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California Clinical Trials – Pleural Mesothelioma

California Clinical Trials for Pleural Mesothelioma

 

1. City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, California

 
Name of Study:
Methoxyamine, Cisplatin, and Pemetrexed Disodium in Treating Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors or Mesothelioma That Cannot Be Removed by Surgery or Mesothelioma That Is Refractory to Cisplatin and Pemetrexed

Study type:
Interventional

Purpose:
Phase 1/11 trial studies the effects and the best dose of methoxyamine when given together with cisplatin and pemetrexed disodium and to see how well it works in treating patients with solid tumors or mesothelioma that have spread to other places in the body and usually cannot be cured or controlled with standard treatment (advanced) or mesothelioma that does not respond to cisplatin and pemetrexed disodium (refractory). Methoxyamine may shrink the tumor and may also help cisplatin and pemetrexed

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT02535312

Status:
Currently recruiting – Start date August 2015- Completion date August 2017; Estimated enrollment 58

Location:
Multiple locations – City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte California 91010

Contact:
Marianna Koczywas
800-826-4673
Becomingapatient@coh.org

 

2. UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, California

 
Name of Study:
Accelerated Hypofractionated Radiation Therapy Immediately Before Surgery in Treating Patients With Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

Study type:
Interventional

Purpose:
Hypofractional radiation therapy given immediately before surgery may improve survival and possibly reduce side effects caused by mesothelioma

ClinicalTrials.gov:
NCT02672033

Status:
Active September 2015-January 2018; estimated enrollment 10 participants

Location:
UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

Contact:
Perry P. Lee
310-825-9775
PercyLee@mednet.ucla.edu
 

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