The Department of Occupational Therapy at Columbia University will be conducting research to understand the impact of aromatase inhibitors (AIs) on performing everyday activities, like bathing and making meals, for women diagnosed with breast cancer. The purpose of this study is to understand how functional performance is impacted by the use of AIs, and its…
The purpose of this registry is to keep track of people who are undergoing therapy for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and who are having molecular testing known as DCISionRT. A Registry is a databank of people who have something in common. Molecular testing looks at how certain genes are used by your tumor cells. The goal of this Registry is to help…
This study is being done to answer the following question: Is treatment with HER2-targeted therapy without radiation therapy as good as the usual treatment of radiation and HER2-targeted therapy in patients with HER2-positive breast cancer who have had surgery, chemotherapy, and HER2-targeted therapy? This study is being done to find out if this approach is…
We are conducting a series of focus group sessions to investigate the attitudes and opinions of young Black women regarding breast cancer, breast cancer risk, and biomarker-based screening to inform current breast cancer screening guidelines.
The Young, Empowered & Strong (YES) study is opened to women who were diagnosed with breast cancer between the ages of 15 and 39 years. Women will need to be within 3 years of the end of early active treatment (e.g. surgery, chemotherapy not including HER2-directed therapy, radiation), and have no know evidence of breast cancer recurrence. The study…
You are being asked to participate in this study because you have been diagnosed with a progressive desmoid tumor. The purpose of this study is to see if the study drug, called AL102 (referred to from now on as the study drug), is safe and effective in people with progressive desmoid tumors. The study will also look at how your body responds to the study…
This study is being done to answer the following question: Can we lower the chance of your cancer returning by adding the drug olaparib to the usual radiation therapy for your cancer? We are doing this study because we want to find out if this approach is better or worse than the usual approach for your inflammatory breast cancer. The usual approach is…
This is a Tissue Repository to collect and store tissue samples from normal donors and patients with hematological disorders for future study research studies. The purpose of the storage bank is to obtain a large number of the bone marrow aspirates, bone marrow biopsies, and/or blood as well as buccal smears (to be used as a non-hematologic control for each…
The purpose of this study is to find out if the study medicine called EDIT-301 will help in the treatment of Severe Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) and how safe it is to be used in people. EDIT-301 (study medicine) is a new investigational therapy which uses the patient's own stem cells, modifies them by CRISPR technology, and infuses them back to the…
The study is being done to answer the following question: How can we best help women with atypical hyperplasia (AH) or lobular carcinoma in situ (LCIS) and their healthcare providers make informed decisions about whether to take breast cancer risk-reducing pills (drugs to slow or prevent breast cancer from developing)? Participants in this study will learn…
The purpose of the study is to determine if the drug, CAEL-101 in combination with plasma cell treatment improves overall survival for patients who are diagnosed with stage 3b of AL amyloidosis. Patients who participate in this study will receive CAEL-101 as well as plasma cell treatment or Placebo as well as plasma cell treatment to compare the effects.
