This study is designed to explore the efficacy and safety of anlotinib combined with benmelstobart and AG (nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine) as first-line treatment compared with AG (nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine) in metastatic pancreatic cancer.
NRG1 gene fusions are extremely rare across solid tumours (estimate 0.3-0.5%). However, it is felt to be an actionable and potentially major growth pathway for those tumours that harbour this gene rearrangement. Tumours that harbour NRG1 fusions are driven by HER3 overactivation. Seribantumab is a mono-clonal antibody against HER3, it binds HER3 and inhibits NRG1-dependent activation and HER2 dimerization.
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as gemcitabine, fluorouracil, and cisplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill tumor cells. Giving more than one drug (combination chemotherapy) together with radiation therapy may kill more tumor cells. It is not yet known which treatment regimen is more effective for pancreatic cancer.
PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying gemcitabine, fluorouracil, cisplatin, and radiation therapy to see how well they work compared to gemcitabine alone in treating patients with nonmetastatic pancreatic cancer that cannot be removed by surgery.
This is an open-label, multicenter, randomized, Phase 3 study in patients with ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas who have failed only one prior line of systemic anti-cancer therapy for advanced pancreatic cancer and have measurable disease.
The primary purpose of this study is to determine the safety and recommended dose level (RDL) of BLEX 404 Oral Liquid combined with Gemcitabine monotherapy in a 28-day schedule.The secondary purpose is to assess the efficacy and safety of BLEX 404 Oral Liquid combined with Gemcitabine monotherapy at the recommended dose.
Pain is a major clinical problem for many patients with pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis (CP).In pancreatic cancer, nearly 75% of patients suffer from pain at the time of diagnosis, with over 90% of patients in advanced stages. In CP, pain occurs in 80-90% of patients and strongly affects quality of life. For both conditions, the majority of pain is addressed using the WHO analgesic ladder. However, more invasive pain therapies are often necessary.
Currently, in several centers in the Netherlands, treatment with IV lidocaine is already used in clinical practice in patients with pancreatic cancer and CP. Based on practical experience, the majority of patients benefit from this therapy, however, its efficacy in terms of duration of pain relief, decrease in pain scores, increase in patient satisfaction and adverse events is unknown. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the efficacy of monitored single intravenous infusion in patients with pancreatic cancer and CP.
This first-in-human study will evaluate safety, tolerability, anti-tumor activity, immunogenicity, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of PHN-012, a novel antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), in patients with advanced solid tumors.
This study evaluates a nutritional supplement in the treatment of pancreatic cancer in adults. Half of the participants will receive the nutritional supplement, while the other half will receive a placebo.
This Phase I clinical trial aims to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK) profile and preliminary efficacy of intratumoral injection of Carbon Nanoparticle-Loaded Iron [CNSI-Fe(II)] in patients with advanced solid tumors. The study also aims to observe dose-limiting toxicities (DLT) of CNSI-Fe(II) to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) or the highest injectable dose in humans, providing dosing guidelines for future clinical studies. CNSI-Fe(II) shows promise as an innovative tumor therapeutic agent due to its unique properties of ferroptosis. The study primarily focuses on assessing the potential efficacy of CNSI-Fe(II) in patients with advanced solid tumors, particularly in patients with Kras mutation, e.g., pancreatic cancer patients.
Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) with tissue acquisition (TA) is nowadays a well-established technique for the sampling of solid lesions pancreatic and non-pancreatic lesions. Major complications after EUS-TA of solid masses are rare. Several studies have been published in the last recent years aimed to identify factors related to a non-diagnostic or false-negative EUS-FNA, and to improve its diagnostic yield using different needle gauge and different tissue acquisition technique as fanning technique, slow-pull stylet extraction or suction technique.
To overcome this problem, new EUS-TA needles entered in clinical practice to obtain histological specimens increasing the accuracy of the EUS-TA. Preliminary result with these new needles, called EUS-fine needle biopsy (FNB) are promising with an accuracy rate more than 90%.
Recently, Leungh et al. conducted an observational study to evaluate the role of macroscopic on-site evaluation (MOSE) on the diagnostic accuracy of 22G Franseen-tip needle. The study demonstrated that MOSE using the 22G Franseen tip needle could limit needle passes by accurately estimating histologic core fragments. However, the study limitations such as the small sample size and the lack of control group, hampered the value of the conclusions.
So, nowadays, no definitive data regarding how many needle passes need to be performed with FNB needles, neither regarding the use of MOSE to evaluate the specimens obtained with FNB needle. The MOSE technique of the acquired tissue was proposed for the first time by Iwashita et al, using a 19G needle and is nowadays a well-established technique with high accuracy in the final diagnosis.
The aim of our study is to evaluate if during EUS-FNB of pancreatic masses only one needle pass with MOSE evaluation can be satisfactory to obtain a correct diagnosis.
