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This study is looking at how well the research drug REC-4881 works and how safe it is for the treatment of people with advanced or metastatic cancers with an APC or AXIN1 mutation.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety, effectiveness, and tolerability of using the immunotherapy drugs nivolumab and relatlimab in patients with microsatellite instability high (MSI-H) solid tumors resistant to prior PD-L1 therapy.

Both nivolumab and relatlimab are a type of immunotherapy known as immune checkpoint inhibitors. Immune checkpoint inhibitors are drugs that prevent cancer cells from switching off immune cells. This allows the immune system to find, unmask and destroy cancer cells.

This study is being done to learn about the effects of using three study medicines together as treatment for metastatic colorectal cancer that has been previously untreated.

This study will compare a new technique of screening for a type of inherited gastric cancer known as diffuse hereditary gastric cancer (DHGC) to see if it can identify cancer better than the current recommended screening. 

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. 

This study is for families with patients who have newly-diagnosed advanced cancer. African American family caregivers and family caregivers living in rural communities will be eligible. Navigators working with an outpatient palliative care team, provide six health coaching sessions either in person or over the phone to help with managing stress and coping, getting and asking for help, improving caregiving skills, and decision-making/advance care planning Monthly follow-up is also provided from diagnosis through early bereavement.

This research study focuses on young women’s emotional experiences when considering or engaging in strategies to manage increased breast cancer risk.

This is a study for patients with metastatic breast cancer who do not have an inherited mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 but who are are found to have a BRCA1 or BRCA2 acquired tumor mutation (somatic mutation) found through liquid biopsy. Patients are treated with talazoparib, a well-tolerated oral PARP inhibitor that targets the BRCA1and BRCA2 mutation to determine whether this treatment (which is already approved for germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers) is effective in this population.

The purpose of this study is to screen and detect pancreatic cancer and precancer in people with either a strong family history of pancreatic cancer, or an inherited mutation associated with pancreatic cancer risk.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) will be used to screen for early stage pancreatic cancer. Participants will also be asked to donate a blood sample at specific intervals for the creation of a blood bank necessary for the development of a blood-based screening test for pancreatic cancer. 

This study is no longer enrolling.

The study will test the safety and effectiveness of a new drug called TNG348 used alone or in combination with Olaparib (a PARP inhibitor.) The study is for patients who have advanced breast, ovarian, pancreatic, and prostate cancer and a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation or have an HRD positive tumor.

Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) are recruiting participants with known inherited mutation.  We aim to help participants talk to relatives (both immediate and distant) about their family history and genetic test results, to connect them with others who have the same variant, and to their family trees together.  The study provides tools and resources to help at-risk relatives get genetic testing through their own local doctors.

A new study is recruiting people who received unexpected genetic test results about their cancer risk after having genetic testing done for some other reason.

This is a study of people with "secondary results” from genetic testing. Secondary results are unexpected. They are not related to the reason the person had the genetic test but are shared because they may be very important to the person’s health. Most secondary results have to do with high risks for health problems that can be treated or prevented. Many of these results are related to cancer risk. If you think you have received a secondary result, you may be eligible to join this study.

The goal of this study is to improve a tool that helps cancer patients navigate work-related issues. Researchers are testing an early version of a mobile app designed to help breast cancer patients keep their jobs. The app – called TEAMWork (Talking to Employers And Medical staff about Work) – provides advice for patients who need to talk to their employers about treatment or their medical team about work. Researchers want patient feedback on what aspects of the app work well and what can be better.  

The Treatment Study is an international research study to better understand breast cancer treatment among individuals with ATM, CHEK2 and PALB2 gene mutations. Participants are asked to complete online or paper study questionnaires (every two years for 10 years) and share their family history, medical, and genetics records.

This study will look at how well the PARP Inhibitor niraparib works, when given before a radical prostatectomy, for people with high-risk prostate cancer that has not spread to other parts of the body, and who have a tumor mutation in any of the following genes:BRCA1/2, ATM, CDK12, CHEK1/2 FANCA, FANCD2, FANCL, GEN1, NBN, PALB2, RAD51, RAD51c, and BRIP1.

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A free research program offering mindfulness, coping, and healthy lifestyle skills for ovarian cancer survivors. The goal of the study is to determine if the program can improve quality of life. You can participate from your home!

