Cardiovascular diseases and cancers, the two leading causes of death in Canada, require cholesterol to sustain their progression. All cells require cholesterol, but cancer cells have much higher needs to sustain growth, division and metastasis. The availability of new cholesterol-lowering drugs developed to protect patients from heart diseases has resulted in unprecedented low levels of cholesterol. The combination of atorvastatin, ezetimibe and Repatha, which are 3 cholesterol-lowering drugs used in combination, is safe, well tolerated and efficient over years of treatment. Recent reports indicate that abundant cholesterol supplies are required to sustain the progression of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas. This proof-of-concept study aims to verify the feasibility, the acceptability and gain preliminary data on adding a cholesterol shortage on top of FOLFIRINOX (standard chemotherapy) in newly diagnosed patients with locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinomas or metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinomas. It is expected that a drug-induced cholesterol shortage will slow-down or stop the progression of pancreatic adenocarcinomas while increasing the response to chemotherapy.
This is a single-center, single-arm, open-label, phase 2 clinical study, to explore the efficacy and safety of surufatinib combined with sintilimab and AG in first-line therapy of patients with locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer.
This research study is evaluating a new type of pancreatic cancer vaccine called "Personalized Neoantigen Cancer Vaccine" as a possible treatment for pancreatic cancer patients following surgical resection and adjuvant chemotherapy. The purpose of the clinical study is evaluating the safety, tolerability and partial efficacy of the personalized neoantigen cancer vaccine in the treatment of resectable pancreatic cancer, so as to provide a new personalized therapeutic strategy.
It is known that cancer patients have mutations (changes in genetic material) that are specific to an individual patient and tumor. These mutations can cause the tumor cells to produce proteins that appear very different from the body's own cells. It is possible that these proteins used in a vaccine may induce strong immune responses, which may help the participant's body fight any tumor cells that could cause the cancer to come back in the future. The study will examine the safety of the vaccine when given at several different time points and will examine the participant's blood cells for signs that the vaccine induced an immune response.
This is a Phase I/II , Open-label , Investigator-initiated Trail of liposomal irinotecan,nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine as First-line Treatment in Advanced pancreatic cancer. The study was designed in two stages, the first stage was the tolerance observation stage, and the second stage was the curative effect expansion stage.
The first part of the study is the Dose-finding Phase designed to establish the safety of nab-paclitaxel，gemcitabine and liposomal irinotecan at different dose Levels(40 mg/m2, iv. q2w or 60 mg/m2, iv. q2w). The second part of the study is the Expansion Phase designed to generate additional clinical data at specified doses .
This study aims to evaluate the safety and efficacy of liposomal irinotecan，nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine in the First-line treatment of advanced pancreatic cancer.
Pancreatic cancer remains a devastating disease with an average 5-year survival rate of about 3-5%. Previous retrospective studies showed that perioperative epidural block and/or dexamethasone are associated with improved outcome after cancer surgery. This randomized trial aims to investigate the effect of perioperative epidural block and/or dexamethasone on long-term survival in patients following pancreatic cancer surgery.
For patients with unresectable locally advanced pancreatic cancer, the combined use of external-beam radiation therapy (EBRT) and systemic chemotherapy of 5-FU has been widely recognized as the most effective chemoradiotherapy approach.But most patients succumb to local recurrence and metastasis after treatment, and the prognosis remains poor On the basis of the development and superiority of the interstitial brachytherapy and the radiosensitizing effect of gemcitabine, we performed a clinical study to explore the interaction of improved I-125 brachytherapy and gemcitabine and compare the regimen to the standard gemcitabine treatment specifically in patients with non-metastatic, unresectable pancreatic cancer.
This study will develop a whole-of-body markerless tracking method for measuring the motion of the tumour and surrounding organs during radiation therapy to enable real-time image guidance.
Routinely acquired patient data will be used to improve the training, testing and accuracy of a whole-of-body markerless tracking method. When the markerless tracking method is sufficiently advanced, according to the PI of each of the data collection sites, the markerless tracking method will be run in parallel to, but not intervening with, patient treatments during data acquisition.
A study to evaluate AGS-1C4D4 administered in combination with Gemcitabine chemotherapy in subjects with Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer.
Nimotuzumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody against epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). Clinical trials are ongoing globally to evaluate Nimotuzumab in different indications. Nimotuzumab has been approved to treat squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck (SCCHN), glioma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma in different countries.The clinical phase Ⅲ trial designed to assess overall survival（OS）of the combination of Nimotuzumab administered concurrently with Gemcitabine in patients with RAS wild type of locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer
RATIONALE: Sorafenib and pemetrexed may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Sorafenib may also stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking blood flow to the tumor. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cisplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving sorafenib together with pemetrexed and cisplatin may kill more tumor cells.
PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of sorafenib when given together with pemetrexed and cisplatin in treating patients with advanced solid tumors.