The purpose of this study is to test the good and bad effects of the drugs called belinostat and SGI-110 (guadecitabine). These drugs could shrink your cancer, but they could also cause side effects. The study doctors hope to learn if the study drugs will shrink the cancer more often than observed with other standard treatment options. We dont know if…
This study is being done to answer the following question: How does the combination of copanlisib and eribulin compare to eribulin alone to lengthen the time you can live with your metastatic triple-negative breast cancer without your cancer getting worse? We are doing this study because we want to find out if this approach is better or worse than the usual…
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of an investigational drug, unesbulin. This investigational drug is being studied in unresectable or metastatic, relapsed, or refractory leiomyosarcoma along with Dacarbazine. Dacarbazine is a drug that is FDA-approved for the treatment of other types of cancer and recommended by the…
This study is being done to answer the following question: Can participants with HER2-positive breast cancer who have no cancer remaining at surgery (either in the breast or underarm lymph nodes) after 12 weeks of chemotherapy and two HER-targeted therapies eliminate further chemotherapy after surgery? This would be a decrease in the total number of…
The study drug, CFT8634, is an investigational therapy that has been shown in animal studies to help break down the BRD9 protein, an important protein in the body that helps SMARCB-null tumors, such as your own, to grow. CFT8634 is able to do so by using the body's own protein-recycling equipment. (In short, your cells are capable of breaking down…
The purpose of the study is to determine if the drug, CAEL-101 in combination with plasma cell treatment improves overall survival for patients who are diagnosed with stage 3a of amyloid light chain (AL) amyloidosis. Patients who participate in this study will receive CAEL-101 as well as plasma cell treatment or Placebo as well as plasma cell treatment to…
The purpose of this research study is to determine the effectiveness and safety of envafolimab, an experimental drug that is not approved for use, when given alone or in combination with ipilimumab to stimulate your immune system to attack cancer cells. Envafolimab is an experimental (investigational) cancer drug that overrides the PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint,…
The experimental drug called INBRX 109 has been developed as a treatment for unresectable or metastatic conventional chondrosarcoma. The purpose of this study is to learn about the effects of the study drug, INBRX-109 on you, your immune system, and your cancer. This study is being done to understand if INBRX-109 is effective against your chondrosarcoma and…
The purpose of this research study is to see whether the presence or absence of certain genes is associated with the development of AL amyloidosis in subjects 60 years of age or older with the blood disorders smoldering multiple myeloma (SMM) and monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). Each person's disease has different genetic…
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a new investigational drug, ATX-101, for the treatment of dedifferentiated liposarcoma and leiomyosarcoma. ATX-101 is an intravenous (IV) drug which blocks the interaction of a protein called PCNA with a number of stress response proteins. These interactions are thought to be important for cancer…
The purpose of this study is to learn about whether the study drug (PF-07209326) is safe and effective in people with sickle cell disease and learn about what the right dose is. We will look at drug levels in the blood, see how fast drug levels rise and fall, and what effects the drug has, all of which are known as the pharmacokinetics (PK) and…
The purpose of this study is to learn about the safety, tolerability, and effectiveness of an investigational drug called milademetan as compared to the use of trabectedin. In this study, subjects will be randomly assigned (like flipping a coin) to receive one of two study drugs: milademetan or trabectedin. This is an open-label study, meaning you will know…
This study is being done to answer the following question: How can we best help patients and their clinicians make decisions about breast cancer treatment (surgery and other treatments, like radiation and chemotherapy)? We are doing this study because we want to better understand how to support patients in making decisions about breast cancer treatment. We…
The purpose of this study is to: 1. Compare treatment with chemotherapy (paclitaxel) alone to using a combination of nivolumab plus chemotherapy (paclitaxel) treatment in patients with angiosarcoma who have not been treated with paclitaxel chemotherapy alone. 2. Evaluate the effect of nivolumab in combination with cabozantinib on angiosarcoma (cancer) in…
