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Brain Cancer clinical trials in California

74 actively recruiting brain cancer trials at 60 sites across California.

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Phase 3 Recruiting Network

S1501 Dual Observational and Randomized Cohort Study of Patients With Metastatic HER-2+ Breast Cancer at Risk of Cardiac Toxicity

This trial has two cohorts of patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor (HER)-2-positive breast cancer that has spread to other places in the body. All patients must be receiving trastuzumab-based treatment. Both cohorts are bei…

Sponsor: SWOG Cancer Research Network
NCT ID: NCT03418961
Sites in California:
  • Kaiser Permanente-Deer Valley Medical Center — Antioch, California
  • Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center/Disney Family Cancer Center — Burbank, California
  • Enloe Medical Center — Chico, California
  • City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center — Duarte, California
  • Epic Care-Dublin — Dublin, California
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 California:
  • Kaiser Permanente-Anaheim — Anaheim, California
  • Kaiser Permanente-Bellflower — Bellflower, California
  • Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center — Los Angeles, California
  • Los Angeles General Medical Center — Los Angeles, California
  • USC / Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center — Los Angeles, California
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 California:
  • Loma Linda University Medical Center — Loma Linda, California
  • Miller Children's and Women's Hospital Long Beach — Long Beach, California
  • Children's Hospital Los Angeles — Los Angeles, California
  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center — Los Angeles, California
  • Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA — Los Angeles, California
Phase 3 Recruiting Network

A Study of Treatment for Medulloblastoma Using Sodium Thiosulfate to Reduce Hearing Loss

This phase III trial tests two hypotheses in patients with low-risk and average-risk medulloblastoma. Medulloblastoma is a type of cancer that occurs in the back of the brain. The term, risk, refers to the chance of the cancer coming back …

Sponsor: Children's Oncology Group
NCT ID: NCT05382338
Sites in California:
  • Loma Linda University Medical Center — Loma Linda, California
  • Miller Children's and Women's Hospital Long Beach — Long Beach, California
  • Children's Hospital Los Angeles — Los Angeles, California
  • Valley Children's Hospital — Madera, California
  • Kaiser Permanente-Oakland — Oakland, California
Phase 3 Recruiting Academic/Other

Testing Addition of an Anti-cancer Drug, Vorasidenib to Temozolomide, After Radiation for Advanced Brain Cancer

This phase III trial compares the effect of vorasidenib to placebo in combination with usual treatment, temozolomide, in treating patients with newly diagnosed grade 3 astrocytoma after radiation. Temozolomide is in a class of medications …

Sponsor: Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
NCT ID: NCT07215910
Sites in California:
  • City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center — Duarte, California
  • UCI Health - Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Ambulatory Care — Irvine, California
  • UC Irvine Health/Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center — Orange, California
  • University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center — Sacramento, California
Phase 3 Recruiting Network

Stereotactic Radiosurgery Compared With Hippocampal-Avoidant Whole Brain Radiotherapy (HA-WBRT) Plus Memantine for 5 or More Brain Metastases

Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is a commonly used treatment for brain tumors. It is a one-day (or in some cases two day), out-patient procedure during which a high dose of radiation is delivered to small spots in the brain while excluding…

Sponsor: Canadian Cancer Trials Group
NCT ID: NCT03550391
Sites in California:
  • City of Hope Corona — Corona, California
  • City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center — Duarte, California
  • City of Hope at Irvine Lennar — Irvine, California
  • UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center — La Jolla, California
  • City of Hope Antelope Valley — Lancaster, California
Phase 3 Recruiting Industry

SIGMA (Safusidenib in IDH1 Mutant Glioma Maintenance)

This is a 3-part study. The purpose of Part 1 of the study is to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and pharmacokinetic (PK) characteristics of safusidenib in participants with recurrent/progressive IDH1-mutant World Health Organization (WHO) …

Sponsor: Nuvation Bio Inc.
NCT ID: NCT05303519
Sites in California:
  • University of California San Diego — La Jolla, California
  • University of California, Los Angeles — Los Angeles, California
  • Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian — Newport Beach, California
  • Stanford University — Palo Alto, California
  • University of California — San Francisco, California
Phase 3 Recruiting Academic/Other

Advanced Imaging Techniques for Evaluating the Tumor Immune Microenvironment in Glioblastoma Patients

This phase III trial is evaluating whether a combination of three advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, including chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) MRI, diffusion-relaxation correlation spectrum imaging (DR-CSI),…

