Hoosier Cancer Research Network recently opened a cancer clinical trial for subjects with advanced colorectal cancer. The study, known as GI14-186, involves the study drug called pembrolizumab, given in combination with mFOLFOX6, a standard chemotherapy regimen for advanced colorectal cancer. The study is currently open to accrual at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, and Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.
Cancer cells often create proteins called PD-1 that act as signals to turn off part of the immune system that recognizes cancer as foreign. Pembrolizumab blocks this signal and allows the immune system to recognize and attack these cancer cells.
The use of pembrolizumab in combination with mFOLFOX6 is investigational. This means that the FDA has not approved this combination of drugs for this type of cancer. This study will allow researchers to know whether adding pembrolizumab to the usual chemotherapy drugs makes the treatment work better, the same, or worse than the usual approach.
Participants in this study must have advanced colorectal cancer, and have not had prior systemic therapy for advanced or metastatic disease. Additional criteria must be met to be eligible for this study. Read More
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