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  • Objective:

    Primary Objective:

    • To determine if ado-trastuzumab emtansine (T-DM1) shows better progression-free survival (PFS) when compared to docetaxel plus trastuzumab (TH) in recurrent and/or metastatic (R/M) HER2-positive salivary gland cancer (SGC) patients who have not previously received HER2 therapy for unresectable or recurrent and/or metastatic disease, as determined by local assessment.

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To compare the overall response rate (ORR) by RECIST v1.1 criteria between arms;
    • To compare overall survival (OS) between arms;
    • To compare toxicity using CTCAE v5.0 criteria between arms;
    • To assess patient-reported toxicity, as measured by the PRO-CTCAE, between arms, and explore patient-reported symptomatic adverse events (AEs) for tolerability of each treatment arm as measured by the PRO-CTCAE.
    Cancer Categories:
    • Head and Neck
    Principal Investigator:
    • Sukari, Ammar
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • NRG-HN010
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase II
  • Objective:

    Primary Objective:

    • To compare the non-inferiority of bilateral salpingectomy (BLS) with delayed oophorectomy to bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) to reduce the risk of ovarian cancer among women with deleterious BRCA1 germ-line mutations.

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To prospectively assess estrogen deprivation symptoms in BLS patients as measured by the FACTES sub-scale compared to women in the BSO arm.
    • To determine if health-related QOL (FACT) is negatively impacted by menopausal symptoms (menopausal symptom checklist-MSCL), sexual dysfunction (FSFI), and cancer distress (IES) in women who have undergone BLS, in comparison to normative data (MSCL/FACT-ES) and data from BSO patients.
    • To assess medical decision making, as measured by the Shared Decision Making Questionnaire (SDM-Q-9) and Decision Regret Scale (DRS), and determine factors associated with the risk of reducing surgical treatment choice.
    • To assess adverse events, graded using CTCAE v5.0.
    Cancer Categories:
    • Gynecologic
    Principal Investigator:
    • Winer, Ira
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • NRG-CC008
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • N/A
  • Objective:

    Primary Objectives:

    • To evaluate the anti-tumor activity of genetically modified autologous T-cells (ADP-A2M4CD8) as monotherapy and in combination with nivolumab in HLA-A*02 positive subjects with MAGE-A4 positive recurrent ovarian cancer

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To evaluate the safety and tolerability of genetically modified autologous T-cells (ADP-A2M4CD8) as monotherapy and in combination with nivolumab in HLA-A*02 positive subjects with MAGE-A4 positive recurrent ovarian cancer
    • To further evaluate the anti-tumor activity of genetically modified autologous T-cells (ADP-A2M4CD8) as monotherapy and in combination with nivolumab in HLA-A*02 positive subjects with MAGE-A4 positive recurrent ovarian cancer
    • To characterize the surrogates of treatment effect
    Cancer Categories:
    • Gynecologic
    Principal Investigator:
    • Morris, Robert
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • GOG-3084
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase II
  • Objective:

    Primary Objective:

    • To evaluate the antitumor activity of nemvaleukin alfa (‘nemvaleukin’, ALKS 4230)in combination with pembrolizumab as compared with chemotherapy in patients with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To evaluate the antitumor activity of nemvaleukin in combination with pembrolizumab as compared with chemotherapy
    • To evaluate the safety of nemvaleukin in combination with pembrolizumab as compared with chemotherapy
    Cancer Categories:
    • Gynecologic
    Principal Investigator:
    • Morris, Robert
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • GOG-3063
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase III
  • Objective:

    Primary Objective:

    • To compare the progression-free survival (PFS) of the combination of avutometinib plus defactinib vs Investigator’s Choice of Treatment (ICT) in patients with recurrent LGSOC

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To compare the combination of avutometinib plus defactinib vs ICT in patients with recurrent LGSOC with regard to additional efficacy parameters
    • To characterize the safety and tolerability of combination avutometinib plus defactinib vs ICT in patients with recurrent LGSOC
    • To determine the exposure of avutometinib and defactinib in patients with recurrent LGSOC treated with combination of avutometinib plus defactinib
    • To assess the health-related quality of life and disease related symptoms in patients with recurrent LGSOC treated with combination avutometinib plus defactinib vs ICT
    Cancer Categories:
    • Gastrointestinal (GI),Gynecologic
    Principal Investigator:
    • Morris, Robert
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • GOG-3097
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase III
  • Objective:

    Primary Objectives:

    • To evaluate the efficacy of selinexor compared to placebo as maintenance therapy

    Key Secondary Objectives:

    • To compare overall OS in selinexor and placebo arms

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To evaluate the safety and tolerability of selinexor
    • To compare selinexor and placebo for time to first subsequent therapy
    • To compare selinexor and placebo for time to second subsequent therapy
    • To compare selinexor and placebo for time until second progression
    • To assess the efficacy of selinexor compared to placebo, as assessed by a blinded independent central review (BICR)
    • To evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) outcomes
    Cancer Categories:
    • Gynecologic
    Principal Investigator:
    • Gogoi, Radhika
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • GOG-3083
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase III
  • Objective:

    Primary Objective(s):

    • To compare progression-free survival in participants with metastatic papillary renal cell carcinoma (mPRCC) randomized to cabozantinib with atezolizumab versus cabozantinib alone.
       

