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Filter by:This study aims to demonstrate the safety of intracutaneous needles in pediatric cancer patients. For this, a two-year retrospective study will be carried out to determine the incidence of adverse effects related to acupuncture and the use of intracutaneous needles in the patient in active treatment and survivor.
Febrile aplasia is a common occurrence in children/adults treated with chemotherapy for malignant blood diseases or solid cancers. This acquired deficiency of immunity mainly causes susceptibility to bacterial and fungal infections, pathogens normally recognized by specific receptors of innate immunity (Pattern Recognition Receptor, PRR). Thus, the febrile episodes in the context of post-chemotherapy neutropenia can be bacterial or fungal etiology, but can also frequently be related to viral infections, toxic phenomena or other etiologies. In the absence of a discriminating marker, treatment for all these children is based on early, broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy in hospital. Septic shock or even death by refractory septic shock remain, even if they are rare, real complications in pediatric oncology, requiring discriminatory markers for effective management, While trying to reduce the number and duration of hospitalizations for children at low risk for severe febrile aplasia. It is therefore necessary to identify other markers allowing the earliest possible classification of episodes of febrile aplasia. A previous study, conducted by our team, PTX3 and febrile aplasia, studied pentraxin 3 (PTX3), a soluble PRR of the pentraxin family that plays a key role in immune surveillance against pathogens. Preliminary results obtained from samples from a cohort of patients treated in adult hematology and pediatric onco-hematology support a prognostic character of PTX3 in the severity of aplasia, with higher elevations of serum protein during episodes of severe sepsis or septic shock (ongoing analyses and interpretations for the adult population). The available data to date on the pediatric cohort are insufficient to conclude on the value of using PTX3. The investigators therefore wish to create a new paediatric cohort, in order to evaluate the PTX3 levels for the paediatric population and also to perform the assay of a new marker, clusterin. Clusterin (CLU) is an extracellular chaperone protein of constitutive expression. The Innate Immunity team of the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) "1307-Scientific Research National Center (CNRS) 6075" unit has shown that Clu binds to extracellular histones and inhibits their inflammatory, thrombotic and cytotoxic properties. The investigators also observed (i) that in adults without severe sepsis neutropenics, low serum levels of Clu at intake and lack of normalization of rates are associated with higher mortality and (ii) Clu levels are inversely correlated with circulating histone levels. All these data suggest that Clu would have a protective role for histone-induced lesions during sepsis independently of antibiotic treatment, opening an innovative therapeutic pathway in the management of severe sepsis. CluPPFeN is based on the hypothesis that, in a pediatric population with episodes of febrile aplasia, serum Clu and serum PTX3 levels would discriminate between febrile episodes caused by bacterial infection and other etiologies and, As a result, would reduce the consumption of antibiotics, which provide resistance, and the length of hospitalization.
IDION is currently seeking FDA approval for this device- the IDION iTempShield. It is a skin-safe, FDA complaint and non-invasive device that can read and monitor skin temperature. Having continuous temperature monitoring using the IDION iTempShield may provide early detection of a fever for patients with febrile neutropenia. Febrile neutropenic fever is common in patients receiving chemotherapy and can often indicate infection. The main potential benefit potenially experienced from participating in this study would be the early detection of fever. There is a potential benefit that infection will be detected earlier in subjects wearing the IDION iTempShield.
Antibacterial prophylaxis is recommended in patients at high risk of infection, specifically patients undergoing acute leukemia induction therapy or hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) who are expected to have profound neutropenia (ANC<100 neutrophils/milliliter) for more than seven days. Xerava™ (eravacycline) has a broad spectrum of activity including many multi-drug resistant strains of bacteria. It is not an agent used for treatment of febrile neutropenia, making eravacycline a very attractive alternative to consider in this prophylactic setting. Eravacycline has activity against MRSA, VRE, and Clostridioides difficile, all of which are common problems in this patient population. It also covers the majority of enteric gram-negative pathogens while also producing satisfactory tissue penetration and adequate plasma concentrations, which has classically been a concern with prior agents. Eravacycline has activity against coagulase-negative staphylococcus, which is a common catheter-related infection in leukemia and HSCT patients. The primary objective will be report the incidence of breakthrough infections during eravacycline prophylaxis for hematologic malignancy patients with prolonged neutropenia.
