The aim of this study is to investigate those nutritional problems contributing to loss of lean body mass in lung and pancreas cancer patients in chemotherapy. Furthermore to investigate alterations in taste and how they correlates with changes in following factors: nutritional intake, physical activity, appetite, food preferences, side effects, fatique and meal perception.
Interleukin-12 may kill tumor cells by stopping blood flow to the tumor and by stimulating a person's white blood cells to kill cancer cells. Monoclonal antibodies such as trastuzumab can locate tumor cells and either kill them or deliver tumor-killing substances to them without harming normal cells. Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of interleukin-12 and trastuzumab in treating patients who have cancer that has high levels of HER2/neu and has not responded to previous therapy
In patients with pancreatic cancer, older age, multiple comorbidities, frailty, malnutrition and poor functional status are common, especially in individuals receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy. These characteristics represent potentially modifiable risk factors for poor postoperative outcomes.
The goal of this clinical randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the extent to which a four-week multimodal prehabilitation program impacts on postoperative morbidity, functional and nutritional status and health-related quality of life in patients with localized pancreatic or periampullary cancer scheduled for curative surgery.
In addition, the impact of prehabilitation on circulating sarcopenia and cancer cachexia biomarkers in PDAC patients will be explored.
Included patients will be randomized (ratio 1:1) and allocated either to the intervention group (Multimodal Prehabilitation), which will receive prehabilitation, or to the control group, which will receive no prehabilitation.
Long-term survival for patients with pancreatic carcinoma is low, even following resection, the 5-year survival rate of patients ranges from 10 to 25%1. Most treatment failure is due to local recurrence, distant metastasis or both within one to two years after surgery2-4.
Surgery has been suggested to accelerate the development of preexisting micro metastases and to promote the establishment of new metastases5. Release of catecholamine and proinflammatory products secondary to surgical stress is believed to promote cancer progression6. Maintenance of proper anesthetic depth is beneficial to attenuate surgical stress. However, general anesthesia including numerous induction agents, volatile anesthetics and opioids, is associated with immunosuppression especially on the cell-mediated immunity which has a crucial role in prevention of micrometastasis5,7. Therefore, regional anesthesia and analgesia which effectively attenuating surgical stress while efficiently reducing general anesthetics consumption, seem to provide promising advantages to prevent perioperative cancer progression. Currently, most studies available in humans are retrospective and observational to evaluate regional anesthesia and prostate, colorectal, breast and cervical cancer-related outcomes8-12. Only one randomized study investigating major abdominal cancer surgery is available13. However, it is not specific to an individual cancer type and perioperative cell-mediated immunity is not evaluated.
In this study, we aimed to identify whether epidural block beneficial to early surgical and late cancer-related outcomes in patients receiving pancreatic cancer surgery. Perioperative cell-mediated immunity functions including natural killer cells, helper and cytotoxic T-lymphocytes were also investigated.
This research is designed to determine if experimental treatment with PARP1 inhibitor, VB15010 is safe, tolerable, and has anti-cancer activity in patients with advanced solid tumors.
ACP-196 Alone and in Combination with Pembrolizumab in Subjects with Advanced or Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
This is a single-centre, non-randomized, open label phase II trial to be conducted at the National Cancer Centre, Singapore (NCCS). Patients diagnosed with metastatic PDAC will be eligible to enrol.
The investigators hypothesize the anticancer activity of low dose OXIRI (LD-OXIRI) regimen comprising of metronomic oxaliplatin (O) and metronomic capecitabine (xeloda; X) in combination with UGT1A1-directed dosing of irinotecan (IRI) to be a tolerable regimen in patients with advanced PDAC and will lead to a favourable response rate.
Patients will be prospectively enrolled in two stages – In stage 1, patients will be recruited and evaluated for response and toxicity. In stage 2, more patients will be recruited for further evaluation of response and toxicity.
Rational:Pancreatic cancer is a systemic disease at the time of diagnosis, even among patients with apparent localized disease. Surgical resection is the only potentially curative therapy for pancreatic cancer, but in patients who undergo surgery and postoperative therapy, metastatic relapse remains common and no more than 20% of patients achieve 5-year survival.
Because of this aggressive biologic behavior, an increasing interest is growing about preoperative treatments in resectable pancreatic cancer.
The combination chemotherapeutic regimen with irinotecan + 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)/leucovorin (LV) + oxaliplatin (FOLFIRINOX) is an effective choice for first line treatment in patients affected by advanced pancreatic cancer, and in this setting it achieved a Disease Control Rate of 70.2 % (10). In this regard, FOLFIRINOX is currently explored as preoperative regimen in a number of clinical trials in resectable pancreatic cancer.
A critical challenge in this field remains the introduction in these combination treatments of the most novel and effective agents such as nalIRI, in order to obtain a more profound tumor shrinkage, to increase the rate of R0 resections, to allow an early treatment of occult micrometastatic disease, and eventually, to improve survival in patients with resectable pancreatic cancer.
This study proposal is designed to address this challenge. Preliminary results, collected during the Part 1 Dose Escalation of a current clinical trial performed in mPDAC, show that dose of nal-IRI: 60 mg/m2, Oxaliplatin: 60 mg/m2, 5-FU/LV: 2400/400 mg/m2 is safe.
Fibrinogen/thrombin-coated collagen patch (TachoSil®) is known to have the effect of strengthening tissue anastomosis and promoting suturing to prevent leakage. The purpose of this study is to compare the incidence of pancreatic fistula that is most crucial for surgical outcome and complications in pancreaticoduodenectomy with those of the control group and the TachoSil® apply group.
Patients who were planned to undergo pancreaticoduodenectomy without a history of chronic pancreatitis are enrolled in this open-label, single-center, randomized, single-blind, phase 4 clinical trial.
This is a randomized trial to evaluate and directly compare the tissue quality, diagnostic sucess and safety profile of four different Fine Needle Biopsy needles.
