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Filter by:This study evaluates the efficacy and tolerability of treatment for T-lymphoblastic lymphoma (T-LBL) according to a protocol for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Patients receive one year of intensive cyclical chemotherapy with additional prophylaxis for central nervous system (CNS) relapse by intrathecal therapy and cranial irradiation and mediastinal irradiation after induction chemotherapy.
The purpose of the study is to tests the hypothesis, that N-acetylcysteine (a thiol-antioxidant)improves the exercise training effect on cancer patients that experience weight loss (cachexia) as assessed by muscle mass and function as well as histomorphology.
In this Multicenter trial, we will evaluate the feasibility, toxicity, and efficacy of treatment with 90Y Zevalin following a short course of salvage chemotherapy in patients with relapsed/refractory intermediate grade B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility, efficacy and safety of adding bevacizumab to rituximab compared to rituximab alone in patients with previously treated follicular non-hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) whose disease has progressed following at least one previous chemotherapy regimen and not more than 2 previous chemotherapy regimens.
The purposes of this trial are to decrease toxicity and improve treatment effectiveness elderly patients. With a short course of chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, mitoxantrone, vincristine, and prednisone with concurrent administration of rituximab it is likely to be as effective as longer programs, and will certainly be better tolerated by this patient group. The addition of maintenance therapy may result in substantial prolongation of remission duration.
In this multicenter trial, we will investigate the use of fludarabine plus rituximab, followed by Campath-1H, in previously untreated patients with CLL/SLL. Patients who are elderly, or who are considered unlikely to tolerate this combination therapy well, will receive single agent rituximab followed by Campath-1H.
In this trial, we will evaluate the feasibility, toxicity, and effectiveness ibritumomab tiuxetan, when incorporated into combination first-line treatment for follicular lymphoma. Addition of the ibritumomab tiuxetan to our previously evaluated, well tolerated combination of rituximab and short course chemotherapy will allow the use of additional active agent with a unique mechanism of cytotoxicity. In addition, "debulking" of lymphoma prior to 90Y Zevalin administration may minimize the myelotoxicity of this agent.
The study hypothesis is that intensification of CHOP by dose escalation of the most active drugs in the combination will improve treatment outcome. Patients with diffuse large-cell lymphoma are treated by high cyclophosphamide containing CHOP. The planned dose is 3000 mg/m2 which is 4 times the atandard one. Only 4 cycles are given.
In this study the treatment process will be closely monitored using a novel imaging technology, a PET/CT scanner. PET stands for Positron Emission Tomography and in this case it will be combined with a conventional x-ray Computerized Tomography (CT) scan. This is not a study of any particular form of treatment. The treatment you receive will be the most appropriate standard treatment whether you are in the study or not. The goal of radiation therapy is to deliver a given amount of radiation dose to the area where there is a lymphoma tumour. We are doing this study to see which part of the tumour reacts to the radiation treatment, and which part does not react, by monitoring the progress of your treatment with a combined PET/CT scan. In particular, changes of the size and shape of the tumour that occur during the treatment can be detected and will be visible on the images. These images will be thoroughly analysed. The ability of the PET/CT scanner to detect these changes during a course of radiation treatment will be the subject of this study. We will also be able to see if this information will eventually relate to or predict whether lymphoma tumours will be completely eradicated by the treatment.
A group of researchers at the Ontario Cancer Institute/Princess Margaret Hospital have discovered that a very specific form of cell death 'apoptosis' can be detected using high-frequency ultrasound imaging. This type of cell death is recognized to occur in tumours in response to various different chemotherapeutic drugs and in response to radiation therapy. This group of researchers has confirmed that high-frequency ultrasound can detect apoptosis in response to tumour treatments experimentally using cell culture and experimental animal systems. The ultrasound approach is now being evaluated clinically in a 3-year clinical trial enrolling a target of 200 patients including Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's disease lymphoma patients, melanoma patients and patients with basal cell carcinoma. Our hope is to be able to use this type of imaging system in the future to clinically monitor the effects of therapy on tumours and rapidly detect tumours which are not responding so that changes in therapy can be made much quicker than presently possible.