Active clinical trials for "Salivary Gland Neoplasms"

To compare the efficacy of Iodine-125 radioactive seeds implantation versus IMRT to treat inoperable salivary gland carcinoma. To compare the safety of Iodine-125 radioactive seeds implantation versus IMRT to treat inoperable salivary gland carcinoma.

Recently, sorafenib which can target VEGFR and PDGFR demonstrated 13-16% of response rate in patients with recurrent/metastatic salivary gland cancers, suggesting that VEGFR and PDGFR might be important role in salivary gland cancers. Accordingly, several trials with various anti-angiogenic molecular targeted agents such as dasatinib, dovitinib, or sunitinib in salivary gland cancer are ongoing. Nintedanib (BIBF1120) is a potent small molecule triple receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor (PDGFR/ FGFR1-2 and VEGFR1-3). VEGFR-2 is considered to be the crucial receptor involved in initiation of the formation as well as the maintenance of tumor vasculature. In vitro, the target receptors are all inhibited by nintedanib in low nanomolar concentrations. In in vivo nude mouse models, nintedanib showed good anti-tumor efficacy at doses of 50-100mg/kg, leading to a substantial delay of tumor growth or even complete tumor stasis in xenografts of a broad range of differing human tumors. Based on this background, in this study, the investigators would like to conduct a phase II study of Nintedanib (BIBF 1120) in patients with recurrent or metastatic salivary gland cancer of the head and neck to evaluate efficacy and safety.

Diagnostic study which evaluates the level of PSMA expression in patients with locally advanced, recurrent and/or metastatic ACC/SDC of ≥18 years old with 68Ga-PSMA-PET/CT imaging in order to establish whether these patients are eligible for 177Lu-PSMA therapy

Parotidectomy is the treatment of choice for tumors in the parotid gland, with the modified Blair is the most common incision used. In our medical center, the incision is tailored to the size and location of the specific parotid tumor. This retrospective analysis aims to determine the incidence of complications and to assess the relation between the mass and scar characteristics in patients who had undergone parotidectomy.

Tumors of the salivary glands occupy 0.5-1.2% of cases of head and neck tumors. They are primarily a surgical disease, as their treatment is basically the surgical excision. In this direction and in the context of the differential preoperative diagnosis, in addition to the imaging methods, the fine needle biopsy (FNA) was used, with which cell material is aspirated from the tumor and studied under the microscope. Although an increasing number of papers have been published in the international scientific literature over the last 5 years on the diagnostic accuracy of FNA in salivary glands, many of them are unable to quantify and omit to refer information that could affect the estimated diagnostic accuracy. Such information is for instance the clinical experience of the doctor who performs the FNA and of the one who assess the smear. The aim of this retrospective study is to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of fine needle biopsy in adult patients with salivary gland tumor that underwent a surgical excision in two Oral and Maxillofacial Departments in Northern Greece. The present retrospective study was carried out from 2/2021 to 4/2022 by collecting data from the files of patients who underwent surgery at the Oral and Maxillofacial Clinic of the Theageneio Cancer Hospital of Thessaloniki 1996-2022 and the General Hospital of Thessaloniki G. Papanikolaou 2015-2022. The study was conducted according to the STARD 2015 protocol. FNA contributed significantly to the differential preoperative process in salivary gland diseases. The differential diagnosis of a lesion in benign / malignant preoperatively, with the use of FNA, enables the surgeon for a more beneficial to the patient and oncologically safer planning of the surgery. It is considered important the high sensitivity provided by the examination, as it helps to exclude with sufficient safety the possible malignancy of the tumor located in the salivary gland of the patient.

Nano-based diagnostic tool can provide promising highly sensitive, specific biomarker for early detection and treatment of salivary gland tumours compared to non-conjugated biomarkers and in turn improves patient prognosis and outcome.

Salivary gland malignancies is very heterogenous group of tumors regarding tumor histology and localization. The aim of this study is to assess main clinical and pathological parameters related to patients survival

The goal of this study is to study NIS expression in benign and malignant breast and thyroid samples using archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue sections.

To explore the feasibility, efficacy and safety of determining the treatment regimen based on genomic profiling in patients with locally advanced and advanced salivary gland cancer.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is the tenth leading cancers in Taiwan and investigating its biomarker is important for understanding the mechanism of its pathogenesis.