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The primary research element is to determine whether a graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis regimen of post-transplant cyclophosphamide, tacrolimus and MMF will reduce the likelihood of chronic GVHD in patients receiving a standard hematopoietic myeloablative stem cell transplant. The treatment related components of this protocol are established clinical practices. We are looking at cumulative incidence of chronic GVHD requiring systemic immunosuppressive treatment at 1 year post-transplant.

We are doing this study to compare the effectiveness of Single Fraction Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) to radiation treatment called fractionated SRS (or FSRS). SRS delivers a high dose of radiation in a single treatment to the small areas of cancer in the brain. FSRS that delivers a high dose of radiation given over 3 treatments. Both SRS and FSRS only deliver radiation to the small areas of cancer in the brain and minimizes dose to the surrounding normal brain tissue.

The purpose of this research is to compare the effects of nivolumab with vusolimogene oderparepvec (VO) against standard of care treatment drug(s) currently available for patients with advanced melanoma. We expect that taking part in this research will last up to 60 months.

This study will test GTB-5550, a B7H3-targeted natural killer (NK) cell engager, for the treatment of select solid tumor cancers. The study will determine the optimal dose level and evaluate preliminary safety and efficacy.

This study aims to evaluate the safety and tolerability of ADRX-0405 in people with advanced cancer and determine the optimal dose for treatment.

This study is to see if patients who get tafasitamab in addition to the standard regimen of lenalidomide and rituximab when they are just starting treatment are more likely to stay in remission after treatment than those who do not. We expect that participants will be in this research study for approximately 3 years total. Patients will be on active treatment for approximately 1 year.

The purpose of this research is to test safety, efficacy and compare the effects of a combination therapy involving inavolisib plus a CDK4/6i (palbociclib) and letrozole versus placebo plus a CDK4/6i (palbociclib) and letrozole on patients with HR+, HER2- advanced breast cancer (ABC). In this study, you will get either inavolisib plus palbociclib and letrozole or placebo plus palbociclib and letrozole. A placebo looks like a drug but has no active ingredient.

Participants who take part in this study will receive a study drug called ruxolitinib with a standard drug called nivolumab. The study is being done to measure the percentage of tumor (lymphoma) that shrinks after receiving ruxolitinib in combination with nivolumab. This study will also measure the length of time the lymphoma is inactive and how safe the combination is to administer to participants. Ruxolitinib is a pill that is taken twice every day. Nivolumab is given as an infusion in the clinic once every 4 weeks.

We have determined that the microbes (bacteria) in the colon can play a role in causing and preventing complications of colon surgery. While the surgical bowel prep before surgery eliminates the harmful bacteria, it also eliminates the beneficial bacteria that aid wound healing. The purpose of this study is to determine if we can restore the presence of good bacteria (also known as ‘intestinal microbiota’) in the colon by transplanting them from a healthy donor.

The purpose of this study is to assess whether JNJ-87189401 given in combination with pasritamig (JNJ-78278343) to men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (also known as mCRPC) can cause side effects, and to find doses for the two drugs when given in combination. Side effects are unexpected or unwanted reactions from receiving the study drugs. Additionally, the study will look at how long JNJ-87189401 and pasritamig stay in the body, how they act on the body, and how the body responds to them.

The upfront treatment for astrocytoma is surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. There is currently no standard therapy for when the astrocytoma has returned (recurs) or re-grows (progresses). This study uses the investigational drug FT536, a cell therapy that stimulates the immune system into action to treat astrocytoma that has returned or regrown. FT536 is a type of cell therapy made up of “natural killer” or NK cells, a type of immune blood cell that are known to attack cancer cells. The primary purpose of this study is to identify a safe dose of FT536 cells when given as an intratumoral injection and to identify the side effects of treatment with FT536. Another purpose of this study is to understand how FT536 alters the immune system in the brain and body.

The purpose of this study is to understand if a new immune treatment (pasritamig) added to best supportive care (including radiation, steroids, pain medication, or medications to strengthen your bones) for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer will work better than the best supportive care alone for patients without other treatment options.

This study is about treatment of Melanoma (a kind of skin cancer) that has spread or cannot be surgically removed and has gotten worse after standard treatments. This study includes patients with melanoma from any part of the body except the eye. The main purpose of this study is to learn if the study medicine (tebentafusp), alone or a combination with pembrolizumab, helps patients with advanced melanoma live longer. The combination of pembrolizumab and tebentafusp used in this study is experimental.

The purpose of this study is to learn about the safety and effects of pioglitazone and metformin on people and their risk of cancers of the head or neck. We hope to learn more about the potential for pioglitazone and metformin to be used as a way to prevent oral or oropharyngeal cancers in people who are at risk for those cancers. Participants will get both pioglitazone and metformin, as a single pill to be taken at the same time for 12 weeks.

We are looking at how well letrozole with or without paclitaxel and carboplatin works in treating patients with stage II-IV low-grade serous carcinoma of the ovary, fallopian tube, or peritoneum. Letrozole is an enzyme inhibitor that lowers the amount of estrogen made by the body and may stop the growth of tumor cells that need estrogen to grow. We will compare the effectiveness of the two different treatments.

