Columbia University Medical Center is recruiting individuals ages 21-55 who are seeking treatment for alcohol problems to participate in a research study involving treatment. For your participation, you'll receive treatment with disulfiram (brand name Antabuse) at no cost. You be treated with disulfiram for approximately 13 weeks and undergo brain…
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 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…
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…
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 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 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 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…
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 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…
We are testing new experimental drugs such as selinexor in the hopes of finding a treatment that may be effective against tumors that have come back or that have not responded to standard therapy. The goals of this study are: To find the highest safe dose of selinexor that can be given without causing severe side effects; To learn what kind of side effects…
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 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 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 goals of this study are to find the highest safe dose of ramucirumab that can be given without causing severe side effects, to learn what kind of side effects ramucirumab can cause, to learn more about the effects of ramucirumab on cells and proteins in the blood and to determine whether ramucirumab is a beneficial treatment for patients with solid…
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 is a Phase 1 multicenter study of a drug called ABI-009 (nab-Rapamycin) in combination withtemozolomide and irinotecan in children and young adults with solid tumors (including CNS tumors)which have come back or have not responded to standard therapy. The study is considered experimental because ABI-009 (nab-Rapamycin) is not approved by the United…
NOTE: YOU MUST HAVE HIV AND HAVE EVER HAD HEPATITIS C TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS STUDY!! ............... For individuals who have both HIV and Hepatitis C virus (HCV), heavy drinking poses serious risks to their health. We do not yet know which interventions are effective at helping individuals with HIV and HCV drink less. The goal of the study is to compare…
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 purpose of this study is to learn what kind of side effects nivolumab as a single agent and nivolumab in combination with ipilimumab can cause and if these treatments are beneficial for solid tumors. Nivolumab (Dose Level 1) will be given as an intravenous infusion every 14 days of a 28 day cycle. If Dose Level 1 is not tolerable, then it will be…
This study is being carried out by the Childrens Oncology Group (COG) Phase 1 Consortium. COG is an international research group that consists of more than 200 hospitals that treat children with cancer in the United States, Canada, Australia, and Switzerland. The Phase 1 Consortium is the group within COG that consists of 21 hospitals, and participation in…
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 study is for patients with the following cancers: advanced non-small cell lung cancer, head and neck cancer, melanoma, colon cancer, or bladder cancer. The purpose of this study is to find out more about the effects of AMG 228 in people and on their cancer. AMG 228 is an experimental drug that is being developed to stimulate the bodys immune system to…
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…
This is a Phase 1 multicenter study of pevonedistat in combination with Temozolomide and Irinotecan in pediatric patients with refractory solid tumors, including CNS tumors and lymphoma. The study treatment is considered experimental because pevonedistat is not approved by the United States (US) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating pediatric…
The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness and tolerability of a study drug called PF-02341066. Additional goals of this study are to learn how the body handles the study drug as well as determine whether or not PF-02341066 is a beneficial treatment for your tumor This study is for children with a recurrent or progressive tumor or lymphoma…
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…
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and effectiveness of a study drug called axitinib on treating tumors that have returned (recurrent) or have not responded to standard therapy (refractory). Children will take axitinib twice a day for 28 days (1 cycle). Children may take study drug for up to 24 cycles (2 years).
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 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 find out more about how the study drug called entrectinib will be used in children, adolescents and young adults with treatment-resistant solid tumor in brain or body. This is a phase 1/1b study, divided into a dose escalation portion (different dose will be tested) and a dose expansion portion (one dose will be tested) in…
The purpose of this study is to find out more about how the study drug called talimogene laherparepvec will be used in children/adolescents/young adults with advanced solid tumors not involving the central nervous system that are available for direct injection. This is a phase 1 study, multicenter, open-label study, that means all subject enrolled in the…
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…
This is a phase 1/2 multicenter study of AZD1775 (MK-1775) that will be given in combination with irinotecan. The study treatment is considered experimental because it is not approved by the United States (US) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating children and young adults with solid tumors which have come back or have not responded to standard…