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Filter by:Constipation is one of the most common complications in patients with advanced cancer. The aim of this protocol designed as a double-blind randomized controlled trial is to investigate the efficacy of laser acupuncture (LA) therapy on constipation in patients with advanced cancer.
This is a multicenter, observational, retrospective cohort study aimed at assessing the efficacy and safety of crizotinib in ALK positive NSCLC treated in real life setting.
Context: In people concerned by serious illness, how to anticipate the aggravation of the disease according to the patient's preferences is a challenging clinical question and an ethical key-issue to improve end-of-life care and quality of dying in France. When end of life decision occurs, many patients can no longer express themselves and advance directives do not seem to be appropriate for many patients despite the current strong incentives to write them, reinforced by the 2016 Claeys Leonetti. The "End-of-Life Discussions" and "Advance care planning" programs developed in the United States have shown a positive impact on the aggressiveness of end-of-life care. The implementation in France of these programs has not yet been consolidated despite a first recommendation for "Planification des soins futurs", published by the French Health Authority(HAS). Inspired by the definition given in the later document, investigators propose the acronym DDA, for the Discussions Dedicated to Anticipate wishes and preferences in the event of Aggravation, defined as the dynamic and evolving process of reflection and communication between the patient, his relatives and healthcare professionals, allowing him to address his preferences and wishes regarding his care and treatment The objective of this observational study is to characterize, in a population of patients with advanced cancer, the profile of those who take up a proposal for Dedicated Discussions on Anticipating preferences of care in the event of Aggravation (DDA) and who engage in the discussion process. Secondary objectives are to 1. evaluate the aggressiveness of end-of-life care in the group of patients who died 1 year after their inclusion, depending on their engagement in DDA occurs and whether or not their preferences are formalized; and 2. evaluate the subjective effects of the DDA with the patient and the investigating professionals, through qualitative approach by a clinical psychologist. Method: investigators designed a mixed, quantitative and qualitative prospective, monocenter methodology to evaluate how patients take up a proposal of DDA. This proposal consists in 2 interviews: the first one is dedicated to the assessment of the patient's wishes in terms of information and participation in decision-making (API questionnaire) and to the assessment of the degree of anxiety and depression (HADS questionnaire) (E1). The second one is conducted 1 to 4 weeks later and consists in offering and initiating DDA (E2). Quantitative outcome evaluated will be: 1. the documentation by a physician in the medical record, of patient's care preferences/values 2. the documentation by the patient of his care preference/values, either by designation of surrogate or by writing advanced directives 3. the usefulness and necessity of this approach, and the anxiety it generated, as perceived by the patient The qualitative assessment will be based on data collected during E1 and E2, and for 20 patients, during a clinical interview with a psychologist dedicated to collecting the patient's impressions of previous interviews. Thanks to this study investigators expect to gather some data on the desire and feelings of cancer patients to engage in a DDA process and possibly formalize their end-of-life preferences, the impact of DDAs on care pathway indicators and the psychological effect for the patient with severe disease to project himself in advance into aggravation. These expected results will provide a better understanding of the process of anticipating end-of-life situations, which is needed to improve quality of care and end-of-life conditions.
Assessment of efficacy of primary cyto-reductive surgery in patients with advanced primary epithelial ovarian cancer in Comparison to patients receiving neo-adjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) followed by surgery in complete excision of the tumor reaching R0 without significant morbidity.
The study comprises two phases: phase I dose escalation (including PK run-in period and treatment period) and phase II study.
This is a laboratory, non-treatment study. Immune checkpoint inhibitors are a type of immunotherapy that stimulates a patients immune system to fight their cancer. Immune checkpoint inhibitors are standard, FDA approved treatment for certain types of cancers such as melanoma, lung cancer, kidney cancer and bladder cancer. The laboratories of Dr. Jack Elias and Dr. Chun Geun Lee at Brown University are studying how immune checkpoint inhibitors work.Kintai Therapeutics is a biotech company in Cambridge Massachusetts that will focus on the molecules present in the GI tract, including the stomach, small intestine and colon.
This clinical trial will evaluate the safety and activity of mutant KRAS G12V-specific TCR transduced T cell therapy for advanced pancreatic cancer patients who express the KRAS G12V mutation and HLA-A*11:01 allele. The theoretical basis of this study is that mutant KRAS antigen-specific TCR transduced autologous Tcells will target and kill HLA-matched mutant KRAS cancer cells but not normal cells.
Background & Rationale: For years, most tumor immunotherapy researches have focused on T cell and natural killer (NK) cell therapies, most of which involve amplification and modification of the patient's immune cells for reinfusion therapy. However, for the treatment of solid tumors, there is currently little breakthrough. Recently, researchers have reported a colony of cancer-resistant mice developed from a single mouse that was immune to multiple lethal cancer cell injections. Further research revealed that such anti-cancer immunity can cause rapid shrinkage or disappearance of the tumors in other cancer-bearing mice. Interestingly, this therapeutic effect is due to the donor granulocytes, instead of T cells or NK cells. Infusion of granulocytes is a classic therapy in treating infection associated with granulocytopenia. Currently, clinical collection of blood components, including isolation of granulocytes, is a mature technique. The infusion of granulocytes is a viable anticancer therapy combining the classic technique and novel anticancer approach. This proposed trial will test whether granulocyte infusions from healthy unrelated donors can be used to treat advanced cancer. In the proposed trial, up to 100 Subjects with advanced cancer can be entered. Each patient will be given a dose of (2.0-5.0)x10^10 granulocytes from a different healthy donor every week over a course of 5 doses. The trial will evaluate the subject's cancer 7, 30, 90 and 180 days after the last infusion.
Despite the common application of radiotherapy in cancer treatment, the prediction of radiosensitivity and treatment response has not yet entered the era of precision medicine. Therefore, development of genome-based methods for predicting radiosensitivity and treatment response is a central goal of radiation oncology. In the previous study, the investigators have identified a set of novel potential biomarkers associated with radiosensitivity and recurrence，through correlating patients' genomic profiles with toxicity, disease progression and overall survival after RT.
This is a multicenter study assessing the efficacy of nivolumab in association with relatlimab.