There are about 21062 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Italy. 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 primary objective of this study is to compare progression-free survival (PFS) in participants who receive sotorasib with platinum doublet chemotherapy versus participants who receive pembrolizumab with platinum doublet chemotherapy.
This is a prospective single-center pilot study phase II non randomized designed to explore the role of liquid biopsy in metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer patients treated with Trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-Dxd) as second line treatment according to international guidelines. All eligible patients to T-Dxd as second line treatment will receive T-Dxd intravenous at dose of 5,4 mg/kg every three weeks until progression disease or unacceptable toxicities. Subjects eligible to T-Dxd, who agree to participate in the study, will undergo serial blood samples for liquid biopsy (LB) until progression disease. The timing of blood drawing will be scheduled as follows: At each T-DXd administration for the first four cycles of T-Dxd (every three weeks). The next blood drawings will be done every three cycles of T-Dxd (every 9 weeks) until the thirteenth cycle. The next blood drawings will be done every six cycles of T-Dxd (every 18 weeks) until progression disease (documented by medical imaging) For all enrolled patients with available tumour tissue from primary diagnosis or last biopsy from recurrence, tissue samples will be requested for exploratory analysis.
The goal of this observational study is the creation of a national network of precision medicine, which allows to increase, for Italian patients suffering from solid tumors, the possibility of access to more innovative therapies and to collect retrospectively their clinical data. For this purpose, a national register of actionable mutations in patients with solid tumors in advanced stage of disease will be created in which various individual, local and regional initiatives of genomic screening of cancer could merge.
Noninterventional, prospective, multicenter pilot study of patients with primary and secondary musculoskeletal tumors designed to investigate functional outcomes after therapy using both subjective and quantitative motion detection techniques
Noninterventional, prospective study of patients operated on for musculoskeletal neoplasms designed to evaluate the quality of surgical margins achievable with the use of navigated Intraoperative CT
Based on the evidence summarized in the introduction, the clinician hypothesize that the detection of the presence and expression of HPV-DNA, certain miRNAs, and a certain mutational profile in the tissues and biological fluids of these patients, may have important prognostic and diagnostic value not only in HPV-related OPSCCs but also in HPV+ occult T. Accordingly, this study aims to aim to better characterize their potential as biomarkers and to detect the possibility of their their use to implement the sensitivity and specificity of radiological methodologies (PET-CT and MRI), already in use in clinical practice, for monitoring disease progression in this specific subgroup. Finally, by using the collected material to generate organoids and Patient Derived Xenograft (PDX), the study also aims to identify possible new molecular drugs, which could solve the problem of resistance to radiochemotherapy.
LEVEL trial aims to demonstrate the higher efficacy of 177Lu-edotreotide over everolimus in patients with well to moderately differentiated neuroendocrine tumors of the lung and thymus who require systemic therapy. It is hypothesized that 177Lu-edotreotide may significantly increase the progression-free survival (PFS) compared to everolimus in lung and thymic carcinoids.
Early after the videolaryngoscope'(VDL) introduction in clinical practice, the awake videolaryngoscopic (A-VDL) intubation took place with and instead of the awake video-bronchoscopic (A- VBS) intubation. The awake intubation is a safe profile technique that was underused since the only instrumentation available was the fiberoptic bronchoscope (FOB) or more recently the video-bronchoscope (VBS). With the VDL diffusion, the awake intubation option has eventually turned into a more utilized procedure, with the potential to become a daily procedure. This was also due to dexmedetomidine (DEX) introduction in The Operating Room pharmacopeia. Several steps must be standardized in order to homogeneously apply an awake intubation protocol. A department protocol is recommended (awake intubation guidelines) but a low threshold for enrollment can be used to shorten and standardize the execution times. This study aims to create a protocol and measure the outcomes.
The aim of this pilot prospective interventional study is to evaluate the efficacy of endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG) in allowing obese subjects (≥35 kg/m2) with end stage renal disease who need of kidney transplantation to reduce their BMI below 35 in order to be inserted in the waiting list BMI. The main question[s] it aims to answer are: Is the procedure effective in reducing BMI to the target level in 12 months? Which is the effect on weight loss, quality of life and obesity-related comorbidities? Participants will undergo ESG as per standard clinical practice and followed up to 12 months before transplantation and for 12 months after transplantation.
This is a multicentre study carried out in participants living with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) who have not previously been treated with any antiretroviral therapies. The study will investigate two 2-drug regimens for the treatment of HIV-1: a fixed-dose combination oral tablet of dolutegravir/lamivudine (DTG/3TC) and cabotegravir plus rilpivirine long-acting agents (CAB + RPV LA). All participants will initially receive DTG/3TC once daily, and once virologic suppression is attained (plasma HIV-1 <50 c/mL), participants will be offered a choice to switch to CAB + RPV LA or to continue taking oral DTG/3TC. This study will provide important data on the efficacy, safety, implementation effectiveness, and patient-reported outcomes of these two regimens in a study where participants have the option to choose between them based on individual preference. The aim of the study is to evaluate the antiviral effectiveness at 11 months after switching to CAB+RPV LA following initial virologic suppression on DTG/3TC and to provide data on how long it takes participants to suppress their viral load on DTG/3TC.