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Filter by:The study is a prospective, single arm phase I/II study. The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of 111In-PSMA I&T radio guided surgery in patients diagnosed with prostate cancer who are highly suspected of having one or more pelvic lymph node metastases based on pre-operative imaging. Patients with prostate cancer who have a high risk of lymph node metastases based on PSMA PET/CT and scheduled for robot-assisted PLND (with or without prostatectomy) will be recruited. Eligible patients will receive an additional ferumoxtran-10 enhanced MRI to complement pre-operative imaging. Twenty-four hours before surgery, patients will receive the radiolabelled PSMA tracer. Pelvic Lymph node dissections are carried out according to standard of care procedures. During surgery, the surgeon will be provided with a gamma-probe to detect PSMA expressing lymph nodes in vivo. Dissected samples will be systematically assessed on tracer accumulation using the gamma-probe ex vivo. After surgery, the samples will be scanned in the small animal SPECT/CT and 7T-MRI. After scanning, samples will be presented to pathologists for pathological analysis according to standard of care including staining for PSMA expression. At 3 months after surgery, patients will undergo a PSMA-PET/CT. Up until one year after surgery patients will be followed according to standard of care-guidelines by 3-monthly serum-PSA measurements.
This is a prospective, multicenter, self-controlled phase 3 clinical trial designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of an integrin αVβ3-targeted imaging, 99mTc-3PRGD2 SPECT/CT, for diagnosis of lung cancer and mapping the lymph node metastases. The pathological results will be considered as the gold standard and the conventional metabolic imaging by 18F-FDG PET/CT will be used for a head-to-head comparison. The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of 99mTc-3PRGD2 SPECT/CT in mapping of lymph node metastasis according to the nodal mapping system released by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer in 2009 (IASLC-2009). The secondary objectives include evaluation of 99mTc-3PRGD2 SPECT/CT in detection of lung cancer and the safety of 99mTc-3PRGD2 injection in human beings.
The OBSERB study is a multi-center, non-blinded, pragmatic, parallel, randomized controlled trial in which patients with cT1-3N1 and ycN0 breast cancer.
This study explores the feasibility of sentinel lymph node identification in pharynx and larynx cancers using flexible endoscopy-guided tracer injection.
The infrapyloric (No.206) and greater curvature (No.204) lymph node metastasis in adenocarcinoma located at hepatic flexure and right half of transverse colon has not been well discribed and analysed. The aim of this study is to assess the rate of this lymph node metastasis and to reveal its prognostic value for colon cancer located at hepatic flexure and right half of transverse colon. Meanwhile, we can evaluate the safety and feasibility of this extented lymphadenectomy in right hemi-colectomy.
Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms (PanNEN) are a heterogeneous group of neoplasms that arise from the endocrine cells of the pancreatic gland. Non-functioning (NF-PanNEN) represents the most common forms and do not produce syndromes due to hormonal hypersecretion. Several prognostic factors have been demonstrated for NF-PanNEN. The presence of nodal metastasis and lymph node ratio are widely considered predictors of disease-free survival and even the number of positive nodes has been found to be associated with recurrence. In addition to traditional imaging exams, diagnostic work-up should include a Positron Emission Tomography/CT with 68Ga labeled somatostatin analogues, which have shown a high sensitivity and specificity while 18F-FDG PET can be associated for evaluating the possible presence of a high-grade component. Moreover, pancreatic endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) is usually part of the preoperative staging both for imaging details and cytological sampling. Therefore an accurate identification of nodal metastases preoperatively may have important implications for the extent of surgical resection and lymphadenectomy and even for a prognostic outcome. In this study the investigators will evaluate prospectively the accuracy of these diagnostic exams in detecting the lymph node status. Patients with sporadic NF-PanNEN who are candidates for surgical resection will undergo CE-CT scan, 68Ga DOTATOC (and eventually 18F-FDG) PET/MRI and EUS with FNA/B. Reference standard for defining the presence of nodal metastases is represented by pathological examination on the specimen.
The aim of this study is to make up for the gap by performing a dynamic scan of <Sup>18<Sup>F-FDG PET/CT on newly diagnosed patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma. Pathological and genomic studies are performed. The differences between metastatic central lymph nodes images and tissues are compared at the same time. <Sup>18<Sup>F-FDG PET/CT dynamic imaging is explored in metastatic central lymph nodes with papillary thyroid cancer for the diagnostic value.
This study evaluates the diagnostic accuracy of USPIO enhanced MRI for the detection of lymph node metastases in head-and-neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) using histopathology as a gold standard.
The status of axillary lymph node (ALN) is an important reference indicator for breast cancer surgery and systemic treatment, which is also an important prognostic indicator for breast cancer. Therefore, it is extremely important for surgeons to accurately determine whether axillary lymph nodes have metastasis and the number of metastatic lymph nodes. The value of ultrasound diagnosing the status of axillary lymph nodes was controversial in recent publications. Therefore, there is a high need to prove the accuracy and precision of ultrasound for axillary lymph node metastasis in breast cancer patients. The aim of this study is to assess the usefulness of ultrasound in the diagnosis of axillary lymph node status in breast cancer patients by gathering in vivo and vitro ultrasonographic parameters to build a clinical useful categorization system
The primary focus in this study is to investigate and improve the surgical technique. In addition the collection of clinical data during diagnostic and follow up and the collection of tumor and blood gives us the opportunity to investigate tumor biology and its relevance in terms of determine appropriate treatment strategy both surgically and oncological and to assess and predict treatment outcome. The aim of this study is to compare short and long-term outcomes between open D3 and laparoscopic CME (complete mesocolic excision) with CVL (central vascular ligation) right colectomy for right-sided colon cancer. Our primary hypothesis is that laparoscopic surgery improves quality of life by reducing pain, postoperative complications and thereby reduces hospital stay and convalescence. On the other hand it is to prove non-inferiority of the laparoscopic group compared to the open group by means of oncological outcome (survival, recurrence). Secondary aim is to evaluate surgical quality by comparing actual vascular stump length between the two groups by postoperative CT and compare number of lymph nodes removed with the specimen. With the use of liquid biopsy we want to detect circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and evaluate their value as tumor markers by comparing the prognostic and predictive value. The hypothesis is that ctDNA and CTCs are more sensitive than standard parameters and imaging (CT CEA).