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.
Over the last decades outcome has greatly improved for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and spondyloarthritis (SpA). This is in sharp contrast to the situation for polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR), with a lifetime prevalence of 2.4% for women and 1.7% for men, PMR is the commonest auto-inflammatory musculoskeletal disease in adults aged ≥50 years. Due to population ageing, the number of PMR patients will likely double in the decades to come (CBS). Glucocorticoids (GC) are the mainstay of treatment. However, there is an unmet medical need of alternatives in the treatment of PMR as 50% of patients will relapse or have difficulties to reduce the corticosteroid doses. Also, there is increasing awareness of steroid related toxicity and in addition, long-term toxicity is a well-known side-effect of glucocorticoids in PMR. Low dose methotrexate (< 10 mg per week) has been tested in two blinded randomized control trials and 4 open label studies and has shown low to moderate efficacy as corticosteroid-sparing agent. Studies on tumor necrosis factor (TNF) blockers yielded negative results. The effectiveness of leflunomide has only been convincingly demonstrated in case series. The high rate of relapses and adverse events in steroid treated patients indicate that alternative adjuvant agents are needed. There is evidence that leflunomide could serve as steroid sparing agent and that leflunomide can be used to prevent relapses in the clinical management of polymyalgia rheumatica. We will perform a randomized placebo controlled trial. Eligible patients will be randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio receiving either leflunomide 20 mg once daily + glucocorticoids , or placebo + glucocorticoids.
Breast cancer (BC) radiotherapy leads to incidental cardiac irradiation, resulting in an increased risk of various major cardiac events (MCEs). In addition, recent studies indicate that for the treatment of BC, the addition of chemotherapy further enhances the risk of MCEs. Information regarding morphological and functional early subclinical cardiac injuries (ESCIs) induced by chemotherapy and radiotherapy that develop into MCEs is largely lacking in scientific literature. This information is essential towards the development of primary and secondary preventive strategies. The EMIRA prospective cohort has as main objective to identify morphological and functional ESCIs in BC patients treated with adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Heart failure (HF) is a serious and challenging syndrome. Globally 26 million people are living with this chronic disease and the prevalence is still increasing. Besides this growing number in prevalence, HF is also responsible for almost 1 million hospitalizations a year in the US and in Europe. Consequently, this has a major economic impact especially due to recurrent admissions of these patients. Adequate prediction of decompensation could prevent (un)necessary admissions as a result of heart failure. Philips is developing a Bayesian Hemodynamics model for general practitioners. This model uses different observables, which can be measured at home. The outcome of the model could be used as an aid in clinical decision making in HF patients.
The study will be conducted in compliance with the International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) of Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use/Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and applicable regulatory requirements. This is a randomized, open-label, parallel-group, multi-center trial in adult subjects with Relapsed or refractory (R/R) aggressive Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) to compare safety and efficacy between the standard of care (SOC) strategy versus JCAR017 (also known as lisocabtagene maraleucel or liso-cel). Subjects will be randomized to either receive SOC (Arm A) or to receive JCAR017 (Arm B). All subjects randomized to Arm A will receive Standard of care (SOC) salvage therapy (R-DHAP, RICE or R-GDP) as per physician's choice before proceeding to High dose chemotherapy (HDCT) and Hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Subjects from Arm A may be allowed to cross over and receive JCAR017 upon confirmation of an EFS event. Subjects randomized to Arm B will receive Lymphodepleting (LD) chemotherapy followed by JCAR017 infusion.
The researchers are doing the study to see if semaglutide may reduce the risk of having cardiovascular events in patients with overweight or obesity and with prior cardiovascular disease. The participant will either get semaglutide (active medicine) or placebo ("dummy" medicine). Which treatment the participants get is decided by chance. The participant's chance of getting semaglutide or placebo is the same. The participant will get the study medicine in a pen. The participants will need to use the pen to inject the study medicine in a skinfold once a week. The study will last for about 2.5 to 5 years. Participants will have up to 25 clinic visits with the study doctor.
The purpose of this study is to compare any good and bad effects of using radium-223 along with docetaxel chemotherapy treatment versus using docetaxel alone. Earlier studies helped show that the combination is safe, but the combination has not been proven to work better than either drug alone. The goal of this study is to find out if combining docetaxel and radium-223 is better than giving either drug by itself.
Open Label Extension Study of Voxelotor Clinical Trial Participants with Sickle Cell Disease Who Participated in Voxelotor Clinical Trials
This study will enroll CML patients who have failed a first TKI stopping attempt. After failure and at least a year of TKI treatment, patients will proceed to dasatinib treatment for another 2 years. If MR4 or better is re-achieved and maintained for at least one year, patients will be eligible for a second stop. After verification of MR4, TKI treatment will be stopped and patients followed in the same manner as after first stop. If MMR is lost (BCR-ABL >0.1% (IS)), TKI treatment will once again be restarted.
The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of BG00011 compared with placebo in participants with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF). The secondary objectives of this study are: to evaluate the efficacy of BG00011 compared with placebo in participants with IPF as determined by change in percent predicted forced (expiratory) vital capacity (FVC); to assess progression-free survival in participants who receive BG00011 compared with placebo; to assess the occurrence of IPF exacerbation in participants who receive BG00011 compared with placebo; to assess the incidence of absolute decline in FVC ≥10% in participants who receive BG00011 compared with placebo; to assess the time to death or lung transplantation in participants who receive BG00011 compared with placebo, and the transplant-free survival rate at Week 26 and Week 52; to assess the time to non-elective hospitalizations in participants who receive BG00011 compared with placebo; to assess additional pulmonary function test (PFT) findings in participants who receive BG00011 compared with placebo; To assess performance on the 6 minute walk test (6MWT) in participants who receive BG00011 compared with placebo; to evaluate the safety and tolerability of BG00011; and to evaluate the serum concentration of BG00011.
Substudy of the RECOVER trial (a randomised controlled trial comparing the effect of low pressure pneumoperitoneum with deep neuromuscular block versus normal pressure pneumoperitoneum with moderate neuromuscular block during laparoscopic colorectal surgery on early quality of recovery) investigating innate immune homeostasis after laparoscopic colorectal surgery.