Active clinical trials for "Stomach Neoplasms"

The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of combination therapy with ramucirumab, paclitaxel, and trastuzumab biosimilar as second line treatment of HER2 positive metastatic gastric cancer after failure of first line chemotherapy including trastuzumab. This study is a phase II, single-arm, open label, multi-center study.

This study aims to identify the safety and the survival benefit of the conversion surgery in stage IV or unresectable gastric cancer. The study designed single-arm phase II trial. All the patients would undergo curative-intent radical gastrectomy after palliative chemotherapy if the tumor responded to the chemotherapy. Primary endpoint was three-year overall survival. Secondary endpoints included short-term postoperative outcomes within 30 days, three-year relapse free survival, and success rate of conversion surgery (rate of R0 resection).

The study aims to compare the efficacy and safety of S-1 for 6 months versus S-1 for 1 year as adjuvant chemotherapy after D2 resection in patients with gastric cancer. Hypothesis: For gastric patients after D2 resection, S-1 for 6 months shows non-inferiority to S-1 for 1 year in disease free survival(DFS), overall survival (OS) and safety.

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a double-stranded DNA human gamma herpes virus that establishes a persistent infection in over 90% of individuals. Most infections are self-limiting, but some cases are associated with the development of malignancies of lymphoid or epithelial origin. EBV-associated gastric carcinomas (EBVaGC) make up about 9% of all stomach cancers. The constant presence of the viral genome in EBVaGC suggests the applicability of novel EBV-targeted therapies. The antiviral nucleoside drug, (val)ganciclovir (GCV), is effective only in the context of the viral lytic cycle in the presence of EBV-encoded thymidine kinase (TK)/ protein kinase (PK) expression. JM Lee et al. reported that gemcitabine was lytic inducer via activation of the ATM/p53 genotoxic stress pathway in EBVaGC and confirmed the efficacy of gemcitabine-GCV combination treatment. So we planned this proof of concept trial to apply the antiviral agent in EBVaGC.

The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of lidocaine on the total administered dose of fentanyl during sedation for endoscopic mucosal resection. The secondary purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of lidocaine on pain score related with endoscopic mucosal resection at time of 30 min, 6 hr, and 24 hr after procedure.

Erythromycin has a prokinetic effect through Motilin receptor. It evokes migrating motor complex with longer and stronger contraction. In patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding, It has been shown that erythromycin could clear the stomach of blood, so visual examination could be improved. Frequent food stasis is encounted when we examine patients with subtotal gastrectomy. It is postulated that erythromycin reduce food stasis and help to improve endoscopy in these cases.

RATIONALE: Diagnostic procedures, such as endoscopic ultrasound, may help doctors learn the extent of stomach cancer or esophageal cancer. PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying how well endoscopic ultrasound works in diagnosing cancer in patients with localized stomach cancer or esophageal cancer.

A phase I/II study is conducted to determine the maximum-tolerated dose (MTD), dose-limiting toxicity (DLT), and efficacy of a combination chemotherapy using CPT-11 and Paclitaxel in pre-treated patients with metastatic gastric cancer. The usefulness of the this regimen is evaluated by response rate, median survival time, and progression free survival.

The aim of EP0057 - 202 is to assess the safety and efficacy of EP0057 in combination with Olaparib (a PARP inhibitor) in two cancers where there is a high unmet need: extensive stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and ATM-negative gastric cancer (GC). EP0057-202 is a non-comparative, multi-arm, multi-centre, open label, Phase 2 study to determine the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of EP0057 in combination with olaparib (an approved PARP inhibitor) in defined patient populations with relapsed* GC and SCLC. *(see Eligibility Criteria for definition of "relapse" for each tumour type/population) The treatment cohorts will open sequentially at the Sponsor's discretion and patients may be enrolled into each cohort concurrently. EP0057 is an investigational nanoparticle-drug conjugate administered intravenously. The rationale for developing EP0057 is to enable selective entry of EP0057 into tumour tissue and as a result create preferential accumulation of EP0057, and therefore of the payload Camptothecin, to translate into maximum tumour cell killing.

This protocol is a screening protocol only. No drug intervention study will be included in this protocol. However, based on the molecular profiling, patients may be eligible for targeted agents. However, the molecular profiling doesn't guarantee the enrollment onto the clinical trial. Currently, the available drugs are AKT inhibitor, MEK inhibitor, Wee1 inhibitor, MET inhibitor. ATR inhibitor and other agents may be available in the context of clinical trials depending on the availability.