There are about 36818 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in China. 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.
This study aimed to explore the long-term outcomes of CT-guided radioactive iodine-125 (I-125) seed implantation (RISI) for recurrent desmoid tumor. A multicenter retrospective study reviewed 38 recurrent desmoid tumor patients receiving RISI from July 2013 to July 2021.The clinical outcomes including overall response rate (ORR), disease control rate (DCR), local control time (LCT), overall survival (OS), adverse events (AEs), and symptom relief rate were statistically assessed.
Bladder cancer is the second most prevalent urological malignancy worldwide, with a high incidence and poor patient prognosis. Achieving early diagnosis and intervention for bladder cancer is one of the most important ways to improve clinical management and patient prognosis. Tumor exosomes can be released into biological fluids at an early stage of a tumor, and many studies have shown that exosomal RNA can be used as a reliable biomarker to diagnose tumors in a non-invasive way. Based on the clinical needs for early diagnosis of bladder cancer, we aim to screen several early diagnostic markers with potential predictive value, establish an early diagnostic model for bladder cancer, and validate the validity and reliability of this diagnostic model through a large-scale clinical cohort to complement the diagnosis of early-stage cancers and to improve the rate of early diagnosis of cancer.
The goal of this observational study is to retrospectively observe the effect of PFO closure and medication on migraine. The main questions it aims to answer are: - Whether PFO closure is more effective in the treatment of migraine than traditional medical treatment - What factors affect the effectiveness of migraine treatment ? Participants will undergo contrast transthoracic echocardiography to diagnose PFO and evaluate right-to-left shunt. They will be treated with medication and PFO closure respectively according to guidelines. HIT-6 and a questionnaire about migraine were obtained at the baseline and repeated at the 6-month and 12-month follow-up visits. Researchers will compare closure group and drug group to see efficacy of two groups in treating migraine.
This study aims to compare the effects of conscious sedation and intravenous general anesthesia on cardiovascular events in frail patients undergoing digestive endoscopy diagnosis and treatment.
The aim of this study is to further explore the optimal screening factors for functional lymphatic vessels in lymphaticovenous anastomosis in patients with lymphedema.
This study is a multi-center, non-interventional study. Clinicopathologic, treatment , outcome and efficacy data will be collected from medical records in metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) patients.
the primary histologic origin of extracranial solid tumors in children is malignant embryonic cells, including Neuroblastoma (NB) , Hepatoblastoma(HB), and kidney, wilms' tumor(WT). Their main clinical symptoms are large abdominal masses, the most common lymph node metastasis . NB accounts for 15% of childhood cancer deaths, but some low-risk NB can disappear on its own. The International Neuroblastoma Risk Group Staging System (INRGSS) was used to determine Risk before NB treatment, whereas the INRGSS was entirely based on the Neuroblastoma diagnosis, illustrating the importance of imaging in the assessment of NB.18F-FDG is the most commonly used agent in PET imaging of tumor. It can reflect the glucose metabolism of tumor and is widely used in the diagnosis, staging, evaluation of curative effect and prognosis prediction of tumor In this study, the investigators retrospectively analyzed 18F-FDG PET/CT or PET/MRI images from patients with NB, HB, and WT. The investigators sought to assess whether these images provide useful information for diagnosis and prognosis.
The goal of this observational study is to learn about the risk factors of mortality for CRKP infected patients, and to compare the clinical outcomes between hvCRKP infection and cCRKP infection. The main question it aims to answer is • Whether hypervirulence would add value to cCRKP infection and cause worse outcomes? Participants data will be collected through medical records.
In this study, the investigators collected data with the SEER*Stat software version 8.4.1 (accession number: 20377-Nov2021). The patients with confirmed diagnoses of CRC (site code C18.0-20.9 and C26.0) between 2004 and 2013 were retrieved from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database. Due to the significant disparity in the number of cancer survivors with various prior cancer types among newly diagnosed CRC patients, the investigators utilized the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, 3rd edition (ICD-O-3) Site Recode to identify 10 common previous cancer sites, including the colorectum, prostate, breast, uterus, bladder, skin, lung, kidney, thyroid, and stomach. CRC patients with a prior history of cancer originated from one of the 10 sites and surgical CRC patients without a prior history of cancer were enrolled in this study. The exclusion criteria were as follows: (1) Patients with more than one cancer in the past; (2) The patient's age at diagnosis was <18 years old; (3) Patients with incomplete survival data and follow-up information; (4) Patients only had autopsy or death certificate records. The primary outcomes of this study were overall survival (OS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS). OS was defined as the time from diagnosis to date of death（patients who were still alive at the end of follow-up were considered as censored data. CSS was defined as the time from diagnosis to date of death caused by CRC (patients who deaths from other causes or still alive at the end of follow-up were considered as censored data). The investigators set December 31, 2018, as the cut-off date for follow-up to ensure that all included cases (diagnosed in 2004-2013) were followed for at least 5 years. Based on prior cancer history, the surgical cases were categorized into two groups: 'Non-prior cancer history' and 'Prior cancer history.' The 'Prior cancer history' group was further subcategorized by the type of prior cancer, including colorectum, prostate, breast, uterus, bladder, skin, lung, kidney, thyroid and stomach. The bias between different Prior cancer history group and Non-prior cancer history group was minimized by Propensity Score Matching (PSM), and the Kaplan-Meier method and log-rank tests were used to compare OS and CSS differences. And then, a multivariate Cox proportional hazards model was performed to estimate the hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) to analyze whether different types of prior cancer history impacted the OS and CSS in patients who underwent surgery for spCRC independently. Common demographic and clinicopathological data, including age at diagnosis of spCRC, sex, race, marital status, tumor location of spCRC, pathologic grade of spCRC, TNM stage of spCRC (0-I, II-III, IV and unknown) and chemotherapy status were entered as covariates. Kaplan-Meier curves were also constructed according to the time since first cancer diagnosis (latency), age diagnosed with spCRC, and spCRC stage. Further analysis was performed to determine the impact of surgery on survival of spCRC patients with different type of prior cancer history. The investigators divided patients into surgical and non-surgical groups based on whether surgery was performed, and then assessed the effect of surgery on survival using the propensity score-adjusted Kaplan-Meier method. In this study, the baseline characteristics of patients were compared using Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test. A one-to-one propensity score matching (PSM) was performed to reduce the selection bias of the two groups of baseline variables. When performing one-to-one propensity score matching between the prior cancer history group and the non-prior cancer history group, the investigators chose a caliper of 0.2. However, the investigators opted for different calipers when matching the surgical and non-surgical groups because the investigators believe that patients with different prior cancers were in entirely different situations. A two-sided probability value of P ≤ 0.05 was considered statistically significant. R software (version 4.2.3) was used for all statistical analysis.
Our aim was to identify optimal incision sites for LVA in extremity lymphedema that would result in the most effective drainage effect for reducing limb edema and enhancing patients' quality of life.