There are about 36633 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in France. 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.
Many studies have shown that locoregional treatment (surgery, radiotherapy) and systemic treatment (endocrine therapy and chemotherapy) for breast cancer (BC) may impact sexuality by causing physical and/or psychological damages. Approximately 50-75 % of BC survivors suffer from vulvovaginal atrophy (VVA). The earliest symptoms of VVA are decreased vaginal lubrication, followed by other vaginal and urinary symptoms, such as burning, itching, bleeding, leucorrhoea, dyspareunia and dysuria symptoms. Various surveys have shown that VVA symptoms lead to female sexual disorder and on their partners through sexual unsatisfactory. However, it appears that sexuality is a little discussed topic during the follow-up of BC survivors. Most of patients relate a poor satisfaction with information and counselling related to sexuality and vaginal health, which are denied by many practitioners. Patients treated for BC cannot find relief in hormonal replacement therapy (HRT), which is considered the gold standard treatment for VVA symptoms. The usual treatments for these women are topics such as ovula or gel (lubricant, hyaluronic acid (HA)…) with however, a short term effect even when these topics are applied regularly and correctly during at least 2 to 3/weeks.In the literature, there is a significant impact on VVA at one month but later data are lacking . Moreover, patients' compliance and daily application are paramount of importance for efficacy that could disappear when the treatment is stopped. No randomized controlled trial has compared this treatment to innovative strategies. In this context, it is important to establish management strategies for VVA and sexual disorder after BC. Our objective is to assess prevalence rate of VVA among breast cancer survivors after the loco regional treatment and chemotherapy, and to compare the efficacy of innovative treatments namely, new biophysical inductor (Laser CO2) and chemical bio inductor (Hyaluronic acid injections) treatments to the efficacy of standard non-hormonal topic treatment for improving the VVA and the quality of sexual life on a long-term.
The proposed study is an international randomized phase II, multicenter, open-label, three arms trial to assess best supportive care (BSC) vs OSE2101 and vs OSE2101 + pembrolizumab as maintenance treatment for patients with platinum sensitive relapsed ovarian cancers, previously treated with chemotherapy (regardless of the number of prior lines of platinum-based chemotherapy), bevacizumab (if eligible) and a PARP inhibitor (if eligible). Patients in Complete Response, Partial Response, or Stable Disease at the end of chemotherapy with at least 4 cycles of platinum based chemotherapy will be randomized in one of the three arms (randomization 1:1:2). They will receive one or the two study treatments or BSC until progression, or intolerance, or up to 2 years (from 1st study treatment dose).
After hospitalization in Intensive Care (Intensive Care Unit or Continuing Care Unit), approximately 50% of patients usually present with intensive ICU-weakness, i.e. damage to the nerves and muscles secondary to immobilization and to the treatments that must have been used. This condition will delay the resumption of walking in these patients, their discharge from hospital and impair their autonomy in the daily life. The recent international literature is in favor of early rehabilitative management of these patients, which should ideally be started in the intensive care unit. However, this is not always possible, due to the possible lack of physiotherapists in the services on the one hand, due to the fatigue of the population concerned and the existence of unstable medical conditions which do not always allow the use of recommended rehabilitation techniques on the other hand. Virtual Reality (VR) environments are widely used for the assessment and rehabilitation of patients with neurological pathology. VR allows the user to be active in simulated activities and offers many advantages for the rehabilitation of motor functions in patients with neurological diseases. VR tools used to create action observation, motor imagery and sensations or even the illusion of movement in particular, have already shown their effectiveness in recovering and improving walking in different populations, especially after a stroke, in patients with Parkinson's Disease or Multiple Sclerosis. The role of the embodiment in VR appears promising in immersing participants in a controlled environment and creating movement's illusions. The Virtual Reality tool designed consists of virtual environments presented using a Virtual Reality headset where an avatar (double) of the hospitalized patient will be represented, who will perform a walking motor task (involving his lower limbs ) in several different virtual environments (sets). In the present study named VERARE_2, the patient will be asked to observe walking actions and imagine performing them as they will be performed by the avatar in the virtual environment. This VERARE_2 protocol aims to assess the effectiveness of the Observation of Virtual Motor Actions on the speed of gait recovery in hospitalized patients with IUC-weakness and in the intensive care units and continuing care units of the Rennes University Hospital.
