There are about 10460 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Australia. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
Bright light therapy is an established treatment pathway for sleep and circadian disorders and evidence suggests that it has antidepressant effects. The underlying mechanisms of these antidepressant effects are not fully understood and results from previous studies are somewhat variable. One of the important limitations of previous depression studies has been the heterogeneity of samples in which bright light therapy has been administered. The main aim of this study is to evaluate whether the antidepressant effects of phototherapy in young persons with depression are modulated by changes in the sleep-wake cycle. We hypothesize that more pronounce initial sleep-phase delay will predict better antidepressant response to phototherapy and that the magnitude of changes in depressive symptoms across the course of the intervention will correlate with changes in the sleep-wake cycle.
Per Health Authorities guidelines for gene therapy medicinal products that utilize integrating vectors (e.g. lentiviral vectors), long term safety and efficacy follow up of treated patients is required. The purpose of this study is to monitor all patients exposed to CAR-T therapied for 15 years following their last CAR-T (e.g. CTL019) infusion to assess the risk of delayed adverse events (AEs), monitor for replication competent lentivirus (RCL) and assess long-term efficacy, including vector persistence.
This phase I trial studies the side effects and best dose of nivolumab when given with ipilimumab in treating patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) associated classical Hodgkin lymphoma that has returned after a period of improvement (relapsed) or does not respond to treatment (refractory), or solid tumors that have spread from where it first started to other places in the body (metastatic) or cannot be removed by surgery (unresectable). Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as ipilimumab and nivolumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Ipilimumab is an antibody that acts against a molecule called cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4). CTLA-4 controls a part of the immune system by shutting it down. Nivolumab is a type of antibody that is specific for human programmed cell death 1 (PD-1), a protein that is responsible for destruction of immune cells. Giving ipilimumab with nivolumab may work better in treating patients with HIV associated classical Hodgkin lymphoma or solid tumors compared to ipilimumab with nivolumab alone.
This study gathers health information for the Project: Every Child for younger patients with cancer. Gathering health information over time from younger patients with cancer may help doctors find better methods of treatment and on-going care.
The SPARK trial is testing the use of Kilovoltage Intrafraction Monitoring in prostate cancer patients being treated with Stereotactic Prostate Adaptive Radiotherapy. The researchers expect this trial to result in better targeted prostate cancer patient outcomes with lower toxicity. The potential application of Kilovoltage Intrafraction Monitoring to other tumour sites will pave the way for additional trials with Australasian radiation oncology leading the world.
This is a long term safety study for patients that have been treated with either ruxolitinib or a combination of ruxolitinib with panobinostat, on a Novartis or Incyte sponsored study, who have been judged by the study Investigator to benefit from ongoing treatment.
This study will investigate the feasibility of treating people who inject drugs (PWID) with hepatitis C virus (HCV) in community-based settings with a 12-week course of oral therapy combination of sofosbuvir plus ledipasvir. It will also measure the effectiveness of using a social network-based approach to reduce HCV incidence among PWID.
Drug metabolism in the liver is subject to large fluctuations (differences between women and men, people of different ethnic backgrounds, children and adults). These large differences are responsible for very different drug effects and side-effects (and especially liver damage caused by drugs) between individuals. Recent scientific findings suggest that blood derived cells can be used to model individual effects of drugs on the liver reflect inter-individual differences. Since liver damage caused by drugs is a diagnosis of exclusion, the aforementioned cells can be used to identify patients that show higher sensitivity to hepatotoxic side-effects and - in case several drugs are involved - identify the causal agent or possible interactions.
Weakening and expansion of the main abdominal artery (abdominal aortic aneurysm, AAA) is a common problem in older Australians. The majority of AAAs are small (<55 mm) and affect 90,000 individuals in Australia and 4.5 million world-wide. Currently, the only treatment available for AAA is surgery. However, surgical therapies are not effective for small AAAs, and these patients undergo a program of repeat imaging and consultation to monitor the size of the aneurysm and symptoms. This proposal is aimed at addressing the urgent need to identify a medical treatment able to limit progression of AAAs. The study design and rationale are based on strong preclinical evidence supporting the value of eplerenone (an agent indicated for treatment of heart failure) in limiting AAA progression. If proved effective, this medication would: 1. Reduce the number of patients requiring costly surgery 2. Reduce the number of surgery related deaths and complications 3. Provide a therapy suitable for the rapidly expanding elderly age group who have AAAs.
Up to 13.5% of patients that undergo a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of their abdomen without pancreatic symptoms are found to have an incidental pancreatic cyst, with the frequency increasing with age. In a post-mortem series, 25% of patients had a pancreatic cyst, of which 32% were potentially premalignant and 3% malignant. Premalignant cysts are currently either observed or removed surgically according to international guidelines. Observation is associated with significant anxiety for patients and a growing cost to the National Health Service, while surgery for this usually benign condition is associated with not insignificant morbidity and mortality. Premalignant pancreatic cysts may be indolent for a number of years before malignant transformation, creating a window of opportunity for minimally invasive intervention and cure. New early treatment options for premalignant tumours are urgently required. This study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of a novel minimally invasive technique for the treatment of pancreatic cystic tumoursÍž endoscopic ultrasound guided radiofrequency ablation (EUSRFA). If successful it will offer an alternative to long term observation or surgery for patients with this condition.