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Hyperbaric Hyperoxygenation With Radiotherapy and Temozolomide in Adults With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma
Standard treatment for glioblastomas includes radiation and chemotherapy with a drug called temozolomide (Temodar); however, glioblastomas frequently develop resistance to standard treatment and recur or progress. Glioblastomas are known to have decreased levels of oxygen compared to normal tissues. There is evidence that these lower oxygen levels in glioblastomas may contribute to their ability to resist treatment effects of radiation and chemotherapy. In this study we will look to increase the oxygen concentration within the glioblastoma by adding hyperbaric treatments (the experimental part of this study) to standard treatment with radiation and temozolomide in order to...
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Hypofractionated Radiation Therapy for Glioblastoma
Notwithstanding major improvements in treatment modalities, the prognosis of patients with glioblastoma is poor. Hypofractionated radiation therapy as an alternative of the standard 6-week regimen could be an attractive approach as an effort to prevent tumor cell repopulation and reduction the total treatment period promoting patient comfort and convenience.
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IL-4(38-37)-PE38KDEL Immunotoxin in Treating Patients With Recurrent Malignant Astrocytoma
RATIONALE: IL-4(38-37)-PE38KDEL immunotoxin may locate tumor cells and kill them without harming normal cells. This may be an effective treatment for recurrent malignant astrocytoma. PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of IL-4(38-37)-PE38KDEL immunotoxin in treating patients who have recurrent malignant astrocytoma.
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Immune Modulatory DC Vaccine Against Brain Tumor
This study is designed to treat patients who have been diagnosed with brain cancer, including glioblastoma (GBM) and diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG). The treatment uses immunomodulatory vaccine generated by autologous dendritic cells (DCs) pulsed with genetically modified tumor cells or tumor-related antigens including neoantigens to inject into patients. Vaccine-induced T cell responses have been associated with improved survival. The study will evaluate the safety and potential benefit of the novel immunomodulatory DC vaccines.
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Immunohistochemical Assessment of Programmed Death ligand1 and LC3B in GBM
Glioblastoma(GBM) is the most common malignant primary brain tumor and has unfortunately bad prognosis .PDL(Programmed death lignad 1)1 is alignad for a protein receptor PD1(Programmed death 1) that upon their engagement, an immunoinhibitory signal is generated thus allowing the tumor cells to evade the immune regulation and cytotoxic T lymphocytes(CTL). Also there have been many actions generated upon PDL1 binding with its receptor, among them is activation of autophagy that also serves for promoting tumor development and progression.Our study aims to detect PDL1 and LC3B levels in GBM , their relation with each other and the relation between their levels and overall survival...
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Immunotoxin Therapy in Treating Children With Progressive or Recurrent Glioblastoma Multiforme or Anaplastic Astrocytoma
RATIONALE: Immunotoxins can locate tumor cells and kill them without harming normal cells. Immunotoxin therapy may be an effective treatment for glioblastoma multiforme and anaplastic astrocytoma. PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of immunotoxin therapy in treating children who have progressive or recurrent glioblastoma multiforme or anaplastic astrocytoma
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Implantable Microdevice In Primary Brain Tumors
This pilot study will assess the safety and feasibility of using an implantable microdevice to measure local intratumor response to chemotherapy and other clinically relevant drugs in malignant brain tumors. - The device involved in this study is called a microdevice. - The drugs used in this study will only include drugs already used systemically for the treatment of gliomas.
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Innovative SonoCloud-9 Device for Blood Brain Barrier Opening in First Line Temozolomide Glioblastoma Patients.
Glioblastoma (GBM) is an aggressive cancer with a progression-free survival (PFS) of 7 months and an overall survival (OS) of 15 months. Many therapeutic approaches have failed to improve the prognosis of patients to date. One of the main reasons is the presence of blood brain barrier (BBB) which limits therapeutic agents uptake in the brain. GBM is also considered to have a "cold" (unresponsive) immunological microenvironment due to factors released by the tumor and the presence of BBB limiting the transit of immune cells from the systemic circulation. Therefore, by-passing the BBB appears as a promising strategy. The objective of the Phase II clinical trial, SonoFIRST, is to...
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International Cooperative Phase III Trial of the HIT-HGG Study Group (HIT-HGG-2013)
The HIT-HGG-2013 trial offers an innovative high-quality diagnostics and science program for children and adolescents >3 years, suffering from one of the following types of high grade gliomas: 1. glioblastoma WHO grade IV (GBM) 2. diffuse midlineglioma histone 3 K27M mutated WHO grade IV (DMG) 3. anaplastic astrocytoma WHO grade III (AA) 4. diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) 5. gliomatosis cerebri (GC) For 1.-3. diagnosis has to be confirmed by neuropathological survey, for 4. and 5. diagnosis has to be confirmed by neuroradiological survey. In addition to standard treatment (radiotherapy and temozolomide chemotherapy) the effect of valproic...
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Intraoperative MRI and 5-ALA Guidance to Improve the Extent of Resection in Brain Tumor Surgery
The investigators hypothesize that the rate of radiologically complete resections of contrast-enhancing brain tumors following surgeries aided by use of 5-ALA induced fluorescence guidance and use of an intraoperative ultra-low field MRI is higher compared to surgeries aided by 5-ALA induced fluorescene alone.
