There are about 13446 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Belgium. 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.
The study PNET 5 MB has been designed for children with medulloblastoma of standard risk (according to the risk-group definitions which have been used so far; e.g. in PNET 4). With the advent of biological parameters for stratification into clinical medulloblastoma trials, the ß-catenin status will be the only criterion according to which study patients will be assigned to either treatment arm PNET 5 MB - LR or to PNET 5 MB - SR, respectively. The initial diagnostic assessments (imaging, staging, histology, and tumor biology) required for study entry are the same for both treatment arms. With the amendment for version 12 of the protocol, patients who have a WNT-activated medulloblastoma with clinically high-risk features can be included in the PNET 5 MB WNT-HR study, and patients with a high-risk SHH medulloblastoma with TP53 mutation (both somatic or germline including mosaicism) can be included in the PNET5 MB SHH-TP53 study. Data on patients with pathogenic germline alteration or cancer predisposition syndrome, who cannot be included in any prospective trial due to unavailability or due to physician or family decision, can be documented within the observational PNET 5 MB registry.
The purpose of this study is to examine if Nivolumab by itself, or Nivolumab in combination with other anti-cancer drugs, will result in meaningful tumor size reduction, in participants with colon cancer that has come back or has spread, and who have a specific biomarker in their tumors.
Evaluation of the combination of lateral femoral cutaneous nerve "single shot" and femoral nerve "single shot" block as effective and safe alternative postoperative analgesic technique after hip replacement surgery.
Narrowing of coronary arteries interferes with blood flow and can cause chest pain. But patients may have more than one narrowing and studies have shown that not all narrowings need to be treated. To identify the narrowings that need treating cardiologists sometimes quantify the extent of the narrowing by measuring fractional flow reserve (FFR, the ratio of the pressure in the aorta to the pressure downstream of the narrowing).This technique requires the administration of drugs that add cost and time to the procedure and in some countries are simply unavailable. As a result despite the clear health and healthcare costs benefits of FFR its use is limited to less than 5% of procedure. We have developed a new technique called the instantaneous wave-free ratio (iFR) that does not require the administration of drugs for its accurate assessment. It has been approved for use in this indication. This study aims to compare clinical outcomes of patients whose treatment has been guided by iFR to those whose treatment has been guided by FFR. If iFR is found to provide the same clinical outcomes as FFR its adoption will permit the clear benefits of this approach of identifying the coronary narrowings that really need treatment to be applicable to a much larger patient population and further improve healthcare costs.
Evaluation of the laparoscopic approach of the Magenstrasse and Mill procedure in a prospective study of 100 patients
Despite the fact that the majority of the patients with limited disease SCLC will respond very well to the standard treatment, a great proportion will relapse within 12 - 24 months. Several studies in patients with lung cancer suggested a possible favourable association between the increased presence of immunologically active cells in the tumour and survival. Nivolumab and ipilimumab are proteins, which help your immune system to attack and destroy cancer cells by your immune cells. Early clinical trials with nivolumab and ipilimumab have shown activity in a broad range of cancers, including SCLC. The aim of the current study is to investigate the efficacy (how well the treatment works) and tolerability (how severe the side effects are) of the standard treatment (chemotherapy and radiotherapy) alone, compared with the standard treatment followed by nivolumab and ipilimumab in patients with limited SCLC.
Olaparib treatment in patients with germline BRCA1/2 mutations and high risk HER2 negative primary breast cancer who have completed definitive local treatment and neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy
Ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) is not a new concept and has been widely used to study lung function in small animals. It also has been shown to be a useful technique to evaluate lungs from donation after cardiac death (DCD) (Yeung, Thorac Surg Clin, 2009). It has been recently demonstrated successful application of an acellular EVLP technique in optimalizing lung function ex vivo for an extended period of time. Following 12 h of normothermic EVLP, patients were transplanted and demonstrated immediate life-sustaining function with promising short-term evolution (Aigner, Am J Transplant, 2012; Sanchez, J Heart Lung Transplant, 2012; Cypel, N Engl J Med, 2011). Lung donation obtained after carbon monoxide intoxication has been recognized as excellent organs because of less general inflammation and less primary graft dysfunction after procedure. In a murine model of brain dead, carbon monoxide inhalation at a low concentration (50 to 500 parts per million (ppm)) exerts significant cytoprotection in several lung injury models via its vasodilatation, anti-inflammatory, and anti-apoptotic properties (Dong, J Heart Lung transplant, 2010). The carbon monoxide inhalation down-regulates pro-inflammatory cytokines (TNF-alpha, IL-6) along with the increase of anti-inflammatory cytokine (IL-10) in recipient serum. The inhalation significantly decreases cell apoptosis in lung grafts, inhibiting mRNA and protein expression of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and caspase-3 in lung grafts (Zhou, Chin Med J, 2008). Apoptotis and inflammatory processes may, in part, concern alveolar tissue. Research in the field of biomarkers is now opening new perspectives with the development of non-invasive tests allowing for monitoring inflammation and damage in the deep lung. Blood tests (Bernard, Toxicol Appl Pharmacol, 2005) measuring lung-specific proteins (pneumoproteins) such as Clara cell protein (CC16) and surfactant-associated proteins (A, B or D) are now available to evaluate the permeability and/or the cellular integrity of the pulmonary epithelium. These dosages may constitute an interesting way for monitoring the quality of the lung before implantation.
The purpose of this study is to compare outcomes (failure, function, strength, range of motion and quality of life) between patients who receive the usual anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructive surgery and patients who receive anterior cruciate ligament reconstructive surgery with a lateral extra-articular tenodesis (extra tendon repair on the outside of the knee). Some studies have shown high graft failure rates (ACL re-tear) in young individuals who return to pivoting contact sports following ACL reconstruction. This study is designed to look at whether or not adding this extra tendon repair reduces the risk of graft failure in this population.
The purpose of the study is to compare the efficacy and safety of nivolumab administered alone versus bevacizumab in patients diagnosed with recurrent glioblastoma (a type of brain cancer, also known as GBM), and to evaluate the safety and tolerability of nivolumab administered alone or in combination with ipilimumab in patients with different lines of GBM therapy.