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Filter by:Gastric and oesophageal (OG) cancer associated with poor long term outcome as overall less than 25% of patients survive for more than 5 years due to late recognition of the disease. Growing evidence suggests an important role for bacteria in OG cancer and gastro esophageal reflux disease (GORD) development. About 1 in 10 people suffer from GORD and this one of the most common conditions leading to gastric and oesophageal cancer. In GORD surgical therapy is the most successful preventing cancer but around 85% of patient experience complications afterwards. Acid suppressing medications are reducing the risk of oesophageal cancer but equally increasing the risk of gastric cancer. They also shorten patients' life expectancy and often fail to provide relief. Analysis of stool samples of patients with GORD demonstrated different gut bacterial compositions to normal and rather resembled the one found in cancer. There is a clear need to improve the outcome of OG cancer. This could be achieved by identifying bacteria responsible for cancer development in gastric tissue, gastric content and saliva and potentially eliminate them hence avoid the development of cancer.
This is an open-label phase II trial investigating the effect of metformin in combined with cisplatin plus paclitaxel as neoadjuvant therapy with advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.
Rationale: Anastomotic leakage (0% - 30%) is a severe complication after esophagectomy with mortality rates approximately ranging from 2% - 12%. In addition, it is associated with a prolonged ICU treatment and hospital stay. Anastomotic leakage severity is currently graded according to how it is treated (grade I: conservative treatment, grade II endoscopic or radiologic intervention and grade III surgical intervention). However, this scoring system cannot be used to guide decision making when anastomotic leakage is diagnosed in a clinical setting. Factors that may influence the severity of the anastomotic leakage are (amongst others) location of the anastomosis, estimated surface of the defect, estimated circumference of the defect, extent of contamination, degree of sepsis and time from diagnosis until therapy. However, little is known about to what extent these and other factors contribute to anastomotic leakage severity. In addition, there is a paucity of data on what leakage characteristics dictate the success of a specific treatment. Primary study objectives 1. To investigate what factors contribute to anastomotic leakage severity and to compose an evidence based anastomotic leakage severity score. 2. To investigate what anastomotic leakage characteristics are associated with success of different anastomotic leakage treatments and to compare the effectiveness of different initial anastomotic leakage treatments for leakages classified according to severity and leakage characteristics. Study design: International multicenter retrospective cohort study. Study population: Adult patients with anastomotic leakage after esophagectomy and gastric conduit reconstruction for esophageal cancer. Cohort size: 1000-2000 patients with anastomotic leakage after esophagectomy for cancer. Primary outcome parameter: 90 day mortality. Secondary outcome parameters: in-hospital mortality, 30-day mortality, 180-day mortality, comprehensive complications index, total number of reinterventions, hospital and ICU length of stay, hospital related costs. Funding: Radboudumc
This randomized study examines how well zinc works in improving quality of life in patients with gastrointestinal cancer that cannot be removed by surgery who are receiving chemotherapy. Zinc may help to improve patient's quality of life by preventing zinc deficiency.
The purpose of this study is to observe and evaluate the efficacy and safety of SHR-1210 vs placebo as consolidation chemotherapy after radical concurrent chemoradiotherapy for unresectable locally advanced ESCC.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of recombinant anti-EGFR monoclonal antibody（SCT200）in patients with advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma progressed following treatment with taxane/platinum/fluorouracil.
To evaluate the anti-tumor activity, safety and tolerance of toripalimab as monotherapy for patients with small cell esophageal cancer (SCCE), and to explore the potential biomarkers for this treatment.
Aim of the study is to assess efficacy of a short course radiation treatment in patients with symptomatic esophageal malignant lesions
This trial studies how well proton beam radiation therapy compared with intensity modulated photon radiotherapy works in treating patients with stage I-IVA esophageal cancer. Proton beam radiation therapy uses a beam of protons (rather than x-rays) to send radiation inside the body to the tumor without damaging much of the healthy tissue around it. Intensity modulated photon radiotherapy uses high-energy x-rays to deliver radiation directly to the tumor without damaging much of the healthy tissue around it. It is not yet known whether proton beam therapy or intensity modulated photon radiotherapy will work better in treating patients with esophageal cancer.
This is a single institutional, single arm, open labeled phase II study to assess the overall radiographic response of adding Avelumab to chemotherapy and palliative radiotherapy in patients with metastatic advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.