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Filter by:The primary purpose of this study is to explore the safety and tolerability of AZD4547 in Japanese patients with advanced solid malignancies.
Background: - State-of-the art care for children with cancer or rare diseases is not available in all countries. Owing to the proximity of Latin America and the growing numbers of Latinos already in the United States, many international patients receiving specialized medical care in U.S. hospitals are from Spanish-speaking countries. Although there are benefits associated with obtaining specialized care in the United States, linguistic barriers and cultural differences as well as the general stresses of caring for a child with a serious illness may affect families ability to obtain adequate care for their children. Researchers are interested in exploring the experiences and needs of international Latino families receiving medical care for their child in the United States in order to help health care centers provide more appropriate resources and improve the overall quality of culturally sensitive care. Objectives: - To understand the experiences of international Latino families who are receiving treatment for their child or have enrolled their child in a research study in the United States. Eligibility: - Caregivers of a child between birth and 25 years of ages who are from Latin America (which includes Mexico, all countries in Central America and South America, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries) and who have traveled to the United States to enroll their child in a research protocol and/or seek treatment for their child s medical condition. - Caregivers must have a child enrolled on a research protocol at the time of this study. - Caregivers must have been away from their country of origin for a minimum of 3 months. Design: - This study requires a single interview that should take approximately 1 hour. - Participants will complete the interview with a member of the research team who is bilingual or fluent in Spanish. - Participants will be asked open-ended questions about why they chose to come to the United States, how they are adjusting to living and getting medical care for their child in the United States, and what hopes they have for treatment outcomes and future medical care. - Researchers will record the interviews to be reviewed later. The recordings will be used for this study only.
70% of all cancer patients develop some form of visceral (internal organs) or skeletal metastases (spread of disease). Approximately one third of cancer patients develop metastases to the spinal column. The prognosis once spinal metastases have been diagnosed and the most appropriate treatment still remains controversial. To date there is no one good diagnostic tool to predict survival and/or outcome after radiotherapy or surgical intervention. Tokuhashi, et al, formulated and presented a preoperative scoring system to evaluate indications for surgery and predict outcome in patients with metastases to the spinal column. Six variables are measured to calculate this score: general medical condition, number of extraspinal metastases, number of vertebral metastases, status of metastases to the major internal organs, primary tumor type, and presence of a neurologic deficit. This scoring system has been gaining acceptance in literature. In 1998, Tokuhashi, et al, modified this scoring system by diversifying the tumor types into six categories. After a retrospective analysis Tokuhashi reported that patients with scores less than or equal to 8 will die of their disease within 6 months and those with scores of 12 or greater will survive an average of 12 months or more. The purpose of this study is to determine 1) the Tokuhashi score's validity in predicting survival after developing spinal metastases, 2) the relationship of treatment on survival after detecting spinal metastases in relation to the Tokuhashi score. Patients will be enrolled into the study and followed prospectively for as long as possible regardless of intervention. There will be three groups based on their Tokuhashi score, each group will require approximately 163 subjects statistically.
In the current research the investigators would like to examine the effect of a well acquainted drug, Ketamine, which is used by anesthesiologists to induce sleep in operations. Usually the ketamine is given into the vein and not orally. The investigators want to give it orally to cancer patients that sufffer from severe pain to find out whether it can prove their quality of life, lower their pain and reduce the amount of opioids they receive.
This is an open label-study of Fluzone HD, a high-dose form of trivalent, inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV), vs. Fluzone, a standard-dose form of TIV. Subjects with cancer or HIV will be vaccinated twice with one of the two vaccines and evaluated for development of immune responses.
The purpose of this study is to determine how dosing with ketoconazole (Nizoral) or esomeprazole (Nexium) affects the pharmacokinetics of oral pazopanib. The study will also test for safety of pazopanib when administered with ketoconazole or esomeprazole.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and dose regimen of CNTO 888 when administered to patients with solid tumors in combination with 4 standard of care chemotherapy regimens.
The study will be non randomized, open label, dose rising study in cancer patients. Cancer treatment is consisting of 2 different drugs: Oshadi D and Oshadi R that will be administered orally. The study will include two sessions: - A single dose period to evaluate acute toxicity of each drug - Consecutive multiple increment dose escalation period of both drugs to determine the long-term safety, and the anticancer activity.
This study evaluates the feasibility of the NBI technique in the detection of early cancer lesions.
The goal of this study is to learn why some black and Latino men and women choose not to exercise very often. Researchers also want to learn more about any social and environmental factors that may affect the way an exercise program is followed.