Thoracic surgeon Daniela Molena leads clinical trials to improve outcomes for people with esophageal cancers.
At any time Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is conducting hundreds of clinical trials to improve care for many types of cancer. Use the tool below to browse our clinical trials that are currently enrolling new patients. Each listing explains the purpose of the trial, the trial’s eligibility criteria, and how to get more information.
The list below includes clinical trials for adult cancers. Please visit our pediatric cancer care section to find a pediatric clinical trial.
In this study, researchers want to find out how different amounts of aerobic training might improve cardiorespiratory fitness in people while they are treated for breast cancer. Cardiorespiratory fitness is important for the health of people receiving treatment for breast cancer. Aerobic exercise stimulates and strengthens the heart and lungs and improves how the body uses oxygen.
When people have Richter's transformation, their chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)/small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL) changes into a more aggressive disease. Researchers are assessing a new drug combination for people with Richter's transformation that came back or keeps growing after treatment.
Researchers want to find the best dose of CB-011 to treat multiple myeloma. The people in this study have multiple myeloma that keeps growing even after treatment.
Urothelial cancers can grow in different parts of the urinary tract. This includes the ureter (the tube that carries urine from the kidneys to the bladder) and renal pelvis. The renal pelvis is where the ureter connects to the kidneys. The standard treatment is surgery to remove the ureter, kidney, or both. In this study, researchers want to see if enfortumab vedotin, given before surgery, is useful for treating urothelial cancers. The people in this study have high-risk urothelial cancers of the upper urinary tract. High risk means there is a greater chance of the cancer coming back after treatment.
The standard approach to controlling pain after mastectomy includes intravenous and oral pain-relieving medications. In this study, researchers are determining if adding a long-acting local anesthetic, bupivacaine, into the wound at the end of the operation is more effective at reducing pain than the standard medications alone for women having a mastectomy on one side with no immediate reconstruction afterward.
Researchers are assessing a lower dose of standard radiation therapy after chemotherapy in young people with germinomas. The patients in this study have germinomas of the central nervous system (brain or spinal cord).  It is hoped that this new approach can destroy germinomas with fewer long-term side effects.
Researchers are assessing petosemtamab given alone or with standard chemotherapy in people with advanced colorectal cancer. The people in this study have colorectal cancer that is inoperable (cannot be removed with surgery) or has metastasized (spread).
In this study, researchers are assessing the safety and effectiveness of giving the drug disitamab vedotin alone and in combination with pembrolizumab immunotherapy in people with inoperable or metastatic urothelial cancers that make too much of the HER2 protein. Disitamab vedotin targets and kills cancer cells with the HER2 protein. Pembrolizumab boosts the power of the immune system to detect and destroy cancer cells.
Autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) is a treatment in which some of a patient's stem cells are removed before high-dose chemotherapy, then returned to the patient to help re-establish the patient's immune system after chemotherapy. Care for a patient after ASCT usually takes place in a hospital. In this study, researchers want to see if it is feasible to care for a patient at home after ASCT for multiple myeloma. Studies at other institutions suggest that providing care at home after ASCT is safe, increases patient satisfaction, and can lower the risk of infection.
