There are about 13332 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Netherlands. 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 purpose of this study is to conduct an early evaluation of a nurse-led follow up intervention added to the usual medically oriented follow up care. Besides evaluating the feasibility and acceptability to patients, the effect on psychosocial adjustment and quality of life of patients is determined.
The main objective of the study is to observe the OXN treatment of patients with moderate to severe non-malignant pain in daily clinical practise with respect to pain relief and bowel function. Patients who have insufficient pain relief and/or unacceptable side effects with the previous analgesic treatment WHO step 1 or 2 and require around-the-clock opioid therapy can be included in the study.
The objective of this study is to evaluate the safety and and hemostatic effectiveness of the Fibrin Pad (FP) versus standard of care treatment (SoC) in controlling parenchymal bleeding during hepatic surgery.
The study is intended to investigate whether the improved initial detection and resection of bladder cancer lesions in patients with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer with Hexvix (Cysview) fluorescence cystoscopy/TURB will lead to a longer-term reduction in recurrences compared to standard white light cystoscopy/TURB.
Our group has shown that increasing the radiation dose to pre-specified normal tissue dose constraints could lead to increased TCP with the same NTCP in patients with non-concurrent and concurrent chemo-radiation. Here, the investigators want to investigate its efficacy in a prospective study in patients with stage I-III NSCLC, who are selected for high-dose radiotherapy with or without chemotherapy, but treated with IMRT. The latter technique has become standard, but the patterns of recurrence and the possibility for dose-escalation in an individualised setting have never been investigated properly.
The investigators' group was the first to perform a phase II trial in patients with limited disease (stage I-III) small-cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) in which only the fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) positive lymph nodes were irradiated. In this trial, only 3% of isolated nodal failures were observed. However, all patients in that study were treated with 3D conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT). At present, IMRT techniques have become more standard in lung cancer. Because of the lower radiation dose to the lymph nodes outside of the planning target volume (PTV) with IMRT, higher incidences of isolated nodal failures may occur. In this trial, the investigators will investigate the patterns of local relapse after IMRT with concurrent chemotherapy in patients with stage I-III SCLC.
X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) is an inherited metabolic disorder characterised by accumulation of very long chain fatty acids (VLCFA) in plasma and tissue. Presumably this accumulation is responsible for tissue damage. The disease can cause severe demyelinisation of the central nervous system usually causing death in childhood or progressive ambulatory problems in adults caused by a progressive myelopathy. For the latter category of patients no curative treatment is currently available. Recent investigations in human fibroblasts and mice identified bezafibrate as an agent that might reduce VLCFA in patients with X-ALD. Objective of the study: The trial is designed as an open-label pilot study. The main goal is to investigate if bezafibrate can reduce VLCFA in vivo in patient with X-ALD. If there is indeed a biochemical effect, a large follow-up study will be initiated with clinical outcome parameters. Study design: 10 men with X-ALD will use bezafibrate during a period of 6 months (in combination with a low fat diet). On 6 different time points the participants will undergo a venipuncture for detecting possible side effects and to determine the biochemical outcome parameters. Study population: Adult men with X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy. Intervention (if applicable): Bezafibrate. Primary study parameters/outcome of the study: The primary outcome parameters are cholesterol levels (total-, LDL, and HDL) and levels of triglycerides in plasma, VLCFA levels in plasma, leukocytes and erythrocytes and also C26:0-lyso-PC in bloodspots. Secondary study parameters/outcome of the study (if applicable): Secondary outcome parameters are side-effects (subjective and abnormalities in the safety lab).
The purpose of this study is to determine if patients with p53 mutated epithelial ovarian cancer that have been treated with first line treatment (paclitaxel - carboplatin combination therapy) and that have shown early relapse (within 3 months) or progression during treatment will benefit from treatment with Wee-1 inhibitor MK-1775 and carboplatin. Additional safety and preliminary anti-tumor activity cohort (first patient in 2017): To determine the safety and preliminary anti-tumor activity (RECIST 1.1) of AZD1775 in combination with carboplatin in platinum resistant p53 mutated epithelial ovarian cancer (relapse within 6 months), NSCLC, SCLC, cervical, and endometrial cancer, in a 21 day schedule.
Rationale: Like in primary breast cancer, prognosis in recurrent breast cancer is correlated with regional lymph node status. Therefore, axillary staging may be warranted in patients with recurrent disease and intact axillary nodes, although this has not been described in guidelines yet. The lymphatic drainage pathways in the breast and/or axilla could have been changed due to prior surgery and/or radiotherapy. These aberrant drainage pathways could be detected with lymphatic mapping and sentinel node biopsy (SNB), leading to a more accurate staging. Objective: To assess the technical feasibility of lymphoscintigraphy after prior breast surgery. A second goal is to investigate whether or not previous breast surgery (with or without radiotherapy) significantly changes the lymphatic drainage pathways of the breast.
The purpose of this study is to assess changes in left ventricular performance using echocardiography as well as ventricular remodelling, changes in sleep and changes in mood, anxiety and cognitive functions occurring as a result of treatment of predominant central sleep apnoea by adaptive servoventilation (ASV) in chronic heart failure in addition to optimal medical therapy in chronic heart failure. This will be a substudy of the SERVE-HF study.