Clinical trials: sponsored by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Hematologic Neoplasms
Understanding What Matters Most to Patients: Establishing the Validity of a Best-Worst Scaling Survey
This study will evaluate the validity of using a survey to quantify patient preferences at the point-of-care and the potential effectiveness of the survey to improve goal-concordant care.
- Trial name
- NCT05061095
- Testing
- Assessment Surveys, Qualitative Interviews
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 51 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Complex Atypical Hyperplasia, Endometrial Cancer
Metformin With the Levonorgestrel-Releasing Intrauterine Device for the Treatment of Complex Atypical Hyperplasia (CAH) and Endometrial Cancer (EC) in Non-surgical Patients
Purpose: This is an open label, single-arm, single-center study of the addition of metformin to standard levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device (LR-IUD) treatment of 30 evaluable non-surgical patients with either complex…
- Trial name
- NCT02035787
- Testing
- Metformin
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, Head and Neck Neoplasms
De-intensification of Radiation & Chemotherapy in Low-Risk Human Papillomavirus-related Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Ca
The purpose of this research study is to learn about the effectiveness of using lower-intensity radiation and chemotherapy to treat human papillomavirus (HPV) associated low-risk oropharyngeal and/or unknown primary squamous cell…
- Conditions
- Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, Head and Neck Neoplasms, Oropharyngeal Neoplasms
- Trial name
- NCT01530997
- Testing
- Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT), Cisplatin, Limited surgical evaluation
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 45 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Head and Neck Cancer
Pembrolizumab + Radiation for Locally Adv SCC of the Head and Neck (SCCHN) Not Eligible Cisplatin
This study is being done to evaluate the efficacy of Pembrolizumab, concomitant with and following standard of care definitive radiation, for locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck patients who are not good…
- Trial name
- NCT02609503
- Testing
- Pembrolizumab, Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy
- Where
- 3 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 29 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Prostate Cancer
Efficacy of a Couple-Focused mHealth Symptom Self-management Program
In this study, the investigators propose to test the efficacy of a couple-focused, web-based tailored prostate cancer symptom management program, Prostate Cancer Education and Resources for Couples (PERC) in a randomized clinical…
- Trial name
- NCT03489057
- Testing
- Prostate Cancer Education and Resources for Couples (PERC), usual care plus NCI website
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 560 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Breast Cancer
Radiation Therapy During Surgery in Treating Older Women With Invasive Breast Cancer
RATIONALE: Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill tumor cells. Giving radiation during surgery may be an effective treatment for breast cancer.
- Trial name
- NRR (NCT00182728)
- Testing
- surgery, therapy, radiation therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 89 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Acute Myeloid Leukemia, in Relapse
High Dose Cytarabine Followed by Pembrolizumab in Relapsed/Refractory AML
Rationale:The purpose of this research study is to test the effectiveness of the standard high dose cytarabine (HiDAC) on days 1 through 5 followed by a single dose of pembrolizumab on day 14 as induction therapy in patients with…
- Trial name
- NCT02768792
- Testing
- pembrolizumab,
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 38 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Acute Myeloid Leukemia
RN-Led Palliative and Supportive Care Intervention
This single institution feasibility and acceptability study includes patients with acute leukemia which is designed to examine a novel palliative and supportive care intervention (Palliative and supportive Care inTervention…
- Trial name
- NCT04570709
- Testing
- Palliative And supportive Care inTervention (PACT)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 67 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Neoplasms, Cancer
An Evaluation of the Families Addressing Cancer Together (FACT) Intervention
This is a pilot feasibility and acceptability study to inform the development and testing of a novel communication intervention to support parents in their communication with children about cancer.
- Conditions
- Neoplasms, Cancer, Parenting, Communication
- Trial name
- FACT (NCT04342871)
- Testing
- FACT
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 53 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Neoplasms, Cancer
The Families Addressing Cancer Together Intervention for Parents With Cancer
The proposed pilot randomized controlled trial will test the FACT (Families Addressing Cancer Together) intervention designed to improve parents' confidence and ability to talk about their cancer with their minor children.
