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Filter by:This is medical research evaluating the safety and efficacy of two new medicines (necitumumab and abemaciclib), administered in combination in participants affected by a defined type of advanced lung cancer (stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer).
Evaluation of patient reported outcomes (PRO) / QoL regarding typical ailments in real-life patients with bone metastases treated with osteoprotective agents.
Patients with advanced oesophagogastric cancer (OCG) have a very poor prognosis. After progression on first line therapy, second line chemotherapy with paclitaxel and a VEGF-R2 targeting antibody has a proven benefit on survival. However, no data are available on the combination of paclitaxel with kinase inhibitors in advanced OGC. Here the investigators propose a Phase 1b study to assess the tolerability of regorafenib (an oral multi kinase inhibitor) in combination with paclitaxel and to assess the uptake of paclitaxel in OCG metastasis.
This observational prospective single arm cohort study is designed to assess pain and bone pain related quality of life of metastatic Castration Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC) patients receiving Radium-223 in a real life nuclear medicine practice setting. In addition, overall survival, time to next tumor treatment (TTNT), time to first symptomatic skeletal event (SSE), course of blood counts, and safety will be assessed.
The purpose of this Phase II single-arm study is to evaluate the efficacy of Radium-223 in treating bone lesions from differentiated thyroid cancer that are I-131 refractory. Based on the results of the phase III trial, the protocol using an injection of Radium-223 activity of 50 kBq/kg b.w. given 6 times at 4 weeks interval will be applied. The end point of this study will be the evaluation of Radium-223 efficacy one month after 3 administrations, i.e. at 3 months after the first injection. If disease progression at that time is excluded, patients will be treated with 3 further injections for a total of 6 administrations of Radium-223. The principal response criterion at 3 and 6 months will be the metabolic response on FDG PET/CT, but other imaging techniques will also be performed: axial skeleton MRI, 99mTc-HMDP bone scan and FNa PET/CT. Axial skeleton MRI is the reference for soft tissue study. 99mTc- HMDP bone scan is the most used and available routine tool to detect bone metastases in cancer patients, but its sensitivity in patients with bone metastases from thyroid cancer is low, because most lesions are lytic [23]. 18FNa PET/CT shows higher sensitivity than 99mTc-HMDP bone scan to detect bone lesions in cancer patients and is able to detect micrometastases that are not seen on bone scan [24] [25]. Preliminary results show some interest of using this tracer to evaluate the sclerotic component of bone metastases from thyroid cancer [26]. Furthermore preliminary data show that FNa PET/CT can be useful to quantify response to Radium-223 in prostate cancer. In only five patients evaluated by FNa PET/CT at baseline, 6 weeks and 12 weeks after 100 KBq/Kg of Radium-223, semiquantitative analysis by SUV max showed a relationship between PSA and SUV max level decrease in 3 patients (-44%, -31%, -27% vs -52%, -75, and -49% respectively) [27]. Finally bone metastases that are visible on morphological imaging (CT scan or on RI) are frequently submitted to local treatment modalities, and this may induce fibrosis and recalcification. Therefore, already treated metastases and not treated metastases will be studied separately as two separate subgroups of target lesions.
100 patients with Breakthrough pain will be allocated to receive either oral prioxicam (OP) (n=50) or sublingual fentanyl (SLF) (n=50) . Patients will be divided randomly into two equal groups: oral prioxicam (OP) Group and sublingual fentanyl citrate (SLF) Group, comprising of 50 patients each. Pain intensity level on a 0-10 visual analog scale (VAS), patients will be instructed about the use of a 10-cm visual analog scale (VAS) (0 = no pain to 10 = worst possible pain). frequency of Breakthrough pain throughout the day, onset of relief (0-5, 6-10, 11-15, or over 16 min), time required for dose titration, patient satisfaction and adverse effects were assessed at 3, 7, 15, and 30 days after starting the treatment.
Literature has shown that hypofractionated radiotherapy regimens are efficacious in patients with complicated bone metastases and have a low potential for severe treatment-related toxicities. There is a clear need for hypofractionated schedules in the complicated bone metastases population, especially when considering the overarching aim of palliative radiotherapy and the clinical features of this patient population. As well, current research examining hypofractionated approaches in bone metastases patients with impending or pathologic fractures, neuropathic pain or accompanying soft tissue masses has been markedly scarce.
The understanding of the molecular mechanisms of neonatal diabetes has deeply changed the therapy of patients carrying mutations in the K-ATP channel. Indeed, those patients are not treated anymore by insulin injections but by glibenclamide an oral anti-diabetic drug widely used in type 2 diabetes. Anyway, its galenic form (pills of 5 mg) is not suitable for children and difficult to administrate to infants or young children. The purpose of this study is to determine if a new galenic form of this durg is more suitable and as efficient as pills in children with neonatal diabetes.
The goal of this survey of international HIPEC (Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy) surgeons is to determine their knowledge of and attitudes towards the nutritional support needs of HIPEC patients and what their practice patterns are with this patient population.
The purpose of this study is to collect information on the effect of minimally invasive spine tumor decompression on treated patients. This treatment option is less invasive that the standard surgical decompression and is expected to result in better wound healing, decreased tissue trauma, and decreased pain after surgery.