This study looks at how well the PARP inhibitor niraparib and the immunotherapy drug dostarlimab work together in treating patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer, who also have an inherited or tumor mutation in one of the following genes: BRCA1, BRCA2, PALB2, BARD1, RAD51c, or RAD51d.

• Niraparib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth.
• Immunotherapy such as dostarlimab may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. 

This study is focused on patients with pancreatic, colorectal, gastroesophageal, or biliary (bile duct) cancer that has spread to other places in the body (metastasized).

Chemotherapy drugs, such as liposomal irinotecan and fluorouracil damage cancer cells. Targeted therapies such as rucaparib, can keep cancer cells from being able to repair damage.

This study will look at how the targeted therapy rucaparib works with chemotherapy in treating patients with metastatic pancreatic, colorectal, gastroesophageal, or biliary cancer. The study will measure the best dose and look at sides effects with this combination of drugs. 

This study is for people with metastatic colorectal cancer. The study will compare how well treatment with a combination of chemotherapy agents and an immunotherapy agent works compared with treatment using an immunotherapy agent alone. This study is focused on patients who are determined to be mismatch-repair deficient (dMMR) or have an MSI-H diagnosis, which are commonly seen in people with Lynch syndrome.

TALAVE is a study for patients who have advanced or metastatic breast cancer that will not be cured by treatment with surgery or radiotherapy, and either have a BRCA1/2 mutation (germline or somatic) or have triple negative breast cancer who are not known to have a BRCA1/2 mutation. The goal of TALAVE is to look at whether giving talazoparib alone followed by talazoparib with avelumab is a safe and effective treatment for advanced breast cancer.

Improved screening for pancreatic cancer in high-risk groups, such as people with an inherited BRCA1, BRCA2, ATM, or PALB2 mutation, may help find cancer early and improve survival rates. People enrolled in this study will undergo screening using endoscopic ultrasound or MRI of the abdomen.

The Ohio State University and FORCE want to understand if a family communication guide for people with BRCA mutations is helpful and if it’s also useful to have a video that you can text or email to family members that explains your BRCA mutation. We are currently looking for people between the ages of 18-80 who have mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2, have an active email address, and an internet capable device like a computer, tablet, or smartphone.  Participants will be asked to complete a total of 3 surveys.  Participants will be randomly assigned to either receive just the communication guide or the guide plus the sharable.  Each survey will take 10-15 minutes (the study could take up to 1.5 hours to complete depending on how much time you spend reviewing the study materials). 

You can access the study consent and survey here: https://redcap.link/OSUForceStudy

The TALAPRO-2 study is assessing whether the study drug is safe and effective when given in combination with enzalutamide as a treatment option for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer and DDR deficiency.

PMD-026 is a study for people who have been diagnosed with metastatic triple negative breast cancer (mTNBC) who have no further treatment options. This research study is investigating if a study drug called PMD-026 is safe and effective for patients with mTNBC.

The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of using a combination of the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab (Keytruda) and the targeted therapy lenvatinib (Lenvima) in women with Stage III, IV, or recurrent endometrial cancer versus using chemotherapy treatment alone. NOTE: This study has completed enrollment

This study will look at how well PARP inhibitor olaparib works in treating women or men who have been diagnosed with biliary tract (bile duct) cancer that has metastasized to other places in the body and who also have DNA repair gene mutations that give them a higher risk of certain cancers.  Olaparib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth.

Medicines that affect bacteria in the stomach and intestines may assist immunotherapy agents like pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in treating cancer. This study will look at the effect of a drug, EDP1503 on enhancing the anti-cancer response when used with pembrolizumab, in patients with advanced metastatic colorectal carcinoma, triple-negative breast cancer, or cancers that have recurred after a type of immunotherapy known as an immune checkpoint inhibitor.

This is a study for people who have been diagnosed with HER2-positive (HER2+) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).  The goal of this study is to look at how well the drug tucatinib (Tukysa) works to improve outcomes when given with trastuzumab (Herceptin), versus how well tucatinib works when administered by itself.

The purpose of this study is to compare the benefit of the combination of immunotherapy agents Nivolumab plus Ipilimumab in patients who have Microsatellite Instability High (MSI-H) or Mismatch Repair Deficient (dMMR) metastatic colorectal cancer versus using Nivolumab as a single therapy or chemotherapy. 

The purpose of this study is to see whether the combination of melphalan, BCNU, vitamin B12b, and vitamin C, followed by autologous (self) bone marrow stem cell infusion, is safe and effective for treating patients with advanced pancreatic cancer who have a BRCA1 and/or BRCA2 gene mutation. All of these treatments are given intravenously (by vein).

Melphalan and BCNU are both chemotherapy drugs that work by targeting the processes that cancer cells use to grow and spread. Vitamin B12b and vitamin C work together to block cancer cell energy production and prevent cancer cells from repairing the damage caused by the chemotherapy drugs. Autologous bone marrow stem cell infusion involves using healthy blood-forming cells from a patient's own body to replace diseased or damaged bone marrow. The stem cell infusions will help decrease the side effects of the study treatment.

This is a study for people diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer with Homologous Recombination Deficiency, or whose disease has responded well to first-line or second-line platinum therapy. The goal of this study is to look at whether combining the immunotherapy drug, pembrolizumab and the PARP inhibitor, olaparib is a more effective treatment for this cancer than taking olaparib alone.

Aloha! The University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center is running a mobile app study to see how it impacts cancer-related neuropathy. We are asking people who have been diagnosed with cancer, have finished primary treatment and are experiencing neuropathy if they would like to use a mobile app for mindfulness meditation to see if it helps their neuropathy.  