    Secondary Objective(s):

    • To compare overall survival in participants with mPRCC randomized to cabozantinib with atezolizumab versus cabozantinib alone.
    • To compare RECIST objective response rate (confirmed and unconfirmed, complete and partial response) in participants with mPRCC randomized to cabozantinib with atezolizumab versus cabozantinib alone.
    • To evaluate the quantitative & qualitive adverse events observed in each treatment arm.
    Cancer Categories:
    • Genitourinary (GU)
    Principal Investigator:
    • Heath, Elisabeth
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • S2200
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase II
  • Objective:

    Primary Objectives:

    • Phase II: To assess the efficacy of concurrent definitive therapy followed by nivolumab compared with concurrent definitive therapy followed by observation in terms of progression-free survival (PFS).
    • Phase III: To assess the efficacy of concurrent definitive therapy followed by nivolumab compared with concurrent definitive therapy followed by observation in terms of overall survival (OS).

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To further assess the efficacy of nivolumab compared with observation in terms of the relationship of baseline PD-L1 expression to clinical outcome.
    • To evaluate the predictive value of HPV16 E6 and E7 DNA in saliva and plasma, at baseline, 12 weeks and 9 months after completion of radiation on PFS and OS in both arms of the study.
    • To evaluate the tumor mutation burden by whole exome sequencing of the initial pretreatment tissue sample as well as samples obtained at the time of progression.
    • To evaluate the association of 12 week post therapy FDG PET/CT with PFS and OS.
    • To establish the prognostic value of SUVmax of primary tumor or neck nodal metastasis of baseline FDG PET/CT for OS (and/or PFS).
    • To correlate SUVmax of primary tumor or nodal metastasis of baseline FDG PET/CT with PD-L1 expression (positive vs. negative).
    • To correlate the post therapy (cisplatin + RT) FDG PET/CT with saliva or plasma levels of HPV DNA collected at the time of the standard 3 months PET/CT scan as well as 6 months later (i.e. 9 months post therapy) for both the observation and Nivolumab groups.
    • To compare the PET based therapy response assessment (Hopkins criteria) to the RECIST 1.1 assessment at 12 week post chemoradiation therapy, for patients who have a PET/CT scan at 12 weeks.
    Cancer Categories:
    • Head and Neck
    Principal Investigator:
    • Sukari, Ammar
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • EA3161
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase II/III
  • Objective:

    Primary Objective:

    • To evaluate whether breast conservation surgery and endocrine therapy results in a non-inferior rate of invasive or non-invasive ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence (IBTR) compared to breast conservation with breast radiation and endocrine therapy.

    Secondary Objectives:

    • To evaluate whether breast conservation surgery and endocrine therapy inclusive of any second breast conservation surgery for salvage of IBTR results in a non-inferior rate of overall breast conservation compared to breast conserving surgery, endocrine therapy and radiation for IBTR.
    • To evaluate whether breast conservation surgery and endocrine therapy results in a non-inferior rate of invasive ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence (IIBTR) compared to breast conservation, breast radiation, and endocrine therapy.
    • To evaluate whether breast conservation surgery and endocrine therapy results in a non-inferior relapse free interval (RFI) compared to breast conservation, breast radiation, and endocrine therapy.
    • To evaluate whether breast conservation surgery and endocrine therapy results in a non-inferior distant disease-free survival(DDFS) compared to breast conservation, breast radiation, and endocrine therapy.
    • To evaluate whether breast conservation surgery and endocrine therapy results in a non-inferior overall survival (OS) compared to breast conservation, breast radiation, and endocrine therapy.
    • To evaluate whether there is a difference in patient-reported breast pain in women who do and do not receive breast radiation.
    • To evaluate whether there is a difference in patient-reported worry about recurrence in women who do and do not receive breast radiation.
    • To evaluate whether adherence to endocrine therapy following breast conservation surgery alone is non inferior compared to endocrine therapy with breast conservation surgery and breast radiation.
    Cancer Categories:
    • Breast
    Principal Investigator:
    • Yeh, Brian
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • NRG-BR007
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase III
  • Objective:
    Primary Objectives:
    • To compare the overall survival (OS) following induction with steroids + TKI + blinatumomab versus induction with steroids + TKI + chemotherapy.

    Secondary Objectives:
    • To compare the rate of MRD negativity for patients treated with chemotherapy vs blinatumomab at the end of first induction (week 15).
    • To evaluate the rate of the MRD negativity by treatment arm for those patients MRD positive after the first induction and administered of second induction.
    • To compare event free survival (EFS) for patients initially randomized for chemotherapy vs blinatumomab. (Events include failure to achieve induction molecular remission by week 15, confirmed molecular relapse after molecular remission or to death in remission).
    • To assess the toxicities of blinatumomab+TKI and steroids + TKI + chemotherapy in this patient population.
    • To assess the toxicities of the chemotherapy regimen in this patient population.
    • To describe the outcome of patients who proceed to allogeneic stem cell transplant after treatment with blinatumomab+TKI only.
    Cancer Categories:
    • Hematologic (Blood Cancers)
    Principal Investigator:
    • Yang, Jay
    Karmanos Trial ID:
    • EA9181
    Age Group:
    • Adult
    Phase:
    • Phase III