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Filter by:This study is being carried out in patients with advanced solid tumours to assess which of two different types of imaging scans best measures activity of an experimental drug called Cediranib. The study compares the imaging tests: Dynamic Contrast Enhanced CT (DCE-CT) and Dynamic Contrast Enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI). It looks at which of these scans is the most accurate and best predicts a response to the treatment. Cediranib is thought to work by stopping blood flow to cancers, and both of these scans assess blood flow. Studying the response of cancers by measuring changes in their blood flow may provide useful information that will guide the way we manage cancers in the future.
OBJECTIVES: Primary Objectives • Determine the safety and toxicity profile of co-administration of disulfiram and copper gluconate for the treatment of refractory malignancies that have metastasized to the liver. Secondary Objectives - Determine if disulfiram and copper gluconate induce measurable responses for the treatment of hepatic metastases from solid tumors. - Qualitative assessment of the induction of S-glutathionylation in proteins of circulating leukocytes in patients treated with disulfiram and copper gluconate.
Bevacizumab might influence the dynamic vessel function after being administered intravenously.
Chemotherapy adversely affects quality of life in cancer patients. Both stress management training and exercise training have been shown to improve quality of life. These two types of training have not been directly compared for chemotherapy patients. This study seeks to evaluate the separate and combined effects of stress management training and exercise training on quality of life during chemotherapy treatment. Participants receive either a home-based, self-administered program in 1 of 3 types (stress management, exercise, or stress management + exercise) or usual care (reading materials). It is hypothesized that the combined program (stress management + exercise) will be significantly associated with better quality of life than the usual care group, the exercise only group, and the stress management only group. All participants are assessed at 3 timepoints: before they begin chemotherapy, 6 weeks after their first chemotherapy infusion, and 12 weeks after their first infusion.
This study will characterize the safety, tolerability, biological activity, and pharmacokinetics of LBH589 in Japanese patients with advanced solid tumors whose disease has progressed despite standard therapies, or for whom no standard therapy exists.
This is a phase 1, multicenter, open-label, dose escalation trial of PDL192 in subjects with advanced solid tumors.
RATIONALE: A step-by-step procedure may help health care practitioners diagnose and treat cancer patients with bowel injury symptoms caused by radiation therapy. PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying the care of cancer patients with bowel injury caused by radiation therapy to the pelvis.
Primary: - To characterize the physiologic changes of the autonomic nervous system, demonstrated by heart rate variability (HRV) high frequency (HF) spectral analysis, before and after a 15 minute, one-time, guided relaxation program for cancer patients. Secondary: - To assess whether change of HRV correlates with subjective feeling for anxiety, based on visual analog scale scores.
The purpose of this study is to determine if patients are able to self-rate their physical abilities and how these ratings compare to the ratings of their health-care provider.
The long-range goal of this research is to develop better ways of helping GI cancer patients and their caregivers cope more effectively with the demands of the disease. The study is designed to test the hypothesis that a partner-assisted emotional disclosure intervention will be more effective in enhancing patient' psychological adjustment than a cancer education condition.