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Filter by:Objectives: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of radical surgery combined with dendritic cell-precision multiple antigen T cells in reducing the recurrence and metastasis of liver cancer Methods: This study designs a novel therapy using dendritic cell-precision multiple antigen T cells. 60 postoperative patients of hepatocellular carcinoma will be enrolled. They are randomly divided into postoperative routine therapy group and dendritic cell-precision multiple antigen T cells combined with postoperative routine therapy group. Dendritic cell-precision multiple antigen T cells treatments will be performed every 3 weeks with a total of three periods. The mail clinical indicators are Progression-Free-Survival and Overall Survival.
The investigators hypothesize that 4Dimensional Phase Contrast Magnetic Resonance Angiography (4D PC MRA) evaluation of portal venous flow predicts underlying liver function and hypertrophic potential in patients with liver cancer presenting for portal vein embolization (PVE). 4D PC MRA may provide a non-invasive measure of liver function that could help determine which patients could safely and successfully undergo PVE and subsequent resection of tumor. By comparing 4D PC MRA results with invasive catheter measurements the investigators will validate the flow findings. Further regression/correlation analysis with functional measures of the liver (HIDA scans), volumetrics, Doppler flow analysis, histology, and outcomes will help the investigators to determine the ability of 4D PC MRA to predict functional status and hypertrophic potential of the liver prior to PVE and hepatectomy allowing for better patient selection and reduced morbidity/mortality.
Background: There are about 100 trillion microbial cells in a person s gut. This is called the human gut microbiota. When this is disrupted, it can lead to many diseases. Studies show that the gut microbiota in people with cancer is different than that found in healthy people. Researchers want to study links between the gut microbiota and the immune system in people with a liver disease called hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Objective: To study links between gut microbiota and the immune system in people with HCC. Eligibility: People at least 18 years old with HCC. They must be scheduled to have tumors removed by surgery. Design: - People having surgery for primary liver tumors at the Mount Sinai Medical Center will be screened for this study. - At the initial visit, blood, rectal swabs, urine, and stool will be collected. Participants will answer questions about their medical condition. - Before surgery, blood, rectal swabs, urine, and stool will be collected. This will be done at a routine visit. - When they have surgery, a piece of liver tissue with the tumor will be collected. This will be sent to the National Cancer Institute for tests. - After surgery, blood, rectal swabs, urine, and stool will be collected 3 times. This will be done at routine visits.
This is an open label, multi-center, randomized phase I/II study of MLN0128 versus standard sorafenib. Eligible subjects in the phase I trial will receive MLN0128 in escalating doses. Eligible subjects in the phase II trial will be 1:1 randomized to either the MLN0128 arm or the sorafenib arm.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common malignancy in the world and the third most common cause of cancer-related deaths complicating liver cirrhosis in most cases. In Egypt, there has been a remarkable increase of the proportion of HCC among CLD patients from 4.0% to 7.2% over a decade. This rising proportion may be explained by the increasing risk factors such as the emergence of HCV over the same period of time, the contribution of HBV infection, improvement of the screening programs and diagnostic tools of HCC as well as the increased survival rate among patients with cirrhosis to allow time for some of them to develop HCC. The only curative treatment modalities for HCC are surgery, local ablation, and liver transplantation which have high recurrence rate either due to viral hepatitis infection or cirrhosis leading to low success rate and high economic burden. Unfortunately, the majority of patients have unresectable disease at diagnosis. So, patients search for palliative very expensive therapies including chemotherapy and radiotherapy which often fail to eradicate tumor lesions completely and tend to result in many adverse events.Thus, novel approaches for treatment options are needed for patients with advanced HCC . In recent years, immunotherapy has emerged as an efficacious treatment modality with encouraging efficacy and slight adverse events in cancer therapy [Stroncek 2010]. Cytokine-induced killer CIK cells therapy has been evaluated as an adoptive cell immunotherapy for cancer patients in a number of clinical trials and the promising efficacy of CIK cells on malignancies has been proved.
The study aims to compare the two liver resection techniques (with versus without hepatic inflow occlusion) in regards to perioperative and long-term outcomes of hepatectomy for HBV-related HCC.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of HepaSphere interventional therapy using digital subtraction angiography（DSA）combined with cryosurgery for liver cancer.
RATIONALE: Placing a tumor antigen chimeric receptor that has been created in the laboratory into patient autologous or donor-derived T cells may make the body build immune response to kill cancer cells. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying genetically engineered lymphocyte therapy in treating patients with Relapsed and/or Chemotherapy Refractory Advanced Malignancies.
The indications liver cancer surgery currently booming due to the increase in surgical techniques and instruments for a more secure resection of liver tissue with a significant reduction in bleeding or surgical complications. This allowed to expand surgical indications in the most fragile patients so assuming optimized anesthetic care. So far, the technique of analgesia reference to this surgery remains administration of morphine analgesia via a device controlled by the patient (PCA) for epidural analgesia is against-indicated because of induced bleeding disorders by surgery. Rafi then McDonnell in 2007 have described a new technique of loco regional anesthesia, the abdomen of the Transversus Abdominis Plane (TAP) nerve block(TAP), which allows selective anesthesia of the abdominal wall. But parietal pain related muscular and nervous sagging surgical approach represent a significant share of post operative pain. This study proposes an evaluation of the abdomen transverse blocks in hepatectomy.
The purpose of this study is to learn whether patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA) is a better method for managing pain after liver resection compared to patient-controlled analgesia (IV PCA). Currently, the standard pain control method for liver resection patients is IV PCA. There is not enough data on how epidural (PCEA) relieves pain and movement on a day to day basis after liver resection.