Archives: Clinical Trials

The purpose of this study is to determine whether simvastatin is effective in the treatment of advanced pancreatic cancer patients.

Pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) is a complex procedure performed in patients with malignant or benign tumors of the pancreatic head and periampullary region, associated with high morbidity and mortality. Postoperative pancreatic fistula (POPF) is the most common and clinically significant complication following PD. In this study, the investigators aim to determine the predictive risk factors for clinically related postoperative pancreatic fistula (CR-POPF) in the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative period in patients that underwent PD. The total number of 100 participants expected to be included in this research who underwent PD between 2025 and 2026.

This study evaluates four different doses of ACIT-1 for safety and for the ability to raise effective anti-cancer immune responses in patients with pancreatic and other cancers. Approximately half of the patients will have pancreatic cancer and the other half will have other cancers.

To evaluate the safety and efficacy of chemotherapy with or without enoxaparin. This study is powered to decrease the DVT/ VTE events rate from 10% to 3% with enoxaparin in the experimental arm.

N=540pts, dropout-rate 15%, power 80 %, two sided, significant level 5%

TC-510 is a novel cell therapy that consists of autologous genetically engineered T cells expressing two synthetic constructs: first, a single-domain antibody that recognizes human Mesothelin, fused to the CD3-epsilon subunit which, upon expression, is incorporated into the endogenous T cell receptor (TCR) complex and second, a PD-1:CD28 switch receptor, which is expressed on the surface of the T cell, independently from the TCR. The PD-1:CD28 switch receptor comprises the PD-1 extracellular domain fused to the CD28 intracellular domain via a transmembrane domain. Thus, the switch is designed to produce a costimulatory signal upon engagement with PD-L1 on cancer cells.

Celiac plexus neurolysis (CPN) has been performed for nearly 100 years to alleviate the abdominal pain associated with pancreatic malignancy and other conditions, and is usually undertaken at a late stage in the disease process, when analgesic options have been largely exhausted or have led to significant and often unacceptable side effects. Until recently, CPN was most commonly performed under radiographic guidance; however, in the last 10 years, CPN has been routinely performed under endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) guidance. Several case series have demonstrated the efficacy and safety of this technique when used to treat the pain associated with pancreatic malignancy and/or chronic pancreatitis. However, the efficacy of EUS-guided CPN in the treatment of pain related to non-pancreatic malignancies has yet to be described. The goal of this study is to assess the efficacy of EUS-guided CPN in the management of pain in patients with abdominal non-pancreatic malignancies. Our hypothesis is that EUS-guided CPN will provide adequate pain relief in these patients.

The main purpose of Part A of the study is to evaluate safety, tolerability and tracer uptake after a single intravenous (IV) administration of [68Ga]Ga-DPI-4452 for each tumor type such as clear cell renal cell cancer (ccRCC), pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), and colorectal cancer (CRC); Part B: is to determine the recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) [maximum tolerated dose (MTD) or lower dose] for [177Lu]Lu-DPI-4452 for each tumor type such as ccRCC, PDAC, CRC, and urothelial carcinoma (UC); Part C: is to evaluate the preliminary antitumor activity of [177Lu]Lu-DPI-4452 as monotherapy for each tumor type such as ccRCC, PDAC, CRC, and UC; Part D: is to assess the diagnostic concordance between [68Ga]Ga-DPI-4452 Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and the histopathology result of the Indeterminate Renal Mass (IDRM); Part E: is to assess [68Ga]Ga-DPI-4452 uptake in each tumour type such as UC, muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC), head and neck cancer (H&N), triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and any other tumor with locally confirmed carbonic anhydrase (CA) IX expression except ccRCC, CRC and PDAC.

This is an open-label, multi-center phase II clinical study consisting of two parts:

Part I: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of AK130 combined with AK112 in advanced pancreatic cancer.

Part II: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of AK112, either as monotherapy or in combination with AK130, in advanced pancreatic cancer.

VARTUTRACE is a first-in-human PET/CT molecular imaging study in patients with solid tumors. This study will investigate the biodistribution and pharmacology of two antibody fragments binding oncofetal Chondroitin Sulfate (CS).

Oncofetal CS are tumor-specific carbohydrate motifs present in proteoglycans and identified by VAR2 Pharmaceuticals as expressed during fetal development. Oncofetal CS reappears in the vast majority of cancers while remaining largely absent from normal tissues.

VAR2 Pharmaceuticals recently developed antibodies specific for oncofetal CS. VARTUTRACE uses two of these as radiolabeled antibody fragments to study biodistribution, tumor accumulation, pharmacodynamics and clearance pathways in a diverse patient population.

Short-term relapse and poor survival are prevalent in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PAAD) after surgeries. Despite the importance of adjuvant treatments for resected PAAD patients, there is currently no suitable biomarker to identify those individuals with high risk of recurrence and inform therapeutic decision making. In this study, we aim to examine whether postoperative circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) could be used as a biomarker for early detection of minimal residual disease (MRD) and predicting relapse in resected PAAD through high-depth targeted next-generation sequencing.