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Filter by:This study gathers health information for the Project: Every Child for younger patients with cancer. Gathering health information over time from younger patients with cancer may help doctors find better methods of treatment and on-going care.
The aim of the study is to construct a register system of oral and maxillofacial malignant tumors based on a prospective, observational, real-world study in north Chinese population.
Patients with histological proven advanced gastric cancer (including cancer of the esophagogastric junction (AEG) without evidence of distant metastases, who fulfill the inclusion and exclusion criteria, can be recruited in this study. There are two treatment groups (A and B). The D2 radical gastrectomy will be applied in both groups. Patients randomized into group B will be treated with an intraperitoneal (in the abdominal cavity) chemoperfusion with cisplatin(75mg/m2 max 150mg/m2 max 5L ). Patients randomized into group A will not accept intraperitoneal chemoperfusion. Patients in both groups receive 6 cycles of postoperative chemotherapy (SOX or XELOX) within 4-12 weeks after the surgical procedure and are followed up for 24 months.
This study was developed to document current diagnosis and treatment patterns, clinical outcomes, and health care resource use associated with Philadelphia-Negative Myeloproliferative Neoplasms, in the different risk classifications for each disease.
Background: - Researchers want to find better ways to treat cancer. One drug that treats cancer is paclitaxel. Sometimes proteins block that drug from working. Researchers want to see if another drug, nilotinib, helps paclitaxel work better. Objective: - To test the safety of nilotinib plus paclitaxel and find out what doses of the drugs can be given safely to people. Eligibility: - Adults at least 18 years old with advanced cancer that has progressed after receiving standard treatment, or for which no effective therapy exists. Design: - Participants will be screened with tests they usually get in their cancer care: medical history, physical exam, blood and urine tests, heart test, and scans. - Participants will take the two study drugs in 28-day cycles. They will keep a medicine diary. - Nilotinib will be taken by mouth twice every day except day 1 of the first cycle. - Paclitaxel will be given by IV once a week for the first 3 weeks of a cycle. This will usually be done at the clinic. - Most participants will have a weekly study visit every week for cycle 1, then the first 3 weeks of other cycles. They will have: - Physical exam at every visit. - Blood tests multiple times for cycle 1, then the first 3 weeks of other cycles. - Scans every 8 weeks. These may be CT or MRI scans, in a machine that takes pictures. Or they may be ultrasounds, where a wand is pressed on the skin with gel on it. - Around 30 days after stopping the study drugs, participants will be called to discuss any side effects.
The cell behavior that the investigators regard as "malignant," including: cell autonomy; invasion and digestion of surrounding normal tissues; migration and colonization of distant organs; ability to develop resistance to drugs, temperature, or radiation; and ability to kill the host, are not only characteristics of cancer cells, but of pathogenic and/or opportunistic unicellular organisms (bacteria, fungi and protozoa). Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), the father of modern pathology, first pointed out the resemblance between the biological behavior of cancer cells and that of single-celled organisms when causing infections. He thought, incorrectly, that cancer cells were cells infected with bacteria and had acquired their pathogenic behavior from them. Others later postulated that the behavior of cancer cells was likely due to the re-expression of past traits and behaviors (atavism) derived from their past evolutionary experience as independent, single-celled organisms from which all cells in multicellular organisms originated. In other words, the behavior of pathogenic unicellular organisms, including: unlimited replicative potential; capacity for invasion, migration, and metastases; abilities to evade the host's immune system, to generate multi-drug resistance; and to kill a host, are what the investigators define as "cancer" when one of the investigators cells re-express these past ancestral traits. This reversion or de-evolution of a differentiated cell to its ancestral undifferentiated, unicellular form has been named "Atavistic Metamorphosis." This does not imply that cancer cells are bacteria, protozoa, or yeasts. It means that cancer cells express functions and/or behaviors similar to their ancestral parents, the unicellular organisms from which our cells originated. If this is true, a combination of drugs that are effective to eradicate certain unicellular organisms may work in cancer treatment. The principal objective of this study is to determine whether there is a benefit for patients with advanced, metastatic and terminal cancers to be treated with combinations of selected drugs conventionally used in medical practice to kill bacterial, fungal and protozoal cells.
The present study is a multicentric randomized phase III trial designed to assess whether overall survival and quality of life are improved in patients with asymptomatic colon cancer and unresectable SLM treated with resection of the PT followed by chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone.
This phase I trial studies the side effects and best dose of pembrolizumab and to see how well it works in treating younger patients with high-grade gliomas (brain tumors that are generally expected to be fast growing and aggressive), diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (brain stem tumors), brain tumors with a high number of genetic mutations, ependymoma or medulloblastoma that have come back (recurrent), progressed, or have not responded to previous treatment (refractory). Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as pembrolizumab, may induce changes in the body's immune system, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread.
The objectives of this Phase I study are to determine the maximum tolerable dose (MTD) and to evaluate pharmacokinetics (PK), safety/ tolerability and preliminary efficacy of OB318 in patients with advanced solid malignancies.
The purpose of this study is to find out the effects (good and bad) of highly focused radiation on you and your prostate cancer. The purpose of this evaluation is to see if this treatment causes fewer side effects that other standard treatment approaches, and to evaluate the effect of this treatment on your prostate tumor and your quality of life over time.