Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma, Squamous Cell"

It was difficult to obtain clinical benefits through traditional chemotherapy and radiotherapy for the patients who have recurrence or metastasis tumor even though they have received first-line chemotherapy or combined radiotherapy before, but failed.The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of apatinib, an anti-angiogenesis drug, in the treatment of patients with advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma who had recurrence or metastasis after radical resection

This study will evaluate the safety and feasibility of preoperative immune checkpoint therapy with concurrent chemoradiotherapy in patients with locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. And this study will provide valuable information for further clinical trials of preoperative pembrolizumab and other immune checkpoint therapy in esophageal cancer treatment.

TQB2450 is a humanized monoclonal antibody targeting programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1), which prevents PD-L1 from binding to PD-1 and B7.1 receptors on T cell surface, restores T cell activity, thus enhancing immune response and has potential to treat various types of tumors.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of radiation therapy combined with anti-PD-1 antibody SHR-1210 followed by surgery in treating patients with resectable esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

This is a phase 1b/2 study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of metronomic combination therapy in subjects with SCC who have progressed on or after previous platinum-based chemotherapy and anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy. Phase 2 will be based on Simon's two-stage optimal design.

The purpose of this phase II trial is to determine the feasibility and efficacy of nimotuzumab combined with concurrent chemoradiotherapy for initially inoperable locally advanced cervical squamous cell carcinoma.

The goal of this project is to develop and characterise an imaging strategy for biology-guided individualisation of the proton therapy plan to improve patient outcome and quality-of-life. Positron-emission tomography (PET) studies reflecting glucose metabolism, hypoxia and physical changes of proton-irradiated tumour tissues will be performed. Patients with head and neck cancer will be studied, as these individuals frequently experience recurrences within the radiation field, often with limited therapeutic options. Severe side-effects and functional impairment, deteriorating patients' quality-of-life, limited the use of dose-escalation in recent feasibility studies of photon therapy guided by individual PET-response. However, proton therapy, currently being introduced in the Netherlands, improves the precision of radiotherapy and thereby limits the side-effects caused by irradiation of neighbouring healthy tissues. Therefore, in proton therapy dose-escalation to improve patient outcome is less restricted by toxicity. Using PET-studies of two hallmarks of radioresistance, glucose metabolism and hypoxia, side-by-side, before and early in-treatment, the predictive ability of both PET-techniques for local recurrence-free survival will be compared. A treatment plan adapted to the individual response measured by both procedures and compute tumour-dose and toxicity, will be simulated, thereby substantiating feasibility of image-guided adaptive replanning. Simultaneously to biological responses, proton therapy-induced physical changes will be studied. These atomic changes, dependent on tissue-composition and dose-deposition, are measurable by PET. It is expected that activation-PET to measure tissue-changes during therapy, a potential new biomarker of treatment efficacy, toxicity but also accuracy of treatment plan execution. Activation-PET will be related to earlier-mentioned PET-imaging of metabolism. This clinical-technological project paves the way for an interventional trial of PET-guided treatment personalisation. Activation-PET will also serve as biomarker and quality control for proton therapy and support the current development of specialised in-beam PET-technology. These PET-techniques together will help us to individualise treatment, which is of great importance for the success and cost-effectiveness of proton therapy.

The purpose of this study is to find out what effects the combination of radiation therapy and Avelumab have on you and your cancer. The effectiveness of this treatment as well as what side effects occur will both be studied. Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin is the most commonly diagnosed cancer. Risk factors for the development of squamous cell cancer include ultraviolet (sun) exposure, as well as increasing age. In the majority of instances, a minor surgical procedure is curative. Less commonly, squamous cell carcinoma cannot be removed surgically, due to the location and/or extent of the cancer, or due to patient-specific factors which would make surgery unsafe (for instance, the presence of unrelated medical illnesses such as heart disease or stroke). When squamous cell carcinoma cannot be removed surgically, radiation therapy may serve as an effective alternative treatment. Squamous cell carcinomas are typically very sensitive to radiation, and in some instances radiation therapy may also cure a person of their cancer. While some people may be cured by radiation therapy, not all people are. This study is investigating the combination of radiation therapy and immune therapy. When given together, more patients may be cured of their cancer. Immune therapy is effective for the treatment of squamous cell carcinoma. In clinical trials, more than half of patients benefit from immune therapy. Immune therapy is not chemotherapy. Instead, immune therapy involves the infusion of antibodies which target a person's own immune system. Immune therapy "re-activates" a person's own immune system against their cancer. The treatment offered within this clinical trial includes daily radiation treatments as well as immunotherapy treatments administered once every two weeks. The immunotherapy in use is a drug called Avelumab, which is an antibody that helps your body's immune system fight cancer. Health Canada, the regulatory body that oversees the use of natural health products, drugs and devices in Canada, has not approved the sale or use of this product to treat this kind of cancer, although they have allowed its use in this study

The purpose of this study is to observe and confirm the safety, tolerance and cell pharmacokinetics of lentivirus-transduced CAR-GPC3 T cells (CAR-GPC3 T cells targeting GPC3)

Patients with unresectable or metastatic gastric or esophageal cancer, with first-line treatment applied are to be recruited in the study. In the current study, the efficacy and safety of anlotinib hydrochloride combined with nivolumab as second-line or salvage chemotherapy will be evaluated in Chinese patients with advanced gastric adenocarcinoma and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. 48 patients could provide adequate precision rather than controlling type I&II error.