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Filter by:This study will evaluate patients' experiences with having gynecologic or prostate medical oncologists and surgeons offer them genetic testing, and having genetic counselors return the test results to patients over the telephone. This is different from the usual approach to genetic testing, where gynecologic or prostate medical oncologists and surgeons refer their patients to a genetic counselor in order to have these tests done, and the genetic counselors return the test results to the patient in person or over the telephone. The investigators will only be evaluating this alternative way of providing genetic testing to ovarian or prostate cancer patients.
A large proportion of men with prostate cancer are overdiagnosed and overtreated mainly due to PSA testing. Active surveillance (AS) aims to reduce these harms by recommending curative treatment only when and if signs of tumor progression occur. There are however a number of uncertainties in AS, the most important being when to initiate treatment. The investigators are therefore starting a large randomized multicenter trial testing the safety of a standardized active surveillance protocol with specified triggers for repeat biopsies and initiation of curative treatment. The standardized protocol is compared with current practice for active surveillance. The primary aim of the study is to reduce overtreatment and subsequent side effects, without increasing the risk of disease progression or prostate cancer mortality.
PART I Hormone therapy with or without definitive radiotherapy in metastatic prostate cancer The goal of this clinical study PART I is to determine impact of radiotherapy treatment in combination with standard androgen deprivation therapy comparing with androgen deprivation therapy alone at controlling metastatic prostate cancer. The primary objective: to determine disease progression free survival in man with metastatic (M1) prostate cancer (PC) undergoing androgen deprivation therapy with or without definitive radiotherapy of the primary tumor.The secondary objective: to determine disease progression (local, bone marrow, visceral) in men with metastatic prostate cancer (M1PC) undergoing systemic therapy with/without definitive radiotherapy of the primary tumor, to determine expression in number of genes analysed 8: 2 housekeeping genes; integrin subunits αv, β3, β5, α4β1 ; 3 EMT markers N-cadherin, E-cadherin, vimentin before radiotherapy, after radiotherapy and at the time of the disease progression , to determine plasma serotonin (5HT, 5 hydroxytryptamine). Subgroup analysis in locally advanced prostate cancer (serves as a control group for integrins analysis): to determine expression in number of genes analysed 8: 2 housekeeping genes; integrin subunits αv, β3, β5, α4β1 ; 3 epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) markers N-cadherin, E-cadherin, vimentin before radiotherapy, after radiotherapy and at the time of the disease progression. PART II Identification of genetic determinants of disease progression and castrate resistance in metastatic prostate cancer. The goal of this clinical study PART II is to assess feasibility of genomic testing in the multidisciplinary clinical management of metastatic prostate cancer, to gain insight in specific genomic signature(s) of progressive metastatic prostate cancer in the natural course of disease spanning from primary tumor to metastases, to test if 'treatment selection' and/or 'treatment adaptation' as means of evolutionary pressures represent the mechanistic models of castrate resistance and ultimate treatment failure following course of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT).
Prostate cancer (PC) is the third most common cause of cancer death in men. Most patients with localized PC will be cured with surgery or radiation therapy, but up to 35% of patients will have their PC return. Whether it has returned locally or distantly determines which type of treatment they will receive. Current conventional imaging modalities have limitations particularly at low prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels. This study proposes to use Fluorine-18-2-(3-(1-carboxy-5-[(6-[18F]fluoro-pyridine-3-carbonyl)-amino]-pentyl)-ureido)-pen tanedioic acid (18F-DCFPyL) Positron Emission Tomography / Computer Tomography (PET/CT) scans which targets prostate-specific membrane antigens (PSMA) to detect where in the body the PC has recurred.
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common non-dermatologic malignancy in U.S. men. Transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided prostate biopsy is a commonly used diagnostic procedure for men with an elevated serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level and/or abnormal digital rectal examination (DRE). It is estimated that more than 1 million TRUS-guided prostate biopsies are performed annually in the U.S. alone. However, a freehand TRUS-guided systematic biopsy (SB) procedure has significant limitations. First, freehand biopsy cores are often spatially clustered, rather than uniformly distributed, and do not accurately follow the recommended, sextant template. Second, a freehand TRUS-guided biopsy does not allow precise mapping of the biopsy cores within the prostate. Targeted biopsy (TB) using special devices emerged to help the physicians guide the biopsy using multiparametric MRI (mpMRI). TB cores yield a higher cancer detection rate of clinically significance PCa than SB cores, but TB cores also miss a large number of clinically significant PCa that are detected by SB. Accordingly, TB is commonly performed concurrently with SB (TB+SB procedure).
Multicentric, observational, prospective, non-interventional study with occasional biological sample collection (serum bank, urine bank and tumor bank)
Description: Multicentre observational study, not randomized. Ambispective character (retro and prospective). Opened to any member of the Asociación Española de Urología (AEU), public and private medicine. Justification: Active surveillance is a strategy proposed to control the overtreatment derived from the opportunist screening in prostate cancer (PCa). Its development in our country is erratic and different in every Center. This database tries to include most of patients included in active surveillance in Spain with a few minimal inclusion criteria. Multicentre registry and follow up of the active surveillance in Spain. Hypothesis: Mortality cancer specific for PCa includible in active surveillance to 15 years is lower than 5 %.
This study aims to develop, implement and evaluate a care pathway for patients with cancer who are treated with oral anticancer drugs (OACD). The care pathway will be developed in six hospitals in Flanders, and will be adapted to the local setting and situation. The investigators hypothesize that the implementation of a care pathway will increase the quality of the drug therapy, the communication between health care professionals (HCPs) and patients, and will lead to an improved level of self-management and adherence. Moreover, the invesitgators hypothesize that the care pathway will facilitate the communication between HCPs in the hospital setting and in ambulatory care, and will improve counseling skills, self-efficacy and self-confidence of HCPs. At the end of the study, a roadmap for the nation-wide implementation of a similar care pathway will be constructed based on the experiences of the participating hospitals. This roadmap will certainly include an e-learning platform for healthcare professionals.
This study will enroll 200 men with clinical suspicion of prostate cancer due to higher serum level of PSA than 2.5 ng/ml or abnormal digital rectal examination. Anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) at 3 Tesla (T) magnetic field using surface coils will be used to non-invasively predict the presence or absence of prostate cancer. Targeted TRUS guided biopsy based on MRI findings will be performed in addition to routine twelve core TRUS biopsy. Moreover, selected serum and urine biomarkers as well as biomarkers extracted from fresh biopsy sample will be collected and correlated with the presence or absence of prostate cancer.
This study aims to evaluate the feasibility of indocyanine green (ICG)-based fluorescence imaging in the detection of prostate tumors and metastatic lymph nodes. By correlating the ICG fluorescence patterns with pathologically confirmed tumor and nodal status, it would be possible to use fluorescence navigation system in helping prostate biopsy and lymph node dissection in the future.