Active clinical trials for "Prostatic Neoplasms"

This multi-center, phase II trial will be conducted in men with castration resistant prostate cancer. The aim of the TRAP trial is to test whether a new precise radiotherapy technique called stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) can slow down the growth of metastatic prostate cancer. If SBRT is effective it will represent a new treatment option in these patients, providing more prolonged control without having to resort to chemotherapy and its potentially unpleasant side effects. In this trial, the investigators will identify men who, despite being on next generation androgen deprivation treatment (Abiraterone or Enzalutamide) have developed one or two new sites of worsening (growing) disease but the rest of their cancer is still responding to hormonal therapy. If it is the case that SBRT can successfully treat the cancer which is resistant to current treatment then the investigators hope they will be able to better control the spread of cancer in these patients for longer. The investigators also hope that they will be able to use the tell-tale products (gene markers) that are released into the bloodstream in these patients, or identify characteristics on novel imaging such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to help identify patients in the future who will benefit the most.

Define the best acoustic parameters for the dynamic focusing HIFU transducer in the treatment of localized Prostate Cancer.

The optimal treatment for HRPC patients has not yet been established. Recent trials suggest a benefit from early treatment with docetaxel in the castration-sensitive setting, with an improvement in failure free survival in high risk and metastatic patients and increase in overall survival in the metastatic hormone-sensitive group. In these recent randomized controlled trials, patients were treated with hormonal therapy and radiotherapy and adjuvant docetaxel, assuming that early systemic treatment for high risk or metastatic disease could delay progression in patients with aggressive primary tumor characteristics. With the fact that docetaxel is a known radiosensitizer, combined modality treatment with docetaxel during the radiotherapy could also lead to better local control and reduction of local recurrence. Several phase I and II studies have been done in HRPC patients, to evaluate the combination of high dose radiotherapy and concurrent weekly infusions with docetaxel. Oral administration of docetaxel has many advantages above intravenously administered drugs for patients. Besides the higher patient convenience, possibly longer treatment duration can be achieved due to better safety. Frequently occurring toxicities of intravenously administered docetaxel, such as neutropenia, hypersensitivity reactions and peripheral polyneuropathy have rarely been observed with the oral docetaxel formulation ModraDoc006/r. The primary aim of the N15DOP study is to determine the maximum tolerable dose (MTD) of ModraDoc006/r when given in a weekly bidaily schedule in combined modality with high dose intensity radiotherapy and hormonal therapy in castration-sensitive prostate cancer patients with high risk disease, including positive lymph nodes.

The primary purpose of this trial is to determine whether dose reduction of enzalutamide in patients with grade 3 fatigue and/or cognition change will lead to an improvement in symptoms while maintaining active drug levels. Patients within 3 months of starting enzalutamide will be assessed by their oncologist as being potentially eligible for dose reduction due to the onset of moderate to severe fatigue and/or cognition change, which is assessed as being due to enzalutamide

PART I Hormone therapy with or without definitive radiotherapy in metastatic prostate cancer The goal of this clinical study PART I is to determine impact of radiotherapy treatment in combination with standard androgen deprivation therapy comparing with androgen deprivation therapy alone at controlling metastatic prostate cancer. The primary objective: to determine disease progression free survival in man with metastatic (M1) prostate cancer (PC) undergoing androgen deprivation therapy with or without definitive radiotherapy of the primary tumor.The secondary objective: to determine disease progression (local, bone marrow, visceral) in men with metastatic prostate cancer (M1PC) undergoing systemic therapy with/without definitive radiotherapy of the primary tumor, to determine expression in number of genes analysed 8: 2 housekeeping genes; integrin subunits αv, β3, β5, α4β1 ; 3 EMT markers N-cadherin, E-cadherin, vimentin before radiotherapy, after radiotherapy and at the time of the disease progression , to determine plasma serotonin (5HT, 5 hydroxytryptamine). Subgroup analysis in locally advanced prostate cancer (serves as a control group for integrins analysis): to determine expression in number of genes analysed 8: 2 housekeeping genes; integrin subunits αv, β3, β5, α4β1 ; 3 epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) markers N-cadherin, E-cadherin, vimentin before radiotherapy, after radiotherapy and at the time of the disease progression. PART II Identification of genetic determinants of disease progression and castrate resistance in metastatic prostate cancer. The goal of this clinical study PART II is to assess feasibility of genomic testing in the multidisciplinary clinical management of metastatic prostate cancer, to gain insight in specific genomic signature(s) of progressive metastatic prostate cancer in the natural course of disease spanning from primary tumor to metastases, to test if 'treatment selection' and/or 'treatment adaptation' as means of evolutionary pressures represent the mechanistic models of castrate resistance and ultimate treatment failure following course of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT).

The aim of this trial is to find out if there are any differences in the profiles of acute and late adverse effects among men with low and intermediate risk prostate cancer treated either with low dose-rate brachytherapy or hypofractionated external radiotherapy (CyberKnife). Also the prostate specific antigen (PSA) responses and cost utility of each treatment will be analysed.

This is a multi-centre prospective study in which blood samples will be taken from 1500 male patients aged between 21-80 scheduled for prostate biopsy. Analysis of cell-free cancer DNA extracted from these samples will be undertaken to determine whether copy number instability scores derived from the cfDNA correlates with PSA screening levels and prostate biopsy results (i.e. Gleason score) in these patients.

This study is a multicenter, single arm phase I / II clinical study in mCRPC subjects who failed to receive docetaxel chemotherapy, abitolone acetate and / or enzalutamide (including its analogues) for the treatment of BRCA mutations in germ cells and / or somatic cells.

The purpose of study is to compare the safety and pharmacokinetics of PT105 with PT105R in healthy postmenopausal female volunteers

The purpose of this study is to look at whether F-18 Fluciclovine (i.e. Axumin) is better or as good as F-18 Sodium Fluoride (F-18 NaF) when looking at bone disease from prostate cancer. Axumin is a radioactive agent used on a positron/computed tomography (PET/CT) camera to look for prostate cancer in general.