health related QoL in the real life setting.

RATIONALE: Studying the genes and proteins expressed in tissue samples from patients with cancer may help doctors identify biomarkers related to cancer. PURPOSE: This laboratory study is evaluating gene and protein expression in normal tissue and tumor tissue from patients who have undergone surgery for kidney cancer.

RATIONALE: Sunitinib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth and by blocking blood flow to the tumor. Giving sunitinib before surgery may make the tumor smaller and reduce the amount of normal tissue that needs to be removed. Giving it after surgery may kill any tumor cells that remain after surgery. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well sunitinib works when given before and after surgery in treating patients with stage IV kidney cancer.

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of UCN-01 in treating patients who have unresectable stage III or stage IV kidney cancer.

The feasibility and dose-limiting toxicity of administering escalating doses of dendritic cells transfected with autologous renal cell carcinoma RNA DC(DCRCC-RNA) will be defined. As a secondary endpoint, the ability of DCRCC-RNA to induce tumor-specific immune responses will be evaluated. Finally, the anti-tumor effects measured by clinical response criteria, their duration and overall survival (calculated at 2-year follow-up) will be determined in each patient receiving dendritic cell therapy. Background: Prognosis in metastatic renal cell carcinoma is poor with a median survival of less than one year. Although renal cell carcinoma has shown some response to immunotherapy, the results of systemic administration of biologic response modifiers in disseminated renal cell carcinoma have been poor. Growing evidence suggests that active immunotherapy, particularly dendritic cells (DC) based vaccines, may prove to be a viable and clinically effective therapeutic option for patients with advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma.