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Filter by:This study was designed to provide a preliminary evaluation of the efficacy and usability of the 2004 revised version of the booklet, Facing Forward , Life After Cancer Treatment, (hereafter,Facing Forward) published by the National Cancer Institute. Facing Forward provides early stage cancer patients during the period after completing active treatment practical ways of dealing with common problems, including guidelines for managing physical, social, and emotional health. Assessments were completed at the patient's final cancer treatment visit. Follow-up assessments occurred eight weeks and 6 months later. The initial assessments covered background information (demographics, medical status), use of educational materials, survivorship activities, and psychological factors. The follow-up assessments included use of actions recommended in Facing Forward, ratings of Facing Forward with respect the booklet's informativeness, helpfulness, understandability, and extent read, the same psychological measures used initially, and a measure of self-efficacy.
Our institution performs therapeutic ERCP (Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ), Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) and Interventional Endoscopy in around 1000 patients a year. Procedures such as biliary and/or pancreatic sphincterotomy, stents placement (metallic or plastic) and removal for revision, cysts and pseudocysts drainage are conducted in patients suffering from pancreatico-biliary disorders, gastrointestinal disorders and esophageal disorders. The investigators would like to assess prospectively the efficacy and safety of these routine procedures to permit identification of technical details about the procedures or other factors which might be associated with outcome or results. Assessment of these details would help us with problem identification and recommendations to improve health outcomes and quality of life in these patients.
Background: Cancer in the liver can start in the liver (e.g., primary liver cancer or hepatocellular cancer) or spread to the liver from cancers in other parts of the body (e.g. colon, pancreas, gastric, breast, ovarian, esophageal cancers, cancer with metastases to the liver.) People who have tumors that can be removed by surgery live longer than those whose cancer cannot be removed. Chemotherapy can shrink some tumors in the liver, which also helps people to live longer, and sometimes chemotherapy can shrink tumors enough that they can be removed by surgery. However, most chemotherapy drugs do not work well on tumors in the liver. In this study we are testing a new drug, TKM-080301, given directly into the cancer blood supply in the liver circulation, to see if it will cause tumors to shrink. Objectives: - To test the safety and effectiveness of TKM-080301 for cancer in the liver that has not responded to standard treatments. Eligibility: - Individuals at least 18 years of age who have inoperable cancer that has started in or spread to the liver. Design: - Participants will be screened with a medical history and physical exam. They will also have blood tests, and imaging studies. - Participants will have a liver angiogram (type of X-ray study) to look at the blood flow in the liver and to place a catheter for delivery of the TKM080301. - Participants will have a single dose of TKM-080301 given directly into the liver. After the drug has been given, the catheter will be removed. They will have frequent blood tests and keep a diary to record side effects. - Participants may have two more doses, each dose given 2 weeks apart. {Before each dose, participants will have another angiogram and catheter placement.}They may also have liver biopsies to study the tumors. - Two weeks after the third treatment (one full course), participants will have a physical exam, blood tests, and imaging studies. If the tumor is shrinking, they may have up to three more courses of the study drug. - Participants will have follow up visits every 3 months for 2 years after the last course and then every 6 months as required.
RATIONALE: Continued smoking after a cancer diagnosis has important health consequences beyond the risks associated with smoking in the general population. Smoking reduces the efficacy of cancer treatments including surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Despite the negative consequences, it is estimated that between 15-75% of patients with cancer continue to smoke after their cancer diagnosis. Lung, breast, prostate, colorectal, bladder, head & neck, and cervical cancer patients were chosen because there is evidence of potential clinical benefit associated with quitting smoking in all of these populations and they represent a mix of both smoking and non-smoking related cancers.
Energy healing is among the most commonly used forms of complementary and alternative medicine among cancer patients. There are, however, few studies on the effects of energy healing for cancer and cancer associated symptoms and none of them are of a volume or quality that allows reliable conclusions to be drawn. Qualitative studies on energy healing in Denmark have demonstrated that the interventions are individualized and the expected outcomes personalized. This research points to the need for a research design that can evaluate personalized outcomes of individualized treatments and at the same time adhere to general demands of external and internal validity. The objective of this study is to test the effectiveness of energy healing as an individualized rehabilitative intervention to improve outcomes of personal choice among persons who have completed a conventional intended curative treatment for colorectal, breast and prostate cancer. The study is designed as a pragmatic clinical trial with personalized outcomes. The study attempts to maximize external validity by using a design that incorporates important features of energy healing administered in real-life settings: 1a) allowing participants self-selection to healing and non-healing control, 1b) assessing individual participant-selected treatment goals, 1c) allowing the treatment to be performed in the private clinics of the healers. To maximize internal validity similar to that obtained in a randomized, clinical trial design, the study will 2a) randomize participants to self-selection and randomized groups of intervention and control; and 2b) supplement the assessment of personalized treatment goals with assessment of outcomes with standardized measures. The study will account for a number of possible moderators of the effects, including 3a) socio-demographics and 3b) previous experience with complementary and alternative treatment. Outcome measures will be assessed by questionnaires, physical measurements, data from administrative registries as well as semi-structured interviews and participant observation. Possible patterns in the various forms of data will be examined for concordances and discrepancies. Finally, the methods will be discussed in terms of their generalizability as a model for evaluating personal outcomes of individualized treatments with high levels of external and internal validity.