The prevalence of chronic insomnia is 13.3% in France in 2019 (8.9 million). The consequences for these people are multiple: drowsiness, memory problems, difficulty concentrating, anxiety. Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is today the reference treatment recommended by the "Haute Autorité de Santé" and the American College of Physicians for chronic insomnia. Today, however, few patients use CBT treatment due to the lack of trained practitioners, the cost of non-reimbursed sessions and the time and involvement that these sessions require. Several clinical trials have shown beneficial effects of hypnotherapy on sleep disorders. The hypothesis of this work is that the use of hypnosis in virtual reality improves sleep time in patients suffering from insomnia disorders.
In France, the incidence of congenital hypothyroidism has increased significantly since the newborn screening program was introduced in 1978. The largest increase is seen in children with eutopic thyroid gland. More than one-third of children with eutopic gland have transient hypothyroidism. Clinical practice guidelines recommend to re-evaluate thyroid function in children with eutopic gland around the age of 3 years to determine whether hypothyroidism is transient or permanent. Up until today it is still difficult to determine early on whether hypothyroidism is transient or permanent in children with eutopic gland. Our aim is to identify one or more predictive factors for transient congenital hypothyroidism in children with eutopic gland or thyroid hemiagenesis.
The eye has long been recognized as a window to pathological processes occurring in the brain. By imaging the vascular system of the retina scientific understanding and clinical practice have been improved for a wide range of pathologies from diabetes to stroke and dementia. Adaptive optics (AO) reveals retinal details that remain invisible with other current imaging techniques. Indeed, vessels can be perfectly visualized, making it possible to detect wall irregularities, accurately measure their different structures and monitor their evolution under treatment if necessary. In AO, studies on retinal vessels involve the calculation of wall thickness (WT), outer diameter (OD), inner diameter (ID), wall cross-sectional area (WCSA) and wall to lumen ratio (WLR). An increase in WLR > 0.31 is characteristic of hypertensive microangiopathy and predictive of cardiovascular and brain damage. This accurate assessment of microvascular structure may even be required in the near future in all patients with arterial hypertension. For vessels > 300 microns in diameter, the increase in vessel wall thickness occurs without changing the ID, a process known as external hypertrophic remodeling. For small arteries < 300 microns, remodeling occurs differently. The total volume of the vessel wall remains constant, but the OD and ID each decrease, a process known as inward eutrophic remodeling. The objective of this study is to describe the parameters measured in AO in patients in the acute phase of a stroke and then at 3 months.
This is a First-In-Human (FIH) study of [68Ga]-FF58 to characterize the imaging properties, safety, biodistribution and dosimetry properties of [68Ga]-FF58 in adults with relapsed or refractory (r/r) glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), breast cancer (BC) that has metastasized to the brain, gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma (GEA) or pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) expected to overexpress alpha-v beta 3 (αvβ3) and alpha-v beta 5 (αvβ5) integrins.
The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and efficacy of Rodatristat Ethyl in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) patients.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of the Neurolocate recording system of the neurosurgical robot Neuromate, marketed by Renishaw, in order to optimize surgical procedures, costs and patient comfort.
In order to control the COVID-19 pandemic, a policy for the diagnosis and screening of people likely to be infected with SARS-CoV-2 has been established The reference diagnostic test is RT-PCR on nasopharyngeal swab. Nasopharyngeal swabbing requires training, generates a risk of aerosolization and therefore viral transmission to the operator, and is unpleasant or even painful for the patient. RT-PCR is efficient, but time-consuming. It is therefore necessary to consider techniques that are less subject to difficulties of production and sampling, and less time-consuming. Tandem mass spectrometry on saliva samples is a promising option. A combined "mass spectrometry/saliva test" should provide faster results.