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Filter by:This pilot clinical trial studies quality of life and supportive care preferences following radiation therapy in prostate cancer survivors. Studying quality of life and supportive care preferences in patients undergoing radiation therapy may help identify the effects of treatment on patients with prostate cancer.
This study aims at estimating the incidence of second primary malignancies as well as the overall survival among metastasized prostate cancer (mPC) and metastasized castrate-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) patients not treated with radium-223-dichloride.
Validate a non-DRE exosome gene expression test, with an NPV >/= 90% certainty, will exclude the presence of high gleason grade/ score (>/=7) prostate cancer in a prostate needle biopsy.
There is increasing evidence that sexual activity is associated with greater resilience and higher well-being in older adults. Even at a time of stress, and even during a late stage of illness, men and their partners turn to sexual intimacy to increase a sense of connection, comfort and support. The Sexual Recovery intervention seeks to address an unmet need of prostate cancer survivors and their partners who are at risk for poor mental health and decreased quality of life as a result of sexual dysfunction. By using technology, the intervention will be widely accessible to survivors, the majority of whom do not currently have any access to sexual health expertise. The content and format of the intervention seeks to empower prostate cancer survivors and partners with knowledge and strategies to improve their sexual function, sexual confidence and their sexual relationship. The intervention begins prior to and continues following their definitive treatment. This may, in turn, improve mental health and quality of life. In a broader sense, this intervention will be transferable. With appropriate modifications, it can become an accessible sexual health intervention for populations dealing with other cancers and chronic illnesses.
This is an open-label, phase II trial in patients with PSA recurrence after prostatectomy. Patients entering the study will all receive initial 50 Gray (Gy) radiotherapy (25 x 2Gy) to the prostate bed and thereafter be classified as either responders or non-responders depending on PSA response at fifth week of radiotherapy. A 68-Ga- PSMA-PET is done before start of radiotherapy, and analyzed before fifth treatment week in order to identify cancer lesions in patients with poor PSA response. Patients with PSA response after 5 weeks of radiotherapy will not receive any subsequent therapy, whilst patients with poor PSA response may be in need for additional therapy such as radiotherapy to lymph node metastases and/or boost fractions to local recurrence. Patients with more than 3 lymph node metastases or distant metastases will not receive any more radiotherapy, but individualized systemic therapy will be started.
10 patients will be enrolled in the initial cohort and will receive two infusions of unlabeled huJ591 on days 1 and 14. 89Zr-J591 will be administered on day 21 (+ 1 day) and a positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET/CT) will be performed week later on day 28 + 1 (visit 4). Approximately 2 to 3 weeks after the 2nd dose of J591, the patient will undergo radical prostatectomy with or without lymph node dissection (day 31 + 4 days). The final visit for the study will include a postoperative visit two weeks following surgery.
Prostate cancer is the only type of cancer in which conventional dendritic cells (DC) treatment has a beneficial effect on the overall survival. In this study investigators aim to show immunologic efficacy of tumor-peptide loaded natural DC in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer patients (mCRPC). The immunomonitoring will include: 1. functional response and tetramer analysis of delayed-type hypersensitivity infiltrating lymphocytes against tumor peptides and 2. type I interferon (IFN) gene expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells, and 3. proliferative, effector cytokine- and humoral responses to keyhole limpet hemocyanin, a immunogenic protein providing T cell help. The secondary objectives are the safety and feasibility of natural DC vaccinations, the influence on the quality of life during treatment with natural DC, and the clinical efficacy of treatment.
To enable the paradigm of mp-MRI before biopsy in all patients with suspected prostate cancer by better selecting patients who will benefit from diagnostic MRI and by improving the performance of the mp-MRI itself
Prospective randomized study performing open anterograde anatomical radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP2A) using the same technique of minimally invasive surgery described by the Pasadena consensus for the procedure assisted by robot, compared with the anatomical radical prostatectomy technique described by Patrick Walsh (RRP). Recent studies have shown benefits in the minimally invasive surgical techniques approaches, laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP) and, more recently, robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP). These minimally invasive techniques were associated with advantages in complications, like intraoperative bleeding, transfusion rates and in earlier recovery of important genitourinary functions such as urinary continence and penile erection. But still has not been demonstrated conclusively advantages as oncological control and it is believed that there are about 200 to 250 cases of learning curve so that the rates of complications and positive surgical margins become stable and similar to the open radical prostatectomy. These facts associated with the high cost of robotic technology still have limited the generalization of this approach in many developing countries such as Brazil. While the majority of studies made by comparing the radical prostatectomy (RP), robot X laparoscopic X open, show a slight advantage in the first two, there is a significant bias in these studies, which is that the surgical technique used in each procedure differs significantly from minimally invasive and open surgical techniques. The evolution of minimally invasive radical prostatectomy was based on an entirely different anatomical benchmark of that described by Patrick Walsh. While robotics and laparoscopic techniques dissect the prostate, bladder neck and the neurovascular bundle in an antegrade way, from bladder neck to the apex, the Walsh RRP technique is completely different in several ways, the dissection is made from prostatic apex to the bladder neck, so the retrograde direction, the posterior layer of Denonvilliers' fascia, is always included with the specimen, and urethrovesical anastomosis, usually performed with multifilament interrupted suture, only for indicating the major differences. The RRP2A will be performed by incision (open surgery) and will be compared with the anatomical radical prostatectomy technique described by Patrick Walsh RRP, and performed by the same surgeons.
This clinical research study tests the Uronav system. Patients with prostate cancer will be asked to take part in this study. Uronav system is an investigational device that is used on this study to help place markers in the patient. These are called fiducial markers and they are placed in the patient to help plan radiation treatment. Radiation therapy treatment will be planned by the treating physician and will not be experimental or part of this research study. This study will also test the similarities and differences of biopsy tissue structures and the findings from the intraprostatic MRI (internally guided MRI).