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Filter by:This study aims to examine whether Smart After-Care service (Internet-and mobile-based lifestyle intervention) has an effect on patients' satisfaction and clinical outcomes in patients with prostate cancer on androgen deprivation therapy. Patients with prostate cancer on androgen deprivation therapy will participate in the study. The study design is a randomized controlled trial. The patients were randomly assigned to intervention or usual care groups. Intervention patients received Smart After-Care service for 3 months. Primary endpoint was an increase in patients' physical function as assessed using 2 minute walking test. Secondary endpoints included improvement in muscle strength, short physical performance battery, body composition, and health-related quality of life.
The current limitations in prostate cancer diagnostics lead to over- and undertreatment for a significant fraction of patients. Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (CLE) and Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) are focal imaging modalities with potential for in-vivo prostate imaging. The investigators anticipate that integrating focal imaging with MRI/TRUS fusion will further improve prostate cancer detection and provides a real-time histopathological threedimensional representation of the tumor lesions. This is an investigator-initiated, prospective in-vivo safety and feasibility study with transperineal template mapping biopsies (TTMB) and two focal imaging methods, CLE and OCT, in prostate tissue.
Salvage brachytherapy in combination with interstitial hyperthermia for locally recurrent prostate carcinoma following external beam radiation therapy.
The study aims to identify potential urine marker metabolites as predictive or prognostic markers for treatment outcomes in patients with prostate cancer.
The overall goal of this research is to validate and develop a non-invasive imaging biomarker of prostate cancer detection, progression, and recurrence. Development of such a biomarker may be useful to differentiate indolent from aggressive prostate cancer phenotypes allowing for selection of an appropriate risk adaptive therapy.
The main purpose of study is to evaluate hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (SBRT) using CyberKnife for Patients with low and intermediate risk of progression prostate cancer.
Following curative intended therapy in prostate cancer patients, a high proportion of patients (approx. 25%) relapse with local and/or distant recurrence. The metastasis of a lymph node (LN) in a patient with prostate cancer means that the disease has become systemic with the increased risk of disease progression. Therefore the ability to detect the presence of LN metastasis is important in terms of disease prognosis and treatment options. In the past, patients with LN metastasis have had poor prognoses due to the scarcity of accurate staging techniques and toxic treatment regimens such as radiotherapy. For those patients with a medium to high risk of having LN metastasis, the current procedure is a bilateral pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND). This is the standard procedure prior to curative treatment with either radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy. However, the procedure is not optimal due to the frequent inability to remove all positive lymph nodes within the dissection area. 41% of metastatic LN disease is not found, due to these LN being outside the routine surgery field. As a result, some urologists will perform an extended lymphadenectomy (e-PLND), which leads to extended operating times and the risk of complications. Also, therapy of LN metastases has limitations: more than 50% of metastatic LN are outside the routine (RTOG-CTV) radiation field. Thus the effect of standard LN radiotherapy is limited. Currently used imaging techniques such as CT and conventional MRI are also not sensitive enough to detect prostate cancer metastases due to the small size of the nodes (< 8mm). In this study, patients that undergo a pelvic lymph node dissection will be undergoing a 68Ga PSMA PET-CT and a nano-MRI prior to surgery. The results of the PSMA PET-CT and the nano-MRI will be validated using the pathology results of the (PLND).
The Ned case study is a 12-month mixed methods embedded single-case study with a nested within-group pre-post comparison of health outcomes. 400 patients, 200 caregivers, and 10 clinicians will be given access to Ned. Participants will be asked to complete study assessments at baseline, 2 months, 6 months and 12 months. 30 semi-structured qualitative interviews with patients (n=20) and their caregivers (n=10) post-study will also be conducted to gain insight into their experience with the application.
The aim of this phase IV interventional study is to evaluate variation in bone mineral density and lean and fat body composition in patients with prostate cancer without bone metastasis, treated with Degarelix. These variations are evaluated at time 0 (before starting androgen deprivation therapy with Degarelix) and after 12 months of therapy by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA scan).
This is an open-label positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) study to investigate the diagnostic performance and evaluation efficacy of 68Ga-NOTA-RM26 in prostate cancer patients. A single dose of 111-148 Mega-Becquerel (MBq) 68Ga-NOTA-RM26 will be injected intravenously. Visual and semiquantitative method will be used to assess the PET/CT images.