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The following list shows Featured Clinical Trials for a specific type of cancer. You may also want to view:

1.  Targeted Treatment for Advanced Solid Tumors
(Posted: 12/16/2008) - This clinical trial combines the drug dasatinib with the angiogenesis inhibitor bevacizumab for patients with metastatic or unresectable solid tumors.

2.  Chemotherapy for Inoperable Liver Metastases from Ocular Melanoma
(Posted: 11/30/2004, Updated: 06/13/2008) - In this study, researchers are testing a procedure called hyperthermic isolated hepatic perfusion to treat inoperable liver metastases secondary to ocular melanoma.

3.  Combination Therapy for Advanced Melanoma
(Posted: 11/01/2005, Updated: 04/24/2008) - In this clinical trial, researchers are testing chemotherapy with the drugs carboplatin and paclitaxel in combination with a new drug called sorafenib (BAY 43-9006) in patients with advanced melanoma.

4.  Extending Immunotherapy for Metastatic Melanoma
(Posted: 08/08/2006, Updated: 12/26/2007) - This study will assess the safety and antitumor activity of lymphocytes that have been genetically engineered to recognize the MART-1 antigen in patients with metastatic melanoma.

5.  Regional Chemotherapy for Inoperable Liver Metastases
(Posted: 10/09/2007) - In this trial, doctors are testing a method of delivering chemotherapy regionally to the liver called percutaneous isolated hepatic arterial perfusion (PHP) in patients with liver metastases from ocular (eye) or cutaneous (skin) melanoma.
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