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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to determine whether providing individuals with personalized information on cellular aging, including telomere length, will stimulate them to adhere to cardiac prevention strategies and improve exercise capacity.
Colorectal cancer is the third most frequently diagnosed cancer and the third leading cause of cancer related deaths in Taiwan. Of the 10,248 new colorectal patients diagnosed each year approximately 60% will develop liver metastasis during the course of their disease. In approximately 30% of these patients who develop liver metastasis the metastatic disease will remain confined to the liver. For the 70-75% of colorectal patients with colorectal liver metastasis not suitable for hepatic resection or similarly ablative therapy with curative intent, systemic chemotherapy is the standard initial management. However, after a patient has failed first- line and in some cases second-line chemotherapy, response rates fall to as low as 12% (Chen HX 2006). Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) with microsphere is an alternative treatment because normal liver tissue receives most of its blood supply from the portal vein, while colorectal liver metastases derive most of their flow from the hepatic artery. Several clinical trials have explored the feasibility and the efficacy of TACE with microsphere as a treatment for patients with colorectal liver metastasis. HepaSphere represents a novel drug delivery system for chemoembolization, which can add two benefits to embolization therapy. First, by ionically binding the doxorubicin throughout the microspheres, more drug can be delivered into the tumor, with less escape into peripheral circulation. Second, conformability to the architecture of the vessel lumen, providing more contact surface area with the embolic material and the vessel intima, leading to a more complete occlusion. However, there are limited experiences in using HepaSphere TACE for colorectal liver metastasis in Taiwan. In this pilot study, we will evaluate the initiate safety and efficacy of Hepasphere microspheres loaded with a chemotherapeutic agent doxorubicin for the treatment of patients who have failed first-line and second-line systemic chemotherapy.
Primary lung cancer is one of the most common malignancies in China, with 57 percent of patients being diagnosed at advanced stage. At present, advanced lung cancer has entered the era of precise treatment. So it is very important to determine the gene mutation status of the tumor and prescribe drugs at the targets. Liquid biopsy is a suitable alternative when tumor tissues are difficult to obtain. Liquid biopsy technique refers to the use of human body fluid as a sample source to detect the information of related diseases, including blood, urine, saliva and cerebrospinal fluid. It is non-invasive, fast and simple, and can avoid the problem of insufficient sample size and support for repeated sampling to continuously monitor disease. With the increasing incidence of lung cancer and the development of diagnosis and treatment technology, the survival period of patients has been extended, and the incidence and diagnosis rate of the brain metastasis of lung cancer have increased year by year. The brain metastasis of lung cancer is the most common type of brain metastatic tumor. The incidence rate is about 40-50%, and the prognosis is poor——the natural median survival period is about 1-2 months. Because of the impractical intracranial tumor biopsy and very low level of DNA in peripheral blood, cerebrospinal fluid, which makes close contact with brain tumors, becomes potential available samples. Several studies have shown that genetic testing of cerebrospinal fluid is feasible. Therefore, this study aims to test the cerebrospinal fluid, blood and tissue by the latest second-generation sequencing technology at different time points, to dynamically monitor the gene mutation status of cerebrospinal fluid, blood and tissue, to explore the role of cerebrospinal fluid biopsy in the diagnosis and treatment of non-small cell lung cancer with brain metastases.
This is a phase 1b/2 study to determine the safety and effectiveness of the combination of pembrolizumab and idelalisib in NSCLC patients whose disease has stopped responding to immune therapy. This study is being done to see if adding another immune modulator (idelalisib) to standard pembrolizumab will increase response rates, compared to the response seen with pembrolizumab alone.
AZD9291 is an oral potent irreversible EGFR TKI selective for sensitizing EGFR mutation and T790M resistance mutation but sparing wild-type EGFR. Preclinical studies indicate that AZD9291 has significant exposure in the brain and activity against EGFR mutant brain metastasis. In addition, anti-tumor activities of AZD9291 in patients with advanced stage EGFR mutant NSCLC including patients with brain metastasis have been reported in an ongoing Phase I study. More recently, AZD9291 at a dose of 160mg also showed promising efficacy in heavily pre-treated patients with leptomeningeal disease from EGFR mutant NSCLC. Among 11 evaluable for response, 6 patients had LM imaging improvement and 3 out of 7 patients with abnormal neurological exam at baseline had symptomatic improvement. Compared to AZD9291, other 3rd generation EGFR TKIs, rociletinib or HM61713 has not been reported to be effective in most of CNS disease of NSCLC. Further, previous studies with AZD9291 showed anecdotal case series or undetermined for T790M mutation status, indicating more systematic study is warranted. Based on these data, the investigators are going to conduct phase II study of AZD9291 in NSCLC patients harboring T790M mutation who failed EGFR TKIs and brain and/or leptomeningeal metastasis.
The MEANING trial is a randomized controlled mixed methods pilot designed to compare a novel mindfulness meditation-based intervention (MEANING) to usual care for adults with advanced-stage solid malignancies and their family caregivers.
Approximately 36 DLT-evaluable subjects will be enrolled in this study. The locations of the study will be in the United States, Australia, Europe and Switzerland. The goal of this study is to evaluate the safety of intrahepatic injection (directly into the liver) of talimogene laherparepvec in combination with intravenously administered atezolizumab in subjects with triple negative breast cancer and colorectal cancer with liver metastases.
The purpose of this observational study is to compare the administration of standard of care Multigam IV 5% and standard of care Multigam IV 10% in order to observe changes in infusion time and infusion related reactions. Patient satisfaction, number of actions taken by the nursing staff during infusion and satisfaction of the nursing staff will also be evaluated.
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the long-term safety and tolerability of Brivaracetam (BRV) in focal epilepsy subjects with partial seizures and to evaluate the maintenance of efficacy of BRV over time.
This study evaluates the effectiveness of the Medtronic OsteoCool™ RF Ablation System.