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Clinical trials

Discuss questions, comments and worries you have relating to clinical trials.

OVATURE Trial

aquilega
  • By aquilega · New reply June 21, 2009
  • 12 replies
  • Hi is anybody on the Ovature trial? If so I would be very interested to know how you are getting on. I have been on it for some months now and am progressing well. Aquilegia ...

I'm on the PARP inhibitors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sueoz
  • By sueoz · New reply June 16, 2009
  • 50 replies
  • Hello again my beautiful girls. I thought I'd just post another thread relating to PARP inhibitors because today I was finally told that I could start on them. I was on a clinical trial comparing Doxil ...

sugery and the vaccine trial

CATSMEOW
  • By CATSMEOW · New reply June 4, 2009
  • 5 replies
  • I had my abdominal tumor out last tues at u.of penn.Had enough for the vaccine trial.I will start on chemo again because I have tiny size tumors on my colon and abdominal wall that dr. says chemo will ...

Carbo/Taxol - Avastin trial

agg22
  • By agg22 · New reply May 20, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • Hi everyone, I was just curious about something. My mom is stage IIIc with positive retroperitoneal nodes. She is optimally debulked with no visible residual tumor. When we were first discussing therapy ...

Irinotecan Working for Me

OldieLocks
  • By OldieLocks · New reply May 15, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • I am in a clinical study called NKTR-102 PEG Irinotecan and after two treatments, my CA125 is 16 down from 88. The two spots on the omentum have shrunk. This is good news for me as I have been dealing ...

New Chemo Drug

MinnieM
  • By MinnieM · New reply May 9, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • Just wanted everyone who is big in research to check out the new drug A6, which is working its way through FDA bureaucracy and should be released for Phase II clinical trial in the next 3-6 months. The ...

Clinical trial GDC-o449

nancyt
  • By nancyt · New reply May 4, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • Hi All- I was first dx.'d in May 2005-and had my first recurrence in July of 2008. I was asked to take part in this drug trial and am on my second month of taking this drug (or maybe a placebo-it's a ...

Ovarian Cancer Vaccine

ohmama123
  • By ohmama123 · New reply May 2, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • I apologize if someone already posted this - I hadn't seen anything posted about testing this vaccine in the US. I copied the link but also pasted the article below the link. http://www.ivanhoe.com/channels/p_channe ...

Endocyte PRECEDENT Study

kss1204
  • By kss1204 · New reply April 19, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • We are in no way endorsing this trial only making the information available... If you have questions please contact the person listed below. I am only posting this to share and am not affiliated with ...

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K-rol
  • By K-rol · New reply April 17, 2009
  • 12 replies
  • hello ! i m french , 27 years ovac stade IV i doing clinical trial since 5 march , carboplatin/taxol/avastin (ICON7) i want know your opinion concerning avastin and if anyone else out there on this trial ...

Avastin trial

Dee09
  • By Dee09 · New reply March 29, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • Hi all, I know there's been a lot of discussion of Avastin, but I'm wondering if anyone is on the same trial that I'm on - six cycles of IP/IV cisplatin and taxol with IV Avastin then 11 more months of ...

Considering IP/IV vs. Clinical trial with Avastin

chewbarod
  • By chewbarod · New reply March 26, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • Hello- My mother was recently diagnosed with Stage IIIc ovarian cancer. She had optimal debulking sugery and had a port put in. We have the opportunity to either do the IP/IV treatment (taxel/cisplatin ...

Clinical Trial Working!

Jane4
  • By Jane4 · New reply March 19, 2009
  • 4 replies
  • Hi, After 4 years fighting ovac, (IIIC), including 3 major surgeries, and 3 rounds of chemo, my cancer came back again. This time, I enrolled in a clinical trial at NIH, involving avasten and sorafanib ...

Avastin Clinical Trial

Susan5
  • By Susan5 · New reply March 15, 2009
  • 16 replies
  • Hey: Anyone else out there doing the Avastin/Carboplatin/Gemzar clinical trial?? Recovering from the side-affects of the first cycle and want to know if it gets worse with each additional cycle or if ...

PARP vs Doxil Clinical Trial

sueoz
  • By sueoz · New reply March 14, 2009
  • 34 replies
  • Hello beautiful girls. I'm Sue and I'm from Australia. I've been visiting the forum on and off since about November last year but I've finally decided to post! I love visiting this site and listening ...

NEW CLINICAL TRIAL FOR SUBJECTS FOR RELAPSED SOLID TUMORS

energygirl
  • By energygirl · New reply March 5, 2009
  • 5 replies
  • THIS IS ENERGYGIRL TELLING ALL WHO ARE INTERESTED IN A NEW PROMISING CLINICAL TRIAL BEING HELD AT NUMEROUS LOCATIONS, PHASE II WHICH IS USING A TARGETED THERAPY DRUG THAT GOES AFTER CANCER CELLS ONLY ...

Clinical Trial NKTR-102 (PEG-Irinotecan)

OldieLocks
  • By OldieLocks · New reply February 24, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • Anybody heard of this? I thought I would be starting on Doxil today, but my oncologist said my cancer is still there and growing, but not rapidly. He gave me some choices to consider before we do anything ...

A6 Clinical Trial

Brandi
  • By Brandi · Posted February 22, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • Has anyone had experience with the Phase II clinical trial for this A6 drug to possibly avoid / delay recurrence? I read the criteria and it is for women who have an increasing CA125 but no evidence of ...

VEGF Trap or Precedent Clinical Trial...Help me choose

jethro
  • By jethro · New reply February 9, 2009
  • 14 replies
  • Hello all! I’ve got to make a decision in the next few weeks and I REALLY would appreciate ya’lls thoughts/comments/wisdom on this. The carbo/taxol 1st line is not working for me. I’m stage IIIc Clear ...

clinical trial with dasatinib

msduckb
  • By msduckb · New reply January 21, 2009
  • 10 replies
  • I have just started to participate in a NCI phase II trial with the drug dasatinib. Anyone else in this trial? I was dx 4/07 stage 3c (mixed serous & clear cell); finished 6 rounds of carbo&(4taxol 2 ...

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