Sponsor: Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCT ID: NCT07461948
Sites in California:
  • UCLA / Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center — Los Angeles, California
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 California:
  • Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center/Disney Family Cancer Center — Burbank, California
  • Epic Care-Dublin — Dublin, California
  • Bay Area Breast Surgeons Inc — Emeryville, California
  • Epic Care Partners in Cancer Care — Emeryville, California
  • UCLA / Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center — Los Angeles, California
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 California:
  • Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center — Downey, California
  • Loma Linda University Medical Center — Loma Linda, California
  • Miller Children's and Women's Hospital Long Beach — Long Beach, California
  • Children's Hospital Los Angeles — Los Angeles, California
  • Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center — Los Angeles, California
Phase 1, Phase 2 Recruiting NIH

A Study of the Drug Selinexor With Radiation Therapy in Patients With Newly-Diagnosed Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine (DIPG) Glioma and High-Grade Glioma (HGG)

This phase I/II trial tests the safety, side effects, and best dose of selinexor given in combination with standard radiation therapy in treating children and young adults with newly diagnosed diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) or hig…

Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
NCT ID: NCT05099003
Sites in California:
  • Loma Linda University Medical Center — Loma Linda, California
  • Miller Children's and Women's Hospital Long Beach — Long Beach, California
  • Children's Hospital Los Angeles — Los Angeles, California
  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center — Los Angeles, California
  • UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland — Oakland, California
Phase 1, Phase 2 Recruiting NIH

Testing the Addition of an Anti-cancer Drug, Selinexor, to the Usual Chemotherapy Treatment (Temozolomide) for Brain Tumors That Have Returned After Previous Treatment

This phase I/II trial tests the safety, side effects and best dose of selinexor given in combination with the usual chemotherapy (temozolomide) and compares the effect of this combination therapy versus the usual chemotherapy alone (temozo…

Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
NCT ID: NCT05432804
Sites in California:
  • City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center — Duarte, California
  • UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center — La Jolla, California
  • Keck Medicine of USC Koreatown — Los Angeles, California
  • Los Angeles General Medical Center — Los Angeles, California
  • USC / Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center — Los Angeles, California
Phase 1, Phase 2 Recruiting Network

CBL0137 for the Treatment of Relapsed or Refractory Solid Tumors, Including CNS Tumors and Lymphoma

This phase I/II trial evaluates the best dose, side effects and possible benefit of CBL0137 in treating patients with solid tumors, including central nervous system (CNS) tumors or lymphoma that has come back (relapsed) or does not respond…

Sponsor: Children's Oncology Group
NCT ID: NCT04870944
Sites in California:
  • Children's Hospital Los Angeles — Los Angeles, California
  • Children's Hospital of Orange County — Orange, California
  • UCSF Medical Center-Mission Bay — San Francisco, California
Phase 2 Recruiting Industry

A Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of FORE8394 in Participants With Cancer Harboring BRAF Alterations

The objective of this Master Protocol is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of plixorafenib in participants with BRAF altered (BRAF V600E or BRAF fusions) locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors, or recurrent or progressive primary ce…

Sponsor: Fore Biotherapeutics
NCT ID: NCT05503797
Sites in California:
  • Precision NextGen Oncology & Research Center — Beverly Hills, California
  • UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center — San Francisco, California
  • University of California Los Angeles Rheumatology — Westwood, Los Angeles, California
Phase 2 Recruiting Industry

Study of Silevertinib With Temozolomide for the Treatment of Newly Diagnosed GBM With Unmethylated MGMT and EGFRvIII

The purpose of this study is to see if combining silevertinib with temozolomide after surgery and radiotherapy helps treat newly diagnosed glioblastoma (GBM) better than using temozolomide alone in the maintenance setting. Specifically, th…

Sponsor: Black Diamond Therapeutics, Inc.
NCT ID: NCT07326566
Sites in California:
  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center — Los Angeles, California
  • Stanford University — Palo Alto, California
Phase 2 Recruiting Academic/Other

DFMO as Maintenance Therapy for Molecular High/Very High Risk and Relapsed Medulloblastoma

Difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) will be used in an open label, multicenter, study as Maintenance Therapy for Molecular High Risk/Very High Risk and Relapsed/Refractory Medulloblastoma.

Sponsor: Giselle Sholler
NCT ID: NCT04696029
Sites in California:
  • UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland — Oakland, California
  • Rady Children's Hospital — San Diego, California
  • Stanford University — Stanford, California
Phase 1, Phase 2 Recruiting Industry

A Study of Repotrectinib in Pediatric and Young Adult Subjects Harboring ALK, ROS1, OR NTRK1-3 Alterations

Phase 1 will evaluate the safety and tolerability at different dose levels of repotrectinib in pediatric and young adult subjects with advanced or metastatic malignancies harboring anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK), receptor tyrosine kinase…

Sponsor: Turning Point Therapeutics, Inc.
NCT ID: NCT04094610
Sites in California:
  • Children's Hospital Los Angeles — Los Angeles, California
  • University of California at Los Angeles — Los Angeles, California
Phase 2 Recruiting Academic/Other

