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Filter by:Background: - An interview called the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School Age Children Present and Lifetime version (K-SADS-PL) is used to identify mental health problems among children and younger teens. Both the child and a parent are asked questions about the child s behaviors and symptoms that might indicate such problems. Researchers want to see if the K-SADS-PL can help identify mental health problems in young adults (ages 18 to 25). Two groups of young adults, including healthy volunteers and people with cancer, and their parents will participate in this study. Objectives: - To see if the K-SADS-PL interview used for children and teens can also be used for young adults. - To see whether information provided by parents will affect the rate of mental health problems found. Eligibility: - Individuals aged 18-25 years who have cancer and are participating in research studies at the National Institutes of Health. - Healthy volunteers aged 18-25 years. - A parent of a young adult who is participating in this study. Design: - This study requires one study visit that includes an interview and self-report questionnaires. It will take about 1 to 3 hours. A follow-up phone call or visit will also be required. - Young adult participants will be given the K-SADS-PL interview and four questionnaires that ask about mood, anxiety, distress, parental contact, and development during childhood. The K-SADS-PL interview will be video recorded or audio recorded. - Parents will also be given the K-SADS-PL interview. This interview can be done in person or by phone, and will also be recorded. - No treatment will be provided as part of this study.
Five year survival following a diagnosis of childhood cancer has reached 83%, making long term health outcomes among survivors an important concern. The growing population of survivors is at an increased risk of physical inactivity and associated adverse health outcomes. Regular physical activity is associated with better cardiovascular and musculoskeletal health. Despite the known benefits of physical activity, nearly half of all childhood cancer survivors do not meet recommended guidelines for physical activity. Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (SJCRH) want to determine if a rewards-based physical activity intervention delivered via an interactive website among young adolescent childhood cancer survivors, aged 11 through 14 years, will increase physical activity levels and improve cardiovascular and musculoskeletal health. The investigators also want to learn if this rewards-based intervention is effective. To achieve this goal the investigators have designed a three-arm prospective, randomized study with two reward-based intervention groups and a control group.
This non-interventional study will assess the occurrence rate of non-small cell lung cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer, gastric cancer and malignant melanoma in Turkey, and the diagnostic methods and treatments used. Data will be collected over 36 months.
The purpose of this study is to assess patients' understanding of clinical trials and to help researchers understand which areas of the informed consent need better explanation for future cancer clinical trial patients.
Oral morphine is often utilized as a convenient and effective method of achieving palliation of pain in the terminally ill cancer patients. However, at effective doses, a majority of patients do experience an undue amount of excessive sleepiness. Given the generally low expected survival periods among this patient population, the fact that morphine causes the patient to spend a significant period of remaining life in sleep, is often unacceptable for the patients and their families. Given the proven benefits of modafinil in conditions characterized by excessive sleepiness (such as with narcolepsy and shift-work disorder), the investigators designed a prospective placebo controlled randomized trial by the addition of modafinil at a dose of 200mg per day (in two divided doses) for eligible patients after randomization.
Patients with cancer who develop stroke are at high risk for future strokes or other clotting events. These patients are routinely treated with medicines that thin their blood, including enoxaparin or aspirin. However, it is unclear which medicine is best and whether these medicines can be adequately studied in a clinical trial. The purpose of this Phase I/II study is to determine if a clinical trial of different blood thinners in patients with cancer and stroke is possible. In addition, the study aims to compare the effects, good and/or bad, of enoxaparin with those of aspirin on patients with cancer and recent stroke.
This study has two purposes. One is to determine if daily sulindac decreases breast density; a risk factor for breast cancer development. The second is to determine whether sulindac reduces pain and stiffness associated with regular use of aromatase inhibitors given for the treatment of breast cancer.
This was a four part, phase I/II study aimed to evaluate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of combination of an anti-EGFR antibody panitumumab (P) either with a BRAF inhibitor (dabrafenib (D); GSK2118436) alone or with the combination of a BRAF inhibitor and a MEK inhibitor (trametinib (T); GSK1120212) in patients with BRAF-mutant V600E advanced or mCRC. The goal was to: 1) Determine RP2R/MTD for doublet (D+P) and triplet (D+T+P) combinations in Part 1; 2) Assess clinical activity for these combinations in Part 2; 3) Determine RP2R/MTD for double (T+P) combination in Part 4A, and assess clinical activity of this combination in two patient populations in Part 4B (patients with BRAF-V600E mutation-positive advanced or metastatic CRC and patients with advanced or metastatic CRC with secondary resistance to anti-EGFR therapy).
The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and feasibility of active video gaming with regard to the promotion of physical activity and motor learning in children with cancer. Experienced fatigue, body mass index and the development of metabolic risk factors during treatment are also examined.
The investigators performed a randomized, double-blind controlled, prospective study method on observation of Traditional Chinese Medicine combined with targeted therapy to prolong the efficacy of long-term survival of advanced pulmonary Adenocarcinoma patients.The investigators plan to involve 404 cases for observation in 3 years (202 cases for each group), expecting that integrated TCM combined with targeted therapy has a better efficacy on prolonging progression-free survival time, overall survival, improving QOL of patients than that of targeted therapy.