- Conditions
- Neoplasms, Cancer, Parenting, Communication
- Trial name
- FACT (NCT05377749)
- Testing
- FACT
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 47 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Von-Hippel Lindau, Kidney Disease, Chronic
Contrast-enhanced Ultrasound as a Screening Tool for Kidney Cancer in Patients With Von-Hippel Lindau
The purpose of this study is to determine if contrast-enhanced ultrasound can detect abnormal features of kidney lesions in patients with Von-Hippel Lindau with the same accuracy as conventional ultrasound and contrast-enhanced…
- Trial name
- CEUS-VHL (NCT03907657)
- Testing
- Perflutren lipid microsphere, Sulfur hexafluoride lipid microspheres
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 15 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, Head and Neck Neoplasms
P53 Mutational Status and cf HPV DNA for the Management of HPV-associated OPSCC
The primary objective of this study is to evaluate whether genomic based risk-stratification can be used in deciding whether to de-intensify in patients with Human Papillomavirus (HPV)-associated Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell…
- Conditions
- Carcinoma, Squamous Cell, Head and Neck Neoplasms, Oropharyngeal Neoplasms
- Trial name
- NCT03077243
- Testing
- Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT), Cisplatin (or alternative), Assessment for surgical evaluation
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 195 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Vaping
Impact of Vaping Prevention Advertisements
The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to determine whether exposure to vaping prevention advertisements (ads) reduce susceptibility to vaping among adolescents.
- Trial name
- NCT04836455
- Testing
- The FDA's The REal Cost vaping prevention ads - Health harms theme, The FDA's The Real Cost vaping prevention ads - Addiction theme, Neutral vaping ads
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 1,565 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Melanoma
An Exploratory Study of Pembrolizumab Plus Entinostat in Non-Inflamed Stage III/IV Melanoma
Cancers develop in two different ways. First, cancer cells can become invisible to the immune system by stop having proteins on their surface that are required for the immune system to recognize them.
- Trial name
- NCT03765229
- Testing
- Entinostat, Pembrolizumab
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 11 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Melanoma
Pembrolizumab TX-naive Distant Mets Melanoma and Use of (C11-AMT) PET at Baseline as Imaging Biomarker
Explore the association between intensity of 11C-methyl-L-tryptophan (C11-AMT) positron emission tomography (PET) at baseline, as measured by mean standardized uptake value (SUVmax) at each lesion, total tumor metabolic volume…
- Trial name
- NCT03089606
- Testing
- FDG PET/CT scan, C11-AMT PET scan, Pembrolizumab
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 27 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Kidney Cancer
Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound for Kidney Cancer Subtyping and Staging
The purpose of this study is to determine if contrast-enhanced ultrasound can detect abnormal features of kidney lesions in patients with suspected kidney cancer with the same accuracy as conventional ultrasound and…
- Trial name
- NCT04021238
- Testing
- Perflutren lipid microsphere, Sulfur hexafluoride lipid microspheres
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 25 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Lung Cancer, Neoplasms, Lung
Remote Monitoring of Lung Cancer Patient-Reported Outcomes Using Moovcare®
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how Moovcare®, a mobile medical application, can be used to monitor Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) related to cancer treatment, cancer complications, and cancer relapse in patients…
- Conditions
- Lung Cancer, Neoplasms, Lung, Neoplasms, Pulmonary, Pulmonary Cancer
- Trial name
- LC-PRO (NCT05011890)
- Testing
- Moovcare® use
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 41 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Renal Cell Carcinoma
PET/MR Characterization of Renal Cell Carcinomas
Purpose: To evaluate the utility of simultaneous positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in characterizing the molecular subtypes of clear cell renal cell carcinomas (ccRCC) to potentially inform…
- Trial name
- NCT04271254
- Testing
- PET/MR
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 5 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Metastatic Breast Cancer, Parenting
Fathers and Mothers Invested in Lives of Their Youth (FAMILY) Study: A Pilot Intervention
This is a single-arm pilot study to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a novel psychosocial intervention to improve psychosocial outcomes for parents with advanced cancer and their co-parents.
- Trial name
- FAMILY (NCT04092816)
- Testing
- FAMILY Intervention
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 15 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Study Of Single-dose Cyclophosphamide +Pembrolizumab In Patients With Metastatic Triple Negative Breast Cancer
The purpose of this study is to evaluate pembrolizumab therapy in patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) who have received at least one prior line of therapy.
- Trial name
- NCT02768701
- Testing
- Pembrolizumab, Cyclophosphamide
- Where
- 5 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people
- Sponsor
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center