Archives: Clinical Trials

A study to evaluate AGS-1C4D4 administered in combination with Gemcitabine chemotherapy in subjects with Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer.

This study is an open-label, international, multi-center, Phase 2 study in adult patients with recurrent, locally-advanced or metastatic solid tumors, which harbor the NRG1 gene fusion.

The MASPAC trial investigates the added benefit of MR-guided adaptive SBRT of the primary tumor embedded between standard chemotherapy cycles for pain control and prevention of pain in patients with metastatic PDAC (mPDAC).

This study will test the effectiveness (anti-tumor activity), safety, and ability to increase the body's immune system to fight pancreatic cancer by combining standard chemotherapy before and after surgery, with study drug PD-1 antibody, pembrolizumab, with and without study drug, focal adhesion kinase inhibitor (FAK), defactinib, in people with &#x0022high risk&#x0022 resectable (surgically removable) pancreatic cancer. The purpose of this study is to evaluate if reprograming the tumor microenvironment by targeting FAK following chemotherapy can potentiate anti-programmed death-1 (PD-1) antibody.

The study is being conducted to: a) evaluate the tolerability and safety of the co-administration of Fluzoparib and FOLFIRINOX in patients with resectable pancreatic cancer, and establish a maximum tolerated dose and recommended phase II dose of the combination and b) assess the efficacy of the co-administration of Fluzoparib and FOLFIRINOX in patients with resectable pancreatic cancer.

This Pilot Study will evaluate a 12-week pilot program that offers digital health coaching for individuals with pancreatic cancer and their caregivers.

Pancreatic cancer is a highly lethal malignant tumor of the digestive tract, especially local advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC), which often loses the opportunity for surgical resection at the time of diagnosis. LAPC patients are often accompanied by tumor invasion of key anatomical structures such as major blood vessels, and traditional treatment methods such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy can slow down the progression of the disease, but the effect is limited, and the overall survival rate is still very low. There is a lack of effective treatment options for LAPC, especially in local control and prolonging survival, which exists a major limitation.

The surgical resection rate is low in LAPC, and the postoperative recurrence rate is high, and traditional radiotherapy and chemotherapy are difficult to completely eliminate the tumor. Immunotherapy has achieved breakthroughs in other tumors such as melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer, but the effect is limited in pancreatic cancer due to the immunosuppressive state of the tumor microenvironment (TME), which limits the efficacy of immunotherapy. In addition, the high invasiveness and rapid progression of pancreatic cancer further aggravates the treatment challenge.

Recent studies have shown that local ablation techniques such as irreversible electroporation (IRE) ablation not only can effectively ablate local tumors, but also may destroy the structural integrity of tumor cells, release tumor-associated antigens, and enhance the anti-tumor effect of the immune system. Therefore, IRE ablation may provide local control of pancreatic cancer for patients. At the same time, the combination of immune checkpoint inhibitors such as anti-PD(L)1 inhibitors may enhance the immune response in the tumor microenvironment and further improve the therapeutic effect. This combined treatment regimen is expected to overcome the limitations of single therapy and provide a new treatment strategy for local advanced pancreatic cancer.

This phase I trial studies the side effects and best dose of ropidoxuridine in treating patients with gastrointestinal cancer that has spread to other places in the body and usually cannot be cured or controlled with treatment undergoing radiation therapy. Ropidoxuridine may help radiation therapy work better by making tumor cells more sensitive to the radiation therapy.

The goal of the IMPACT project is to set up a data sharing infrastructure between expert centers for pancreatic surgery that enables training, testing and validation of computer science tools to improve quality of care for patients with pancreatic cancer.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the use of an FDA approved endoscopic bipolar catheter (EndoHPB) will ablate tissue in malignant tumors within the pancreatic ducts.