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Today, we have new and better ways to treat cancer. Physicians at the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center are determined to make sure that patients receive the very best and very latest of those treatments. Clinical Trials are part of the process that leads to new treatments or preventive measures for disease. When a new procedure or therapy shows promise, it is evaluated in a carefully controlled, clinical setting to determine if it is effective. In cancer cases, trials may involve new drug therapies, surgical techniques or new combinations of common treatments like radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery.

Because the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center is accredited as an academic cancer center, it is able to offer clinical trials. By offering clinical trials we are able to bring hope to the people of this region. The center also provides information about clinical trials to the community through outreach clinics and support to local physicians.

At our center, more than 8 percent of patients take part in trials. Many trials show great promise, and we are working every day to make sure that people in eastern North Carolina who wish to, have an opportunity to participate in clinical trials.

Specialists at our cancer center have joined leaders from other major cancer centers across the country to organize Clinical Trials Cooperative Groups. In addition to these cooperative group trials, our center also participates in studies sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.

These clinical research studies are monitored carefully by review committees both at this center and at the National Cancer Institute. Our Institutional Review Board (IRB) is located at the Ed Warren Life Sciences Building and includes doctors and other health professionals who protect the rights and welfare of patients participating in clinical trials.

The following link to the National Cancer Institute has questions and answers on clinical trials.

For more information on the clinical trials currently open at the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center, please contact:

Kent Briley, MSW
Clinical Trials Manager
252-744-9011
brileyk@ecu.edu

Mindy Friday, RN, OCN
Clinical Trials Nurse
252-744-1015
pager: 252-383-0927
fridaym@ecu.edu

Jackie Unger, RN, OCN
Clinical Trials Nurse
252-744-9016
pager: 252-383-0184
ungerj@ecu.edu

Michelle Sagraves, RN
Clinical Trials Nurse
252-744-3617
pager: 383-0325
sagravesm@ecu.edu

Sue Ann Joyner
Regulatory Coordinator
252-744-9010
joynersu@ecu.edu

Hollie Wooten
Regulatory Coordinator
252-744-0320
massenburgwootenh@ecu.edu

Donnie Civils
Clinical Research Associate
252-744-4924
civilsd@ecu.edu

Glenda Daniels
Administrative Assistant
252-744-4929
danielsg@ecu.edu

Clinical Trials Open:
(all Clinical Trials that are open may not be listed)


Blood

Protocol: Genomics:
Genomic Analysis using Blood from Gynecological Patients with Cervical Cancer or Cervical Dysplasia
 
PI: Ron Allison, MD


 Brain

Protocol: NCCTG-N0574:
A Phase III Randomized Trial of the Role of the Whole Brain Radiation Therapy in Addition to Radiosurgery in Patients with 1 to 3 Cerebral Metastases
PI: Ron Allison, MD


Breast

Protocol: NSABP B-42:
A Clinical Trial to Determine the Efficacy of Five Years of Letrozole Compared to Placebo in Patients Completing Five Years of Hormonal Therapy Consisting of an Aromatase Inhibitor (AI) or Tamoxifen Followed by an AI in Prolonging Disease-Free Survival in Postmenopausal Women with Hormone Receptor Positive Cancer
PI: Darla Liles, MD

Protocol: ECOG TAILORx Trial:
PACCT-1 Program for the Assessment of Clinical Cancer Tests (PACCT-1): Trial Assigning Individualized Options for Treatment: The TAILORx Trial
PI: Darla Liles, MD

Protocol: ECOG 5103:
A Double-Blind Phase III Trial of Doxorubicin and Cyclophosphamide Followed by Paclitaxel with Bevacizumab or Placebo in Patients with Lymph Node+ and High Risk Lymph Node Negative Breast Cancer
PI: Rachel Raab, MD

Protocol: LJCC 07-03:
A Phase II Trial of Neoadjuvant Metronomic Chemotherapy in Triple Negative Breast Cancer
PI: Paul Walker, MD

Protocol: LJCC 0801:
Evaluating the Role of Genotype in Tamoxifen Therapy for Breast Cancer
PI: Rachel Raab, MD


Gastrointestinal

Colorectal

Protocol: NSABP FC-4
A Randomized Phase II CT Investigating Irinotecan Plus Cetuximab with or without Anti-Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Receptor Monoclonal Antibody for the Treatment of Patients with Metastatic K-RAS Wild-Type Carcinoma of the Colon or Rectum that has Progressed on Oxaliplatin and Bevacizumab Given as 1st Line Therapy
PI: Pamela Lepera, MD



