UPMC-Heritage Valley Health System Beaver

Summary

UPMC-Heritage Valley Health System Beaver is a medical facility located in Beaver, Pennsylvania. This center is recognized for care of Lung Cancer, Breast Cancer, Breast cancer, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, Squamous Cell Carcinoma and other specialties. UPMC-Heritage Valley Health System Beaver is involved with conducting 110 clinical trials across 258 conditions. There are 20 research doctors associated with this hospital, such as Liza C. Villaruz, Adam Brufsky, MD, Melissa A. Burgess, and Dan P. Zandberg.

Top PIs

Clinical Trials running at UPMC-Heritage Valley Health System Beaver

Prostate Cancer

Lung Cancer

Kidney Cancer

Breast cancer

Oropharyngeal Carcinoma

Esophageal cancer

Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Breast Cancer

Small Cell Lung Cancer

Obesity

Apalutamide + Targeted Radiation

for Prostate Cancer

This phase III trial tests two questions by two separate comparisons of therapies. The first question is whether enhanced therapy (apalutamide in combination with abiraterone + prednisone) added to standard of care (prostate radiation therapy and short term androgen deprivation) is more effective compared to standard of care alone in patients with prostate cancer who experience biochemical recurrence (a rise in the blood level of prostate specific antigen \[PSA\] after surgical removal of the prostate cancer). A second question tests treatment in patients with biochemical recurrence who show prostate cancer spreading outside the pelvis (metastasis) by positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. In these patients, the benefit of adding metastasis-directed radiation to enhanced therapy (apalutamide in combination with abiraterone + prednisone) is tested. Diagnostic procedures, such as PET, may help doctors look for cancer that has spread to the pelvis. Androgens are hormones that may cause the growth of prostate cancer cells. Apalutamide may help fight prostate cancer by blocking the use of androgens by the tumor cells. Metastasis-directed targeted radiation therapy uses high energy rays to kill tumor cells and shrink tumors that have spread. This trial may help doctors determine if using PET results to deliver more tailored treatment (i.e., adding apalutamide, with or without targeted radiation therapy, to standard of care treatment) works better than standard of care treatment alone in patients with biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer.

Recruiting

2 awards

Phase 3

Apalutamide + Hormone and Radiation Therapies

for Prostate Cancer

This phase III trial studies whether adding apalutamide to the usual treatment improves outcome in patients with lymph node positive prostate cancer after surgery. Radiation therapy uses high energy x-ray to kill tumor cells and shrink tumors. Androgens, or male sex hormones, can cause the growth of prostate cancer cells. Drugs, such as apalutamide, may help stop or reduce the growth of prostate cancer cell growth by blocking the attachment of androgen to its receptors on cancer cells, a mechanism similar to stopping the entrance of a key into its lock. Adding apalutamide to the usual hormone therapy and radiation therapy after surgery may stabilize prostate cancer and prevent it from spreading and extend time without disease spreading compared to the usual approach.

Recruiting

2 awards

Phase 3

Relugolix + Radiation

for Advanced-Stage Prostate Cancer

This phase II trial compares the usual treatment of radiation therapy alone to using the study drug, relugolix, plus the usual radiation therapy in patients with castration-sensitive prostate cancer that has spread to limited other parts of the body (oligometastatic). Relugolix is in a class of medications called gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor antagonists. It works by decreasing the amount of testosterone (a male hormone) produced by the body. It may stop the growth of cancer cells that need testosterone to grow. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x rays or protons to kill tumor cells. The addition of relugolix to the radiation may reduce the chance of oligometastatic prostate cancer spreading further.

Recruiting

0 awards

Phase 2