The purpose of this study is to test the study drug, BI 907828 for safety, effectiveness, and side effects when compared to receiving the standard treatment, doxorubicin, in subjects with dedifferentiated liposarcoma (DDLPS). BI 907828 has proven to minimize a critical protein interaction between MDM2 and p53, two proteins in your body, which when their…
The purpose of this study is to compare usual lymph node surgery to an added procedure during the surgery to help surgeons see the lymph node system better. During usual surgery, the lymph node system may be disrupted, which can cause swelling in the arm. This research study will use a new lymph node surgery technique to look at how fluid drains through the…
The purpose of this study is to examine whether removing some of the lymph nodes from the armpit, but not removing them all followed with radiation therapy (experimental) will be as good as having the majority of the lymph nodes from the armpit removed during breast surgery followed with radiation(standard of care). Patients will be randomized to either of…
This is a first-in-human, phase 1/1b, open-label study of single-agent PMD-026 conducted in participants with metastatic breast cancer. PMD-026 will initially be administered orally on a once-daily schedule. Part 1 of the study will evaluate PMD-026 in participants with metastatic breast cancer that have not responded to treatment, which may involve…
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and effectiveness of giving anastrozole, palbociclib, trastuzumab, and pertuzumab to women with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer. This combination of medications represents an all-biologic approach and avoids chemotherapy as first-line treatment of this disease.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a new investigational drug, PTC596, used in combination with dacarbazine, for the treatment of locally recurrent, unresectable, or metastatic relapsed/refractory leiomyosarcoma, a type of soft tissue sarcoma. The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether adding PTC596 to dacarbazine is safe…
The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is clinical benefit to continue therapy beyondprogression for metastatic or unresectable breast cancer. The treatment that is being investigated in this clinical trial, ribociclib (LEE011), is part of a family of oral medications (pills) that are called Cyclin Dependent Kinase 4 and 6 inhibitors, which…
The purpose of this study is to find out if an investigational drug, called ADP-A2M4, is safe and how well it works in attacking Synovial Sarcoma or Myxoid/Round Cell Liposarcoma (MRCLS) cancer cells. The study involves taking certain types of immune cells from the blood, called T cells, and changing them in a laboratory before putting them back into the…
The purpose of the study is to determine whether ablation, which is the removal or destruction of a tumor (through SBRT and/or surgical resection of all known metastases) in oligometastatic breast cancer patients improves progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS).
Paclitaxel is frequently used to treat breast cancer, but it can also cause neuropathy where the nerves of the hands and feet stop working properly. The symptoms of neuropathy can include pain, numbness, and difficulty with everyday activities like walking or typing. Paclitaxel-induced neuropathy is common and there are few treatment options. Our study will…
This research study involves receiving an experimental drug referred to as ZN-c5. This is the first study in humans using ZN-c5. The purpose of this research study is to test the safety of ZN-c5 at different dose levels. This study is designed to find out what effects, good and/or bad, ZN-c5 has on participants with breast cancer. Participants in both…
The purpose of this study is to identify if blood sugar elevations during chemotherapy may be related to the development of side effects from chemotherapy. This study will help us find out if blood sugar goes up during the course of chemotherapy, and if so, for the amount of time the blood sugar is elevated after a chemotherapy treatment. Results of this…
The purpose of this study is to compare the usual approach (i.e. no more treatment or additional post-operative chemotherapy), to any effects, good and/or bad, of the experimental drug MK-3475 (also called pembrolizumab) after surgery. This study will allow the researchers to know whether treatment with MK-3475 (pembrolizumab) is better, the same, or worse…
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of an antibody drug (STI-6129) in patients with AL amyloidosis that has returned or has not responded to treatment (relapsed/refractory). The study drug (STI-6129) will be given in 3 injections through a needle, into a vein as an intravenous (IV), with 21 days between each injection.
