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Filter by:The primary objective of this study is to estimate the treatment effect on progression-free survival (PFS) of panitumumab relative to bevacizumab in combination with mFOLFOX6 chemotherapy as first-line therapy in patients with tumors expressing wild-type KRAS, unresectable mCRC.
Patients with oligometastatic colorectal cancer (5 metastases or less) receive a combination of systemic treatment and often local treatment, such as surgery, radiofrequency ablation and more recently stereotactic body radiotherapy. The aim of this study is to register the results and side effects of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) by means of helical tomotherapy in the treatment of oligometastatic colorectal cancer. The trial has two cohorts. Patients in cohort I get consolidation SBRT after best response on first line chemotherapy. Patients in cohort II get SBRT when there is progression under, or no indication for (further) chemotherapy. The primary endpoint is to evaluate the metabolic complete remission rate three months after the start of radiotherapy.
Patient will have radiation to treat the cancer. This treatment can make the vagina both narrower and shorter. That can cause two problems. It can make it harder for the doctor to do a pelvic exam during a follow-up visits. And, it can make sexual intercourse uncomfortable. We tell women to use a vaginal dilator after radiation to the pelvis. This is standard education. We do not routinely ask women how they do with it. We are doing this study to see if using the dilator as we instruct will help the vagina stretch. The patient will have an examine of the vagina before the start of radiation. We will see what size dilator can fit. The goal of this study is to have the patient be able to use that size dilator within six months after radiation.
This study is a global, multicenter, open-label phase 1b and randomized, double-blinded, 2 part, phase 2 study designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of rilotumumab or ganitumab in combination with panitumumab versus panitumumab alone in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer whose tumors are wild-type KRAS status.
The aim of this study is to compare laparoscopic versus open approach on the surgical treatment of mid and low-lying rectal cancer, both performed by the same surgical team with experience in open colorectal surgery and advanced laparoscopic surgery, assessing preoperative and anatomopathological results and long-term outcome.
This clinical trial will compare the efficacy and safety of the combination of AMG 386 and FOLFIRI with FOLFIRI alone in second line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the defecatory function when nerve fibers around the inferior mesenteric artery(IMA) and left colic artery(LCA) are preserved(so called low ligation ) or not(high ligation) in the rectosigmoid and rectal cancer surgery.
The purpose of this study is to see how well patients tolerate the side effects of treatment with Floxuridine, Oxaliplatin and Irinotecan. We also want to know if these methods used together are a useful way of treating cancer. We have studied these drugs and know the best doses of each when they are used alone. We do not yet know how well the drugs work with each other. This study will tell us the best doses of each drug when they are given over the same period of time.
Traditionally bowel preparation before surgery of rectal cancer could be troublesome for patients especially for patients with kidney and cardio- vascular diseases, where salt and electrolyte balance can be a problem. Cleaning the bowel without complications for the patient is one of the aims for this study. The other aim is to see if patient nutritional status improves with nutritional drinks as a complement to food intake 4-6 weeks before surgery.
To determine whether using a radiolabelled analog of 5-FU, [18F]-5-fluorouracil, for PET/CT imaging can visually demonstrate differential chemotherapy delivery to known tumor sites before and after administration of bevacizumab and determine the optimal timing of bevacizumab administration to maximize the chemotherapy delivery into the tumor for improved cancer treatment.