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Filter by:Sleep disturbance in cancer patients is often overlooked despite its documented high prevalence and negative impact. There are few empirically validated non-pharmacological treatments for insomnia and many patients are unwilling to rely on sleeping medications. This study will determine whether Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (a program that teaches meditation and yoga) produces equivalent results with the additional benefits of reduced stress and mood disturbance, to an already established treatment for insomnia, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. This will allow for the expansion of treatment options for insomnia beyond what is currently available and improve quality of life for millions of cancer survivors.
It is important to assess patients' fitness for major cancer surgery which carries a high risk of mortality. Patients with poor heart and lung function have a higher risk of death after major cancer surgery. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing, CPET, is an objective measure of patients' fitness. Most patients, before surgery to resect their cancer, undergo a period of chemotherapy. Chemotherapy often regresses the cancer but also has adverse effects on cell function. Our hypothesis is that chemotherapy alters patient fitness, as assessed by CPET, prior to major cancer surgery. Participating patients will undergo fitness testing by CPET before and after their chemotherapy, prior to their surgery.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a gentle physical conditioning program comprised of isotonic resistive strengthening and pedometer-directed walking can improve the physical functioning and fatigue of patients with late stage lung or colon cancer.
Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NACRT) prior to surgery for lower gastrointestinal (colon and rectal) cancer is associated with improved survival, but also adversely affects physical fitness, potentially rendering patients unfit for major surgery or increasing the risk of adverse outcome (death and serious complications) after major surgery. The investigators aim to obtain pilot data showing that neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NACRT)reduces objectively measured exercise capacity (fitness).
Data on the safety and efficacy of TYKERB shall be collected from the patients in order to grasp the actual conditions of post-marketing use and assess background information on the patients.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether GSK1120212, a MEK inhibitor, is an effective and safe treatment for cancer subjects with metastatic uveal melanoma and mutation-positive GNAQ or GNA11 metastatic melanoma.
This study will estimate the effect of lapatinib on cardiac repolarization (QTc interval duration) in subjects with advanced solid tumors. The study treatment period will occur over five days and an End of Study visit will be conducted on Day 8 (or no later than 3 days beyond Day 8). Subjects will receive placebo that mimics lapatinib for 2 days as three separate doses given 12 hours apart (8 tablets/dose) and lapatinib (2000mg) for 2 days as three separate doses given 12 hours apart (8 tablets/dose). Subjects will not know when they are receiving placebo vs. lapatinib. Digital 12-lead ECG recordings will be extracted from continuous ECG recordings obtained via a Holter monitor to measure QTc interval duration. Triplicate ECG measurements of QTc interval will be taken at pre-specified times at Day 1 (Baseline) and pre-dose and up to 24 hours after the third dose of placebo or lapatinib on Study Days 2 and 4. Pharmacokinetic sampling will occur immediately following each pre-specified QTc measurement in subjects dosed with placebo or lapatinib. Subjects who complete participation in this study, if they are eligible, will be offered the option to continue treatment with lapatinib, either alone or in combination with other oncology drugs in pre-selected anticancer regimens, in a continuation protocol, EGF111767.
This is a placebo-controlled, double blind, comparative study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of KW-2246 as rescue medication at an optimal dose, which is determined by dose titration in treating breakthrough pain episodes in adult cancer patients receiving strong opioid analgesic on a fixed-schedule as well as rescue medication for breakthrough pain.
The purposes of this study are to make Omegaven® available to cancer patients with liver disease and to determine if Omegaven® can improve or prevent further liver disease. The study will also look at the effects Omegaven® has on immune function.
This is an open label, single arm phase 1 dose escalation study and phase 2 study of BBI608 in combination with paclitaxel in patients with advanced malignancies.