Archives: Clinical Trials

This phase 1 trial will investigate the toxicity of combining interleukin 12 gene therapy with standard chemotherapy in metastatic pancreatic cancer.

The goal of this clinical trial is to explore the value of molecular residual disease (MRD) monitoring based on ctDNA in advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer. The main questions it aims to answer are:

* prognostic value of baseline MRD;
* the role of MRD dynamic changes after treatment in guiding treatment. Peripheral blood derived from participants will be obtained for MRD test before first-line chemotherapy initiation and at the first imaging assessment after chemotherapy.

This randomized clinical trial studies a cognitive-behavioral intervention to treat worry, uncertainty, and insomnia in cancer survivors. Counseling may reduce anxiety and insomnia as well as improve the well-being and quality of life of cancer survivors. This study also explores the neuro-immunologic correlates of anxiety and insomnia.

Pancreas cancer and precancerous cysts can be difficult to diagnose. Sometimes biopsies do not show cancer when cancer is actually present. We hypothesize that genetic differences exist in tissue that is malignant compared to nonmalignant. When patients present with a pancreas mass or cyst, we biopsy it by fine-needle aspiration during upper endoscopy with ultrasound guidance. We would like to use tissue obtained via endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration to perform DNA microarray analysis, and compare the differences in gene expression level in the benign tissue compared to cancerous tissue in order to improve our diagnostic capabilities. DNA microarray measures gene expression level rather than germline mutations. The true diagnosis will be based on cytology, surgical pathology, or clinical followup. The performance of the microarray test as a diagnostic test will be compared to the performance of cytology.

BOLD-100 is an intravenously administered sterile solution containing the ruthenium-based small molecule. BOLD-100 has been shown to preferentially decrease the expression of GRP78 in tumour cells and ER stressed cells when compared to normal cells. BOLD-100 will be combined with cytotoxic FOLFOX chemotherapy in this study, with a dose escalation cohort to ensure tolerability and safety, followed by a cohort expansion phase.

Endoscopic ultrasound and fine needle aspiration are useful tools for the diagnosis and staging of pancreatic cancer. One potential limitation is contamination when needle traverses the gastrointestinal tract under continuous negative pressure. Gastrointestinal tract contamination can lead to misinterpretation of FNA specimens. We propose a technique to eliminate any remaining negative pressure during EUS-FNA and therefore decrease gastrointestinal tract contamination. Our hypothesis is that briefly untwisting the syringe from the biopsy channel after a specimen is obtained eliminates any remaining negative pressure in the FNA needle and therefore reduces GI tract contamination of EUS-FNA specimens, and will lead to improved diagnostic accuracy of this important clinical technique.

The goal of this project is to determine if EUS-CPN without Bupivacaine (versus EUS-CPN with Bupivacaine) can reduce pain scores and improve quality of life in patients with inoperable pancreatic cancer by reducing the morbidity due to narcotic side effects (e.g. nausea, excessive sedation, constipation).

Primary Objectives are to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD)/recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) of ZN-c3 and ZN-c3 and bevacizumab or ZN-c3 and bevacizumab plus pembrolizumab in metastatic CCNE1 amplified and TP53 mutant solid tumors as well to evaluate antitumor activity of ZN-c3 and bevacizumab or ZN-c3 and bevacizumab plus pembrolizumab in metastatic CCNE1 amplified and TP53 mutant solid tumors.

This is a randomized trial to compare the standard echoendoscope with the newly developed EndoSound Visual System in the evaluation of lesions in the gastrointestinal tract.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a novel RAS(ON) inhibitor compared to standard(s) of care (SOC) treatment.