Clinical Trials

The study hypotheses is that the proportion of patients experiencing clinically significant pain relief will be at least 30% greater than the proportion experiencing worsening pain.

This phase II/III trial tests the safety, side effects, and best dose of the drug cabozantinib in combination with standard chemotherapy, and to compare the effect of adding cabozantinib to standard chemotherapy alone in treating patients with newly diagnosed osteosarcoma. Cabozantinib is in a class of medications called kinase inhibitors which block protein signals affecting new blood vessel formation and the ability to activate growth signaling pathways. This may help slow the growth of tumor cells. The drugs used in standard chemotherapy for this trial are methotrexate, doxorubicin, and cisplatin (MAP). Methotrexate stops cells from making DNA and may kill ...

The purpose of this study is to test a new technology called Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) that may help identify this risk associated with precursor conditions and the likelihood that they will change into overt blood and bone marrow cancers. NGS is a procedure that looks at relevant cancer associated genes and what they do.

The purpose of this study is to gather clinical data to allow for comparisons in operative time, surgical technique, blood loss, level of resection, type of reconstruction, healing (based upon clinical report and imaging studies), transfusion requirements, complications, return to the operating room, and margins. There are other important data available that will also be recorded in order to draw comparisons to prior studies (Beadle, CORR 2005):  length of hospitalization, disposition at discharge, histology and grade of tumor, local recurrences, overall survival, duration of follow up, surgeon reported outcomes (MSTS 1987), chemotherapy regimen, radiation regimen, subsequent non-orthopedic oncologic surgeries.

This study evaluates the effectiveness of the Medtronic OsteoCool™ RF Ablation System.

The purpose of this study of sulfasalazine is to see how well it works in preventing acute diarrhea in patients with cancer who are undergoing pelvic radiation therapy. Sulfasalazine may relieve diarrhea in patients with cancer who are undergoing pelvic radiation therapy.

The purpose of this study is to assess advanced imaging methods for the prostate and pelvis. Specifically, we are studying methods that allow us to acquire higher resolution images of the prostate and pelvis more quickly than our current imaging methods. These types of fast high resolution MRI acquisitions have been shown in the literature to improve cancer detection.

To establish whether treatment with Inhaled Lipid Cisplatin (ILC) is effective in delaying/preventing pulmonary relapse in osteosarcoma patients in complete surgical remission following one or two prior pulmonary relapses.

The purpose of this study is to compare clinical features and outcomes for children and adults with Ewing Sarcoma at the same institution and add to the limited clinical literature on adults with Ewing Sarcoma.

The purpose of this study is to determine if open surgical resection is superior to thoracoscopic resection for thoracic event-free survival (tEFS) in patients with resectable oligometastatic pulmonary osteosarcoma.

Furthermore, to determine if open surgical resection is superior to thoracoscopy for event free survival (EFS), for overall survival (OS), and if thoracoscopy is superior to open surgical resection for postoperative pain interference in patients with resectable oligometastatic pulmonary osteosarcoma.

The aim of this study is to determine if there is subclinical systolic or diastolic myocardial mechanical dysfunction by 2D and 3D speckle tracking echocardiography derived strain and strain rate in this patient population at baseline, during and after chemotherapy. This could be an early marker  of myocardial dysfunction  in patients treated for sarcoma.

The purpose of this study is to create a research registry to prospectively collect research biospecimens and corresponding clinical data from subjects with an undiagnosed tumor or undifferentiated mass.

This phase II trial is studying the side effects and how well cixutumumab works in treating patients with relapsed or refractory solid tumors. Monoclonal antibodies, such as cixutumumab, can block tumor growth in different ways. Some block the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Others find tumor cells and help kill them or carry tumor-killing substances to them.

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate 1) feasibility of digital biomarker assessment using wearable in children with solid tumors who undergo surgery and 2) alterations in circulating proteins and metabolites indicative of a stressed state will persist postoperatively and correlate with clinical signs of recovery.

This phase II trial gathers information on the feasibility, safety, and effect of giving methotrexate, erlotinib, and celecoxib in treating oral cavity cancer that has come back after a period of improvement (recurrent) or that has spread from where it first started (primary site) to other places in the body (metastatic) among rural Midwest patients. Methotrexate is in a class of medications called antimetabolites. It is also a type of antifolate. Methotrexate stops cells from using folic acid to make deoxyribonucleic acid and may kill tumor cells. Erlotinib is in a class of medications called kinase inhibitors. It works by ...

The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of genetic mutations in cancer patients from various ethnic populations seeking care at Mayo Clinic cancer clinics.

Information regarding the delay in diagnosis as well as the causes of the delay are lacking in the U.S. Specifically, we aim to identify patient factors and provider factors that contribute to delayed diagnosis of sarcoma.

The goal of this study is to create a comprehensive system of tissue banking of samples from Mayo Clinic Arizona patients with a clinical diagnosis of sarcoma who will or have undergone a surgical procedure to remove the sarcoma.  The tissue samples will be used for future research of sarcoma at Mayo Clinic and future research at Mayo Clinic to learn about, prevent, or treat other health problems.   

The purpose of this study is to develop a data-driven approach that enables healthcare providers to “prescribe” exercise in the appropriate dose in a manner analogous to prescribing a drug.