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Brain Cancer clinical trials in Iowa

10 actively recruiting brain cancer trials at 9 sites across Iowa.

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Phase 3 Recruiting Academic/Other

Testing Longer Duration Radiation Therapy Versus the Usual Radiation Therapy in Patients With Cancer That Has Spread to the Brain

This phase III trial compares the effectiveness of fractionated stereotactic radiosurgery (FSRS) to usual care stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) in treating patients with cancer that has spread from where it first started to the brain. Radia…

Sponsor: NRG Oncology
NCT ID: NCT06500455
Sites in Iowa:
  • Mary Greeley Medical Center — Ames, Iowa
  • McFarland Clinic - Ames — Ames, Iowa
  • University of Iowa/Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center — Iowa City, Iowa
Phase 3 Recruiting Academic/Other

Testing if High Dose Radiation Only to the Sites of Brain Cancer Compared to Whole Brain Radiation That Avoids the Hippocampus is Better at Preventing Loss of Memory and Thinking Ability

This phase III trial compares the effect of stereotactic radiosurgery to standard of care memantine and whole brain radiation therapy that avoids the hippocampus (the memory zone of the brain) for the treatment of small cell lung cancer th…

Sponsor: NRG Oncology
NCT ID: NCT04804644
Sites in Iowa:
  • Mary Greeley Medical Center — Ames, Iowa
  • McFarland Clinic - Ames — Ames, Iowa
Phase 3 Recruiting NIH

A Study of the Drugs Selumetinib vs. Carboplatin and Vincristine in Patients With Low-Grade Glioma

This phase III trial compares the effect of selumetinib versus the standard of care treatment with carboplatin and vincristine (CV) in treating patients with newly diagnosed or previously untreated low-grade glioma (LGG) that does not have…

Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
NCT ID: NCT04166409
Sites in Iowa:
  • Blank Children's Hospital — Des Moines, Iowa
  • University of Iowa/Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center — Iowa City, Iowa
Phase 3 Recruiting Industry

ONC201 in H3 K27M-mutant Diffuse Glioma Following Radiotherapy (the ACTION Study)

This is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, international, Phase 3 study in patients with newly diagnosed H3 K27M-mutant diffuse glioma to assess whether treatment with dordaviprone (ONC201) following frontline …

Sponsor: Jazz Pharmaceuticals
NCT ID: NCT05580562
Sites in Iowa:
  • University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics — Iowa City, Iowa
Phase 2 Recruiting Network

A Study to Compare the Administration of Encorafenib + Binimetinib + Nivolumab Versus Ipilimumab + Nivolumab in BRAF-V600 Mutant Melanoma With Brain Metastases

This phase II trial compares the effect of encorafenib, binimetinib, and nivolumab versus ipilimumab and nivolumab in treating patients with BRAF- V600 mutant melanoma that has spread to the brain (brain metastases). Encorafenib and binime…

Sponsor: SWOG Cancer Research Network
NCT ID: NCT04511013
Sites in Iowa:
  • Mary Greeley Medical Center — Ames, Iowa
  • McFarland Clinic - Ames — Ames, Iowa
  • McFarland Clinic - Boone — Boone, Iowa
  • Saint Anthony Regional Hospital — Carroll, Iowa
  • Iowa Methodist Medical Center — Des Moines, Iowa
Phase 2 Recruiting Network

A Study of a New Way to Treat Children and Young Adults With a Brain Tumor Called NGGCT

This phase II trial studies the best approach to combine chemotherapy and radiation therapy (RT) based on the patient's response to induction chemotherapy in patients with non-germinomatous germ cell tumors (NGGCT) that have not spread to …

Sponsor: Children's Oncology Group
NCT ID: NCT04684368
Sites in Iowa:
  • Blank Children's Hospital — Des Moines, Iowa
  • University of Iowa/Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center — Iowa City, Iowa
Phase 1, Phase 2 Recruiting Academic/Other

Defactinib and Avutometinib, With or Without Encorafenib, for the Treatment of Patients With Brain Metastases From Cutaneous Melanoma

The goal of this interventional clinical trial is to provide proof-of-principle data for the biologic activity of defactinib in combination with avutometinib in brain metastases from melanoma, and to define the potential role of the combin…

Sponsor: University of Utah
NCT ID: NCT06194929
Sites in Iowa:
  • University of Iowa — Iowa City, Iowa
Phase 1 Recruiting Industry

Safety and Tolerability of ²¹²Pb-DOTAM-GRPR1 in Adult Subjects With Recurrent or Metastatic GRPR-expressing Tumors

A Phase 1 Open-Label, First-in-human, Dose Escalation and Expansion Study to Determine the Safety, Tolerability, Dosimetry, Pharmacokinetics, and Preliminary Efficacy of 212Pb-DOTAM-GRPR1 in Adult Participants with Recurrent or Metastatic …

Sponsor: Orano Med Theranostics, SAS
NCT ID: NCT05283330
Sites in Iowa:
  • University of Iowa Health Care — Iowa City, Iowa
Phase 1 Recruiting Academic/Other

Sitagliptin in Recurrent/Progressive Grade 4 Glioma

Sitagliptin, when combined with standard-of-care drug bevacizumab, is being tested to 1) find out if it is effective at treating gliomas that have returned or progressed after treatment, and 2) find out what the highest dose of sitagliptin…

Sponsor: Kailin Yang, MD, PhD
NCT ID: NCT07541781
Sites in Iowa:
  • University of Iowa Health Care — Iowa City, Iowa
NA Recruiting Academic/Other

T2 Star Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Biomarker Blood Testing to Predict the Change and Progress of Malignant Gliomas

This clinical trial studies whether T2 star (T2\*) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and biomarker blood testing can help predict how World Health Organization (WHO) grade IV gliomas (malignant gliomas) might change or progress over time.

Sponsor: John M. Buatti
NCT ID: NCT07447531
Sites in Iowa:
  • University of Iowa Health Care — Iowa City, Iowa

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 · Last checked: 2026-09-07