The purpose of the study is to compare two surgical procedures and their ability to decrease the risk of developing ovarian cancer for pre-menopausal women with BRCA1 mutations.

The investigational therapy in this study is referred to as Restorative Microbiota Therapy (RMT). It is prepared by extracting healthy bacteria from the stool of healthy human donors and making it into capsules taken by mouth. The donor stool samples are rigorously tested for harmful bacteria and viruses before processing. There is scientific evidence to suggest that RMT might make immunotherapy more effective. The primary goal of the study is to test if RMT makes durvalumab + tremelimumab treatment with chemotherapy more effective to control lung cancer.

Finding liver cancer early is important to increase chances of getting treatment and decreasing risk of dying from cancer. The purpose of this research is to compare the effectiveness of two liver cancer screening methods to detect liver cancer at an early stage. Participants will be randomly (by chance) placed in one of two study groups – one group will undergo ultrasound imaging of the liver with or without a blood test to measure a specific protein, whereas the second group will undergo a blood test for liver cancer screening called a GALAD score. The GALAD score combines three blood tests to screen for liver cancer. We do not currently know if GALAD would help detect liver cancer earlier than standard screening.

The main purpose of this study is to look at how safe and well tolerated the study drug is in combination with ribociclib (Group 1) or alpelisib (Group 2), the levels of the study drug and ribociclib or alpelisib in your blood, and how your body and your cancer respond.

The goal of this study is to identify the role of cell-free fragments of DNA (cfDNA) and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) found in blood and/or urine of patients with bladder cancer in determining whether some patients can avoid chemotherapy and or radical cystectomy. Large numbers of samples need to be analyzed. Participants will be asked to provide additional blood and urine samples; no treatment is provided in this study.

This research trial studies the Project: Every Child for younger patients with cancer. Gathering health information over time from younger patients with cancer may help doctors find better methods of treatment and on-going care.

This study is meant for participants who have been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and have a specific mutation in a gene called TP53. The study will give these participants an investigational drug called bortezomib in combination with an approved drug for AML, CPX-351 (brand name: Vyxeos). The researchers are studying this combination to find out if it is safe to give to people, as well as to find out how well it works for people who have AML with the TP53 mutation.

We will enroll healthy pregnant women (following enrollment, all subsequent study procedures will be completed postpartum) or postpartum women on hormonal birth control or no hormonal birth control with either a recent history of smoking and a desire to remain abstinent after childbirth, or who are currently smoking and motivated to quit smoking. Participants will be recruited throughout the continental United States (US). Participants living in Minnesota (our clinical site) will receive a 12-week course of exogenous progesterone. Participants will be followed for six months with remote visits, self-administered surveys, and self-collection of dried blood spots to measure hormones and smoking-related biomarkers.

This phase Ib/II trial evaluates the safety, optimal dose, and efficacy of the combination of epcoritamab and ibrutinib in treating patients with aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma that has come back (relapsed) or responded to previous treatment (refractory).

The purpose of this research is to learn more about whether T-DXd with Rilvegostomig or Pembrolizumab works better and is safe for the treatment of primary advanced or recurrent endometrial cancers that express the HER2 protein in high levels and that have a genetic characteristic known as mismatch repair proficiency (pMMR), when compared to chemotherapy (Carboplatin and Paclitaxel).

This study is being done to learn more about the efficacy and safety of LN-145 in participants with metastatic stage IV non-small cell lung cancer.

The goal of this study is to find out whether combining different study drugs makes tumors shrink in people with advanced head and neck cancer. This type of cancer is in the mouth, nose, throat, and sinuses. The study drugs are antibodies that act in different ways against cancer. BI 770371 and pembrolizumab may help the immune system fight cancer. Cetuximab blocks growth signals and may prevent the tumor from growing. Participants are put into 1 out of 3 groups, by chance (like drawing names from a hat), and which of the study treatments participants will receive.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of investigational devices (the Lilac Glove and Lilac Boot devices) for the temporary reduction of moderate to severe symptoms of peripheral neuropathy caused by chemotherapy during the treatment of cancer. The Lilac Glove and Lilac Boot devices are designed to keep chemotherapy medication from damaging nerves. The study involves wearing the Lilac Glove and Boot devices on both hands and feet at each treatment session. Participants will be randomly assigned (like the flip of a coin) into one of two treatment groups; the “intervention group” (which means you receive treatment with the therapeutic Lilac devices) or the “control group” (which means you will receive treatment with the sham devices).

The purpose of this study is to learn more about ocular (relating to the eye) side-effects of tisotumab vedotin (brand name: TIVDAK™). A side effect is anything the drug does to your body besides treating your disease. It is approved for women with cervical cancer that has spread through the body or come back during or after chemotherapy. We are doing a study to understand whether there are any ocular side-effects of TIVDAK.

A study to evaluate if the randomized addition of venetoclax to a chemotherapy backbone (fludarabine/cytarabine/gemtuzumab ozogamicin [GO]) improves survival of children/adolescents/young adults with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in 1st relapse who are unable to receive additional anthracyclines, or in 2nd relapse.