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This phase II/III trial studies the usefulness of treatment with nivolumab and ipilimumab in addition to standard of care chemotherapy and radiation therapy in patients with esophageal and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma who are undergoing surgery. This trial is open to Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center patients only. Please contact the …
Primary Progressive Aphasia, or PPA, is a neurodegenerative disease that affects language abilities. A person with PPA may have difficulties speaking, understanding speech, reading, or writing, and these difficulties worsen over time.The purpose of this study is to determine whether a form of non-invasive brain stimulation called High-definition Transcranial Direct …
This is an observational follow-up study of patients who have been exposed to a CAR-T cell treatment that was produced by ex vivo transduction with a CAR-expressing retroviral vector in studies sponsored by Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. Patients are to be followed for up to 15 years after exposure to a …
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the outcomes of liver transplant when the donor is placed on a normothermic perfusion machine prior to donation of the liver. The perfusion machine restores oxygenated blood flow to organs in the abdomen such as the liver. The use of the machine …
Liver metastases are a leading cause of death among patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. Duration of disease control is short following 2nd-line or later systemic therapy. Liver-directed therapy such as TACE has a higher response rate and improves PFS, but the benefit is still limited. Cancer cells escape ischemic cell …
This study will investigate whether N-803, a new experimental drug that stimulates the immune system, is safe and tolerable when given alone and in combination with two new experimental drugs that are antibodies (natural proteins that the body makes in response to an infection) to HIV (the virus that causes …
The target population are patients at Penn Medicine undergoing elective bariatric surgery; and are additionally participating in POW-R study ( Protocol #843280) Patients will be recruited to undergo liver wedge and visceral adipose tissue biopsy and provide blood samples. Liver samples will be processed for RNA, metabolomics, and biochemical and …
The purpose of this research is to collect clinical information and research tissue samples (blood, tissue, and stool) from patients receiving standard treatment for metastatic triple-negative breast cancer to help researchers better understand the use of immunotherapy in breast cancer.
This is a 52 week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial comparing semaglutide 1 mg versus placebo both added to standard of care and administered once weekly in subjects with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus with Intermittent Claudication.