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Filter by:Parenting a child with cancer is highly stressful. The investigators have designed a promising parent-centered intervention to bolster parent resilience and reduce stress and distress. This study will test 2 formats of the intervention (individual or group-based) and compare them to usual care.
Cancer survival comes at a price: pediatric cancer survivors have a high risk for a wide range of cognitive difficulties, particularly survivors of cancer involving the central nervous system (CNS, e.g., brain tumors [BT]) are prone to neurocognitive impairments in areas such as executive functions, working memory, attention, memory, visuospatial and motor skills, processing speed as well as language. The aim of this interdisciplinary longitudinal study is to extend empirical knowledge on training and transfer effects in children with a history of cancer. It is hypothesized that early cognitive and physical interventions affect the remediation of pediatric cancer survivors in terms of cognitive functions. These changes are further hypothesized to be associated with white matter changes.
Children cancers are rare and survival rate are around 75%. 1 French adult out of 850 is estimated as a children-cancer-survivor. Chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgical complications can lead to a late risk of death. A regularly support, a therapeutic education, a support of the psychological difficulties have a positive impact on the quality of life and on long-term health for patients surviving to a cancer. The ARCERRA exists, registering around 150 new cases a year. They coordinated, from 2011 to 2014, a multicentric study with a long term follow up in oncology (SALTO). 150 patients diagnosed between 1987 and 1992 were included, and the study demonstrated the feasibility and utility for patients and their physicians of a long-term follow-up coupled with an interview with a psychologist in Rhône-Alpes-Auvergne. The primary objective of SALTO-2 project is to know the becoming of young adults that survived to pediatric cancer, diagnosed in Rhône-Alpes between 1993 and 1999. The second objective is in one hand to study the psychological becoming and on another hand, to ameliorate their lifestyle thanks to different documents created specially for them.
PanCareLIFE Study is a cohort study of patients treated for cancer in childhood, and biological case-control study nested in the cohort (WP4) is coordinated by Erasmus MC-Sophia Children's Hospital in Holland. Ensure optimal patient quality of life throughout his life is a priority for the research teams. PanCareLIFE Study also aims to identify the factors that predispose to impaired quality of life. It is in this light that will be offered to patients a quality of life questionnaires during the period of treatment and then periodically during long-term follow-up.
Children with newly diagnosed cancer and their parents will be contacted and invited to participate. Upon agreement, children will be interviewed, both parents will fill out questionnaires and be additionally interviewed. Using a 3-wave longitudinal design, mainly self-reported parental we-appraisals and we-disease-appraisals, couple dyadic coping (DC) and parent-child DC during a course of 12 months will be examined. Additionally, during brief separate interviews, the parents' speech will be coded for we-appraisals and expressed emotion regarding the other partner and the child. Findings will provide information on how family variables affect child QoL over 12 months.
This is a single-arm, open-label study to assess the safety and effectiveness of a single dose of oral propranolol in reducing18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake in brown adipose tissue (BAT) in pediatric oncology patients. This study is designed to better understand if taking a single dose of an oral medication called propranolol can reduce the chance of brown fat showing up on a PET scan, and therefore make the scan more accurate and easy to interpret. All humans have some degree of normal brown fat (called brown adipose tissue), and this normal tissue can sometimes light up on a PET scan. That creates problems because it may be wrongly interpreted by the radiologist as tumor, or it may hide true areas of tumor underneath it. Participants will not be randomized and will receive a single dose of oral propranolol approximately 60 minutes prior to the injection of the FDG tracer. The dose of propranolol will be 20 mg for all participants.
The purpose of this study is to find an optimal dose of omega-3 that can be given to children who have completed cancer therapy. The future aim is to add omega-3 to conventional cancer treatment modalities and thereby hopefully increase the treatment efficacy, which will have to be addressed in subsequent phase-2 studies.
Survivors of childhood cancer have an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease due to both the therapies they received while undergoing treatment and diet and lifestyle factors. The nature of cardiovascular risk and the interaction between treatment affects and cardiovascular risk factors is unknown. We propose to study vascular inflammatory markers as well as measure of blood vessel stiffness (both of which are predictive of early heart disease) in 100 pediatric cancer survivors and 100 control children. Characterization of vascular inflammation and stiffness in long-term survivors will allow for the development of future interventions to decrease inflammation through both pharmacologic and lifestyle modifications.
This is an observational study that will collect data from adult survivors of childhood cancer and compare it to data collected from age- and gender-matched controls for the purpose of assessing vascular risk among cancer survivors. Advances in cancer therapies have led to increasing numbers of adults previously treated for a pediatric malignancy, many of whom experience late adverse health-related sequelae and are at risk for developing chronic conditions related to their prior therapy. The epidemiology of many end-organ toxicities has been described, yet the pathophysiologic mechanisms of injury are incompletely understood. One mechanism may be damage to the circulatory system, in particular the endothelial layer, initiating an inflammatory state leading to dysfunction and premature atherosclerotic disease. This process may begin and significantly progress in a sub-clinical nature for many years prior to manifesting as a cardio- or cerebrovascular event. Using established and novel biomarkers predictive of atherosclerotic disease combined with unique measurements of vascular function, this study will assess pre-clinical vascular disease in a population of childhood and adolescent cancer survivors. The goals of this project are to investigate the effects of cancer therapy on the vascular system and acquire new knowledge with which to risk-stratify survivors and plan interventional studies to prevent or reduce premature vascular morbidity and mortality.
The primary aim of this randomized, controlled study is to evaluate the impact and feasibility of a prolonged physical activity intervention in school-aged childhood cancer survivors who self-report sedentary lifestyles. The study will test the hypothesis that childhood cancer survivors participating in a physical activity intervention guided by Social Cognitive Theory will increase the amount of time spent daily in moderate to vigorous physical activity, and improve exercise self-efficacy compared to children randomized to usual care. A secondary aim is to assess the impact of the intervention on cardiovascular risk factors including fitness and body composition.