Active clinical trials for "Thymus Neoplasms"

This is a multicentric study. All patients with TET (thymic epithelial tumors) of any histological type will participate in the study. This is an open-label phase 2 study that will follow a Green-Dahlberg 2-stage design whose objective is to evaluate the activity and safety of the combination of ramucirumab (10 mg / kg) + carboplatin (AUC 5) and paclitaxel (200 mg / m2) in patients with relapsed and / or metastatic thymic carcinoma/ thymoma B3, in the first line (RELEVENT trial).

This research study can help understand how cardiac changes may occur with radiation therapy to the heart based off measurements obtained through biomarkers and cardiac imaging. Researchers plan to perform cardiac imaging and biomarkers for any cardiac injury. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) provides the ability to quantitatively measure cardiac function and injury. The cardiac biomarkers that will be tested are effective in the diagnosis, risk-stratification, and monitoring of heart failure.

Background: - Imaging studies like positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) scans are used to detect tumor responses to cancer treatment. However, it may be difficult to detect early response to lung cancer or thymoma treatment with standard PET/CT scans. These scans cannot easily show a difference between remaining cancer cells and inflammation. Researchers want to try a new PET/CT scan tracer that may be able to show the difference between these cells. 18F-Fluorothymidine (18F-FLT) is better at showing which cells are still actively dividing. PET/CT scans with 18F-FLT may help show if tumor cells are responding to early stages of treatment. Objectives: - To see if 18F-FLT is a safe and effective imaging study tracer to show early cancer response to treatment. Eligibility: - Individuals at least 18 years of age who are being treated for lung cancer or thymoma. Design: Participants will be screened with a physical exam and medical history. Blood, urine, and tumor tissue samples will be collected. Participants will have two PET/CT scans on separate days before starting chemotherapy. One scan will be with a standard radiotracer. The other will be with the 18F-FLT tracer. About 2 weeks after starting chemotherapy, participants will repeat the two PET/CT scans on separate days. Additional blood samples will be collected at this time.

Study to investigate response to sunitinib in patients with thymic epithelial tumours who had progressive disease after at least one previous regimen of platinum-based chemotherapy.

This is a phase II single center, open-label, single arm study of palbociclib treatment in patients with recurrent or metastatic advanced TETs after failure of one or more cytotoxic chemotherapy regimens. Patients will receive oral palbociclib 125mg daily for 21days followed by a 7-day break. Cycle will be repeated every 28 days.

This is a Phase II single center, open-label, single arm study in patients with unresectable thymic epithelial tumors (Masaoka stage III, IVA). Patients will be treated with Pembrolizumab 200 mg, Docetaxel 75mg/m2, Cisplatin 75mg/m2 every 3 weeks for 3 cycles and will be evaluated for the operability. Patients with R0 resection will receive pembrolizumab 200mg for 32 cycles. Patient who had R1 resection will receive radiation 52.8Gy/24Fx with pembrolizumab 200mg for 32 cycles. Patients who had R2 resection will receive radiation 59.4Gy/27Fx with pembrolizumab 200mg for 32 cycles. Patients who showed non-progressive disease (PD) to initial neoadjuvant therapy but remained unresectable will receive radiation 59.4Gy/27Fx with 200mg for 32 cycles. Otherwise patients are off the study.

Background: - People who have cancer have more medical problems if they smoke. Some studies show that smoking even makes cancer treatment less effective. Researchers want to teach people about how tobacco use affects people after a cancer diagnosis. They want to come up with questions for people who have cancer and who have survived cancer. The questions will be about using cigarettes and other tobacco products and about second-hand smoke. The questions will be used to understand how using tobacco affects people with cancer before, during, and after treatment. This will help doctors plan how to treat people with cancer and create programs to help people quit smoking in the future. Objective: - To evaluate and refine questions that assess tobacco use. Eligibility: - Adults age 21 or older who have cancer or are cancer survivors. The cancer can be at any site and any stage. Design: This study will take about 1 hour. Participants will meet one-on-one with an interviewer. They will fill out a questionnaire and talk about the questions. Participants will explain how easy or hard it was to answer the questions and how they decided on their answers. All participants will be asked the same or very similar questions. Specific questions will be based on the participants own experiences with tobacco products. There will be no follow-up activities.

Although the association between thymic hyperplasia / thymoma and autoimmune myasthenia gravis has been known for some time, the question of causality remains uncertain. Recent research findings indicate, however, that especially in myasthenia patients with thymomas a non-physiological export of naive CD4 + T-cells can take place by the tumour and this could possibly play an important role in the pathogenesis of myasthenia gravis. The investigators want to analyse the functionality and specificity of t-cells generated in thymomas as well as the effect of thymectomy on the immune system.

We hope to determine the importance of different genes (including B receptors) in anthracycline-induced cardiomyopathy. This has important benefits to patients exposed to anthracyclines, as this could help determine whether certain individuals have increased susceptibility to cardiac injury.

Initially investigators will find LncRNA which to be able to affect Notch2 signaling pathway; then confirm the relationship between Notch2 and LncRNA, and analysis the regulation mode of LncRNA to Notch2 signaling pathway, and to observe the correlation between LncRNA and thymoma complicated with autoimmune diseases.