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Filter by:A multi-center randomized phase III trial was conducted to investigate the feasibility and safety of adding temozolomide to hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy for large brain metastases.
This study aims to investigate the adherence to the antiemesis NCCN guideline in Chinese patients of gynecologic malignancies, who are given chemotherapy treatment. The risk of chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is calculated by the questionnaire supported by the website "CINV Risk Assessment" (http://www.riskcinv.org/).
This project has for objective to demonstrate that the increase of the distance "Patient home - center of treatment" may be associated with significant, other noticeable, noted events. This distance may also be available in the Rouen University Hospital. The study of the association in this distance and the delay in initiating chemotherapy after surgery in patients treated at the CHU correspond to a pilot study prior to the completion of the analysis at the regional scale.
PD-L1 is identified as an important biomarkers for predicting PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors in advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Several previous clinical trials have demonstrated that chemotherapy could enhance the efficacy of PD-1/L1 immunotherapy in NSCLC such as Checkmate-227, Impower-150, Keynote-189, etc. Pre-clincial experiment shows that chemotherapy could increase CD8 TIL infiltration in tumor microenvironment, activate T cell immune reaction. However, it remains unclear whether chemotherapy could affect PD-L1 in advanced NSCLC patients. The present study aims to evaluate whether PD-L1 will change after receiving chemotherapy in advanced NSCLC patients.
This is a multicentre, single-arm, phase II study to investigate the safety and antiemetic efficacy of Akynzeo (a fixed dose combination of palonosetron and netupitant) plus dexamethasone in patients receiving concomitant chemo-radiotherapy with weekly cisplatin for at least five weeks.
Peripheral neuropathy is currently the second most common side effect after chemotherapy, second only to the side effects of blood toxicity. A variety of chemotherapy drugs may induce peripheral neurotoxicity, and cause by the cumulative dose of chemotherapy drugs. Symptoms include sensory parasthesia, feeling dull or numbness, glove-like feeling distributed in the palm. The currently most effective way is to interrupt the treatment or adjust the dose of chemotherapeutic drugs, but it is easy to make patients discontinue chemotherapy. The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of acupuncture on neurological symptoms and quality of life. Three kinds of questionnairs will be used:(1) Brief pain inventory- short form to assess the extent of pain, and the impact of daily life. (2) FACT/GOG-NTX-13 (Version 4) to assess changes in neurological symptoms; (3) WHOQOL-BREF to assess changes in the quality of life of patients. The course of treatment was evaluated for nine weeks. Changes in neurological function and quality of life will be evaluated before treatment, the third week of treatment, the sixth week of treatment, till the ninth week. The aim of this study is to confirm that acupuncture can improve peripheral neuropathy after chemotherapy, in order to enhance breast cancer patients' quality of life, and provide the new opportunity for integrative therapy between Chinese and Western medicine. Keywords：acupuncture , chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy
This is a pragmatic randomized, multi-center, open-label randomized clinical trial, aimed to evaluate efficacy and safety of thalidomide in improving prevention of chemotherapy-induced delayed nausea and vomiting (CINV) in chemotherapy-naive patients after multi-cycle cisplatin-containing highly emetogenic chemotherapy (HEC) .
Chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is a common adverse effect in treatment of cancer, which influences the quality of life and adherence to treatment of patients and leads to dehydration, malnutrition and even death. Prevention and relieving the CINV is an important step to ensure the conduction of chemotherapy. Mechanism of CINV remains to be obscure, while most studies showed that it is mainly related to the following respects: ⑴ Chemotherapeutic agents stimulate gastrointestinal tract, which induces the release of neurotransmitters by chromaffin cells. Neurotransmitters bind to corresponding receptors, and then results in vomiting by stimulating the vomiting center; ⑵ Chemotherapeutic agents and the metabolites of them activate chemoreceptors directly, which causes vomiting. ⑶ Feeling and mental factors irritate cerebral cortex pathway directly. There are studies suggested that 5- hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) was related to acute nausea and vomiting induced by chemotherapy, which means 5-HT receptor antagonist would be a effective medicine for acute CINV. In addition, there are researches proclaimed that neurokinin-1 (NK-1) receptor antagonist, aprepitant, is a potent agent to relieve CINV. Thus, correlative guidelines recommend regimens with 5-HT receptor antagonist, NK-1 receptor antagonist and glucocorticoid as the standard treatment for strongly emetic chemotherapy regimens. But the prevention of moderately emetic chemotherapy regimens remains to be a problem in clinical practice. Besides, there is no study to demonstrate differences of mechanisms between acute CINV and delayed CINV. Olanzapine inhibits kinds of neurotransmitters which cause CINV, it is why this medicine is effective in both acute and delayed CINV. It can also alleviate anxiety, improve sleep quality and relieve pain in patients with cancer. The most common adverse effects of olanzapine are lethargy, body mass increase, fatigue, dry mouth, constipation, hyperlipidemia and hyperglycemia. Among them, the most common one is lethargy, which can oppose insomnia and excitation caused by dexamethasone. In a word, olanzapine is an agent with mild adverse effects, it is worth to be generalized. But there are still problems to be resolved in the application of olanzapine in CINV: ⑴ Aprepitant is expensive and not covered in medical care in China, which limits the application in patients. ⑵There is no large clinical trial to confirm the efficacy and safety of olanzapine in Chinese populations. To explore these issues better, investigators intend to compare the regimen with olanzapine, dexamethasone and 5-HT receptor antagonists with the regimen with placebo, dexamethasone and 5-HT receptor antagonists about the efficacy and adverse events in treatment of CINV. Investigators aim to provide an available therapeutic options for CINV, improve the quality of life and prolong the survival of patients with lung cancer.
Colorectal cancer will be resistant to Chemotherapy drugs after treated for a period of time .In the past, the classical treatment regiment was to change other drug after tumor progressed. In theory, the continuous use of such a drug could shortening the patient's drug resistance time. It has been shown that the alternate use of the two drug combinations is reasonable in clinical. This application can not only further improve the curative effect but also significantly reduce the side effects. So the investigators are going to carry out a prospective phase II clinical study. The control group change to second-line treatment after progression of first-line drugs. The experimental group use the first line and the second line,alternately, for every two cycles. The combination of bevacizumab is a first line development, and the second line can still be used . Objective to compare the clinical value of XELOX + bevacizumab and XELIRI + bevacizumab alternation regimen in the first-line treatment of advanced colorectal cancer.
Colorectal cancer will be resistant to Chemotherapy drugs after treated for a period of time .In the past, the classical treatment regiment was to change other drug after tumor progressed. In theory, the continuous use of such a drug could shortening the patient's drug resistance time. It has been shown that the alternate use of the two drug combinations is reasonable in clinical. This application can not only further improve the curative effect but also significantly reduce the side effects. So the investigators are going to carry out a prospective phase II clinical study. The control group change to second-line treatment after progression of first-line drugs. The experimental group use the first line and the second line,alternately, for every two cycles. The combination of bevacizumab is a first line development, and the second line can still be used .Objective to compare the clinical value of XELOX and XELIRI alternation regimen in the first-line treatment of advanced colorectal cancer.