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Filter by:To evaluate of the value of radical prostatectomy and extended pelvic lymph node dissection in locally advanced prostate cancer after neoadjuvant hormonal therapy with or without docetaxel chemotherapy.
The purpose of this study is to test if the use of Degarelix for 1 year associated with a lower rate of cardiovascular toxicity compared to Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists in patients with advanced prostate cancer and cardiovascular risk factors, receiving combination therapy of Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) and second line hormonal or chemotherapy?
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in men and second leading cause of cancer-related death. Men with PCa have a wide range of possible outcomes if the cancer has not spread and is classified as Intermediate-Risk PCa (IR-PCa). The standard treatment for IR-PCa is radiation therapy (RT) with or without hormone therapy which can result in cure in some men. In other men, the cancer can come back or spread to other areas of the body. Treatment response in men with IR-PCa is highly variable. This uncertainty has led to significant under- and over-treatment. This study aims to find out if the addition of intensive treatment (hormonal therapy: darolutamide + degarelix) to standard treatment for PCa will work better than standard treatment alone. To do this, some participants will receive hormone therapy and others will not. All participants will receive RT. Currently, it is difficult to identify men who may require more intensive therapy. Current methods, such as using prostate specific antigen (PSA) alone, may not give the doctor enough information about who requires more intensive treatment. The researchers conducting this study believe that a particular arrangement of cancer cells [called intraductal carcinoma (IDC)] and the presence of a genetic marker called SChLAP1 can be used to identify people who would benefit from more intensive therapy. Hormonal therapy such as with drugs called darolutamide (new drug for PCa) and Degarelix, reduce androgens (male hormones, such as testosterone) or block their effect on the cells. PCa cells require androgens to grow and divide, so removal of androgens may be effective in preventing the return of cancer following radiation therapy. Although darolutamide has been studied in about 1000 men with PCa and seems promising and well tolerated it is considered an experimental drug, therefore it can only be used in a research study such as this one. Degarelix has been approved by Health Canada to treat PCa. This is a phase 2, open label, randomized, controlled study and will be conducted across sites in Canada. To qualify, men must have IR-PCa and have both SChLAP1 and IDC present or both absent. Participants will be randomized to receive RT with hormone therapy or RT only. The study treatment period is 6 months for the RT + hormone therapy group. RT will take about 1-2 weeks. All participants will be followed for 5 years with multiple visits to assess safety and treatment effects.
Cancer is a global health issue. According to the World Health Organization, Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally, and is responsible for an estimated 9.6 million deaths in 2018. In Israel, more than 30,000 new cases of cancer were diagnosed, and more than 11,000 deaths were cancer-related during 2016. Imaging plays a pivotal role in cancer management, and multiple techniques are used in all phases of cancer management. The overall morphological, structural, metabolic and functional information obtained in imaging is used for improved individualized therapy planning. Different imaging modalities are available during different time points in the natural history of different malignancies: Early detection of cancer through screening based on imaging is probably a major contributor to a reduction in mortality for certain cancers . Once a diagnosis is made, determining the clinical stage of cancer, meaning the extent of the disease before any treatment is given, is a critical element in determining appropriate treatment based on the experience and outcomes of groups of previous patients with similar stage . Precise clinical staging of cancer is crucial. Not only that this clear non-ambiguous description is a key factor that defines prognosis, it is also a chief component of inclusion, exclusion, and stratification criteria for clinical trials. Several cancer staging systems are used worldwide. The most clinically useful staging system is the tumor, node, and metastasis (TNM) staging system developed by the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) in collaboration with the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). The AJCC TNM system classifies cancers by the size and extent of the primary tumor (T), involvement of regional lymph nodes (N), and the presence or absence of distant metastases (M). There is a TNM staging algorithm for cancers of virtually every anatomic site and histology, with the primary exception of pediatric cancers. The clinical TNM (cTNM) classification should be used to determine correctly the clinical stage of cancer and to help guide primary therapy planning.
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among man and the fourth most occurring over all . Characterization and management of the diagnosed prostate cancer is a challenging task due to its clinically and morphologically diversity. Clinically, this cancer range from indolent growing slowly malignancy, which does not threatened the patient life, to aggressive tumor that metastasize rapidly with very bad prognosis. Therapy of prostate cancer ranges from a "watch and wait" approach to hormone deprivation therapy to aggressive surgical, radiation, and cryosurgical therapies depending on the cancer characteristics. Prostate cancer is diagnosed using digital rectal examination, serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing and transrectal ultrasonography (US)-guided biopsies . Imaging technologies have been adapted as a non-invasive method to obtain a comprehensive assessment of the disease. MRI is widely used and more specifically multiparameter MRI (mMRI) for detection, staging and tumor localization. mMRI uses multiphase modes including diffusion-weighted and dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging in addition to T2-weighted imaging to identify and classify cancer type . Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) is MRI technique that allow detection of tissue metabolic composition which is occasionally used to characterize prostate cancer, however is not used as a standard procedure. By suppression of water and fat signal, MRS sequence can detect relationship between lower concentration prostatic metabolites such as citrate, choline, creatine, and polyamines in the cell cytosol and in the extra cellular ducts. Other imaging modalities used to characterize prostate cancer include ultrasound (US), computerized tomography (CT), functional imaging like bone scanning (BS) and hybrid imaging like choline based positron emission tomography and CT (PET/CT). However all of these modalities show disappointing sensitivity .
This clinical trial is an open-label, single-centre, dose escalation, phase I study designed to investigate the safety and tolerability of Haploidentical / Allogeneic NKG2DL-targeting Chimeric Antigen Receptor-grafted Gamma Delta (γδ) T Cells (CTM-N2D) in Subjects with Relapsed or Refractory Solid Tumour. The study objectives of this phase I study are to determine the safety, activity and the safe dose of haploidentical or allogeneic NKG2DL-targeting chimeric antigen receptor-grafted γδ T cells given four times weekly in patients with relapsed or refractory solid tumors of different types.
This study aimed to evaluate the correlation of change in body composition and oncological outcomes of prostate cancer patients under androgen deprivation therapy(ADT).
The objectives of this study are: 1. Retrospectively validate a reduced margin schema for intermediate risk prostate hypofractionated VMAT treatments 2. Demonstrate in a prospective pilot clinical trial that patients planned and treated with the reduced margin schema will have reduced acute rectal toxicity
To improve the management of patients suffering from prostate cancer, Laboratoires BOUCHARA-RECORDATI wish to set up an observational study to document, in daily practice, and over a large population, the profile and clinical and biological follow-up of patients undergoing leuprorelin 5 mg implant as well as the conditions for implant placement. The evolution of these prostate cancer patients will be monitored on the basis of data available in daily practice, including testosterone values, PSA values, and factors that may influence disease progression, in order to objectify whether the observed results are consistent with those described in the clinical studies.
The presence of rectal gas can cause distortion at air-tissue interfaces on diffusion-weighted images (DWI) of prostate MRI and reduce image quality due to these susceptibility artifacts. Small catheter placement in the rectum before MRI is one of the ways that is advocated in PI-RADS v2 guidelines to reduce rectal gas. The goal of this study is to prospectively evaluate the effect of small catheter placement on artifacts on diffusion weighted images and to see whether it improves diagnostic accuracy.