The purpose of this study is to test the safety of a study drug called AMG 232 given with radiation in patients with soft tissue sarcoma (STS) prior to surgery. The AMG 232 is investigational. It has been tested in other cancers but not yet in sarcoma. AMG 232 has not been tested using the dosing schedule in this study and it has not been tested with…
You are being asked to participate in this study because you have been diagnosed with a progressive desmoid tumor. The purpose of this study is to see if the study drug, called AL102 (referred to from now on as the study drug), is safe and effective in people with progressive desmoid tumors. The study will also look at how your body responds to the study…
The purpose of this study is to compare any good and bad effects of using olaparib and atezolizumab in combination compared to olaparib alone. The use of olaparib alone or in combination with atezolizumab could shrink your cancer but could also cause side effects. This study will allow the researchers to know whether the combination approach is better, the…
The main purpose of this research study is to determine the effect of the study drug compared to placebo in increasing red blood cell counts and reducing the severity of symptoms of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). A placebo is a dummy drug: it looks like the study drug but contains no medicine. Subjects being asked to take part in this research study have SCD.…
The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of combining metformin and atorvastatin treatment in patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer during the interval between breast biopsy and surgery. Metformin is a common treatment for patients with diabetes, and atorvastatin is a common therapy for elevated cholesterol. We will examine the effects of…
This study is for women who have been diagnosed with stage 2 or stage 3 breast cancer whose doctor has recommended that you receive radiation therapy after your mastectomy to prevent your breast cancer from coming back. Radiation uses particles of energy to kill any remaining cancer cells where your breast was removed or in the lymph nodes. Radiation after…
The main purpose of this study is to determine the safety and tolerability of Faslodex given directly into thebreast ducts of women with invasive breast cancer or Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS). This study is for women who have been diagnosed with invasive breast cancer or DCIS. DCIS is the presence of abnormal cells inside a milk duct in the breast, and…
This study is for patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). SCD is an inherited genetic disorder in which red blood cells become abnormally shaped (sickle cells). These sickle cells may block blood vessels and result in a vaso occlusive crisis (VOC). This leads to inflammation and tissue damage and causes pain in various parts of the body. The purpose of…
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics (how much of the study drugs is present in your body at different times), and efficacy (how well the study treatment works) of venetoclax alone and of venetoclax in combination with azacitidine in subjects with higher-risk MDS after HMA-failure.
The purpose of this study is to establish the safety profile of the study drug HuMax-AXL-ADC in a mixed population of patients with specified solid tumors. HuMax-AXL-ADC binds to a specific antigen called Axl, which is expressed on the tumor cells in the cancer types treated in this trial. When the trial drug binds to the antigen on the tumor cell, the…
This randomized phase III trial studies whether weight loss in overweight and obese women may prevent breast cancer from coming back (recurrence). Previous studies have found that women who are overweight or obese when their breast cancer is found (diagnosed) have a greater risk of their breast cancer recurring, as compared to women who were thinner when…
This study involves research; it is the first time that MLN0128 will be studied in patients who are also receiving antihormonal medication. The main purposes of the study are to determine: The risks and discomforts of MLN0128 when given with antihormonal medication. Whether giving MLN0128 in combination with antihormonal medication affects the growthof your…
This a Phase III study designed to compare the efficacy and the safety of the triplet combination of GDC-0077 plus palbociclib and fulvestrant versus placebo plus palbociclib and fulvestrant in patients with PIK3CA-mutant, HR-positive, HER2-negative locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer whose disease progressed during treatment or within 12 months of…
The purpose of this phase I study is to test the safety and tolerability of ruxolitinib at different dose levels in combination with decitabine in patients with accelerated or blast phase Myeloproliferative Neoplasm (MPN), which is a group of diseases of the bone marrow in which excess cells are produced. You may qualify to take part in this research study…
The purpose of this study is to determine whether the combination of study drugs Ruxolitinib plusTrastuzumab is safe and effective in stopping breast tumor growth in patients with HER2 positivemetastatic breast tumors who have already received Trastuzumab. Trastuzumab (Herceptin) is an FDA-approved treatment for HER2 positive breast cancer.
This randomized phase III trial studies how well aspirin works in preventing the cancer from coming back (recurrence) in patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) breast cancer after chemotherapy, surgery, and/or radiation therapy. Aspirin is a drug that reduces pain, fever, inflammation, and blood clotting. It is also being studied in…
The purpose of this study is to determine the MTD of Ricolinostat (ACY-1215) in combination with weekly abraxane as well as evaluate the safety and tolerablility of Ricolinostat (ACY-1215) in combination with weekly abraxane.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether study drug NEOD001 will improve survival in subjects with AL amyloidosis and/or increase the interval of time that they can go without requiring hospitalization for problems with their hearts. This study will also evaluate whether NEOD001 improves the function of subjects' organs that have been affected…
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of eribulin mesylate (eribulin) incombination with pembrolizumab in metastatic (spread of cancer from one part of body to another) triple-negative breast cancer (mTNBC).
