All clinical trials

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Apatinib in combination with Gefitinib as compared to placebo in combination with Gefitinib in participants with stage ⅢB-IV Non-squamous non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) harboring an activating epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation (Del19 and L858R). Safety and tolerability of Apatinib in combination with Gefitinib will be assessed in the first portion (Part A) before proceeding to the second portion of this study (Part B).

Patients with unresectable liver metastases (LM) from colorectal cancer (CRC)have a poor prognosis. In patients with resectable disease, surgery offers a distinct survival benefit. This study will offer live donor liver transplantation (LDLT) to select patients with unresectable metastases that are 1) limited to the liver and 2) stable (non-progressing) on standard chemotherapy. Potential participants will be evaluated for liver transplant suitability and must also have a willing, healthy living donor come forward for evaluation. Those participants who undergo LDLT will be followed for survival, disease-free survival and quality of life for 5 years and compared to a "control group" of participants who drop out of study prior to transplantation due to reasons other than cancer progression.

This phase II trial studies how well blinatumomab, inotuzumab ozogamicin, and combination chemotherapy work as frontline therapy in treating patients with B acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as blinatumomab, may induce changes in the body's immune system and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Inotuzumab ozogamicin is a monoclonal antibody, called inotuzumab, linked to a toxic agent called ozogamicin. Inotuzumab attaches to CD22 positive cancer cells in a targeted way and delivers ozogamicin to kill them. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cyclophosphamide, vincristine sulfate, doxorubicin hydrochloride, dexamethasone, cytarabine, mercaptopurine, methotrexate, and prednisone work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Giving blinatumomab, inotuzumab ozogamicin, and combination chemotherapy may work better in treating patients with B acute lymphoblastic leukemia than chemotherapy alone.

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of S-1 plus Oxaliplatin versus S-1 only as adjuvant chemotherapy after curative distal gastrectomy in patients with locally advanced gastric cancer.

The study will be conducted in two steps: Determination of the Minimal Effective Dose (MED) among the four doses of the panel Estimation of the probability of response associated to the MED. Each step has a main objective: Step 1 Objective: To determine a daily dose of Riluzole that improves spasticity in patients with chronic SCI Step 2 Objective: To demonstrate, in a phase 2b trial, the efficacy of Riluzole to improve spasticity vs placebo, in patients with chronic SCI.

Tracheal occlusion IDE approved by FDA for congenital diaphragmatic hernia fetuses.

The purpose of this study is to compare standard treatment and fusion ontogenetic surgery (total mesometrial resection, laterally extended endopelvic resection, peritoneal mesometrial resection) for gynecologic cancer in order to evaluate treatment response, adverse effect and survival.

MERLIN is an adaptive, single arm, multi-centre, phase IIa multi-disease clinical trial. It is designed to: i) Determine dose safety of ORBCEL-C™ (selected Mesenchymal stromal cells derived from human umbilical cord) ii) Evaluate treatment activity through assessment of biomarkers (for patients treated at the highest safe dose only (HSD)) This trial will determine the Highest Safe Dose (HSD) that can be administered by observing for occurrence of dose limiting toxicity (DLT). Upon completion of this trial we hope to be able to justify and conduct separate, larger scale trials using ORBCEL-C™.

This phase II/III trial studies the side effects of nivolumab and ipilimumab when given together with or without sargramostim and to see how well they work in treating patients with stage III-IV melanoma that cannot be removed by surgery (unresectable) and that may have spread from where it first started to nearby tissue, lymph nodes, or distant parts of the body (advanced). Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as ipilimumab and nivolumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Colony-stimulating factors, such as sargramostim, may increase the production of white blood cells. It is not yet known whether nivolumab and ipilimumab are more effective with or without sargramostim in treating patients with melanoma.

This study evaluates the effectiveness of repositioning techniques and neck stretching exercises in comparison to cranial orthotic devices (COD) in correcting plagiocephaly in infants.