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Filter by:This is a randomized parallel group trial designed to evaluate the impact of implementing geriatrician-prescribed interventions based on the comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA), on the ability to deliver adequate chemotherapy treatment, as measured by relative dose intensity (RDI).
This study evaluates the impact of Endorings™ assisted colonoscopy on the number of polyps detected per patient compared to standard colonoscopy without use of EndoRings™. Half of the participants will receive EndoRings™ assisted colonoscopy, while the other half will receive standard colonoscopy.
Bone metastasis causes bone destruction and skeletal related events (SRE) including compression fracture, hypercalcemia, and spinal cord compression. Therefore, palliative treatments for pain control and local control have become important and multidisciplinary multimodality approach is needed for treatment of bone metastasis. The efficacy of radiotherapy (RT) for bone metastasis is well known. And the results that bisphosphonate decreases SRE in patients with solid tumor and multiple myeloma reported. In previous retrospective reports, the combination of local RT and systemic bisphosphonate was more effective than RT alone. Therefore, Investigators designed a phase II study to evaluate the efficacy of RT in combination with zoledronic acid on pain relief and the safety of RT in bone metastasis patients with gastrointestinal tumors.
The main objective of our study is to determine if the evaluation of ingesta of cancer patients by VAS (on the day of hospitalization) is able to predict the actual ingesta of patients during hospitalization (for patients malnourished, at risk of malnutrition or risk free).
AMG 211 is a bispecific single-chain antibody construct of the bispecific T-cell engager (BiTE®) class that targets human carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA, CD66e) on (tumor) cells and cluster of differentiation 3 (CD3) positive T-cells. AMG 211 is a potentially new targeted drug in the treatment of relapsed/refractory gastrointestinal adenocarcinoma, since those are CEA expressing tumors. A well-known challenge in current drug development using targeted therapies is the high level of heterogeneity of target expression that is present in specific tumor types. Radio-labeling of AMG 211 with the positron emission tomography (PET) radionuclide Zirconium-89 (89Zr) enables non-invasive imaging and quantification of AMG 211 distribution in cancer patients. By performing a 89Zr-AMG211 PET scan prior to treatment with AMG 211, the uptake of the tracer in the primary and metastatic tumor lesions and normal organ distribution can be evaluated. By performing a 89Zr-AMG211 PET scan during AMG 211 continuous intravenous (cIV) treatment the investigators will be able to evaluate the impact of prolonged steady state exposure of AMG 211 on tumor and tissue uptake. The 89Zr-AMG211 PET imaging study may help to identify patients more likely to benefit from AMG 211 therapy.
Endodrill is a new instrument for biopsy sampling in the GI-channel. The purpose of this study is as follows: - Compare EUS-guided Endodrill biopsies with endoscopic ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) in terms of ability to establish the correct diagnosis of submucosal tumors in the upper GI tract.
This is an open-label, non-randomized, dose escalation phase I trial to evaluate safety and tolerability of SHR-1210 in patients with advanced solid tumors. The primary objective is to assess safety and tolerability of SHR-1210 and identify recommended phase II doses of SHR-1210 in patients with advanced solid tumors.
The COMplementary hand-foot Massage to Improve experience of ilneSs trial (COMMIS trial) is a prospective, randomized trial and executed at a Western referral Centre: Zuyderland Medical Centre located Sittard-Geleen, The Netherlands concerning patients who underwent surgery for gastrointestinal malignancy. During 5 consecutive days, the intervention group received postoperatively hand-foot massage administered by trained volunteers. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of complementary therapies concerning quality of life, pain, nausea, fatigue, sleeping problems, mood and stress in patients who underwent an operation as a result of gastrointestinal malignancy (stomach or colorectal).
This phase II clinical trial studies how well thermal ablation and spine stereotactic radiosurgery work in treating patients with cancer that has spread to the spine (spine metastases) and is at risk for compressing the spinal cord. Thermal ablation uses a laser to heat tumor tissue and helps to shrink the tumor by destroying tumor cells. Stereotactic radiosurgery delivers a large dose of radiation in a short time precisely to the tumor, sparing healthy surrounding tissue. Combining thermal ablation with stereotactic radiosurgery may be a better way to control cancer that has spread to the spine and is at risk for compressing the spinal cord.
Double-blind, randomized clinical trial to assess the effects of 1,55 g/day of n-3 fatty acids from fish oil concomitant chemotherapy in gastrointestinal cancer.