Cancer Clinical Trials in Durham, NC

This is a multi-part Phase 2 study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of azenosertib (ZN-c3) in subjects with Platinum-Resistant, High-Grade Serous Ovarian, Fallopian Tube, or Primary Peritoneal Cancer. Part 2 of the study will be conducted in subjects whose tumors are Cyclin E1 positive as determined by central review using the Sponsor's investigational clinical trial assay. Read Less

This is a Phase III open-label study to assess if camizestrant improves outcomes compared to standard endocrine therapy in patients with ER+/HER2 - early breast cancer with intermediate or high risk for disease recurrence who completed definitive locoregional therapy (with or without chemotherapy) and standard adjuvant endocrine therapy (ET) for at least 2 years and up to 5 years. The planned duration of treatment in either arm of the study is 60 months. Read Less

This phase III trial compares the effect of olaparib for one year versus two years, with or without bevacizumab, for the treatment of BRCA 1/2 mutated or homologous recombination deficient stage III or IV ovarian cancer. Olaparib is a polyadenosine 5'-diphosphoribose polymerase (PARP) enzyme inhibitor and may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Bevacizumab is in a class of medications called antiangiogenic agents. It works by stopping the formation of blood vessels that bring oxygen and nutrients to tumor. This may slow the growth and spread of tumor. Giving olaparib for one year with or without bevacizumab may be effective in treating patients with BRCA 1/2 mutated or homologous recombination deficient stage III or IV ovarian cancer, when compared to two years of olaparib. Read Less

This study will enroll prostate cancer patients with an unfavorable intermediate- or high-risk diagnosis. The purpose of this study is to determine whether a regimen of pembrolizumab and low dose prostate radiation or low dose prostate radiation alone prior to a prostatectomy affects cells of the immune system and if it is a safe option for this stage of prostate cancer. Participants will be randomized 1:1 (like flipping a coin) to receive pembrolizumab, low dose prostate radiation and a prostatectomy or low dose prostate radiation and a prostatectomy. Pembrolizumab is an investigational drug that increases the ability of the immune system to kill tumor cells. Low dose radiation can alter the way tumor cells look to the immune cells. For example, the immune cells may express different proteins that make them more susceptible to immune cell killing or the structure of the tumor may be altered to allow the immune cells to infiltrate the tumor more thoroughly. The prostate tissue collected from the prostatectomy will be analyzed for differences in pathology and local immune cell infiltration, and participants will be followed for 2 years to watch for prostate specific antigen (PSA) recurrence and prostate cancer recurrence. Read Less

Researchers are looking for new ways to treat people with high-risk muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma (MIUC). Urothelial carcinoma is a type of bladder cancer that begins in cells that line the inside of the bladder and other parts of the urinary tract, such as part of the kidneys, ureters, and urethra. People with MIUC usually have chemotherapy before surgery, then surgery to remove the cancer. Chemotherapy is a type of medicine to destroy cancer cells or stop them from growing. After surgery, some people receive more treatment to prevent cancer from returning. Pembrolizumab is an immunotherapy, which is a treatment that helps the immune system fight cancer. Enfortumab vedotin (EV) is an antibody drug conjugate (ADC). An ADC attaches to a protein on cancer cells and delivers treatment to destroy those cells. Researchers want to learn if giving intismeran autogene (the study treatment) with pembrolizumab can prevent MIUC from returning after surgery. Intismeran autogene (also called mRNA-4157) is designed to treat each person's cancer by helping the person's immune system identify and kill cancer cells based on certain proteins found on those cancer cells. The goals of this study are to learn if people who receive intismeran autogene and pembrolizumab are alive and cancer free longer than those who receive placebo and pembrolizumab, and to learn about the safety of intismeran autogene, pembrolizumab, and EV, and if people tolerate them. Read Less

The intention of the study is to demonstrate superiority of Saruparib (AZD5305) + physician's choice NHA relative to placebo + physician's choice NHA by assessment of radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) in participants with mCSPC. Read Less

