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Efficacy & Safety of Autologous Dendritic Cell Vaccination in Glioblastoma Multiforme After Complete Surgical Resection
1. Primary outcome measure: a.Evaluation of the treatment impact on progression-free survival. 2. Secondary outcome measures: 1. Safety evaluation. - Direct effects attributable cell obtaining and administration. - Adverse events during treatment. - Neurological deterioration quantified using the NIH Stroke Scale. - Autoimmune phenomena. 2. Evaluation of impact on other efficiency clinical parameters. - Overall survival. - Quality of life measured with EORTC questionnaire. 3. Study of specific immune response and correlates with clinical outcome. ...
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Efficacy Study of Oral Arginine to Improve Immune Function in Glioblastoma Multiforme
The purpose of this study is to learn more about the ability of a substance called arginine to improve the functioning of the immune system in people with a certain type of brain tumor. This could lead to improvements in a type of treatment for brain tumors called immunotherapy. The immune system includes organs, cells, and substances in the body that fight infection and disease. Immunotherapy is a type of treatment that uses the immune system as a tool to seek out and destroy abnormal cells. Immunotherapy requires that the immune system be working properly. Arginine is a normal component of protein (an amino acid) that we all consume in foods such as red meat, poultry, fish, and...
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EGFR Inhibition Using Weekly Erlotinib for Recurrent Malignant Gliomas
The purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness of a drug called erlotinib in treating the tumor. This is a multi-center pilot study that explores efficacy and molecular effects of high dose weekly erlotinib for recurrent EGFR vIII mutant malignant gliomas, and correlate molecular profile of pre-treatment tissue with outcome.
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EMD 121974 in Treating Patients With Progressive or Recurrent Glioma
RATIONALE: EMD 121974 may stop the growth of cancer by stopping blood flow to the tumor. PURPOSE: Phase I/II trial to study the effectiveness of EMD 121974 in treating patients who have progressive or recurrent malignant glioma.
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E-MOSAIC Electronic Tool to Monitor Symptoms
RATIONALE: A hand held electronic tool used to monitor symptoms and assess quality of life may improve communication between patients and their doctors and improve the ability to plan treatment for patients with advanced cancer receiving palliative care. It is not yet known whether symptoms are better controlled with or without use of this electronic tool. PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying an electronic tool to see how well it records cancer symptoms in patients with advanced cancer receiving palliative care.
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Engagement of Patients With Advanced Cancer
The Engagement of Patients with Advanced Cancer is an intervention that utilizes well-trained lay health coaches to engage patients and their families in goals of care and shared decision-making after a diagnosis of advanced cancer. Although lay health workers have never been tested in this role, we hypothesize that lay health workers can feasibly improve goals of care documentation and help to reduce unwanted healthcare utilization at the end of life for Veterans diagnosed with new advanced stages of cancer and those diagnosed with recurrent disease.
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Enhancing Optune Therapy With Targeted Craniectomy
The present study proposes a new and potentially superior clinical approach to Optune™ therapy of selected glioblastoma patients. The approach is based on combining TTFields with targeted surgical skull remodeling, such as minor craniectomy or a distribution of burr holes, designed for the individual patient. Pre-clinical modeling results suggest that such procedures may enhance the induced electrical field strength by up to ~100% and thereby potentially improve the clinical outcome of treated patients to a significant extent. The study is an open label phase 1 clinical pilot experiment designed to investigate feasibility, safety and efficacy of the concept. Fifteen patients...
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Enzastaurin Before and Concomitant With Radiation, Followed by Enzastaurin in Participants With Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma
The purpose of the protocol was to induce a novel radiochemotherapy with enzastaurin as first-line treatment regimen in glioblastoma: Participants with active, unmethylated MGMT promoter were treated with enzastaurin before, concomitant, and after radiotherapy to determine safety and PFS at 6 months (PFS-6) in phase II.
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Enzastaurin Versus Lomustine in Glioblastoma
This protocol will test the activity of Enzastaurin vs. Lomustine in the treatment of recurrent brain cancer (specifically intracranial glioblastoma multiforme).
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Epothilone in Recurrent Glioblastoma Patients
The purpose of this single arm phase II study is to evaluate safety and efficacy of ZK 219477 in the treatment of temozolomide pre-treated, recurrent GBM patients.