This study is being done to learn more about the safety and effects of CTX001 in patients with severe SCD. CTX001 is created by changing (editing) the DNA in your own blood stem cells near a gene called BCL11A which is stored in a solution called dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) to try to prevent cells from dying while they are frozen. BCL11A is the area in the…
The purpose of this study is to determine whether treatment with sacituzumab govitecan could provide a better response and improve survival (the amount of time you live without your cancer growing) than other forms of cancer treatment (either Eribulin, Capecitabine, Gemcitabine, Vinorelbine).
The main purpose of the study is to find out whether Triferic, when taken by mouth (orally) with Shohls solution, is safe and effective for the treatment of Iron Refractory Iron-Deficiency Anemia (IRIDA). The study drug, ferric pyrophosphate citrate (FPC), is also called Triferic. It is an iron salt that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration…
The main purpose of this research study is to test different doses of INCB059872 and see which doses are safe and tolerable in participants that have Ewing sarcoma. This study will research the effect that INCB059872 has on your cancer. Researchers will study the way INCB059872 come into and leave your body over time (pharmacokinetics). INCB059872 is a…
The goal of this study is to determine if ribociclib in combination with letrozole as neoadjuvant endocrine therapy increases the proportion of women with PEPI score of 0 at surgery, compared to patients treated with letrozole alone therefore allowing more patients excellent outcomes without chemotherapy. The PEPI score measures the risk of breast cancer…
The purpose of this study is to see how safe investigational drug, LY2835219 is and how well it will work to help people with advanced hormone receptor (HR) positive, HER2 negative breast cancer. This study will investigate whether the combination of LY2835219 plus fulvestrant improves outcomes compared to fulvestrant alone for women with a certain type of…
The purpose of this study is to determine if the study drug toripalimab is safe, to determine future doses to give to patients with cancer, and to measure the amount of toripalimab in the blood. Up to approximately 240 subjects will be enrolled in Part B. The dose given in Part B will be 240 mg. The dose was chosen based upon safety data obtained from…
The purpose of this study is to see whether treatment with everolimus plus hormone treatment after chemotherapy will increase the time without the subjects cancer returning. The current standard treatment after chemotherapy is hormone treatment alone. Everolimus is a drug currently approved for the treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic kidney…
To assess whether prophylactic beta blocker therapy with carvedilol compared with no intervention reduces the risk of subsequent cardiac dysfunction in patients with metastatic breast cancer receiving trastuzumab-based HER-2 targeted therapy.
The purpose of this registry study is to assess information obtained from the Agendia Breast Cancer Suite of diagnostic tests and other clinical information to study ways to assist in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment decisions in Chinese patients. The Agendia Breast Cancer Suite includes MammaPrint, TargetPrint, BluePrint, and TheraPrint which are…
This is a Phase 2 study for patients with myelofibrosis previously treated with one or more Janus Kinase(JAK) Inhibitor. A JAK inhibitor targets a certain pathway that may be causing cancer to grow, bystopping or inhibiting the cycle of development of the pathway. There is one JAK inhibitor that has beenapproved for the treatment of patients with…
The purpose of this study is to determine the incidence and severity of acute GVHD following CD34+ selection in children, adolescents and young adults receiving an allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplant from a family member or unrelated adult donor for a non-malignant condition.
The purpose of this research study is to determine the effects of INCB050465 in combination with ruxolitinib treatment on spleen size and/or symptoms and to learn about any of the side effects that might occur during or following dosing with this combination of molecules in patients diagnosed with myelofibrosis.
This research study is being done to determine if an investigational drug, SY-1425 (tamibarotene) works in treating AML (acute myeloid leukemia) and MDS (myelodysplastic syndrome) in patients with a certain biomarker in their blood (a blood test that may indicate the drug target is present in your type of AML or MDS).