The purpose of this study is to assess efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant durvalumab in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy (CT) given as initial therapy after cancer diagnosis followed by either surgery and adjuvant durvalumab or chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and consolidation durvalumab given alone as further therapy in participants with resectable and borderline resectable stage IIB-IIIB NSCLC. Read Less

The purpose of this study is to develop and refine a behavioral intervention to address fertility-related information needs and fertility-related distress among female adult survivors of childhood cancer. Read Less

Patients are living longer with metastatic lung cancer (i.e., metavivors) due to therapeutic advances, but face significant challenges. Most metavivors will ultimately die of cancer and must navigate the duality of living while dying. Unsurprisingly, metavivors endorse high psychological distress (e.g., anxiety, depression, illness non-acceptance), high symptom burden (e.g., fatigue, dyspnea, pain), and poor quality of life. Psychosocial interventions can improve outcomes, but existing paradigms are not designed to help metavivors navigate the emotional turbulence of living with metastatic disease. Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Skills Training is an evidence-based treatment that teaches patients transdiagnostic, easy-to-use skills to both accept things as they are (mindfulness, distress tolerance) and change things within their control (emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness) to better navigate life challenges. However, DBT Skills Training has rarely been applied in patients with chronic illness. The investigators adapted DBT Skills Training (e.g., intervention dose, delivery, content) for patients living with metastatic lung cancer to create LiveWell, an 8-session Skills Training protocol delivered one-on-one via videoconference. Building on preliminary data and aligned with the ORBIT model for behavioral intervention development, the first phase of this study (K99, Aim 1, 1 year) aims to iteratively refine LiveWell using 1) qualitative exit interview data from a proof-of-concept study, 2) an advisory board of interested parties, 3) the Dynamic Sustainability Framework from implementation science, and 4) user testing (n=10). The K99 phase will produce a standardized protocol and procedures for the R00. The second, independent phase of the study (R00, Aim 2, 3 years) will be a Phase IIB randomized pilot trial to test study feasibility, acceptability and outcome patterns suggesting the efficacy of LiveWell compared to Enhanced Usual Care (EUC). Lung cancer metavivors (n=80, \>20% non-White) receiving care at an NCI-designated center and endorsing distress \>3/10 will be randomized 1:1. The investigators hypothesize that: 1) LiveWell and EUC protocols and procedures will show evidence of feasibility (accrual N=80/20 months, \>=80% adherence to interventions and assessments, \<=20% attrition) and acceptability (\>=3/5 satisfaction study procedures, \>=3 mean intervention satisfaction LiveWell)), and 2) LiveWell will improve quality of life (primary outcome) and reduce psychological distress (depression, anxiety, illness acceptance) and symptom burden (fatigue, dyspnea, pain) (secondary outcomes) from baseline to post-treatment compared to EUC. The investigators will explore emotion regulation as a mechanism of change. Findings from this study will inform an R01 submission to conduct a Phase III efficacy trial. If successful, LiveWell will improve metavivor quality of life and provide a promising psychosocial intervention paradigm for other metavivors and patients with chronic illness. Read Less

The primary objective of this study is to compare the efficacy of tarlatamab plus durvalumab with durvalumab alone on prolonging overall survival (OS). Read Less

The purpose of this study is to compare the effects on low risk breast cancer receiving usual care that includes regional radiation therapy, with receiving no regional radiation therapy. Researchers want to see if not giving this type of radiation treatment works as well at preventing breast cancer from coming back. Read Less

This protocol tests de-escalated adjuvant treatment in patients with POLE-mutated or p53wt/NSMP (p53 wildtype/no specific molecular profile) early-stage endometrial cancer (EC). Patients may be enrolled in one of two sub-studies * EN10.A/RAINBO BLUE: POLE-mutated EC * EN10.B/TAPER: p53 wildtype / NSMP EC Read Less