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Chemotherapy

What Is Chemotherapy?

Chemotherapy is a medications that damage the cells divide into the body.

Unlike surgery or radiation, chemotherapy works all over the body and is not focused. This means that it can eliminate cancerous lesions, such as metastasis, that have developed in various organs of the body.

Chemotherapy’s impact has a range of side effects such as hair loss, loss of appetite, changes to bowel movements, fatigue, infection, hemorrhaging, incontinence, pain, and more.

Chemotherapy will be given with or without radiation

Examples of standard chemotherapy protocols for treating pancreatic cancer:

Folfirinox is a combination of 4 anti cancer drugs:

  1. Leucovorin
  2. Adrucil®, (Fluorouracil, 5-FU)
  3. Camptosar®, Campto®, (Irinotecan)
  4. Eloxatin®, (Oxaliplatin)

Gemzar®, gemcitabine and one or two of this drugs:

Examples of standard chemotherapy protocols for treating breast cancer:

Examples of standard chemotherapy protocols for treating skin cancer or Melanoma:

Chemotherapy innovation

Facts

  1. The existing therapies used on stage 4 metastatic cancer are not curative, and this is a source to the need for innovative and effective treatment strategies in order to fight the disease.
  2. The National Cancer Institute, NCI, highlights the fact that for a certain group of cancer patients, the best treatment option is to join one of the many clinical trials existing worldwide aiming to increase their chances of therapeutic success.
  3. Currently, every patient will be offered the standard protocols described above. Sometimes the oncologist may suggest integrating these therapies with trials carried out in the institute.

The opportunity

  1. Advances in cancer therapies may be found in clinical trials prescribing cutting edge, innovative drugs, some of which have already been recognized by the US Food & Drug Administration, the FDA, as “breakthrough drugs” and require further information to be approved.
  2. An entire world of clinical trials, Compassionate drugs and advanced new cancer treatments are available worldwide.
  3. It is important to know and have access to cutting edge cancer treatments that best match the unique medical condition of the patient and increase chances in winning the fight against compared to the standard care offered.

Read our publications on innovative treatments and chemotherapies:

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Endometrial Cancer – Vistusertib Plus Arimidex in Patients With HR+

Importance

Endometrial cancer is often hormone-dependent and treated with aromatase inhibitors, (AIs).

The uncontrolled PI3K-AKT-mTOR pathway observed in this type of cancer drives hormonal resistance. Therefore, there is rationale of combining mTOR inhibitor with endocrine therapy.

This is what the investigators evaluated in the VICTORIA clinical trial.

This phase I/II clinical trial evaluated the efficacy and safety of Vistusertib, an mTOR inhibitor, combined with Arimidex in patients with hormone receptor–positive, HR+, recurrent or metastatic endometrial cancer.

After 8 weeks the percentage of women who had no progression almost doubled with Vistusertib plus Arimidex compared with Arimidex alone.

Vistusertib plus Arimidex demonstrated clinically meaningful benefit, with manageable side effects, in patients with recurrent or metastatic HR+ endometrial cancer.

Objective

To evaluate the safety and efficacy of Vistusertib in combination with Arimidex in the treatment of women with hormone receptor-positive (HR+) recurrent or metastatic endometrial cancer.

About the VICTORIA Study in Endometrial Cancer Patients

The VICTORIA study was a multicenter, randomized clinical trial that enrolled 75 patients with hormone receptor-positive recurrent or metastatic endometrial cancer.

Patients were recruited to the study from 12 cancer centers in France in April 2016 to October 2019.

Study Treatment

Patients were randomized to two arms: Oral Vistusertib (125 mg twice daily 2 days per week) and oral Arimidex (1 mg daily) in the combination Vistusertib with Arimidex arm (V+A arm) or oral Arimidex alone (A arm).

Results of the Study

Of the 75 patients, 73 were treated:

V+A arm: 49 patients

A arm: 24 patients

In the V+A arm, 67.3% of patients were did not progress after 8 weeks and in the A arm, 39.1% did not progress.

No significant serious side effects were reported.

The overall Response Rate was 24.5% in the V+A arm vs 17.4% in the A arm.

Median Progression Free Survival, PFS, was 5.2 months in the V+A arm and 1.9 months in the A arm.

Fatigue, lymphopenia, hyperglycemia, and diarrhea were the most common side effects associated with Vistusertib.

Conclusions for Endometrial Cancer Patients

This multicenter, phase 1/2 clinical trial demonstrated that adding Vistusertib to Arimidex improved treatment outcomes for patients with endometrial cancer.

Vistusertib plus Arimidex had manageable side effects.

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