Clinical Research Directory

At-Home Cancer Directed Therapy Versus in Clinic for the Treatment of Patients With Advanced Cancer

This clinical trial studies the effect of cancer directed therapy given at-home versus in the clinic for patients with cancer that may have spread from where it first started to nearby tissue, lymph nodes, or distant parts of the body (advanced). Currently most drug-related cancer care is conducted in infusion centers or specialty hospitals, where patients spend many hours a day isolated from family, friends, and familiar surroundings. This separation adds to the physical, emotional, social, and financial burden for patients and their families. The logistics and costs of navigating cancer treatments have become a principal contributor to patients' reduced quality of life. It is therefore important to reduce the burden of cancer in the lives of patients and their caregivers, and a vital aspect of this involves moving beyond traditional hospital and clinic-based care and evaluate innovative care delivery models with virtual capabilities. Providing cancer treatment at-home, versus in the clinic, may help reduce psychological and financial distress and increase treatment compliance, especially for marginalized patients and communities.

Lenvatinib and Pembrolizumab in People With Advanced Soft Tissue Sarcoma

The purpose of this study is to find out whether combining the study drugs, lenvatinib and pembrolizumab, is a safe and effective treatment for metastatic soft tissue sarcomas that cannot be removed with surgery.

A Precision Medicine Approach (SMMART-ACT) for the Treatment of Patients With Advanced Sarcoma, Prostate, Breast, Ovarian or Pancreatic Cancer

This phase II trial tests the how well a precision medicine approach (serial measurements of molecular and architectural response to therapy \[SMMART\])-adaptive clinical treatment \[ACT\]) works in treating patients with sarcoma, prostate, breast, ovarian or pancreatic cancer that may have spread from where it first started to nearby tissue, lymph nodes, or distant parts of the body (advanced). SMMART testing uses genetic and protein tests to learn how cancer changes and to understand what drugs may work against a person's cancer or why drugs stop working. These test results are reviewed by a group of physicians and scientists during a SMMART tumor board who then recommend precision therapy.

A Phase I Trial of Memory T Cells Expressing an NKG2D Chimeric Antigen Receptor in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults With Advanced Sarcoma

Phase I, open label, prospective, single-center, non-randomized, dose escalation clinical trial aiming to determine the dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) and maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of systemic transduced donor-derived NKG2D-CAR memory T cell infusions (Arm A), and of dual treatment, with both systemic and locally transduced donor-derived NKG2D-CAR memory T cell infusions (Arm B).