Combination Therapy for the Treatment of Diffuse Midline Gliomas

This phase II trial determines if the combination of ONC201 with different drugs is effective for treating participants with diffuse midline gliomas (DMGs). Despite years of research, little to no progress has been made to improve outcomes…

Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
NCT ID: NCT05009992
Sites in California:
  • Children's Hospital Los Angeles — Los Angeles, California
  • University of California, San Diego / Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego — San Diego, California
  • University of California, San Francisco — San Francisco, California
Phase 2 Recruiting Industry

DOC1021 Dendritic Cell Immunotherapy for Treatment of Newly Diagnosed Adult Glioblastoma (GBM)

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if DOC1021 + pIFN alongside standard of care (SOC) will improve survival in adult patients newly diagnosed with glioblastoma (IDH-wt). It will also evaluate the safety of DOC1021 + pIFN. Research…

Sponsor: Diakonos Oncology Corporation
NCT ID: NCT06805305
Sites in California:
  • City of Hope — Duarte, California
  • HOAG — Newport Beach, California
  • UCSF — San Francisco, California
Phase 2 Recruiting Industry

A Pivotal Phase II Clinical Trial of Utidelone Injection Plus Capecitabine in HER2-negative Breast Cancer Patients With Brain Metastases

This study is a multicenter, two-stage clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of utidelone in combination with capecitabine in patients with HER2-negative breast cancer with brain metastases. Patients will be enrolled to receiv…

Sponsor: Biostar Pharma, Inc.
NCT ID: NCT06764940
Sites in California:
  • City of Hope--Duarte — Duarte, California
  • Cancer & Blood Research Center, LLC — Los Alamitos, California
  • Univ. of California Los Angeles — Los Angeles, California
  • FOMAT Medical Research (Network) — Oxnard, California
  • Scripps Health — San Diego, California
Phase 2 Recruiting Industry

A Study of BMS-986504 Monotherapy and in Combination With Other Agents in Participants With Advanced and/or Metastatic Solid Tumors With Homozygous MTAP Deletion (MountainTAP-5)

This is an open-label, multicenter Phase 2 study evaluating BMS-986504 in participants with advanced and/or metastatic solid tumors that have MTAP deletion. The study includes a monotherapy component and a combination component in which BM…

Sponsor: Bristol-Myers Squibb
NCT ID: NCT07492680
Sites in California:
  • Local Institution - 0096 — San Francisco, California
Phase 1, Phase 2 Recruiting Industry

Safety and Tolerability of TNG456 Alone and in Combination With Abemaciclib in Patients With Solid Tumors With MTAP Loss

This is a first in human study of TNG456 alone and in combination with abemaciclib in patients with advanced or metastatic solid tumors known to have an MTAP loss. The first part of the study is an open-label, dose escalation and the secon…

Sponsor: Tango Therapeutics, Inc.
NCT ID: NCT06810544
Sites in California:
  • University of California, Irvine — Irvine, California
  • University of California Los Angeles — Los Angeles, California
  • University of California at San Francisco — San Francisco, California
Phase 2 Recruiting Industry

A Study to Evaluate Tovorafenib in Pediatric and Young Adult Participants With Relapsed or Progressive Low-Grade Glioma and Advance Solid Tumors

This is a Phase 2, multi center, open-label study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Type II RAF (tovorafenib) in pediatric participants with low-grade glioma or advanced solid tumors. Qualifying genomic alterations will be identified …

Sponsor: Day One Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.
NCT ID: NCT04775485
Sites in California:
  • UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital — San Francisco, California
Phase 1, Phase 2 Recruiting Industry

Study of Abemaciclib and Elacestrant in Participants With Brain Metastasis Due to ER+/HER-2- Breast Cancer

This is a multi-site, global, open-label study that includes a phase 1b evaluation of elacestrant in combination with abemaciclib in women and men with brain metastases from estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, human epidermal growth factor re…

Sponsor: Stemline Therapeutics, Inc.
NCT ID: NCT05386108
Sites in California:
  • Providence Medical Foundation — Fullerton, California
  • California Research Institute — Los Angeles, California
Phase 2 Recruiting Academic/Other

Dabrafenib and Trametinib for BRAF V600 Mutant Low-Grade Gliomas

This phase II trial studies how well de-escalating the drugs dabrafenib and trametinib works in treating patients with low-grade gliomas that have a BRAF V600 gene mutation. Dabrafenib and trametinib are in a class of medications called ki…

Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
NCT ID: NCT07110246
Sites in California:
  • University of California, San Francisco — San Francisco, California

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 · Last checked: 2026-08-10