There are about 28871 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Canada. 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.
99mTc-SestaMIBI mammoscintigraphy (MMS) may be used in patients with locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) scheduled for neoadjuvant chemotherapy. MMS may be performed for 1) nodal staging of axillary lymph node metastases, 2) prediction of chemosensitivity or Pgp/MDR-1 mediated chemoresistance, and 3) evaluation of efficacy to chemotherapy and radiation therapy. MMS is routinely performed with planar/SPECT imaging according to the Society of Nuclear Medicine and European Association of Nuclear Medicine guidelines. In this pilot study, an optimised acquisition protocol will be setup with SPECT/low-dose multislice CT in addition to planar imaging.
This is a Phase 2, randomized, open-label, multicenter study in subjects with previously untreated CLL. It is designed to evaluate safety and efficacy of fludarabine, cyclophosphamide, rituximab (FCR) and lumiliximab versus FCR alone.
The purpose of this Phase 1 study is to evaluate the safety and immune responses of a new tuberculosis vaccine, Ad5Ag85A, administered to healthy volunteers. 48 subjects will be recruited, 24 who have previously been vaccinated with BCG and 24 who have not received BCG vaccine. Two doses of the vaccine will be compared.
Many cardiac patients requiring device (defibrillator or pacemaker) related surgery are on chronic oral anticoagulation therapy (usually coumadin). The risk of blood clot formation related to stopping oral anti-coagulant therapy is currently managed by using bridging heparin therapy in patients with moderate to high risk of blood clot formation. There is a substantial risk of bleeding in the pocket where the device is situated (pocket hematoma)related to bridging therapy. The purpose of this study is to compare the current standard of care of bridging with heparin to an experimental strategy of continuing coumadin therapy in higher risk patients undergoing device surgery, with the hypothesis being that the continued oral anti-coagulation group will have a lower pocket hematoma rate as compared to the bridging with heparin group.
This trial uses a type of radiotherapy called intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), which is able to deliver the radiation to the prostate while delivering less dose to the surrounding normal organs compared with standard 3D conformal radiotherapy presently used at the BCCA. This trial will use RapidArc IMRT, which is a new way of delivering IMRT, where the radiation dose is delivered in a single rotation of the radiotherapy machine around the patient. This new method of delivering IMRT has been shown to be at least as good as conventional IMRT at delivering the dose, and takes less time to do so. The aim of this study is to deliver a higher radiation dose to the prostate gland than the standard treatment while not increasing dose to the normal organs. In this way, it is hoped that the likelihood of the cancer coming back will be reduced without causing an increase in side-effects.
The purpose of this clinical trial is to evaluate the benefit of the immunotherapeutic product GSK 2132231A in preventing disease relapse when given to melanoma patients, after surgical removal of their tumor. This Protocol Posting has been updated following Amendments 1 of the Protocol, March 2010. The impacted sections are outcome measures and entry criteria.
The study is a prospective, multi-centre, observational study designed to assess the long-term effectiveness and safety of alefacept in subjects with moderate to severe chronic plaque psoriasis.
The purpose of the study was to determine whether the combination of aflibercept, pemetrexed and cisplatin is safe and effective in treating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
This is a phase 2, open-label, multicenter, 2-arm study of bosutinib administered in combination with exemestane versus exemestane alone. This is a 2-part study consisting of a safety lead-in phase and randomized phase 2 portion. Subjects in part 1 will receive bosutinib and exemestane daily, and will be closely monitored for 28 days. If no safety concerns arise, then future eligible subjects will be randomly assigned to the main phase of the study. They will either receive bosutinib daily combined with daily exemestane, or daily exemestane alone for a specified period of time. Subjects will be followed up for survival after treatment discontinuation.
The aim of this study is to determine the efficacy of the administration of Bifidobacterium bifidum R0071, Bifidobacterium longum R0175, Lactobacillus helveticus R0052, Lactobacillus Delb. SSP bulgaricus R9001, Lactobacillus rhamnosus R0011, Lactococcus Lactis SSP. lactis R1058 et Streptococcus thermophilus (Probaclac™) given twice a day for 4 weeks on digestive symptoms evaluated subjectively in children aged 8 to 18 years with irritable bowel syndrome versus placebo. This study is a double-blind randomized controlled study. 84 children will included. After inclusion, a 15-day period of observation precedes the randomization at Day 0. Patients receive Probaclac or placebo for 4 weeks. At the end of the treatment period, patients are followed for a 2-week period of follow-up. 4 visits and 4 phone calls are planned during the study.