THIS CLINICAL TRIALS Resource Guide includes actively recruiting clinical studies that focus on different techniques; treatments; and technology for oral, head, and neck cancers. More specifically, these trials are evaluating different drug combination regimens for both tumor treatment and pain management, multiple kinds of radiation therapies, and novel surgical technologies.
Both of the studies described here can be found on the National Institutes of Health website at ClinicalTrials.gov.
PHASE I
Study Title: Evaluation of Fluorescence Imaging in Head and Neck Cancer
Study Type: Interventional/single-group assignment
Study Sponsor and Collaborators: Washington University School of Medicine
Purpose: To develop hands-free goggle technology that can visualize white light and near-infrared light simultaneously to improve the safety and accuracy of sentinel lymph node biopsies for head and neck mucosal and cutaneous tumors
Primary Outcome Measures: Feasibility of using a novel fluorescence imaging device to detect a sentinel lymph node as measured by the ability of the imaging device to assist the surgeon in identifying the sentinel lymph node during a standard biopsy procedure [time frame: up to 1 week after surgery]. Feasibility will be assessed in terms of the percentage of patients enrolled for whom peritumoral injection with indocyanine green is performed successfully.
Principal Investigator: Ryan Jackson, MD, Washington University School of Medicine; contact (314) 362-0365, jackson.ryan@wustl.edu
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03297957
PHASE I/II
Study Title: Dual Immune Checkpoint Blockade and Hypofractionated Radiation in Patients With Salivary Gland Cancers
Study Type: Interventional/single-group assignment
Study Sponsor and Collaborators: University of Washington
Purpose: To study how well nivolumab and ipilimumab work when given together with stereotactic body radiation therapy, and the side effects thereof, in treating patients with salivary gland cancers
Primary Outcome Measures: Incidence of adverse events [time frame: up to 100 days posttreatment]
Principal Investigator: Cristina Rodriguez, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; contact Susan Masterson, (206) 606-7445, smasters@seattlecca.org
Editor’s Note: The clinical trials presented here do not represent all the trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov. For the complete list, go to ClinicalTrials.gov. ■