Aim of the study is to evaluate if Temperament, Anxiety and Depression can affect Immunity and influence Survival in Colorectal Cancer Patients
Laparoscopic technique and epidural anesthesia have been proposed to improve postoperative outcome following colorectal cancer surgery. The investigators hypothesize that the inflammatory response is attenuated by laparoscopic surgery and epidural anesthesia compared to traditional open surgery under general anesthesia.
Vitamin B-6, folate and homocysteine may play a critical role in the colorectal cancer progression. This is a 4-y study and the specific aims are: 1) to compare vitamin B-6, folate and homocysteine status, oxidative stress, antioxidant activities and DNA methylation between subjects with colorectal polyps and colorectal cancer; 2) to study the effects of vitamin B-6, folate and homocysteine status on oxidative stress, antioxidant activities and DNA methylation in colorectal cancer patients; 3) to evaluate whether folic acid and/or pyridoxine supplementation had a beneficial effect on oxidative stress, antioxidant activities and DNA methylation in patients with colorectal; 4) to compare vitamin B-6, folate and homocysteine status, oxidative stress, antioxidant activities and DNA methylation between colorectal cancer patients and age-, sex-matched healthy subjects; 5) to evaluate the effect of vitamin B-6, folate and homocysteine status, oxidative stress, antioxidant activities and DNA methylation on the risk of colorectal cancer (odds ratio); 6) to follow the effects of vitamin B-6, folate and homocysteine status, oxidative stress, antioxidant activities and DNA methylation on the occurrence of colorectal cancer; 7) to follow the effects of pyridoxine and/or folic acid supplementation on the occurrence of colorectal cancer. This protocol is designed as a hospital-based cross-sectional, case-control, double blinded randomized placebo-controlled intervention and follow-up trial. Three hundred colorectal cancer patients and 300 age-, sex-matched controls who meet the inclusion criteria will be recruited from Taichung General Veterans Hospital. If cancer patients' plasma pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) level less than 30 nmol/L will be asked to participate the intervention study and will be blinded and randomly assigned to either the 1) control (vitamin C, 100 mg/d); 2) 50 mg vitamin B-6; 3) 400 microgram/d folic acid; or 4) vitamin B-6 (50 mg/d) plus folic acid (400 microgram/d) for 1 year. Data on demography, anthropometry, medical history, food frequency questionnaire and 24-h diet recall will be collected. Cancer patients will have fasting blood drawn before surgery or receiving chemotherapy. Additionally, fasting blood samples will be obtained at month 0, 3, 6, 9 and 12 during intervention period and at month 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 42 and 48 during follow-up. Hematological, plasma and erythrocyte PLP, plasma pyridoxal and 4-pyridoxic acid, serum and erythrocyte folate, serum vitamin B-12, homocysteine, SAM, SAH, lipid peroxidation indicators (TBARS, oxidized LDL), glutathione, antioxidant enzymatic activities and DNA methylation and MTHFR 677C>T polymorphism will be measured.
The purpose of this research study is for the participant to give their own T cells (a type of blood cell in the body that can fight infections and possibly cancer) to them after they have been removed, grown in a lab, and then coated with an experimental drug. This study will determine the highest dose of EGFR2Bi coated T cells that can be given without causing severe side effects. Initially a group of 3 participants will receive the same dose of study drug. If no serious side effects occur, the next group of participants will receive a slightly higher dose of study agent. The following groups of participants will receive higher doses of the study drug until a dose is reached where there are unacceptable side effects and maximum tolerated dose is found, or the planned highest dose level is reached with no side effects.
This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study will evaluate the efficacy and safety of FOLFOX/bevacizumab with onartuzumab (MetMAb) versus placebo as first-line treatment in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.