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Filter by:Background: To assist clinicians with diagnosis and optimal treatment decision-making, we attempted to develop and validate an artificial intelligence prediction model for lung metastasis (LM) in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. Method: The clinicopathological characteristics of 46037 CRC patients from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) database and 2779 CRC patients from a multi-center external validation set were collected retrospectively. After feature selection by univariate and multivariate analyses, six machine learning (ML) models, including logistic regression, K-nearest neighbor, support vector machine, decision tree, random forest, and balanced random forest (BRF), were developed and validated for the LM prediction. The optimization model with best performance was compared to the clinical predictor. In addition, stratified LM patients by risk score were utilized for survival analysis.
This study is being done to determine if it is safe to perform lung chemoembolization and if the lung chemoembolization procedure can successfully deliver chemotherapy to lung tumors.
The purpose of this study is to find out what effects, good and/or bad, the drug nintedanib in combination with steroids, has on the lungs. Furthermore, such treatments' side effects will be studied together with quality of life. In addition, the investigators would like to determine whether they can find markers in the blood which predict worsening lung injury.
This study will test the investigational antibody, MEDI6469 (anti-OX40), in combination with stereotactic body radiation in breast cancer patients that have liver or lung metastases and have received systemic therapy and have progressive disease. The investigators hypothesize that SBRT directed at metastatic breast cancer lesions will result in a systemic anti-tumor immune system response. This amplified and directed immune response could result in anti-tumor responses.
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. About 90% of CRC related deaths are due to metastatic spread—mostly to the liver and lungs. With adequate multidisciplinary patient selection, CRC liver and lung metastasectomy significantly improves survival and offers the best chance for a cure. However, patients with limited lung or liver metastases are clinically underserved and poorly scientifically studied. The individual indication for resection and the decision making for adjuvant systemic therapies remains a challenge. More sensitive techniques to detect occult disease are needed for metastatic CRC (mCRC) patients, and perioperative analysis of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) may provide an outstanding opportunity to develop such innovative methods. We hypothesize that CTCs are enriched during CRC liver and/or lung metastasectomy, and that they can be isolated and characterized in an attempt to identify novel therapeutic targets. CTCs are believed to be causing metastasis and may provide a non-invasive alternative to organ biopsies for the detection, characterization and monitoring of solid cancers. CTC numbers have been shown to be a strong predictor of Progression Free Survival and Overall Survival for mCRC patients. The CellSearch system (Veridex LLC, Ratinas, NJ, USA) currently is the only FDA approved test for the evaluation of CTC numbers in metastatic breast, prostate and colorectal cancer. However, the rarity of CTCs in the blood leads to limited capture efficiency and the CellSearch system fixes cells, preventing further molecular characterization of CTCs by functional assays and primary cell culture. In this protocol the CellSearch system will be compared to a new technology, called the Flexible Micro Spring Array (FMSA) device, developed by Dr. Zheng, Department of Bioengineering, Penn State University, University Park. This novel approach enables size-exclusion based filtration for viable CTC enrichment. The FMSA device is inexpensive, works rapidly, and retains viable CTCs for further biological study. Using both the CellSearch system and the FMSA device, we will determine the kinetics of CTC shedding into circulation, develop an effective system for isolation, enumeration, and further enrichment CTCs, and use this system to find characteristics of different CTC populations.
This project involves looking at the timing of providing pain relief for patients who are having lung surgery via the use of a small camera inserted into the chest with a scope (Video assisted thorascopy). This procedure can be the source of intense pain both immediately after the procedure and in the longer term leading to chronic pain problems. Local anaesthetic placed in the paravertebral space which is located adjacent to the spinal column, where the pain nerve fibres are located, is a well recognized method of providing pain relief for these procedures. It is currently unclear as to the best timings for providing this type of pain relief with some centres placing the local anaesthetic at the start of the procedure and some at the end. Placing a high volume of local anaesthetic into this area at the start of the case may provide better short and long term pain relief than placing it at the end of the procedure. The investigators hope to show a difference between the two timings to allow for better pain relief for these procedures. This would be a feasibility study that would lead onto a multicentre trial to eventually create a best practice protocol for pain relief for lung resection via this surgical method.
This pilot clinical trial studies intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in treating younger patients with lung metastases. Specialized radiation therapy that delivers a high dose of radiation directly to the tumor may kill more tumor cells and cause less damage to normal tissue.
AZD0530 may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. This phase II study is studying how well giving AZD0530 works in treating patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.
Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of imatinib mesylate in treating patients who have relapsed or refractory solid tumors of childhood. Imatinib mesylate may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking the enzymes necessary for their growth.
Interleukin-12 may kill tumor cells by stopping blood flow to the tumor and by stimulating a person's white blood cells to kill cancer cells. Monoclonal antibodies such as trastuzumab can locate tumor cells and either kill them or deliver tumor-killing substances to them without harming normal cells. Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of interleukin-12 and trastuzumab in treating patients who have cancer that has high levels of HER2/neu and has not responded to previous therapy