Dose escalation part: to determine the highest dose of alpelisib administered on a daily basis when given in combination with daily everolimus or in combination with daily everolimus and exemestane.
Dose expansion part: To describe safety and tolerability of the alpelisib and everolimus or alpelisib, everolimus and exemestane combinations.
This study will enroll 100 patients scheduled to undergo a pancreatectomy.
The primary objective is to develop a scoring system using pancreatic volume measured by CT scan and intraoperative measurements of the pancreas parenchyma to predict the onset of diabetes mellitus after a pancreatectomy. The investigators will also monitor patients with pre-existing diabetes to see if their diabetes worsens or improves.
Postoperative fistula is the major complications of distal pancreatectomies which prohibit patients' recovery. Previous studies have reported controversial results regarding the efficacy of pancreatic stump reinforcement methods. Prior research has commonly included minimally invasive and open cases together. Moreover, stapler and suture were combined in most studies making interpretation difficult. Data has shown that staple line plus reinforcement might potentially decrease the CR-POPF rate of patients who underwent distal pancreatectomies, but well-designed high-quality evidence is lacking. Thus, the investigators design the present study to the question that whether routine staple line plus reinforcement would bring benefit for participants.
The aim of this phase II study is to assess the efficacy and safety of sequentially integrated treatment of FOLFIRINOX or Gemcitabine-Abraxane and SBRT in patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer.
This prospective, randomized, open-label and multicenter phase III study is aimed to estimate the survival benefit of Early Palliative Care (EPC) combined with standard oncology care including first-line chemotherapy (experimental arm) over standard oncology care only (standard arm), in patients with metastatic upper gastrointestinal cancers (gastric cancer, pancreatic cancer, biliary tract cancers).
Pancreatic cancer has the most dismal prognosis with a 5-year survival of 8%. The only curative treatment is surgery which is accompanied by great morbidity and mortality. Recent research indicates that Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is superior in detecting liver metastases compared with today's gold standard computed tomography (CT), which usually is a contraindication to surgery.
Investigators want to randomize patients with pancreatic cancer, who are eligible for surgery to a pre-operative MRI. The investigators want to examine if MRI is as good for the staging as CT and if MRI is better for the identification of liver metastases. Patients will have a follow-up period of 1 year to see if MRI changes the overall survival.
This phase II trial tests whether treosulfan, fludarabine, and rabbit antithymocyte globulin (rATG) work when given before a blood or bone marrow transplant (conditioning regimen) to cause fewer complications for patients with bone marrow failure diseases. Chemotherapy drugs, such as treosulfan, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Fludarabine may stop the growth of cancer cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. rATG is used to decrease the body's immune response and may improve bone marrow function and increase blood cell counts. Adding treosulfan to a conditioning regimen with fludarabine and rATG may result in patients having less severe complications after a blood or bone marrow transplant.
The purpose of this study was to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and the recommended dose for future studies of ECO-4601 administered as a continuous IV infusion for 14 days with 7 days recovery (21 day cycle) in patients with histologically confirmed solid tumors (high grade glioma, colorectal, lung, breast, ovarian, pancreatic and prostate). This study was also designed to determine the clinical pharmacokinetic profile, safety of multiple cycles of administration, and document the antitumor activity of ECO-4601.
The main purpose of this study is to determine how best to combine hypofractionated radiotherapy, MEDI4736, and tremelimumab and to determine how safe and tolerable hypofractionated radiotherapy, MEDI4736, and tremelimumab are when given together in subjects with metastatic, melanoma, non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), breast cancer, and pancreatic cancer.
This Phase 1b/2 study will examine the effects of the study drugs, avelumab, binimetinib and talazoparib when given in a 2 (doublet) or 3 (triplet) drug combination, in patients with locally advanced or metastatic RAS-mutant solid tumors. The Phase 1b part of the study will assess if the different study drugs can be given together safely and which doses to use for further research. Phase 2 will test if the study treatments have an effect on tumor size and growth, and gather more information about potential side effects.
