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.
The standard treatment for head and neck cancers includes high-dose radiation therapy and chemotherapy, but it commonly causes side effects. In this study, researchers are assessing a treatment for head and neck cancer that starts with standard high-dose radiation therapy and chemotherapy and then reduces the doses of both treatments. Patients then have surgery to remove lymph nodes and tissue from the neck area.
The purpose of this study is to find the highest dose of the investigational drug PC14586 that can be given in patients with solid tumors that came back or continue to grow despite prior therapy and contain a mutation in the TP53 gene. The p53 protein produced by this gene normally tells cells when to stop dividing, but when TP53 is altered (mutated), cancer may result.
This study is assessing the safety and effectiveness of ASTX727 in people who have malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST) with a mutation in a gene complex called PRC2 (EED or SUZ12). ASTX727 is a combination of two drugs (cedazuridine and decitabine) that have been designed to target cancer cells with a PRC2 complex genetic mutation and disrupt the cells' ability to survive and grow.
Researchers want to see if a test for cancer DNA in the blood helps doctors decide whether to reduce Hodgkin lymphoma chemotherapy. The blood test is a circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) test called Foresight CLARITY. ctDNA is genetic material released by tumor cells directly into the bloodstream.
Researchers want to see if disitamab vedotin plus tucatinib is safe and works well in people with advanced solid tumors. They want to find the best dose of disitamab vedotin to give with tucatinib. The people in this study have different types of HER2-positive and HER2-low solid tumors, including breast cancer.
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in infants (babies under 1 year of age) can be challenging to treat. Researchers in this study are assessing the addition of 2 new drugs to standard chemotherapy for ALL in infants.
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and effectiveness of giving the investigational immunotherapy drug INCMGA00012 in combination with gemcitabine and docetaxel in patients with inoperable or metastatic soft tissue sarcoma. Gemcitabine and docetaxel are standard treatments for this disease; researchers believe that adding INCMGA00012 may make treatment more effective.
To learn more about the purpose of this study and to find out who can join, please click here to visit ClinicalTrials.gov for a full clinical trial description.
Researchers are assessing a new treatment for people with prostate cancer that has not spread but has a high risk of spreading. The new treatment, 2141-V11, will be given with standard prostate cancer therapies.
When vulvar cancer is removed, surgeons examine the first lymph nodes to which cancer might spread ("sentinel lymph nodes") to see if they contain cancer cells. If the sentinel lymph nodes contain cancer, the usual treatment is more surgery to remove all of the lymph nodes in the groin, followed by several weeks of radiation therapy to reduce the chance that the cancer will come back. However, removing all of the lymph nodes increases the risk of lymphedema, which causes uncomfortable swelling in the legs, as well as an elevated risk of infection.
