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KaCrole Higgins was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020. “In May 2020, I found a lump in my breast. I cried. By June, it was diagnosed as breast cancer, triple positive, stage 1A. While getting this cancer diagnosis was devastating, it also became an opportunity. Suddenly, the cancer gave me clarity. It gave me clarity about what was important, what was good in my life, what was toxic in my life, and what I needed to do.” Click below to read more of KaCrole’s story

https://momentum.vicc.org/2022/04/cancer-gave-me-clarity/

If Landon Ryan had been diagnosed with bilateral retinoblastoma 10, 20 or 30 years ago, she might not be here today with nearly perfect vision.Thanks to recent improvements in the treatment for this rare form of cancer that almost exclusively affects children under the age of 5, the diagnosis had the power to change Landon’s life when she was 11 months old, but not to take it — or her eyesight. Click below to learn more about Landon and her story.

https://momentum.vicc.org/2022/04/brighter-outlook/
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Crowe’s research honored

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https://news.vumc.org/2023/03/23/crowes-research-honored/
Leigh MacMillan
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VUMC to help engage more study participants in research decisions

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Human research will be more equitable, inclusive and stronger if the people who are participants in studies also help plan and guide the direction of those studies.

https://news.vumc.org/2023/10/25/vumc-to-help-engage-more-study-participants-in-research-decisions/
Bill Snyder
Locked

Post-Surgical Stereotactic Radiotherapy (SRT) Versus GammaTile-ROADS (Radiation One and Done Study)

This trial will be a randomized controlled study comparing the efficacy and safety of
intraoperative radiation therapy using GammaTilesTM (GT) versus SRT 3-4 weeks following
metastatic tumor resection which is the current standard of care.
Not Available
III
Chambless, Lola
NCT04365374
VICC-DTNEU23344

Heated Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy Followed by Niraparib for Ovarian, Primary Peritoneal and Fallopian Tube Cancer

Patients will be registered prior to, during or at the completion of neoadjuvant chemotherapy
(Paclitaxel 175 mg/m2 IV over 3 hours and Carboplatin AUC 6 IV on Day 1 every 21 days for 3-4
cycles). Registered patients who progress during neoadjuvant chemotherapy will not be
eligible for iCRS and will be removed from the study.

Following completion of neoadjuvant chemotherapy, interval cytoreductive surgery (iCRS) will
be performed in the usual fashion in both arms. Patients will be randomized at the time of
iCRS (iCRS must achieve no gross residual disease or no disease >1.0 cm in largest diameter)
to receive HIPEC or no HIPEC. Patients randomized to HIPEC (Arm A) will receive a single dose
of cisplatin (100mg/m2 IP over 90 minutes at 42 C) as HIPEC. After postoperative recovery
patients will receive standard post-operative platinum-based combination chemotherapy.
Patients randomized to surgery only (Arm B) will receive postoperative standard chemotherapy
after recovery from surgery.

Both groups will receive an additional 2-3 cycles of platinum-based combination chemotherapy
per institutional standard (Paclitaxel 175 mg/m2 IV over 3 hours and Carboplatin AUC 6 IV on
Day 1 every 21 days for 2-3 cycles) for a maximum total of 6 cycles of chemotherapy
(neoadjuvant plus post-operative cycles) followed by niraparib individualized dosing until
progression or 36 months (if no evidence of disease).
Not Available
III
Crispens, Marta
NCT05659381
VICC-DTGYN23355

Testing Chemotherapy versus Chemotherapy plus Radiotherapy Prior to Limited Surgery for Early Rectal Cancer

This phase III trial compares the effect of the combination of fluorouracil, oxaliplatin, and leucovorin calcium (FOLFOX) or capecitabine and oxaliplatin (CAPOX) followed by limited surgery with transanal endoscopic surgery (TES) versus chemoradiation followed by TES for the treatment of early stage rectal cancer. The usual approach for patients who are not in a study is surgery to remove the rectum or treatment with chemotherapy and radiation therapy, followed by surgery. Fluorouracil stops cells from making deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and it may kill tumor cells. Leucovorin is in a class of medications called folic acid analogs. When used with fluorouracil, it enhances the effects of this chemotherapy drug. Oxaliplatin is in a class of medications called platinum-containing antineoplastic agents. It damages the cells DNA and may kill cancer cells. CAPOX is a combination of two drugs (capecitabine and oxaliplatin) and used as standard chemotherapy in treatment of rectal cancer. CAPOX works by damaging the DNA in tumor cells, and may cause the cells to stop growing and die. Radiation therapy uses high energy x-rays, particles, or radioactive seeds to kill tumor cells and shrink tumors. This study will help researchers find out if chemotherapy with FOLFOX or CAPOX prior to surgery works better, the same, or worse than the usual approach and improves the quality of life in patients with early rectal cancer.
Not Available
III
Eng, Cathy
NCT06205485
SWOGGICO32

