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Filter by:This is a sham-controlled, patient and assessor-blinded pilot trial to evaluate the feasibility of administering EA as an intervention for symptom clusters in cancer patients and survivors, and to evaluate the degree that EA could reduce symptom clusters and the possible underlying mechanisms through examining its influence on biomarkers that are linked with the symptoms. Participants will be randomized to either the treatment arm (those who will receive EA) or the control arm (those who will receive sham-EA). The treatment period for both groups will be 10 weeks. There will be one study visit a week over the course of the 10-week treatment period, for a total of 10 study treatment visits. Participants in the treatment arm will receive EA at 13 standardized acu-points that have been chosen for their therapeutic effects. Participants in the control arm will receive electrical stimulation at non-disease acu-points. There will be four data collection time points for each participant: (1) baseline, (2) mid-treatment (5 weeks from baseline), (3) end of treatment (10 weeks from baseline), and (4) 4 weeks after end of treatment (14 weeks from baseline). At each of these timepoints, 10mL of peripheral blood will be collected for a biomarker analysis and participants will be asked to complete 4 questionnaires and a computerized cognitive test to evaluate their cognitive function, fatigue level, insomnia, psychological distress, and quality of life. An optional neuroimaging procedure will be available to all eligible participants. In total, study participation will last for 14 weeks.
Half of all cancer patients show an increase in resting energy expenditure. The causes of hypermetabolism have only recently been investigated in cancerology. One established cause is inflammation, but other causes have yet to be identified. The interest in hypermetabolism is due to the fact that it appears early, before the onset of clinical deterioration (weight loss, sarcopenia, altered performance status) and that it correlates with patient morbidity and mortality. Like the other parameters that make up cachexia, it is both a predictor of toxicity and reduced efficacy of anti-tumour treatments and a prognostic factor, regardless of the tumour. A therapeutic goal is to correct hypermetabolism for two reasons: - avoid progression to clinical cachexia, which is an independent cause of morbidity and mortality - increase the efficacy of anti-PD1/PDL1 immunotherapies. This new class of therapy has revolutionised the therapeutic management of many cancers but is less effective in cases of inflammation and/or altered performance status and/or hypermetabolism. Investigator hypothesises that it is possible to develop a patient-specific treatment to correct hypermetabolism, depending on the predominant clinical or biological cause.
With the project investigators propose, investigators aim to find answers to the following questions: The fact that irisin and atropine are slimming the proteins that cause an increase in weight loss, and the excessive wasting (cachexia) in some types of cancer makes us wondering whether these factors may be cachectic factors for some GIS and US cancers? It is aimed to determine the relationship between irisin, atropine, some cachectic factors (PIF, ZAG), and cytokines (TNF-α, IL-1, IL-6) at tissue and plasma levels in these types of cancer. In addition, will psycho and nutrition education be applied to patients have an effect on cachexia? Experimental approaches to be used to find answers to such questions make this project unique.
Empowerment is widely acknowledged as an important approach in long-term care. The concept relates to the individual's ability to manage their own life and make rational decisions. Despite good intentions of working empowerment-based, research has shown that it can be difficult to realize and achieve in everyday practice within the healthcare system. To this date, no measurement instrument (questionnaire) exists that evaluate people's perceptions of whether their relationship with a healthcare provider promotes their empowerment process. The EMPOWER-UP questionnaire was therefore developed to provide such a measure. The EMPOWER-UP study aims to finalize the development process of the questionnaire and to test whether it is a valid and reliable measure. People at the age of 18 years or above can participate if they have ever been diagnosed with a type of cancer, diabetes, or a mental illness and because of that diagnosis have been in contact with the healthcare system within the past six months. The study is conducted online and requires participants to fill out an online questionnaire on a single occasion. Participation is expected to take no more than 10-15 minutes. By participating, people may experience an increased awareness as to the nature of their interactions with healthcare providers. For some, this awareness may be beneficial and may alone enable them to ask for better care, while others may experience it as a burden if they are not able to seek better care. By participating, people are helping to ensure that EMPOWER-UP will be a good questionnaire that may help raise awareness of the quality of relationships within the healthcare system and in term lead to better care. The study is led by a team of researchers at the Danish University Hospital Rigshospitalet and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The UK lead of the study is located at King's College London, UK. The Australian lead of the study is located at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. This study is financially supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation's Steno Collaborative Grant and by the Trygfonden foundation (Denmark)
This pilot study will be testing the feasibility of medical hypnosis through virtual reality during invasive médical procédures in children with cancer. Patients age from 7 to under 18 years whose treatement protocols required a lumbure puncture and a chemotherapy by implantable venous access will be randomly assigned to virtual reality or treatement as usual (nitrous oxide, anxiolytics, opioid analgesics, psychotropic and benzodiazepine). We expect the same benefit by using VR as usual intervention.
This study aims to evaluate electroacupuncture as an antiemetic treatment compared with sham acupuncture in patients with breast cancer, receiving highly emetogenic chemotherapy (HEC). Moreover, it will analyze the association between single nucleotide polymorphism and the antiemetic outcomes of electroacupuncture.
This is a first-in-human multi-center study which will be conducted in advanced malignant solid tumors patients. The solid tumor type is limited to melanoma, colorectal, non-small-cell lung, and thyroid cancer with positive BRAF V600 mutation. This study is divided into three stages: Phase Ia: a dose-escalation phase of XP-102; Phase Ib: a dose-escalation and sample size expansion phase of XP-102 plus trametinib; Phase IIa: an expansion phase of XP-102 plus trametinib.
Non-professional carers (typically family members) play a critical role in providing adequate home care. This research explores the use of wearable sensors (WS) and electronic patient-reported outcome (ePRO) surveys to monitor stress levels of advanced cancer patient/carer dyads. During wear times, WS-triggered ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) were conducted via short smartphone-based surveys. This pilot study investigates the feasibility of EMAs in community palliative care.
The intestinal microbiome forms a symbiotic relationship with the human host and continuously interacts with its immune system. Specific compositions of the intestinal microbiome in patients with cancer have been linked to the response to therapy with cancer immunotherapies (CI), such as immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs). The investigators hypothesize that fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) from patients being responsive to ICI therapy (FMT-Donor) can modulate the intestinal microbiome of patients with CI-refractory malignancies (FMT-Recipients) and render them into responders. Successful proof-of-concept studies showed that reversion from an ICI non-responsive to a responsive disease is indeed possible in melanoma patients after FMT. This trial expands the FMT intervention to patients with any malignancy treated with cancer immunotherapy as a standard of care, to demonstrate the feasibility of this FMT approach as a novel option in cancer therapy.
The main purpose of the study is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and potential effectiveness of NET in reducing symptoms of traumatic stress (e.g., hyperarousal, avoidance, and intrusion) in cancer patients who are not in active treatment. Further aims include: - Can NET be effective in reducing symptoms of existential anxiety, anxiety, and depression in cancer patients who are not in active treatment? - Can NET improve the Quality of Life (QoL) of cancer patients who are not in active treatment? And are improvements in QoL associated to reduction of traumatic stress? - Can NET lead to post-traumatic growth? - Does the NET protocol need to be adapted to meet cancer patients' needs?