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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to assess the adherence to an enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) pathway and the impact of the ERAS protocol on postoperative short-term outcome in patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD).
Evaluation of the diagnostic performance of PET / CT with 68Ga-DOTANOC in Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors with comparison with other techniques used in routine clinical practice (octreoscan ® ; multiphase SPECT / CT, MRI or endoscopy). Therapeutic impact and safety of PET / CT with 68Ga-DOTANOC will also be assessed. Expected results are a confirmation of the superiority of 68Ga-PET DOTANOC versus scintigraphy octreoscan ®, with a potential impact on the therapeutic management of patients.
The purpose of this study is to test the safety, activity and best doses of FOLFOX-A which consists of the standard chemotherapy drugs fluorouracil, leucovorin, oxaliplatin and abraxane. Each of these drugs are currently used in pancreatic cancer. The experimental part of the study is combining these drugs together in FOLFOX-A.
Introduction: Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive malignancies with only 5% of patients being alive at five years. EUS (endoscopic ultra sound) is an established, sensitive diagnostic tool in pancreatic cancer and for staging purposes. Additionally, EUS enables guided fine needle aspiration (FNA), which is currently recommended as the first-line procedure whenever a pathological diagnosis is required. However, EUS-FNA as a sampling method has its drawbacks, due to a relatively low negative predictive value. Confocal laser endomicroscopy has emerged in recent years as a novel method that enables in vivo microscopic analysis during ongoing endoscopy. Recently, confocal laser endomicroscopy has gone beyond the superficial luminal indications with the development of a new microprobe, i.e. a flexible laser probe (nCLE) that can pass through a 19-gauge needle. Combined with EUS, descriptive criteria for the diagnosis of pancreatic cystic neoplasm has been developed in a multicentre trial. However, only a limited number of cases of solid pancreatic masses have been described with nCLE. Aim and Method: To describe confocal imaging criteria for pancreatic masses, lymph nodes or liver metastases identified during EUS procedures performed for pancreatic cancer staging (EUS-nCLE), while evaluating also the feasibility and safety of nCLE examination. The hypothesis is that EUS-nCLE could allow targeted tissue sampling of pancreatic lesions resulting in more accurate diagnosis. XX patients were included all presenting with a clinical suspicion of pancreatic cancer or imaging studies showing a pancreatic mass. During the procedure an nCLE preloaded 19G FNA needle was advanced into the lesion under EUS guidance. A contrast agent was administered intravenously (2.5 ml fluorescein 10%). The data was stored digitally for post procedural analysis. Afterwards EUS-FNA was performed for cytology smears to enable a final pathological diagnosis. Correlations between the nCLE images and the conventional pathology were identified.
Pancreaticojejunostomy is the key procedure of pancreaticoduodenectomy. The aim of our study is to investigate a new pancreaticojejunal (PJ) anastomosis procedure named "nonstented stump-closed pancreaticojejunostomy" in pancreatoduodenectomy, which could provide a feasible option to pancreatic surgeons for patients with pancreaticoduodenectomy.
Four-drug combo yielded a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival and overall survival compared to gemcitabine in patients with advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Nab-Paclitaxel showed promising antitumor activity in patients with pancreatic cancer. Given the synergism of taxanes with gemcitabine, fluoropyrimidines and platinating agents the role of nab-Paclitaxel in a 4-drug regimen will be explored. The aim of this trial is to determine the recommended dose of nab-paclitaxel in combination with cisplatin, capecitabine, and gemcitabine, PAXG regimen (Phase I), and to evaluate the feasibility and the activity of the PAXG regimen in patients with stage III and IV pancreatic cancer.
Background: EUS-guided fine needle aspiration (FNA) is a major diagnostic tool in the patient with pancreatic mass with high specificity, specificity and accuracy. However FNA with small needle has sometimes failed in acquisition of tissue due to small caliber. To overcome this limitation, newly designed ProCore needle was developed and flexible 22 and 25 gauge ProCore needles were frequently used. However there was no comparative study of the efficacy and accuracy between 22 and 25 gauge ProCore needle yet. Aim: To compare the efficacy and accuracy of EUS-guided FNA between 22 and 25 gauge ProCore needle. (The investigators hypothesized that the accuracy of 25 gauge Procore needle is not inferior to 22 gauge ProCore needle.)
Contrast enhanced EUS with the sonographic contrast agent DEFINITY™ has the potential to detect pancreatic cancer at an earlier stage, to improve current method of T staging and assessment of surgical resectability and also to distinguish between benign and malignant pancreatic masses. All these will translate into better clinical outcome, and also avoid unnecessary surgery in situations of unresectable cancers.
The goal of this clinical research study is to learn if minocycline can reduce the side effects of chemotherapy in patients with pancreatic cancer. In this study, minocycline will be compared to a placebo. Minocycline is an antibiotic that may help to reduce side effects of chemotherapy. A placebo is not a drug. It looks like the study drug, but it is not designed to treat any disease or illness. It is designed to be compared with a study drug to learn if the study drug has any real effect.
This study will conduct a phase II study of gemcitabine, erlotinib, and S-1 as first-line chemotherapy in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer and evaluate the EGFR expression, KRAS mutation, and BRAF mutation as predictive or prognostic markers