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Filter by:The purpose of this research study is to examine the feasibility of the enhanced survivorship care plans (ESCPs, regular SCPs with the a web-based couple-focused symptom self-management project (PERC) or National Cancer Institute prostate cancer web links) and to conduct an initial benefit assessment of enhanced survivorship care plans among prostate cancer patients transitioning from active treatment to post-treatment self-management, and their partners. Participation of this study lasts for about for 16 weeks. Depending on participants' need for information, it takes 10-30 minutes of their time each week to review the information about prostate cancer. Eligible and consented patients with newly treated localized prostate cancer and your partner (couples) are randomly assigned to the regular survivorship care plan (SCPs) with the NCI website or the enhanced survivorship care plans (SCP plus the web-based prostate cancer education program, PERC) groups. They complete baseline (T1, prior to randomization) and 4-month post-T1 follow-up measures (T2).
Adult male patients with high-risk, localized prostate cancer and planning to undergo radiation therapy (RT) with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) will undergo an advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) examination called Restriction Spectrum Imaging (RSI-MRI) to evaluate whether RSI-MRI can predict treatment response.
To provide expanded access to 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET imaging for eligible participants to detect and localize prostate cancer for initial and subsequent treatment strategy.
This is a prospective imaging study evaluating the utility of baseline metabolic MR imaging as a diagnostic and response monitoring tool in patients with advanced prostate cancer. Preliminary pre-clinical and clinical data demonstrates the ability of HP C-13 pyruvate/metabolic MR imaging to detect high-grade prostate cancer, including cancer with neuroendocrine differentiation, as well as provide early evidence of metabolic response and resistance following application of systemic therapies for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer patients. In the proposed study, the investigators aim is to extend the initial clinical results and further develop HP C-13 MRI as an imaging modality in advanced prostate cancer.
Many prostate cancer patients required the use of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for the control of disease. In this study, the investigators aim at assessing the different in various parameters between PCa patients received ADT and those without ADT. 60 patients diagnosed with PCa and planned for hormonal therapy will be recruited for study (active arm) and 30 PCa patients that do not planned to receive hormonal therapy (based on the clinical assessment by the investigators) will be recruited as control arm. After written consent obtained from study subject, a series of investigation will be arranged to assess the following aspect of the subjects before the commenced of ADT: - General condition - symptoms, general health, - Body composition - BMI and body composition - Mental state assessment by Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) - Blood for fasting lipid, sugar, hsCRP and other hormones (about 15cc) - Cardiovascular status - BP, Ankle-brachial index (ABI), Arterial stiffness, ECG, - Bone status - bone mineral density by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scan The assessment of general condition, body composition, blood parameter and cardiovascular status will be performed every 26weeks +/- 1 weeks for two years. Bone density measurement will be performed every 52 weeks +/- 2 weeks. Appropriate medical referral will be made if subject was found to have abnormal metabolic or cardiovascular parameters.
Prostate cancer remains to be a public health problem around the world. For patients with prostate cancer, diphosphonate bone scintigraphy (BS) and pelvic tomographic imaging are major imaging tools to evaluate the disease spread. However, the conventional image modalities have only limited sensitivity and specificity. New imaging tracer with 18F-fluorocholine (18F-FCH) and old radiopharmaceuticals with NaF has showed promising results in detecting prostate cancers over bone scan. Nevertheless, the diagnostic performance of each tool has less been compared. The goal of this study is to compare the diagnostic performance of 18F-FCH PET/CT and NaF PET/CT for prostate cancer patients. The investigators prospectively enroll patients with the pathological diagnosis of prostate cancer and intended to receive radionuclide bone image. The patients will receive NaF PET/CT and 18F-FCH PET/CT. Each image will be evaluated by experienced interpreter for abnormal uptake suspicious for cancer spreading. The reference standard will be a combination of tissue correlation, imaging, laboratory and clinical data. Diagnostic performance of both PET/CT scans will be measured and calculated.
This study seeks to analyse MRI images and biological samples from 60 men diagnosed as having intermediate risk prostate cancer at baseline and one year afterwards to compare the molecular, genetic and transcriptomic differences between cancers that progress and cancers which do not.
Patients with cancers that are sensitive to radiotherapy treatment and/or patients who have experienced severe acute/ late side effects to radiotherapy will be recruited to the study. Blood and/or matched tumour-normal tissue pairs will be collected. Blood and/or tissue samples will be processed and studied for genetic and biochemical markers that have potential to be used for predicting sensitivity to radiation.
Prostate gland is a clinically important male sexual organ and its main function is for the production of semen. Globally, it is the second most common cancer in men globally and is also the fifth cancer cause for death in male. Despite the improvement in the understanding of prostate cancer, the current usage of serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) as a diagnostic marker is still not ideal. Many patients with elevated PSA and then subjected to prostate biopsy were found to have no prostate cancer. Therefore, there is a need to discover new biological markers to improve the current situation in diagnosis and also management of prostate cancer. In our recent studies, urinary spermine levels have been shown to correlate well with prostate cancer diagnosis and cancer aggressiveness. Due to its nature, it could provide a more convenient and non-invasive method for detecting prostate cancer. In order to further improve the accessibility of the test, a simple urine measuring device has been designed to allow more simple and practical usage of the test in clinical setting.The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of this newly designed urine measuring device for urinary spermine in predicting your prostatic biopsy result.
The purpose of this research study is to find out what effects (good and bad) omeprazole and cabazitaxel, or omeprazole and docetaxel, has on participants and their condition. Investigators believe omeprazole may help the other medications work.