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Filter by:Racial differences in health care are documented across the health care continuum and persist in aging and end-of-life (EOL) care. African Americans (AA) and other underrepresented minorities often choose more aggressive therapies at the end of life and are less likely to utilize hospice care in the terminal stages of their illness. Potential reasons for these disparities include: lack of knowledge of and misperceptions about palliative and hospice care, spiritual beliefs, and mistrust in the health care system, among others. Despite the literature on disparities in end-of-life (EOL) care and reasons for underuse and the presence of national EOL care guidelines, attempts to address this problem have been limited and often not rigorously evaluated. The majority of interventions to promote EOL care were done in majority populations and focused predominantly on trying to change physician awareness of patient's pain, symptoms, and values or to change physician communication behavior. While these early studies made tremendous contributions to the study of EOL care and the needs of the terminally ill, the interventions associated with these studies did not reach their desired effectiveness. The investigators propose a different strategy that would focus specifically on previously identified barriers to utilization of advance directives, palliative care, and hospice care among African Americans - including physicians' difficulty and discomfort with prognostication, AA patients' knowledge, attitudes and beliefs towards hospice and palliative care, conflict between patients' spiritual beliefs and the general hospice and palliative medicine philosophy of care, and medical mistrust. The goal of this project is to improve methods of prognostication for physicians and increase awareness of EOL care options for AAs. To overcome the dual challenges of physicians' reluctance to discuss EOL care and patients' discomfort in engaging in such conversations, the investigators will use the electronic medical record (EMR) to automatically identify AA patients with life-limiting illness who are eligible for counseling about EOL care options. To change knowledge and attitudes toward EOL care options among AA patients, the investigators will design a culturally sensitive intervention that will combine multimedia materials and a culturally concordant lay health advisor who will deliver tailored education and counseling.
The NIR light source of our device is based on light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which can deliver sufficient light to biological tissues and induce fluorescence emission to meet the needs of the planned clinical studies. It should be noted that the light source is still well under the US FDA recommended limit for NIR exposure and ANSI standard. In addition, the light source is not laser-based, which is significantly safer than other optical imaging systems utilizing laser technologies. The fluorescence signals will be received by the detector portion of our device. Gain-settings could be easily adjusted during operation to optimize the contrast between high fluorescence areas (tumors) and low fluorescence areas (normal tissues). Real-time fluorescence video will be displayed in the goggle eyepiece as well as on a secondary monitor to facilitate viewing by other surgeons in the room.
The purpose of the study is to investigate the feasibility of a preoperative, single dose, ablative partial breast radiation treatment in patients with early-stage breast cancer.
This is an open-label, dose-finding, safety, pharmacokinetics (PK), and evidence-of-activity study of GDC-0927 in postmenopausal women with locally advanced or metastatic Estrogen Receptor Positive (ER+) Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2) breast cancer. The study will be conducted in two parts: Dose escalation and Dose expansion. During dose escalation, GDC-0927 will be administered orally as a single dose on Day -7 for PK evaluation during the lead-in period. Depending on safety and tolerability, participants will be assigned sequentially to escalating doses of GDC-0927 using standard 3+3 design. During dose expansion, there will be no PK week lead-in period. All participants will be treated until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, participant withdrawal of consent or study termination.
The Mutanome Engineered RNA Immuno-Therapy (MERIT) study introduces a novel concept for Individualized Cancer Immunotherapy (IVAC®) to treat each patient with the relevant and immunogenic RNA vaccines for a given patient's tumor. The TNBC-MERIT trial uses two complementary strategies, the WAREHOUSE and the IVAC® MUTANOME concept, resulting in two custom-made IVAC® investigational medicinal products (IMPs) (IVAC_W_bre1_uID and IVAC_M_uID) for each individual patient.
This real-life Health Economics and Outcome Research (HEOR) study will enable to assess the impact of current therapies on quality of life (QoL), productivity loss and health care resource utilization in metastatic breast cancer (mBC). This prospective study will estimate patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and resource utilization data for mBC patients stratified according to treatment type, treatment line and disease status (progression vs. progression free) in a real-life setting. To estimate QoL, work productivity and health care resource utilization of post-menopausal patients with ER+/HER2- locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer in a real-life setting. The secondary objective is to estimate QoL and work productivity of mBC patients' caregivers. During the course of the study, data will be collected on quality of life and work productivity. Patients and caregivers will be asked to fill a set of questionnaires at their recruitment in the study, at 3 months and at 6 months after recruitment.
This randomized trial studies transdermal or oral telapristone acetate in treating patients undergoing surgery to remove the breast (mastectomy). Telapristone acetate may help prevent breast cancer from forming in premenopausal women. Giving telapristone acetate transdermally may be safer and have fewer side effects than oral administration.
This phase 2 trial evaluates how well pegylated irinotecan (NKTR-102) works in treating patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), small cell lung cancer (SCLC), or breast cancer (mBC) that has spread to the brain and does not respond to treatment. Pegylated irinotecan may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth.
Axillary lymph node dissection remains an integral part of surgical treatment of primarily node-positive invasive breast cancer. In order to reduce the incidence of clinically relevant seroma, a suction drain is routinely placed into the axillary cavity after axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) by a separate stab incision. The pathogenesis of seroma involves the collection of lymph fluid caused by dissection of lymph vessels and exudate. All coagulation and fibrinolytic factors are produced and secreted by lymphatic endothelial cells and are involved in the sealing of lymphatic capillaries. Local hemostyptic agents may therefore reduce postoperative secretion from lymphatic fistulas caused by ALND. We propose to conduct a multicenter prospective randomized control trial in Switzerland to evaluate the impact of TachoSil®, a ready-to-use, absorbable surgical patch (consisting of an equine collagen sponge coated with human fibrinogen and human thrombin) on axillary drainage after ALND for breast cancer. We hypothesize that the use of TachoSil® significantly and relevantly reduces the volume and duration of axillary drainage after ALND. This has the potential to increase patients' quality of life, as well as to shorten the length of hospital stay and reduce hospital costs.
This project which is fully funded by the European Union FP7 Program is designed to pull together all the information we obtain from scans and x-rays to design a personalised 3-D digital model of each patient, their anatomy and disease. We can then use this as follows: as (i) an aid to surgical planning to enable objective clinical decision making (ii) a decision support tool to communicate the available treatment options to the patient and facilitate shared decision making and provision of personalised care and (iii) to enable standardised objective evaluation of the aesthetic outcome of the treatment procedures. This study aims to demonstrate the ability of the Virtual Physiological Human concept to empower breast cancer patients and assess the impact on their care and quality of life.