Clinical Trials Updates | Aug. 2025

 

Advancing Cancer Care Through Research


Welcome to the Clinical Trials Connect — your quarterly update on actively enrolling clinical trials at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. This newsletter highlights select studies across a range of cancer types, offering your patients access to innovative treatments and research-driven care. We also encourage you to explore the full list of available trials using the Karmanos Clinical Trials App, a convenient tool to search by cancer type, eligibility, therapy and more. For more detailed information, visit our Clinical Trials page.



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ACTIVELY RECRUITING TRIALS

 

Having a large clinical trial portfolio means giving patients treatment options often not available anywhere else, and years before they become the standard of care.

CLINICAL TRIAL - BREAST CANCER



Phase: Phase III

Cancer Category: Breast

Principal Investigator: Jailan Elayoubi, M.D.

Karmanos Trial ID: S2206

Age Group: Adults

Locations Available:

  • Karmanos Cancer Institute - Detroit
  • Karmanos Cancer Institute at Weisberg Cancer Center - Farmington Hills

Therapies: Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy


Eligibility Criteria

  • ER+/PR+/HER2- breast cancer, clinical stages II or III
  • MammaPrint High Risk 2 result (testing provided during screening)
  • No prior treatments; must be candidate for doxorubicin, paclitaxel, and durvalumab therapy
  • ECOG 0-2


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CLINICAL TRIAL - PANCREATIC

Phase: Phase II

Cancer Category: Gastrointestinal (GI)

Principal Investigator: Anthony Shields, M.D., Ph.D.

Karmanos Trial ID: 2023-104

Age Group: Adults

Locations Available:

  • Karmanos Cancer Institute - Detroit
  • Karmanos Cancer Institute at Weisberg Cancer Center - Farmington Hills

Therapies: Chemotherapy

Devices: TheraBionic P1 device


Eligibility Criteria

  • Metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma
  • Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1
  • No gemcitabine/paclitaxel within 6 months of study entry


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CLINICAL TRIAL - MELANOMA

Phase: Phase III

Principal Investigator: Yusra Shao, M.D.

Karmanos Trial ID: 2023-044

Age Group: Adults

Locations Available:

  • Karmanos Cancer Institute - Detroit
  • Karmanos Cancer Institute at Weisberg Cancer Center - Farmington Hills

Therapies: Biological Therapy, Immunotherapy


Eligibility Criteria

  • Previously untreated, unresectable stage III or stage IV melanoma
  • Known BRAF status (may submit tissue for testing if unknown)
  • Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1


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CLINICAL TRIAL -

NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER


Phase: Phase III

Principal Investigator: Dipesh Uprety, M.D.

Karmanos Trial ID: 2023-101

Age Group: Adults

Locations Available:

  • Karmanos Cancer Institute - Detroit
  • Karmanos Cancer Institute at Weisberg Cancer Center - Farmington Hills

Therapies: Biological Therapy, Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy


Eligibility Criteria

  • Newly diagnosed locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer
  • KRAS G12c-mutant
  • Known PD-L1 status


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INTERVENTIONAL TRIALS


GYNECOLOGIC 

Applicable Disease Sites: Cervix; Other Female Genital; Ovary

Principal Investigator: Ira Winer, M.D., Ph.D., FACOG

Karmanos Trial ID: 2023-102

Age Group: Adults

Locations Available:

  • Karmanos Cancer Institute - Detroit
  • Karmanos Cancer Institute at Weisberg Cancer Center - Farmington Hills
  • Wayne State University


Eligibility Criteria

  • Biopsy-confirmed gynecologic cancer or have imaging/laboratory findings highly concerning for a cancer diagnosis
  • Has not yet seen a Gyn Onc
  • Understands spoken and written English



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PHASE I CLINICAL TRIALS


The Eisenberg Center for Translational Therapeutics houses the Phase I Clinical Trials Program at the Karmanos Cancer Center in Detroit. The program is the only one of its kind in Michigan.


Members of Karmanos' Phase I Clinical Trials Multidisciplinary Team conduct clinical research studies with new investigational cancer drugs.

 

SHARE WITH YOUR PATIENTS


The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute is partnering with Wayne State University (WSU) School of Medicine to help adult cancer survivors meet exercise and strength training goals in classes tailored to evaluate and promote the benefits of exercise on the well-being of survivors in a free 12-week program.


Contact the CAPABLE team at 313-578-4246 or email CAPABLE@wayne.edu to refer a patient or for more information.

 

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