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Filter by:The study aims to identify the efficacy and safety of capecitabine plus oxaliplatin (XELOX) in patients with local advanced colorectal cancer.
Stage III colorectal cancer constitutes more than half of the colorectal patients, and the prognosis does not improve much recently although varies of adjuvant drugs have been tried. DC-CIK immunotherapy has been proved to improve survival in cancer patients, but its role in stage III colorectal cancer patients stains unclear. The investigators study will focus on the efficacy and safety of DC-CIK immunotherapy plus chemotherapy in the adjuvant treatment of stage III colorectal cancer, compared with chemotherapy alone.
Dukes B2-C colorectal cancer patients who had no evidence of disease at the end of their front line treatment (surgery and adjuvant radio-chemotherapy, if indicated) are eligible for the trial and randomized to two different surveillance programs. These programs differ greatly in the frequency of diagnostic imaging. They have similar schedules of physical examinations and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) assessments. Patients will receive baseline and yearly health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) questionnaires. Primary outcomes are overall survival and QoL.
Background: The level physical exercise is strongly associated with colorectal cancer risk in the general population, and recent data shows that physical activity after a colorectal cancer diagnosis is inversely associated with mortality risk, indication the physical exercise can protect against disease progression. However, few studies have successfully performed exercise interventions in patients with colorectal cancer, and the potential mechanisms responsible for the tumor suppressing effects of exercise remain poorly explored. Purpose: To investigate interval-walking, delivered by the InterWalk smart phone application as exercise-modality in patients with colorectal cancer. Specifically it is the aim to explore if InterWalk is safe and feasible as well as effective to improve cardio-metabolic health profile. Subjects: Colorectal cancer patients, stage I-III, who are at least one month post-surgery and have concluded any adjuvant chemotherapy treatment, are eligible for inclusion. Exclusion criteria are: age <18; any major surgical procedure planned within 6 months after inclusion; pregnancy; ongoing treatment for any known malignancy; performance status > 1; unable to read and understand Danish Methods: 40 colorectal cancer patients are included and randomized to I) InterWalk or II) waiting list control for 24 weeks. Patients are evaluated at baseline, week 12 and week 24 by assessment measures to determine cardio-metabolic health profile and other relevant study outcomes, including: cardiopulmonary exercise test (VO2peak); anthropometrics; blood pressure; resting heart rate; body composition; health related quality of life questionnaires; plasma concentration levels of cholesterol, triglycerides, insulin, glucose and inflammatory cytokines; insulin sensitivity; and cognitive function.
To investigate whether intraoperative intraportal chemotherapy combined with adjuvant chemotherapy as treatment could improve disease-free survival (DFS) in patients with curative colorectal cancer resection compared with adjuvant chemotherapy alone. This is a prospective, blind (doctors who done outcome measures were masked), multi-center, 2-arm randomized controlled trial.
This is a phase 2 study (the second phase in testing a new drug or drug combination) to see how useful the combination of two drugs, panitumumab and trametinib, are in patients with advanced colorectal cancer with KRAS, NRAS, or BRAF wild type (genes that are not mutated). Panitumumab is a drug that is approved by Health Canada for the treatment of advanced colorectal cancer with KRAS wild type. Panitumumab works by binding to and blocking the protein, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) from working. Trametinib is a drug that is approved by Health Canada for the treatment of melanoma with a mutation in the BRAF gene. Trametinib works by binding to and blocking mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MEK) 1 and MEK2 from working. Previous studies have shown that the combination of panitumumab and trametinib may be more useful in KRAS, NRAS, or BRAF wild type colorectal cancer.
The purpose of this study is to investigate biomarkers which may be predictors of efficacy and safety of treatment with mFOLFOX6 + bevacizumab versus mFOLFOX6 + panitumumab therapy in patients with chemotherapy-naïve unresectable advanced or recurrent colorectal cancer.
The purpose of this study is to verify the efficacy of mFOLFOX6 + panitumumab combination therapy and mFOLFOX6 + bevacizumab combination therapy in first-line treatment of chemotherapy-naive patients with KRAS/NRAS wild-type, incurable/unresectable, advanced/recurrent colorectal cancer.
This research study is investigating the use of aspirin as a potential chemopreventive agent to reduce risk of colorectal cancer
The purpose of this study (Healthy Colon Project II) is to evaluate different educational approaches for increasing rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening in a hard-to-reach urban minority population with health insurance.