We are interested in conducting research that will benefit the people of West Virginia. The application of what we learn from research is vital to the improvement of the health, quality of service, and patient care throughout West Virginia. Vandalia Health Charleston Area Medical Center is dedicated to providing the latest in new therapies and applications.

See below for a categorized listing of clinical trials currently underway at CAMC. You can also view all clinical trials.

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This study is being done to see if adding chemotherapy to the usual treatment for advanced prostate cancer helps patients live longer. The drug is already approved by the FDA for treating prostate cancer. However, it is usually used only after hormonal therapy and apalutamide are no longer working. The study will also look at a test to see if it can help doctors decide which patients might benefit the most from adding the drug. Doctors do not know yet if this test will be useful in making treatment choices. If it is helpful, it could become a regular part of care for men with advanced prostate cancer.

The PROACTIVE-HF-2 Trial is a research study looking at a small device called the Cordella™ Pulmonary Artery Sensor. Doctors use this sensor to check how your heart is working by measuring the pressure in your lungs every day. The goal of the study is to help people with heart failure feel better and stay out of the hospital.

The purpose of the GORE CARDIOFORM Septal Occluder (GSO Device) post-approval study is to assess the safety and effectiveness of GSO device as observed in the REDUCE pivotal IDE study, and to evaluate the quality of the operator education and training and transferability of trial experience to a post-market setting.

The purpose of this study is to compare a usual treatment alone to using MEDI4736 (durvalumab) plus the usual treatment. The study approach could shrink your cancer. But, it could also cause side effects, which are described in the risks section below. MEDI4736 (durvalumab) is a type of immunotherapy drug that is already approved by the FDA for use in urothelial cancer. But, most of the time it is not used until platinum-containing chemotherapy, such as cisplatin, stops working for your cancer. This study will help the study doctors find out if this different approach is better than the usual approach. To decide if it is better, the study doctors will be looking at two main factors. They will be investigating if the study approach will increase the number of patients whose cancer is shrunk significantly after surgery. They will also be investigating if the study approach increases the number of patients who do not have the cancer come back or get worse.