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.
Prostate cancer is the most frequently occurring male cancer in Belgium. Patients who have been treated for prostate cancer, i.e. by surgery and/or radiotherapy, in a substantial degree suffer from a tumor recurrence, often diagnosed by an increase in serum tumor marker PSA (prostate specific antigen) within the first few years. In these patients with evidence of a tumor recurrence after primary treatment, it is important to most exactly define the location(s) of tumor, to guide appropriate therapy by surgery, radiotherapy and/or hormonotherapy. In so-called oligo-metastatic disease targeted therapy may still be curative and prevent the disease from spreading to distant locations. Therefore it is of paramount importance to have an accurate tool of medical imaging to localize all possible locations to be treated. With some patients, the PSA-value is so low, that conventional nuclear medicine bone scanning or radiological CT or MRI cannot determine where the metastases are. Therefore, [18F]-Choline PET-CT was introduced to improve diagnostic imaging performance. However, in 30 to 40 percent of patients choline-PET does not localize tumor either, especially in small tumors and/or very low PSA values. The PSMA PET is already routinely used in many European centres, and has shown a superior accuracy in these patients as compared to conventional imaging techniques. This has been a very consistent finding in scientifically reported patient studies. Most of these investigations have been performed with PSMA labeled with Gallium-68. The investigators in Ghent, as others, have labeled PSMA with Fluor-18. This tracer provides many advantages, including a higher production yield enabling more patients to be scanned. Also from a perspective of radioprotection and financial costs, Fluor-18 is a better choice. Moreover, several recent studies, comparing Fluor with Gallium modalities seem to suggest equivalent or better diagnostic results, possibly because of a lower aspecific background activity.
The aim of this study is to show the hypoallergenicity of a new thickened rice based formula (TRHF) through a double blind placebo controlled food challenge (DBPCFC), as recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, in subjects with IgE-mediated CMA and in subjects with non-IgE-mediated CMA.
This is a study designed to evaluate efficacy and safety of Benralizumab in reducing the Oral Corticosteroid (OCS) use in adult patients with severe asthma who are receiving OCS with or without additional asthma controller medications.
Medico-economic study of Newborn screening of Spinal Muscular Atrophy
This is a phase 1 open label, 4 treatment, 4 sequence and 4 period crossover study in subjects with solid tumours no longer responding to, or eligible for standard therapies, and for whom there are no additional standard therapies likely to benefit the subject.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety of the combination of cetrelimab, with apalutamide and to define a population of participants with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who respond to treatment with the combination of cetrelimab and apalutamide.
Single phased global, prospective, multicenter clinical trial designed to demonstrate a superior patency rate and acceptable safety in below the knee arteries with lesions treated with the DES BTK Vascular Stent System vs. percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA).
The aim of the study is to evaluate the accuracy and reproducibility of the left atrium (LA) anatomy and function in different populations and in patients with atrial fibrillation who have undergone cryoballoon ablation.
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and tolerability of JNJ-64232025 following single ascending intravenous (IV) study intervention administrations and a single subcutaneous (SC) intervention administration in healthy participants.
The vast majority of patients receive neuromuscular blockers during surgical procedures, either as a single injection to facilitate intubation or as repeated injections to induce muscle relaxation necessary for surgery. The action of neuromuscular blockers is monitored by measuring the contraction force of the adductor of the thumb after stimulation of the ulnar nerve.Different types of stimulation, such as train-of-four (TOF), post- Tetanus count (PTC), double-burst stimulation (DBS) measure different degrees of curarization.The duration of action of neuromuscular blockers has significant interindividual variability. If the investigators know how to measure the degree of curarization of a patient at a given time, it is difficult to know how long it will take to recover neuromuscular function. The purpose of this study is to determine if the individual recovery of a patient can be predicted form data obtained at the beginning of his/her recovery curve. The investigators propose to record all neuromuscular transmission monitoring data in 100 patients. From these data, the investigators will try to develop an algorithm that would extrapolate the recovery curve of an isolated patient from the fist neuromuscular monitoring data.