ELLIE’s Project is designed to look at factors that may affect cancer risk in people with inherited mutations linked to cancer. The study will look at weight, Body Mass Index, metabolism, dietary habits and activity level over the course of people’s life-time. ELLIE’s Project aims to gain a better understanding of the baseline lifestyle factors related to nutrition and physical activity in people with a hereditary cancer gene mutation.

The research laboratory at the Abramson Cancer Center is studying genetic sources of cancer risk and currently has one of the largest collections (also called a registry) of families with known or suspected risk in the world. A number of research projects are performed in collaboration with this registry. Research participants receive a numerical identification number that protects their privacy. Collaborating centers do not have access to personal identifiers such as names and dates of birth because only the numerical identifiers are shared.

Bazedoxifene is a type of drug known as a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM) that is similar to the drug tamoxifen. A combination of bazedoxifene and estrogen taken orally has been used to control hot flashes. This study will look at hot-flashes, quality of life and breast changes in high-risk women taking the combination of drugs compared with women not taking the combination of drugs. Women will be selected at random to participate in the group receiving the drug and the group not receiving the drug. The study will involve breast imaging, blood tests and small sampling of breast tissue at the beginning and end of the study. 

The purpose of this research is to study and understand the genetic and molecular causes of breast and prostate cancer in people with African ancestry. People in this study will complete a questionnaire about their environments and lifestyles. You will also give a blood sample and permission for the study team to access a piece of your cancer tissue from the center where you were treated. These blood and tissue samples will be used for molecular and genetic testing to look for changes that are only seen in the tumor as well as look for genetic changes that a person may have been born with, known as inherited gene mutations. Results of these tests will be provided to you. You will be followed by the study team for one year.

Stanford researchers invite people diagnosed with stage 0 to stage 3 breast cancer to take this 15 minute survey to share your thoughts about the advantages and disadvantages of participating in a new type of clinical trial called “a window opportunity” trial. will use this information to help design future clinical trials.

This is a clinical trial sponsored by the American Cancer Society that will test the helpfulness of two programs designed to teach breast and gynecological cancer survivors and their partners to communicate and cope with physical, emotional, and relationship challenges after cancer. The programs are conducted entirely via Zoom videoconference, so travel is not required to participate.

We hope to understand women’s preferences about the benefits and effects of cancer-preventing surgeries. In this survey of women ages 25-50 with an inherited BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation and no personal history of cancer, we present scenarios and ask participants to make hypothetical choices. Your responses will help us to design educational tools for people who are at high risk of breast and ovarian cancer who face personal decisions about cancer prevention.

The goal of this study is to look at how well a nerve graft works for improving sensation to the reconstructed breast after mastectomy in people undergoing DIEP flap reconstruction (deep inferior epigastric perforator flap). 

This study will look at how well the drug olaparib works in treating people who have been diagnosed with biliary tract (bile duct) cancer that has spread to other places in the body and who also have an inherited or tumor mutation in certain genes, including ATM, BRCA 1/2, BRIP1, CHEK2, RAD51C, RAD51D, PALB2, PTEN, NBN and others.  

This study will look at a new vaccine known as INO-5401 used alone or combined with a second vaccine called INO-9012. The study will test if the vaccine is safe (without large side effects) and test a new way of giving vaccines. It will also test whether the vaccine activates the immune system. A goal of this research is to reduce cancer risk in people with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation. Additional studies will be needed to learn if this vaccine approach lowers cancer risk in mutation carriers. 

This study is researching whether adding the immunotherapy drug Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) to the PARP inhibitor Olaparib (Lynparza) works better than olaparib alone in treating people with metastatic pancreatic cancer who also have an inherited BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation.  

PETRA is studying a new PARP inhibitor AZD5305 taken either alone or combined with other treatments in people with advanced ovarian, breast, prostate or pancreatic cancer with an inherited or tumor mutation in: BRCA1/2, PALB2, RAD51C or RAD51D. The treaments participants receive will depend on their cancer type, mutation and when they join the study.

This study aims to understand the different goals and motivations individuals with an inherited gene mutation have when talking about their genetic cancer risk with family members in a conversation.