This randomized clinical trial studies prophylactic colony stimulating factor management in patients with breast, colorectal or non-small cell lung cancer receiving chemotherapy and with risk of developing febrile neutropenia. Patients receiving chemotherapy may develop febrile neutropenia. Febrile neutropenia is a condition that involves fever and a low…
The purpose of this research study is to determine if the experimental drug balixafortide combined with eribulin is well tolerated and more effective for treating breast cancer compared with eribulin given alone. Balixafortide (POL6326) interacts with proteins called CXCR4 receptors which may directly suppress tumor growth through disruption of signaling…
This study is being done to see if giving your child a lower dose of chemotherapy (drug therapy), than has been used historically in bone marrow transplant, to kill his/her own diseased cells before he/she receives a bone marrow transplant, will possibly result in the permanent control of your child's sickle cell disease. Patients will receive busulfan…
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of preoperative radiation therapy used in combination with the immunostimulatory agent talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC) to improve outcomes for patients with resectable soft tissue sarcomas, including soft tissue sarcoma (liposarcoma (excluding myxoid liposarcoma), leiomyosarcoma and…
Tomography (DOT), can help predict how well patients respond to a pre-surgical therapy. This imaging technique uses light to create 3D maps of the blood, fat, and water content of the breast. Based on these measurements taken over 2 time points during therapy (before and after), we will try to determine if this new imaging technique can use early…
We are currently recruiting women to TMIST, a clinical trial that will help us develop strategies that tailor breast cancer screening to the risks of individual women. This is a screening trial. The purpose of this trial is to determine if tomosynthesis (3-D) mammography detects breast cancer at earlier stage than current method of 2-D digital mammography.
The purpose of this study is to assess the performance and ease of use of the AeroDorm Tissue Expander System in women who are undergoing breast reconstruction surgery. This device is for use in women who are having or have had a mastectomy procedure to remove their breast(s) because of breast cancer (or to decrease their risk of breast cancer). The study…
The purpose of this research is to learn how to help parent youth pairs work together to help youth with sickle cell disease take hydroxyurea every day as a daily habit. This study is for children and teens ages 10-18 with Sickle Cell Anemia taking hydroxyurea, and their parents (or guardians). Many children and teens do not use hydroxyurea every day. Daily…
HELIOS-A is a global Phase 3 randomized, open-label study designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of ALN-TTRSC02 in adult patients with hATTR amyloidosis experiencing neurologic symptoms brought on by the disease. The study will also evaluate any changes in quality of life experienced by study participants. ALN-TTRSC02 utilizes the mechanism of RNA…
The purpose of this research study is to learn more about adding the drug ADI-PEG 20 to a standard treatment regimen called gem-tax (the chemotherapy drugs gemcitabine and docetaxel) for subjects with bone and soft tissue sarcoma, and how the addition of ADI-PEG 20 affects the tumors response to treatment and the side effects you experience.
The purpose of this research study is to determine if using a piece of the patient's residual tumor to develop a model of her cancer in mice that lack an immune system (also called an immune-deficient mouse) could help in determining which additional drugs or compounds to which an individual breast tumor is sensitive. The tumor implanted in the mouse…
The purpose of this study is to find out what side effects (unwanted effects) are caused in patients with breast cancer who are given SGN-LIV1A (single therapy). This study will also look at other effects of SGN-LIV1A, including its effect on this type of cancer. This study is also being done to find out what side effects (unwanted effects) are caused in…
The main purpose of this study is to see if people with certain types of anemia due to MDS will experience a decreased need for regular blood transfusions if they take luspatercept plus best supportive care. The safety of luspatercept will be also evaluated in this study.
