Active clinical trials for "Sarcoma"

This pilot early phase I trial studies how well fluorothymidine F-18 positron emission tomography (PET) works in imaging patients with intermediate or high grade soft tissue sarcoma. Fluorothymidine F-18 PET may provide useful information about the tumor's response to treatment and may give the doctors early results that would better help to plan the post-surgical therapy.

After a screening, which consists of biopsy, physical examination, initial diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI-MRI), body computed tomography (CT) scan, blood tests and case analysis on Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) meeting, a patient will receive the first course of chemotherapy - doxorubicin 75 mg/sqm and ifosfamide 10 g/sqm (AI regimen) with prophylactic mesna. Then a patient will be irradiated 5x5 Gy and after radiotherapy he or she will receive two courses of AI within 4-6 weeks, depending on the tolerance. Then the response analysis in DWI-MRI and toxicity assessment and will be performed. On the second MDT meeting, a final decision about resectability of the tumor will be made. In case of resectability, a patient will be referred to surgery.

Soft tissue sarcoma (STS) is rare malignancy of mesodermal origin, representing less than 1% of all malignant neoplasms. They are a group of diseases encompassing diverse histological subtypes with very different biomorphologies, prognoses, and responses to treatments. At advanced stages of STS, anticancer treatments are less effective and the prognosis is poor with a median survival of 8 to 18 months. Doxorubicin and ifosfamide given each alone or in their combination have represented the mainstream of anticancer treatments in metastatic STS. However, salvage treatments for patients with progression after doxorubicin/ifosfamide-based treatment are limited and anticancer agents such as gemcitabine/docetaxel, pazopanib, eribulin and trabectedin are currently used as a standard of care (SOC). For metastatic sarcoma, a study of pemetrexed alone in patients with refractory STS who have progressed after doxorubicin and/or ifosfamide-based anticancer treatment was conducted. In this study including 48 patients, most of whom had relatively poor course of disease with disease progression after the 2nd- and/or 3rd-line treatment, pemetrexed was well tolerated and associated with 5% of response rate and 33% of 3-month progression-free rates suggesting potential antitumor efficacy with good tolerability profile with refractory STS. However, as conventional agents have showed different efficacy depending on various subtypes of STS, a confirmatory study to see clinical utilities of a given regimen by subtype is required also for pemetrexed/cisplatin. Therefore, the investigators intend to proceed this phase 2 clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of pemetrexed/cisplatin combination therapy in patients with advanced/metastatic STS who received up to two-lines of prior palliative anticancer treatments with histological subtype-specific cohorts (leiomyosarcoma, synovial sarcoma, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, and others) in order to provide a basis for a subsequent phase 3 study by selecting histological subtype(s) in which the efficacy of study regimen is to be proven.

This is a non-randomized, phase II, open label study of radiotherapy concurrent with Apatinib Mesylate after surgery in patients with advanced head and neck soft tissue and bone sarcomas. The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of Apatinib Mesylate in patients with head and neck soft tissue and bone sarcomas.

The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy of a temporary ovarian suppression obtained by administration of a gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist during alkylating agents containing chemotherapy on ovarian reserve assessed by Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) serum levels in adolescents and young women with cancer.

Fifty patients with pathological proof of malignant soft tissue sarcoma will receive Anthracyclin based chemotherapy combined with propranolol 40 mg twice daily. The primary end point : To assess Progression Free Survival (PFS) The secondary end points : To assess Overall Survival (OS) and Toxicity Profile

This is a phase 2b, randomized, open-label, prospective, multicenter study comparing treatment with INNO 206 to doxorubicin in subjects with metastatic, locally advanced, or unresectable soft tissue sarcomas who have not been previously treated with any chemotherapy except potentially as adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and no evidence of tumor recurrence has occurred for at least 12 months.

The purpose of this study is to achieving a six-month progression free survival (PFS) of patients receiving autologous dendritic cell vaccine (ADKV) loaded with allogeneic tumor lysate expression of cancer-testis antigens (CTA) in patients with soft tissue sarcomas

This is a multi-institutional phase I/II clinical trial with concomitant local hyperthermia and proton beam radiotherapy in patients with primary or recurrent unresectable soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities, trunk, retroperitoneum (except intrabdominal). The primary purpose would be to assess the safety and efficacy of this approach along with local tumour regressions and subsequent tumour downstaging, thereby enabling a near total removal of these tumours following the hyperthermia and proton beam therapy.

RATIONALE: Modern radiotherapy techniques in a neoadjuvant setting have the potential to minimize morbidity and maximize efficacy. An additional boost dose can be provided locally by HDR-brachytherapy in patients with positive margins after tumor resection. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying the safety and efficacy of a combination of modern radiotherapy elements applied to the tumor and small volumes of surrounding normal tissue (IMRT, IGRT; brachytherapy in case of positive resection margin) and see how well it works in treating patients with High-Risk Soft Tissue Sarcoma of the Extremities.