Genitourinary

Prostate

Protocol: RTOG 0521:
A Phase III Protocol of Androgen Suppression (AS) and 3DCRT/IMRT vs AS and 3DCRT/IMRT Followed by Chemotherapy with Docetaxel and Prednisone for Localized, High-Risk Prostate Cancer.
PI: Roger Ove, MD


Gynecologic

Cervical

Protocol: AVF3963s:
Neoadjuvant bevacizumab and carboplatin followed by concurrent bevacizumab, carboplatin and pelvic radiation therapy in the primary treatment of cervix cancer
PI: Hiram Gay, MD

Ovarian

Protocol: EC-FV-04:
A Randomized Phase II Trial Comparing EC145 & Pegylated Liposomal Doxorubicin in Comb., vs. PLD Alone in patients with Platinum-Resistant Ovarian Cancer
PI:Howard Homesley, MD

 

Hemophilia

Hemophilia: SPINART:
A Randomized, Controlled, Parallel, Prospective Trial to Evaluate the Effect of Secondary Prophylaxis w/rFVIII Therapy in Severe Hemophilia A Adult Subjects Compared to that of Episodic Treatment
PI: Darla Liles, MD
  
Hematological

Leukemia

Protocol: CALGB 10603:
A Phase III Randomized, Double-Blind Study of Induction (Daunorubicin/Cytarabine) & Consolidation (High-Dose Cytarabine) Chemo + Midostaurin (PKC412) or Placebo in Newly Diagnosed Patients<60years old with FLT3 AML
PI: Lillian Burke, MD


Protocol: LJCC 06-05:
Phase II Trial Of Daily Pulse Interleukin-2 With Famotidine In Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
PI: Paul Walker, MD


Liver

Protocol: TheraSphere Device:
A Humanitarian Device Exemption Use Protocol of TheraSphere for Treatment of Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma - HDE#980006
PI: Suzanne Russo, MD

Lymphoma

Protocol: CRAD001N2201:
An Open Label, Single Arm Phase II Study of RAD001 in Patients with Refractory Mantel Cell Lymphoma
PI: Lillian Burke, PI


Lung

Non-small cell

Protocol: ECOG 5597:
Phase III Chemoprevention Trial of Selenium Supplementation in Persons with Resected Stage I Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
PI: Paul Walker, MD

Protocol: LJCC 07-01:
Phase II Trial of Pulsed Paclitaxel with Concurrent Thoracic Radiotherapy and Adjuvant Gemcitabine and Carboplatin in Stage IIIA and IIIB non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
NCI Listing
PI: Hiram Gay, MD

Protocol: MAGRIT 109493:
A Double Blind, Randomized, Placebo Controlled Phase III Study to Assess the Efficacy of recMAGEA3 + AS15 Antigen-Specific Ca Immunotherapeutic as Adjuvant Therapy in Patients with Resectable MAGE-A3-Positive NSCLC
PI: Paul Walker, MD


Melanoma

Protocol: ECOG E1697:
Phase III Randomized Study of 4 weeks High Dose IFN-a2b in Stage T3-T4 or N1 (Microsopic) Melanoma
PI: Paul Walker, MD


Pancreatic

Protocol:
A Phase II Study of Direct Tumor Injection of TNFerade Followed by KLH-pulsed Autologous Dendritic Cells in Patients with Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer
PI: Emmanuel Zervos, MD

Protocol:
A Randomized Phase II/III Study of TNFerade Biologic with 5-FU and Radiation Therapy for First-Line Treatment of Unresectable Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
PI: Emmanuel Zervos, MD

Protocol:
A Phase II Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled, Multi-Center Adjuvant Trial of the Efficacy, Immunogenicity, and Safety of GI-4000; and Inactivated Recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae Expressing Mutant Ras Protein Combined with Gemcitabine Regimen Versus a Gemcitabine Regimen with Placebo, in Patients with Post-Resection R0/R1 Pancreatic Cancer with Tumor Sequence Confirmation for Ras Mutation
PI: Emmanuel Zervos, MD



Photodynamic Therapy

Protocol: PDT ENT:
Photodynamic Therapy in Dysplasia and Carcinoma-in-Situ of the Aero-Digestive tract
PI: Ron Allison, MD


Sickle Cell
Outcome Modifying Genes in Sickle Cell Disease
PI: Charles Knupp, MD


Pharmacology

Protocol: Protherics:

An Open-Label Study to Assess the Pharmacokinetics of Leucovorin in Patients Receiving High Dose Methotrexate, With or Without Voraxaze Treatment
PI: Lillian Burke, MD







 


 
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