This is a study for patients diagnosed with either breast cancer that is HER-2 positive, or breast cancer that is negative for estrogen, progesterone and HER-2 (triple-negative disease), and whose tumor can be removed by breast-conserving surgery. The purpose of this study is to test whether patients undergoing a breast MRI (magnetic resonance imaging)…
The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of different doses of ZN-c5 on levels of hormone (estrogen) receptors in breast cancer and how large that effect is for each dose level. The amount of reduction in hormone receptors may indicate that the drug is doing what it intends to do and how effective it is. The results will help define what an…
The purpose of this study is to see if daratumumab when given with three other drugs cyclophosphamide, bortezomib (VELCADE) and dexamethasone is useful for treating patients with Amyloid light chain Amyloidosis (also known as AL Amyloidosis). The study will look at what happens (both good and bad) when daratumumab is given with these three drugs compared to…
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of a new combination treatment involving two drugs: selinexor and ixazomib, for the treatment of dedifferentiated liposarcoma, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, alveolar soft part sarcoma and Ewing sarcoma. The primary objective of the study is to determine the maximum tolerated…
This study examines diffuse optical tomography (DOT) as a way to monitor the progress of the breast cancer therapy. Specifically, it looks at DOTs ability to detect non-responders early in treatment and then adjust the therapy to improve response and overall survival. DOT is favorable to more conventional forms of cancer monitoring, such as physical exams,…
The purpose of this trial is to determine whether the study drug, CX-839, reduces tumor size in patients with metastatic triple negative breast cancer when it is used in combination with the standard breast cancer treatment. CX-839 blocks the activity of a certain molecule that is overproduced by some cancer cells.
The purpose of this study is to compare the effects, good and/or bad, of study drug cobimetinib and paclitaxel for patients with metastatic truple-negative breast cancer (mTNBC). In this study, you will receive either a combination of cobimetinib and paclitaxel or placebo (no active medication) and paclitaxel. The study will also evaluate what side effects…
The purpose of this study is to find out if MLN9708 plus dexamethasone improves against systemic light chain amyloidosis better than the physicians choice chemotherapy treatment. Physicians choice chemotherapy treatment is a treatment regimen that is commonly used to treat amyloidosis patients. The study will also determine if MLN9708 plus dexamethasone can…
The purpose of this study is to test for any good and bad effects of the study drug called isatuximab. Isatuximab may or may not improve your AL amyloidosis, but it could also cause side effects. Isatuximab is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Isatuximab has been shown to have good effects in some patients with recurring multiple…
The purpose of this study is to determine the safety and effectiveness of the study drug nirogacestat for the treatment of desmoid tumors/aggressive fibromatosis (DT/AF). One group will receive the study medication, the other group will receive a placebo. After the initial phase of the study, participants may elect to participate in another phase of the…
The main purpose of this clinical trial is to study women like you who have cancer cells in the lymph nodes at the time that the breast cancer is diagnosed and have chemotherapy before surgery that clears the cancer cells from the lymph nodes. This study asks 1) if, after lumpectomy, radiation to the breast and lymph nodes will be better than radiation only…
The purpose of this study is to identify the doses of spartalizumab (PDR001) with LAG525 in combination with either NIR178, capmatinib (INC280), MCS110 or canakinumab (ACZ885) that can be given safely. The study will also test how well spartalizumab (PDR001) with LAG525 in combination with either NIR178, capmatinib (INC280), MCS110 or canakinumab (ACZ885)…
This study is for women with breast cancer who will be undergoing lumbar puncture to evaluate for the presence of leptomeningeal metastasis, a complication in which the cancer spreads to the membranes (meninges) surrounding the brain and spinal cord. This condition is typically diagnosed by examining the cerebrospinal fluid obtained from the lumbar puncture…
This study is for patients have been diagnosed with Intermediate or High-risk myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). MDS is a condition where there is a low count of white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets because of a malfunction of bone marrow that is responsible for producing healthy mature blood cells. evaluate the combination of the investigational…
The purpose of this study is to test the safety, tolerability, and the behavior of the drug in your body of an experimental study drug, DHES0815A. The goal is to determine a safe and tolerable dose in patients with cancer and to measure how the body processes the study drug at different dose levels.
Itacitinib is an investigational drug that is being developed by Incyte Corporation for use in the treatment of acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). At this time, it is not known whether the study drug has an effect on sperm or eggs, whether they are secreted in the semen or whether they have an effect on a fetus. We would like to collect medical…
The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the study drug, sacituzumab govitecan, to the treatment of physicians choice, in patients with metastatic, triple negative breast cancer.
