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Filter by:Background International guidelines underline the importance of strengthening the coordination and continuity of cancer care. The different roles of general practitioners and oncologists with regard to treatment, follow-up and rehabilitation during and after cancer treatment are often obscure to cancer patients. Parallel courses of healthcare are often taking place instead of coordinated care characterized by continuity and partnership between care providers. Patients may feel uncertain about the health professionals' skills and area of responsibility. Healthcare seeking and support during and after cancer treatment may, therefore, be inappropriate, leaving patients feeling insecure and lost between care providers.The study aims to design and evaluate a new way of communication and shared decision-making that brings the patient, the oncologist and general practitioner together in a shared video-consultation in the early phase of chemotherapeutic treatment. The effect of the intervention in addition to usual care will be tested in a randomized controlled trial at Vejle Hospital in the Region of Southern Denmark. Based on sample size calculation, investigators intent to include 300 patients at the Department of Oncology and their general practitioners. Results and process outcomes will be evaluated qualitatively and quantitatively, questionnaires to patients, general practitioners and oncologists, and data from registers.
The purpose of this study is to determine if erlotinib given orally along with concurrent palliative irradiation to lung cancer improves local control compared to those treated with radiotherapy alone.
The purpose of this study is to determine the safety and efficacy of Tumor Associated Peptide Antigen (TAPA) pulsed dendritic cell (DC) vaccines in the treatment of hematologic malignancies.
Background: People's genetic markers and other genetic characteristics can affect their response to drug therapy. Researchers want to screen people for these markers and characteristics. They want to do this before the people are screened for studies at the National Cancer Institute. That should save time that can be lost when people go through the whole screening for a study only to find out they cannot join. The data collected may also be used to select the proper dose of anticancer agents that are being studied. Objective: To screen people for genetic markers and/or baseline characteristics. These will be used to determine if they can enroll in a clinical trial. They may also be used to select the proper dose of anticancer agents that are being tested. Eligibility: Adults 18 and older who are being considered for or being treated in a National Cancer Institute study Design: Participants will have their blood drawn for genetic tests. Some participants will have a cheek swab. Participants genetic data will be stored for future research. It could be shared with other researchers.
This study evaluates the effectiveness of Tumor Associated Peptide Antigens (TAPA) pulsed dendritic cell injections as a potential consolidation therapy for patients with metastatic solid malignancies (SM). The investigators hypothesize that treatment of patients with metastatic SM who demonstrate a tumor response, or whose disease remains stable, after conventional first-line systemic therapy AND who lack an available, potentially curative therapeutic intervention and whose tumor cells and/or blood express at least one (1) TAPA of a defined panel of TAPAs will result in TAPA-specific T-cell responses without significant toxicities. The investigators also hypothesize CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell responses generated against specific TAPAs may translate into clinical antitumor activity.
The purpose of this study is to characterize the safety and tolerability and determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) or the recommended fixed dose of the combinations of mogamulizumab and nivolumab in subjects with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumors.
In a multicenter, randomized clinical trial of attitudes towards research participation, we will evaluate the ethics, effectiveness, and cost- effectiveness of three recruitment strategies for research participation in a mobility trial among hospitalized patients and a smoking cessation trial among patients with depression.
To test the efficacy of FACE-TC on key outcomes, the investigators propose using an intent-to-treat, longitudinal, prospective, multi-site, randomized controlled trial (RCT) design. Adolescents with cancer, aged 14 up to 20 years, and their families (N=130 dyads; N=260 participants) will be recruited and randomized to FACE-TC or Treatment as Usual (TAU) control. Participants will complete standardized questionnaires at baseline and 3, 6, 12, and 18 months post-intervention. Our goal is to assess the extent to which FACE-TC helps adolescents and young adults with cancer and their families: (1) reach and maintain better congruence in treatment preferences over time; (2) improve their quality of life; and (3) document goals of care and advance directives earlier in the course of their potentially life limiting illness.
In the REaCT-Vascular Access Her2 negative study, the investigator will use a novel method to allow comparisons of established standard of care vascular access strategies using the "integrated consent model" as part of a pragmatic clinical trial. Determining the optimal vascular access strategy remains an important medical issue for patients, nurses, physicians and society. A novel method to allow comparison of established standards of care is needed as part of an increasing internationally mandated incentive to perform more pragmatic clinic trials.
evaluating The Investigational Therapy effects on quality of life, pain and patient's clinical status in adult cancer patients with solid tumors who are no longer candidates for active oncological therapies.