Mitomycin-C (MMC) is the most commonly used chemotherapeutic agent for hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) after cytoreductive surgery (CRS) to treat colorectal cancer patients with peritoneal metastases. However, MMC has a side effect of myelosuppression. Particularly, severe neutropenia after CRS with HIPEC can be a life-threatening condition. Despite the postoperative risks of this side effect, the causes and risk factors for severe neutropenia after CRS followed by HIPEC is not identified so far. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to evaluate to evaluate clinical risk factors and pharmacologic properties after CRS with HIPEC using MMC in patients with colorectal cancer or appendiceal mucinous neoplasms with peritoneal metastases.
Observational, clinical study. Intention to include 40 patients (20 patients treated with trabectedin and 20 with cisplatin hypersensitivity) The investigators investigate the role of trabectedin in combination with PLD and cisplatin in treating platinum sensitive ROC being allergic to carboplatin. The investigators focus on adverse events and evaluate if these are tolerable for the patients and further evaluate the measurable treatment effect on the tumor burden.
Neutropenia is a common complication from dalpiciclib. Mecapegfilgramtim (code name HHPG-19K), a long-acting recombinant human granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (rhG-CSF), has been developed. The study aim to evaluate the safety and efficiency of mecapegfilgrastim for prophylaxis of dalpiciclib -induced neutropenia in patients with advanced HR+/HER2- breast cancer.
Randomized phase 3 trial to compare efficacy and safety of oral fosfomycin versus ciprofloxacin to prevent febrile neutropenia in patients with acute leukemia or recipients of hematopoietic stem cell transplant.
Pegfilgrastim is a long-acting recombinant human granulocyte-colony stimulating factor as support for chemotherapy, which can be used conveniently. According to the package inserts in America, Europe, and China, the recommended dose for pegfilgrastim is 6mg per cycle, while it is recommended at a dose of 3.6mg in Japan. It is still unclear whether pegfilgrastim 3mg can produce similar efficacy with pegfilgrastim 6mg. In this trial, the investigators prospectively compared the efficacy and safety of pegfilgrastim 3mg with 6mg in patients with breast cancer receiving AC regimen, a commonly used regimen in adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer.
Every year approximately 300 Danish patients die from lymphoma. The median age at diagnosis is 70 years. Lymphoma can be efficiently treated with chemotherapy, and potentially cured. However, sufficient treatment is often hampered by toxicity, especially in elderly patients. It is also well known that the main risk factor for dying of lymphoma is age. New biologically targeted therapies with fewer side effects are becoming available for lymphoma treatment, however it is currently difficult to delineate which patients benefit from chemotherapy and which should be treated with novel expensive therapies. Recently, it has been discovered that chemotherapy can provoke growth of patient blood cells with DNA mutations. This leads to increased rates of treatment side effects and excess mortality. These defects have so far only been examined in younger patients below 70 years of age, where they are found in roughly 10% of patients. It remains unknown to what extent elderly individuals are affected, but the investigators hypothesize that the proportion and negative effects are much larger. Therefore, the investigators propose to investigate the frequency and evolution of these DNA mutations during chemotherapy in a prospective study of patients, who are either above 60 years of age and previously treated with chemotherapy for lymphoma in a nation-wide collaboration. By using blood samples, advanced genetic analyses and patient-reported questionnaires, the investigators will study - The prevalence of these mutations and their consequences for patient wellbeing, treatment side effects (such as anemia, infections etc.) and mortality - The kinetics of these mutations during and after treatment, and explore possible evolutionary patterns of the inferred damages The investigators expect to include 300 patients in the study and that the first results will be ready in a timeframe of 4 years. The investigators hope to obtain new insights in the risk factors for physiological and mental health in lymphoma patients and thereby pave the way for improvements in wellbeing and survival of this underserved population.