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Filter by:The goal of this study is to learn if the Mind Over Matter (MOM) Intervention, a 5-week group program, can help Black and African American women deal with the fears, worries and sadness that often accompany cancer diagnosis and treatment. The main question this study aims to answer is: • Whether the MOM Intervention is feasible and acceptable among Black and African American women. We would also like to find out if: - The MOM Intervention decreases anxiety, depression and physical symptom severity for Black and African American women. - The MOM Intervention is culturally and linguistically appropriate, and identify barriers, strengths, and areas of improvement. Participants will: - Attend a Pre-Program Orientation - Attend 5 weekly MOM Sessions - Complete 2 questionnaires (one will be given before the first MOM Session begins, and the other will be given after the last MOM Session) Participants also have the choice to attend an optional Focus Group, which will be offered after the last MOM Session. Please note, this entire Intervention will be offered online. There will be no in-person sessions or visits.
The aim of this study is to describe the outcomes in American Indian patients receiving immunotherapy in a multi-institution retrospective study at several other high-volume centers that care for this patient population and to identify any healthcare disparities that can lead to future interventional studies.
The goal of this observational population-based cohort study is to investigate the clinical characteristics and outcomes of children and adolescents with primary gastrointestinal malignancies registered in the publicly available Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) 17 database during 2000-2019.
The purpose of the study is to assess the feasibility and participant satisfaction with the Support through Remote Observation and Nutrition Guidance (STRONG) program. The program provides nutrition support for participants living with gastrointestinal cancer who are receiving chemotherapy and surgical treatment.
The purpose of this study is to find out if a new training program for nurses called PACT (Partnership, Assessment, Care, and Transition) will be effective and relevant in helping nurses gain the skills needed to provide high-quality family-centered care. Family-centered care skills include engaging family caregivers as partners in patient care, and strengthening their capacity for caregiving by assessing family support needs and facilitating access to resources when needed. The study will also look at whether the quality of nurses' family-centered care skills is associated with improved outcomes for family caregivers. Both nurses and family caregivers will be enrolled in this study. Participants will be nurses/caregivers who care for advanced GI cancer patients admitted to Memorial Sloan Kettering.
The objective of the study is to constrcut a noninvasive approach 124I-18B10(10L) PET/CT to detect the CLDN18.2 expression of tumor lesions in patients with gastrointestinal tumors and to identify patients benefiting from CLDN18.2 targeting treatment.
Pharmacogenomics (PGx) is the study of how genes affect a person's response to drugs. PGx testing for certain genes can help predict the risk of side effects from chemotherapy agents. Testing is not regularly performed in clinical practice due to long wait times for results and challenges with integrating test results in the electronic health record. Investigators leading this study hope to find out if providing cancer care providers with the ability to order a PGx test and electronically receive results with dosing recommendations will increase the use of these tests to guide treatment decisions and improve patient outcomes. This is a non-randomized implementation study, which means that all participants in this study will undergo genotyping for a pharmacogenetic test. The investigators will primarily measure the feasibility of using this test to guide cancer care.
This is a randomized, prospective, multicenter, Proof of Concept, Phase II clinical trial Study. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the efficacy (meant as overall response rate ORR) of TT (targeted Therapy) vs SoC (standard of Care) in patients with progressive disease (recurrent and/or metastatic) of breast cancer, metastatic gastro-intestinal tumors, non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) or others. Patients should have completed at least 1 line of treatment and no more than 2 as defined by the current version of the AIOM (Italian Association of Medical Oncology) guidelines. Patients are included if surgery is contraindicated.
This research study is for patients with an advanced cancer that carries a mutation in a gene called KRAS. Genes are parts of our DNA which carry instructions for a cell (the smallest component of an body part). In many cancers, the KRAS gene contains errors (mutations) which allows the tumors to grow. The purpose of this study is to determine if combination treatment with atezolizumab, cobimetinib, and hydroxychloroquine is safe, and if it will decrease the size of the tumor and prolong life in patients whose tumors contain this mutation. Cobimetinib and atezolizumab are both approved by the FDA for use in other cancers, but not in some cancer types being studied in this trial. Hydroxychloroquine is FDA approved to treat malaria and other conditions, but has also not been approved for these cancer types. Preliminary results have shown that this combination of drugs is effective at killing cancer cells and shrinking tumors in several KRAS-mutated cancers in animals.
Deficits in the management of common symptoms cause substantial morbidity for cancer patients.Because the health care delivery system is structured to be reactive and not proactive, there are missed opportunities to optimize symptom control. Growth in Internet access and proliferation of smartphones has created an opportunity to re-engineer cancer care delivery. Electronic symptom tracking and feedback is a promising strategy to improve symptom control. Electronic patient reported outcome (ePRO) monitoring of cancer symptoms has been shown to decrease symptom burden, improve quality of life, reduce acute care and even extend survival. SIMPRO will use functioning ePRO prototypes to create and refine the electronic symptom management system eSyM