The purpose of this study is to gather information on the safety of TH-302 and its effect on patients with HER2+ breast cancer. This study will also look at how the drug is processed in the body. In addition, this study will collect data from blood, tumor, and imaging studies about this specific cancer such as the level of oxygen that is present. This may…
This is a research study for subjects that have been previously treated for systemic light chain (AL)amyloidosis (a disease in which abnormal protein deposits can damage organs and tissues in your body) and nowrequire further treatment. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and determine the maximum tolerated dose of aninvestigational new…
The purpose of this study is to collect information on whether idasanutlin is effective in treating polycythemia vera (a slow-growing blood cancer in which your bone marrow makes too many red blood cells) and what effects, good or bad, idasanutlin has on you. Idasanutlin is an experimental drug, which means Health Authorities (such as the US FDA) have not…
The purpose of this study is to learn about the effects, safety, and proper dosage of tazemetostat in combination with doxorubicin for the treatment of soft tissue sarcoma. Doxorubicin is a common therapy for soft tissue sarcoma, but is not FDA approved in combination with tazemetostat. This study treatment combination may suppress or prevent tumor growth…
This is a cohort study looking at the effects of anastrozole (an aromatase inhibitor) on patients, and specifically at Aromatose Inhibitor Musculoskeletal Symptoms (AIMSS). The genetic predictors of AIMSS will also be evaluated. Participants will take daily anastrazole and will be followed for 12 months. The study will enroll 35 patients at Columbia…
This is a research study of cryotherapy (cold therapy) vs. compression therapy for the prevention of taxane-induced neuropathy. This study will assess the effect of a wearing frozen garments or compression garments on preventing neuropathy pain and discomfort that can be caused by taxane chemotherapy. Cryotherapy involves wearing frozen garments on both…
Some people who are treated for breast cancer develop swelling in their arms as a result of their treatment. This swelling is called lymphedema and it can be chronic. The purpose of this study is to see if early detection of arm swelling using a small painless device (called bioelectrical impedance), immediately followed by compression treatment, prevents…
This study will test an experimental drug, momelotinib, for the treatment of primary myelofibrosis, post-polycythemia vera myelofibrosis, or post-essential thrombocythemia myelofibrosis. Primary myelofibrosis, post-polycythemia vera myelofibrosis, or post-essential thrombocythemia myelofibrosis are all myeloproliferative disorders; which are serious bone…
This randomized phase IIb trial studies how well alternative dosing of exemestane before surgery works in treating postmenopausal patients with stage 0-II estrogen positive breast cancer. Chemoprevention is the use of drugs to keep breast cancer from forming or coming back. The use of exemestane may treat early stage (stage 0-II) breast cancer. Comparing…
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of ION-682884 given for 24 months in patients with hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloid polyneuropathy (hATTR-PN) also known as Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy (FAP), and determine if it can help people with mild or moderate polyneuropathy. To be in this study you must have FAP and be…
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, pharmacokinetics (how much the study drugs are absorbed in your body at different times), and efficacy (how well the study drugs work) of venetoclax in combination with azacitidine compared to azacitidine alone in subjects with previously untreated higher-risk MDS.
The researchers hope to study the effectiveness of an investigational drug called AL3818 in people who have metastatic (meaning their disease has spread) or advanced ), specifically alveolar soft partsarcoma (ASPS), leiomyosarcoma (LMS) and synovial sarcoma (SS). The main purpose of the study isto learn the percentage of patients that respond to treatment…
The purpose of this study is to capture and evaluate clinical data about the long-term safety and effectiveness of Novilasee - a FDA-cleared minimally invasive treatment for benign breast tumors in hopes that tracking and analyzing the safety and effectiveness of Novilase in a real world application will benefit future patients and the breast cancer…
The study is being done to see if the combination of bendamustine and dexamethasone will help people with amyloidosis that has returned after standard treatment. Bendamustine is currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and is under clinical development in the United States for the…