Patients with advanced colorectal cancer or pancreatic cancer who are receiving oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy will be included. The research participants in this study will consume probiotics along with safety and anti-cancer agent side effect-related questionnaires, blood, and fecal sample collection for up to 12 weeks from the date of registration. The total duration of participation for research subjects is 12 weeks.
This study is designed to explore the efficacy and safety of surufatinib combined with camrelizumab and AS (nab-paclitaxel and S-1) as first-line treatment compared with AG (nab-paclitaxel and gemcitabine) in unresectable advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer.
This study is designed to investigate the means by which cancer resists treatment can be overcome by a combination of an established anticancer drug, trametinib, with hydroxychloroquine.
The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy, safety and tolerability of MLN0264 in patients with advanced or metastatic guanylyl cyclase C (GCC)-positive adenocarcinoma of the pancreas.
The purpose of this research study is to determine the effects and toxicity of gemcitabine alone or gemcitabine plus enzastaurin in participants with pancreatic cancer.
Pancreatic fistula (PF) represents the Achille's heel of pancreatic surgery and is the main cause of postoperative morbidity since it can determine the onset of others complications such as abdominal abscesses, surgical wound infections, sepsis and bleeding, that can sometimes be fatal.
During a previous study conducted at the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome, Department of General Surgery there were identified cut-offs of amylase levels on the abdominal drainage fluid dosed in I postoperative day (POD1) and III postoperative day (POD3) which can significantly predict PF and in particular clinically relevant fistulas as well as abdominal collections and biliary fistulas, if related to some specific findings of the abdominal CT routine performed in POD3.
The aim of this research project is to validate the cut-offs of the amylase levels on drainage fluid identified during the previous research in order to identify patients at risk of clinically relevant PF and to validate the use of abdomen CT without contrast in POD3 in patients with increased risk of biliary fistula.
Diagnostic assessment of solid pancreatic lesions may represent a real challenge in the clinical practice, even with the aid of tissue sampling by means of endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) fine needle aspiration (FNA).
Aim of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) is to establish the diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of real time elastography (RTE)-guided EUS-FNA as compared to conventional EUS-FNA in a series of patients with solid pancreatic masses.
Eligible will be patients with solid pancreatic masses detected at abdominal imaging (ultrasound, CT-scan or MRI).
In the treatment arm, RTE assessment of pancreatic masses will be performed using a last generation ultrasound machine, and all suspicious areas at elastography (i.e. those appearing in dark blue color as a consequence of higher cellularity of tumoral tissue) will be recorded and stored in our database. A 25 G needle will be then inserted into the most suspicious part (⋚rk blue") of the lesion and immediately after the procedure the stylet will be removed. At the end of the procedure, the needle will be retracted and the samples will be prepared for cytological examination.
Primary endpoint will be diagnostic yield of the procedure. Secondary endpoints the diagnostic sensitivity, specificity, number of passes needed to achieve an adequate sample and safety It will be planned to enroll 142 patients (71 per arms) within 1 year. A minimum follow up of 6 months from the last patient unsuitable to surgery will be required.
The aim of this single center, single arm and prospective study is to explore the safety and efficacy of Oncolytic virus Plus Anti-PD1 and Chemotherapy as Preoperative therapy for Patients with Borderline Resectable and Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
Erlotinib hydrochloride may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Giving erlotinib hydrochloride before surgery may make the tumor smaller and reduce the amount of normal tissue that needs to be removed. This phase II trial is studying how well erlotinib hydrochloride works in treating patients with pancreatic cancer that can be removed by surgery
This study is a open-label, dose-escalating + dose-expansion clinical study, aiming to evaluate the safety and efficacy of CEA-targeted CART cell preparations, and to reliminarily observe the study drug in CEA-positive advanced malignant tumors. The pharmacokinetic characteristics of CART cell preparations for the treatment of patients with CEA-positive advanced malignancies were obtained and the recommended dose and infusion schedule.
