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Filter by:In the face of imminent loss, many adults with metastatic cancer report a range of mental health challenges, including cancer-related trauma symptoms, fear of cancer progression and dying/death, anxiety, depression, and hopelessness, as well as physical symptoms such as fatigue and pain. Cancer patients may report feeling upset or haunted by imagined scenarios in a way that causes them distress and lowers their quality of life. This study aims to look at the acceptability and feasability of a writing-based intervention for adults with late-stage or recurrent cancer, or actively treated blood cancer. The EASE study uses a writing-based approach to address an individual's worst-case scenario about cancer because previous studies have shown that similar approaches have shown promise in reducing fear in early-stage cancer survivors and among adults with PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder). The EASE study represents a novel adaptation of this foundational work on written exposure therapy (WET) to address worst-case scenarios among adults with late stage cancers. The EASE study will include 5 weekly one-on-one online video sessions with a trained therapist where participants will be coached through writing exercises based on a worst-case scenario related to their cancer experience.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in the United Kingdom (UK), but improvements in treatment mean 3 in 4 people survive for more than 10 years. Many people receive treatments called human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) targeted therapies for their breast cancer, however these can affect heart function. This 'cardiotoxicity' is generally temporary and mild, but patients receive drugs to help their heart recover. Currently it is not known how long patients should receive these treatments. Patients with other types of heart failure are treated lifelong, but this may not be necessary here as the damaging cancer drugs have stopped. Taking drugs for many years can have an impact on people's quality of life, particularly for young patients. It is therefore important to understand the best treatment length. The investigators will study people whose heart function has recovered after HER2 therapy heart problems and are not at high risk for heart disease. The investigators will carefully stop their heart drugs whilst monitoring them closely with special heart scans and blood tests to detect problems early. The investigators will also study how patients are currently treated using national data. The results of this study will help doctors better guide breast cancer survivors about treatment of heart damage from HER2 cancer therapies.
Study CJB-101-01 will be conducted at multiple centers in the USA and Republic of Korea as an open-label safety and preliminary efficacy study of CJRB-101 in combination with pembrolizumab in subjects with selected types of advanced or metastatic cancer. The proposed study intends to address the unmet medical needs of low response rate and refractoriness to immune checkpoint inhibitors typically observed in this subject population by performing assessments of response, dose limiting toxicities, pharmacodynamic, and the effect on microbiome biomarkers at different dose levels of CJRB-101 combined with pembrolizumab.
The primary objective is to demonstrate superiority of neoadjuvant systemic therapy followed by repeat local treatment as compared to upfront repeat local treatment in patients with at least one locally treatable recurrent CRLM in the absence of extrahepatic disease.
PredoSTAR is a multicenter, randomized, open-label phase II study proposed to patients at high risk of SPC and in whom the treatment of the FPC does not include immunotherapy. Dostarlimab treatment will be started within 6 months after the completion of treatment for localized FPC (i.e. after the end of last CT, RT cure or surgery with a wash-out period of 4 weeks before to start Dostarlimab). Eligible patients will be randomized (1:1) to receive: - Arm Dostarlimab : 4 intravenous (IV) injections of dostarlimab, Q3W or - Arm No treatment
COPPER is an international, multicenter, parallel-arm, phase III randomized controlled trial comparing two local treatment strategies (SABR or metastasectomy) for patients with an indication for local treatment for limited (max. three) colorectal pulmonary metastases
The goal of this clinical trial is to compare in resectable liver metastases colorectal cancer patients.The main question it aims to answer is to investigate whether the progression-free survival (PFS) of resectable colorectal liver metastasis (CRLM) patients with positive ctDNA after surgery is superior with the combination of adjuvant chemotherapy and maintenance therapy compared to adjuvant chemotherapy alone.
To determine the safety and efficacy of using the drug azeliragon combined with stereotactic radiosurgery. Specifically, to determine if this combination will lead to improved response in the brain (tumor shrinking in size) and overall tumor control (how long tumor remains controlled).
'Distress' refers to emotional distress, including psychological distress, in cancer patients. This study aims to explore whether mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral therapy for cancer patients is effective in relieving distress and to discover neurophysiological factors that contribute to relieving distress. Mindfulness meditation, which is the core of mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy, can develop cognitive flexibility through 'awareness of what is happening now'. In this study, a mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy program is implemented for patients with advanced cancer, and clinical characteristics and conditions including distress level are observed through questionnaires and interviews. In addition, genetic data and brain imaging data are collected through blood sampling and brain magnetic resonance imaging. The ultimate goal of this study is to prove the therapeutic efficacy of a mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy program for distress of patients with advanced cancer through an in-depth and multifaceted integrated approach, and to understand the related neurophysiological mechanisms.
The aim of our study is to examine the cryoimmunologic response and its mechanisms induced by US-guided cryoablation of small breast tumors (<2 cm) not eligible to neoadjuvant therapy. We will recruit 30 women who will undergo cryoablation and their results will be compared with a control group of 30 women, who will follow the same therapeutic pathway without performing cryoablation. All recruited patients will undergo an enrollment check, pre-cryoablation breast MRI and blood test to assess immune response, breast cancer US-guided cryoablation, post-cryoablation breast MRI and the same blood test to evaluate immunologic response. Within 21 days all patients will undergo breast surgery, with immuno-histopathological analysis on surgical specimen. At least 10 days after surgery the patient will undergo clinical breast examination, blood test to assess immune response and patient satisfaction questionnaire. Cryoablation treatment will be performed using a 14G cryoprobe under us-guidance for visualization of the ice ball surrounding the lesion. The ultrasound guide is used to ensure that the action affects the entire tumor and that therapeutic temperatures are reached in every part of the tumor. Pre- and post- cryoablation breast MRI will be performed on a 3T magnet to assess cryoablation rate of success. Artificial intelligence algorithms will also be used for this purpose. Cryoablation treatment efficacy will also be evaluated with ultrasound. The immunological fitness of cancer patients will be studied by flow cytometry, evaluating the presence of cytokines/chemokines relevant during anticancer immune response/tumor progression and for the presence of molecules released by cells during an immunogenic cell death. The goal of our study will be to demonstrate that cryoablation of breast cancer can induce an antitumor immune response. Therefore this approach could become an additional tool in the oncological treatment of breast cancer.