Interested participants will be asked to follow the link for either anxiety OR neuropathy and to participate in only one of the studies, one time only. Upon enrollment, you will randomly be assigned to begin using the mobile app either immediately or after eight weeks. You will be asked to complete online questionnaires about your well-being upon your initial enrollment, 8 weeks later, and 16 weeks later.

The study explores how families faced with a parental cancer diagnosis communicate, or why they choose not to communicate, with their children about the cancer diagnosis, treatments, and other related topics. At least one family member (diagnosed parent or non-diagnosed parent) is asked to participate, but more than one member can sign up to be interviewed. 

If you are interested in participating, please follow this link to complete the screening survey to determine eligibility.

Aloha! The University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center is running a mobile app study to see how it impacts different areas of well-being in cancer survivors – namely, anxiety and cancer-related neuropathy. We are asking people who have been diagnosed with cancer and finished primary treatment if they would like to use a mobile app for mindfulness meditation to see if it impacts anxiety or neuropathy.  

Interested participants will be asked to follow the link for either anxiety OR neuropathy and to participate in only one of the studies, one time only. Upon enrollment, you will randomly be assigned to begin using the mobile app either immediately or after eight weeks. You will be asked to complete online questionnaires about your well-being upon your initial enrollment, 8 weeks later, and 16 weeks later.

Women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation are at higher risk of developing breast and/or ovarian cancer compared to women in the general population. There are various options available to these women to help reduce or manage these risks, including preventive surgery. We are conducting an important new study to examine and understand cancer prevention decisions and outcomes in these women.

The goal of this cancer treatment study is to find the best dose and learn how safe and effective this cancer vaccine is for treating advanced colorectal, gastric and gastro-esophageal junction tumors that test positive for the biomarkers MSI-High or dMMR. Participants will receive the vaccine in combination with the immunotherapy drug Keytruda (pembrolizumab).

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the addition of the immunotherapy agent pembrolizumab to radiation therapy is more effective than radiation therapy alone in reducing the risk of cancer recurrence in patients with newly diagnosed stage I-II endometrial cancer that is MSI-High.

A study from the University of Florida is seeking mothers with breast cancer and young-adult daughters (18-39 years old) who help care for a mother with breast cancer. Eligible participants will be asked to complete a survey on their experiences and how they are coping with breast cancer. The survey should take about 30 minutes and eligible participants will receive a $50 Amazon gift card by email. Mothers’ and daughters’ surveys are completed separately and privately. 

The purpose of Triton3 is to determine how patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, and an inherited gene mutation or tumor genetic deficiency, respond to treatment with the PARP inhibitor rucaparib compared to treatment with physician's choice of abiraterone acetate, enzalutamide, or docetaxel.

SOROCk [NRG-CC008] is a clinical trial studying if removal of just the fallopian tubes can reduce the risk of ovarian cancer nearly as much as removing both the ovaries and fallopian tubes among women with an inherited BRCA1 mutation. The main benefit of removing only the fallopian tubes and not the ovaries is to prevent surgically-induced menopause. The study will also exam various patient-reported quality of life outcomes. Researchers believe that most ovarian cancers first begin in the fallopian tubes, suggesting that removing the fallopian tubes only may prevent the development of ovarian cancer. This concept has never been formally testing in a clinical trial.

The purpose of this study is to see how cancer treatment affects the ovaries, such as the impact on conceiving a child or the early onset of menopause. Comparatively, the study will also look at high-risk women with BRCA1/2 mutations (and no evidence of breast or ovarian cancer).

The study will check blood levels of hormones that the ovaries produce and will use questionnaires to gather information about participant menstrual cycles, health, and pregnancies. 

Olaparib Expanded is a study looking at whether the drug Olaparib is effective treatment for people with certain types of metastatic breast cancer.  Olaparib belongs to a class of drugs known as PARP inhibitors. PARP inhibitors are particularly effective for treating tumors in people with an inherited BRCA mutation. This study is looking at whether olaparib is also effective for treating metastatic breast cancer in people who do not have an inherited BRCA mutation.

The purpose of this study is to learn about the experiences of premenopausal women who went through cancer treatment. We are hoping to hear both from women whose fertility was affected by their treatment and women whose fertility was not affected by their treatment. We will use the results to develop recommendations and resources for doctors and premenopausal women before they undergo treatment that may affect their fertility.

Those who carry the BRCA1, BRCA2 or PALB2 gene mutations experience a higher lifetime risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer, but we need to know more about the other genetic and non-genetic factors that may also influence risk. This study follows women with these gene mutations over time, striving to build the evidence we need to help them and others make better decisions to protect their health.

This is a phase II study looking at different treatment combinations for men with metastatic, castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) to see which is most effective for improving progression free survival (keeping the cancer from progressing). The study will include testing for genes within the tumor to determine eligibility for the study. 

Patients with tumors that have ATM, BRCA1 and/or BRCA2 mutations or defects will be randomly assigned to one of the treatment arms of the study. Patients with tumors that have mutations in other DNA repair genes including FANCA, PALB2, RAD51, ERCC3, MRE11, NBN, MLH3, CDK12, CHEK2, HDAC2, ATR, PMS2, GEN1, MSH2, MSH6, BRIP1, or FAM175A will be assigned to Arm IV with single agent olaparib.

We are conducting a study of individuals with a Variant of Uncertain Significance (VUS) in order to learn more about their experiences and needs in understanding the test result for themselves and their family members. Additionally, we are trying to understand the process of communication with their first-degree relatives and healthcare providers about genetic risk and risk management.