Dinutuximab with Chemotherapy, Surgery and Stem Cell Transplantation for the Treatment of Children with Newly Diagnosed High Risk Neuroblastoma

This phase III trial tests how well adding dinutuximab to induction chemotherapy along with standard of care surgery radiation and stem cell transplantation works for treating children with newly diagnosed high risk neuroblastoma. Dinutuximab is a monoclonal antibody that binds to a molecule called GD2, which is found in greater than normal amounts on some types of cancer cells. This helps cells of the immune system kill the cancer cells. Chemotherapy drugs such as cyclophosphamide, topotecan, cisplatin, etoposide, vincristine, dexrazoxane, doxorubicin, temozolomide, irinotecan and isotretinoin, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing or by stopping them from spreading. During induction, chemotherapy and surgery are used to kill and remove as much tumor as possible. During consolidation, very high doses of chemotherapy are given to kill any remaining cancer cells. This chemotherapy also destroys healthy bone marrow, where blood cells are made. A stem cell transplant is a procedure that helps the body make new healthy blood cells to replace the blood cells that may have been harmed by the cancer and/or chemotherapy. Radiation therapy is also given to the site where the cancer originated (primary site) and to any other areas that are still active at the end of induction.
Not Available
III
Benedetti, Daniel
NCT06172296
VICC-NTPED24104

A Trial Comparing Unrelated Donor BMT With IST for Pediatric and Young Adult Patients With Severe Aplastic Anemia (TransIT, BMT CTN 2202)

Pediatrics

Severe Aplastic Anemia (SAA) is a rare condition in which the body stops producing enough new
blood cells. SAA can be cured with immune suppressive therapy or a bone marrow transplant.
Regular treatment for patients with aplastic anemia who have a matched sibling (brother or
sister), or family donor is a bone marrow transplant. Patients without a matched family donor
normally are treated with immune suppressive therapy (IST). Match unrelated donor (URD) bone
marrow transplant (BMT) is used as a secondary treatment in patients who did not get better
with IST, had their disease come back, or a new worse disease replaced it (like leukemia).

This trial will compare time from randomization to failure of treatment or death from any
cause of IST versus URD BMT when used as initial therapy to treat SAA.

The trial will also assess whether health-related quality of life and early markers of
fertility differ between those randomized to URD BMT or IST, as well as assess the presence
of marrow failure-related genes and presence of gene mutations associated with MDS or
leukemia and the change in gene signatures after treatment in both study arms.

This study treatment does not include any investigational drugs. The medicines and procedures
in this study are standard for treatment of SAA.
Pediatrics
III
Connelly, James
NCT05600426
VICCPED2295

Study of CG0070 Given in Patients With Non-Muscle Invasive Bladder Cancer ,Unresponsive to Bacillus-Calmette-Guerin

To evaluate the activity of intravesical (IVE) administration of CG0070 in patients with
tissue pathology confirmed non-muscular invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) who have
Bacillus-Calmette-Guerin (BCG) unresponsive disease, with either carcinoma in situ with or
without Ta/T1 disease
Not Available
III
Not Available
NCT04452591
VICCURO2152

Testing Pump Chemotherapy in Addition to Standard of Care Chemotherapy versus Standard of Care Chemotherapy Alone for Patients with Unresectable Colorectal Liver Metastases: The PUMP Trial

This phase III trial compares hepatic arterial infusion (HAI) (pump chemotherapy) in addition to standard of care chemotherapy versus standard of care chemotherapy alone in treating patients with colorectal cancer that has spread to the liver (liver metastases) and cannot be removed by surgery (unresectable). HAI uses a catheter to carry a tumor-killing chemotherapy drug called floxuridine directly into the liver. HAI is already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in metastatic colorectal cancer to the liver, but it is only available at a small number of hospitals, and most of the time it is not used until standard chemotherapy stops working. Standard chemotherapy drugs work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Adding HAI to standard chemotherapy may be effective in shrinking or stabilizing unresectable colorectal liver metastases.
Not Available
III
Padmanabhan, Sekhar
NCT05863195
VICC-NTGIT23530

ALM-488 for Intra-Operative Visualization of Nerves in Head and Neck Surgery

This protocol describes prospective, open-label, blinded, randomized controlled, multicenter
pivotal studies to evaluate ALM-488.
Not Available
III
Rohde, Sarah
NCT05377554
VICCHN2258