Archives: Clinical Trials

Evaluate the safety and efficacy of mesothelin-targeting UCAR-T cells in the treatment of mesothelin-positive advanced pancreatic cancer

Background

Cancer Cachexia (CC) is a multi-factorial process characterized by progressive weight loss, muscle mass and fat tissue wasting, and adversely affecting their quality of life and survival in patients with advanced stage of cancer.

Megestrol acetate (MA), which can help maintain body weight in advanced cancer patients, has not been proven to be effective in improving quality of life or lean body mass. Furthermore, its use is often limited due to various adverse event such as Cushing syndrome, adrenal insufficiency, or thromboembolic risk.

CC has a complex and multi-factorial pathophysiology, and there is no established standard treatment.

Hypothesis CC is irreversible once it occurs and is also difficult to suppress its progression with any single treatment modality.

The investigators hypothesized that a multi-modal intervention comprised of anti-inflammation, omega-3-fatty acids, oral nutritional supplement with counselling by nutritionist, physical exercise, psychiatric intervention as well as Bojungikki-tang which mediates immune-modulation and reverse both of chronic inflammation and wasting condition as a complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) could prevent the development of CC or improve the CC in advanced cancer patients during chemotherapy compared to those who received usual supportive.

This phase Ib trial studies the side effects and best dose of Hsp90 inhibitor XL888 when given together with pembrolizumab in treating patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer that has spread to other places in the body. XL888 may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Monoclonal antibodies, such as pembrolizumab, may block tumor growth in different ways by targeting certain cells. Giving XL888 with pembrolizumab may work better in treating patients with gastrointestinal cancer.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the experimental vaccine &#x0022modified CEA peptide CAP 1 -6D&#x0022 (mCEA) can produce an immune response in patients with pancreatic cancer who have received chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

This is a Phase 1b/2, multi-center study to assess the safety and efficacy of ibrutinib in combination with durvalumab (MEDI4736) in participants with relapsed or refractory solid tumors.

Laparoscopic Ultrasound (LUS) is an important part of the pre-treatment evaluation of patients with upper gastrointestinal tract cancer (esophageal, gastric, pancreatic and liver cancer). When a suspect lesion is visualized during LUS a biopsy should be provided in order to differentiate between benign and malignant lesions. A new system for LUS guided biopsy has been developed, but how often these biopsies are clinically relevant (i.e. changing patient management)and how reliable are these biopsies are unknown.

The study hypothesis is that LUS guided biopsies are accurate and clinically relevant in the pre-treatment evaluation of patients with upper gastrointestinal tract cancer.

This clinical trial is evaluating a drug called HMBD-001 (an anti-HER3 monoclonal antibody) in participants with advanced HER3 positive solid tumours. The main aims are to find out the best dose of HMBD-001 that can be given to participants alone and in combination with other anti-cancer agents, more about the potential side effects of HMBD-001 and how they can be treated, and what happens to HMBD-001 inside the body and how it affects cancer cells.

This study is an exploratory study, and all the drugs involved are listed drugs. The dosage of mirabetron is selected according to the basis of previous research. The clinical recommend dose of this product is 50mg/day, and the dose used in this study is 100mg/day, which is larger than the clinical commonly used dose. The main adverse reactions of this product are urinary tract infection and rapid heartbeat. In the clinical study, we will focus on the urine routine and heart-related adverse events of the subjects, and deal with the adverse events in time.

Subjects were given mirabeeron 100mg/day orally once a day in the morning until disease progression. When there are related or possible related side effects of the study drug mirabeeron, and according to NCI-CTCAE V 5.0, when subjects have more than or equal to grade 3 related toxicity, the administration should be delayed until grade 2 or lower to baseline, and the dose will be reduced by 50%, and subsequent dose increase is not allowed. If the pre-dose criteria are not met within 28 days, the drug will be permanently discontinued.

This research study is studying an intervention as a possible treatment for pancreatic cancer.

AVM Biotechnology, Inc., provides immunomodulatory AVM0703 to solid tumor and blood cancer patients upon request by a US licensed MD or DO. As of July 2024, 37 patients have been treated through this FDA-EAP including patients diagnosed with relapsed or recurring glioblastoma, inoperable/chemotherapy ineligible CNS Squamous Cell Carcinoma, metastatic Breast Cancer, ovarian cancer, gastric cancer, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Mixed Phenotype Acute Myelogenous Leukemia, colon cancer, B-ALL, Malignant Myxoid Spindle Cell Neoplasm, non-small cell lung cancer, DLBCL with CNS involvement, metastatic prostate cancer, Anaplastic T-cell Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and metastatic pancreatic cancer. Drug-related side-effects are predominantly grade 1 and include itching during the infusion and about 1 week of low grade insomnia.