View clinical trials related to Rectal Cancer.
Filter by:The primary aim of the present study is to investigate different biomarkers like VEGF, EVGF and others ability to predict time to recidive and progressions free survival.
Rectal cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in the world. However, there's also no reliable and sensitive method to monitor diseases and evaluate therapy responses till now. Circulating tumor cells, which could reflect tumor's status correctly and reliably, may be a promising method in this field. This study is to investigate the role of circulating tumor cells in evaluating and predicting the responses of chemoradiotherapy in rectal cancer.
- INTERACT study: to evaluate the pathological response rate in cT3 rectal cancer - LEADER study: to evaluate the impact on local control of local excision
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of intrarectal Amifostine administration on acute radiation-induced rectal toxicity in pre-operative chemo-radiotherapy.
This is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase III study involving 160 patients designed to assess the efficacy of the high potency probiotic preparation VSL#3® versus placebo in increasing the pathological major response rate in patients undergoing concurrent CT and pelvic RT.
The use of capecitabine based preoperative chemoradiation and adjuvant chemotherapy is standard treatment of locally advanced rectal cancer. It has reduced local recurrence rate to less than 10%, but has only had limited effect on overall survival due to the constantly high (more than 30%) rate of distant metastasis. Complete eradication of the primary tumour observed in the histopathological specimen (pathological complete response, pCR) correlates with a favourable overall prognosis so obtaining a pCR might be beneficial. The aim of the study is to investigate whether the addition of capecitabine based chemotherapy before preoperative chemoradiation and also before the operation improves pathological complete remission rate in locally advanced rectal cancer with acceptable toxicity. Secondary objectives are to evaluate pathological downstaging rate, histopathological R0 resection rate,sphincter preservation rate, perioperative surgical complication rate, local control, DFS, OS, late toxicity and quality of life.
Irinotecan is one of effective drugs for colorectal cancer. In neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT), Irinotecan is prescribed in a low dose of 50mg/m2/week because of toxicity. Some current studies showed that irinotecan's dose can be increased significantly for those patients with 6/6 or 6/7 genotype of UGT1A1. therefore, the investigators designed this trial to explore the maximal tolerable dose (MTD) of Irinotecan in combined neoadjuvant CRT.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the early clinical outcome of the short-course preoperative chemoradiotherapy, 33Gy/10 fx and delayed operation after chemoradiation, the investigators initiated the clinical trial of KROG 11-02.
This study sets up the final study end point and three detailed goals as the following. The main objective of study: This trial is done to assess the safety and benefit of robotic resection compared with conventional laparoscopy-assisted resection for curative treatment of patients with cancer of the mid or low rectum. Detailed goal of study: The primary endpoint: This study is designed to assess whether robotic surgical system improves the quality of rectal cancer surgery, especially in total mesorectal excision quality and a circumferential margin positivity rate The secondary endpoint: This study aims to compare 3- and 5-year disease-free survival and overall survival after robot and laparoscopic resection of distal rectal cancer. This study will also assess the pelvic autonomic nerve preservation, short-term morbidity, pathological quality (i.e. number of harvested lymph node), local recurrence, and blood loss during surgery.
RATIONALE: Surgical resection and adjuvant therapy has become the main treatment for resectable local recurrent rectal cancer. However the efficacy and safety of adjuvant therapy is still unknown. PURPOSE: This randomized multicenter clinical trial is studying surgical resection followed by chemo radiotherapy or neoadjuvant chemo radiotherapy followed by surgery and postoperative chemotherapy, comparing them to see the efficacy and safety, then to investigate the effect of adjuvant chemoradiotherapy for resectable local recurrent rectal cancer.