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Filter by:Primary objective: - To determine the maximum tolerated dose and/or recommended dose for extension for IMA401 Secondary objectives: - To characterize the safety and tolerability of IMA401 - To evaluate initial anti-tumor activity of IMA401 - To describe the pharmacokinetics of IMA401
This feasibility (small) study aims to see if it is possible to run a large study looking at the effect of lidocaine on large bowel cancer recurrence after surgery in the NHS hospitals.
Identifying patients at high risk for recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after liver transplantation (LT) represents a challenging issue. The present study aims to develop and validate an accurate post-LT recurrence prediction calculator using the machine learning method.
The reirradiation of thoracic tumor is difficult. The possibility of surgery or re course radiotherapy is very small. In the NCCN guideline, only systemic treatment is recommended. However, the effective rate of systemic treatment is low. SBRT has the characteristics of high dose in tumor target area and low dose in surrounding normal tissues. In theory, SBRT is more conducive to the protection of normal tissues and can potentially be used in the salvage treatment of recurrent lesions after radiotherapy. Even so, SBRT is still controversial in the rescue treatment of recurrent lung cancer after radiotherapy, especially for "ultral-central" lesions close to mediastinal structures (such as bronchus, esophagus and large blood vessels), which have a high probability of fatal side effects. However, a few studies on the application of SBRT in the reirradiation for ultral-central lung cancer have shown acceptable safety and efficacy. Generally speaking, there are few studies on SBRT in the treatment of recurrent ultral-central tumor with limited data. The purpose of this study is to further evaluate the efficacy and toxicities of SBRT in the treatment of recurrent ultral-central tumors after radiotherapy.
Background: The National Comprehensive Cancer Network Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology: palliative care recommends discussing advance care planning (ACP) when patients' estimated life expectancy is reduced from a year to months. Discussions about ACP focus on communication among patients, their caregivers, and healthcare providers to achieve cancer-related treatment and care consistent with the patient's preferences based on their values and goals. ACP can improve outcomes for patients and caregivers; however, provision of ACP to patients remain low. This may be because of the complexity of ACP in clinical practice. A Question Prompt List (QPL) is a structured question list encouraging patients to put forward their queries to physicians and promote discussion between patients and physicians during medical consultations. Our preliminary study found that for patients with advanced cancer after standard chemotherapy, face-to-face interventions by nurses or clinical psychologists using a QPL about treatment and care, which is consistent with the patient's preferences based on their values and goals promoted empathetic communication between patients and their physicians. In recent years, however, ensuring adequate time during outpatient visits has become difficult due to increased numbers of outpatients and shortages of corresponding medical personnel. Therefore, intervention methods not restricted by location or time are needed. Thus, the investigators develop a mobile-based empathetic communication support program, including a QPL, to facilitate discussions about patients' values and goals with their physicians. Purpose: This study examines whether a mobile-based empathetic communication support program, which intends to promote ACP discussions in earlier stages of advanced cancer treatment, improves such communication behaviors of patients with advanced cancer and their physicians. Main contents of the intervention: Patients in the intervention group are provided a mobile-based empathetic communication support program-a mobile application (app). The app comprises a QPL (46 questions in eight categories) and questions about the patient's preferred treatment and end-of-life care based on their values and goals. After registering on the app, patients are first given a program overview and instructions for using the app. Then, they proceed with the content themselves, at home or anywhere else, at any time. Between app registration and the next outpatient visit, the patient is interviewed (by phone or in person) by a nurse or a clinical psychologist, who helps them prepare for the discussion with the physician and asks questions based on the patient's app responses for 30 minutes to an hour. During the outpatient visit, patients and their physicians are provided feedback based on the interview. Study participants: Overall, 264 patients with advanced or recurrent cancer are recruited from four departments (respiratory medicine, gastroenterology, hepatobiliary medicine, and oncology) in the outpatient clinic of the National Cancer Center Hospital, Japan. Outcome measurement: The primary outcome of this trial is the Reassurance and Emotional support score of physician behavior measured using the SHARE model at the first visit after the intervention. SHARE is a conceptual communication skills model comprising 26 items and four subscales, categorized as S: Supportive environment, H: How to deliver bad news, A: Additional information, and RE: Reassurance and Emotional support. Reassurance and Emotional support assesses physicians' behavior in providing reassurance and addressing patients' emotions with empathetic responses (e.g., remaining silent out of concern for patient's feelings or accepting patient's expression of emotions). The conversation between patients and the physicians is audio-recorded, and a third person's impression of the physician's communication behavior during the outpatient consultation is scored on a 5-point scale from 0: not applicable at all to 4: strongly applicable. Scoring will be conducted by multiple raters blinded to the assignment. Raters are trained in conversation analysis with a manual, and inter- and intra-rater agreements will be checked in advance. Secondary outcomes are as follows: 1) the patient-physician behavioral assessment based on the conversation analysis manual, 2) number of conversations about ACP, 3) psychological distress, 4) quality of life, 5) medical care use, 6) app use, 7) feasibility of intervention program, 8) patients' satisfaction of the consultation, 9) care goals, and 10) preferred place for future care. The investigators chose these outcomes for their comparability with previous studies.
The purpose of this study is to determine the treatment efficacy of CYH33 monotherapy in patients with recurrent or persistent ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal clear cell carcinoma harboring PIK3CA hotspot mutation, who received prior systemic anti-tumor treatment.
XRD-0394 is a novel, potent, oral, small molecule dual inhibitor of ataxia telangiectasia mutated kinase (ATM) and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) that has selectivity compared with other phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-related kinase (PIKK) family enzymes. This is a first-time-in-human study, which means that it is the first time the study drug is being used in humans. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of single doses of XRD-0394 administered with palliative radiotherapy (RT) to subjects with metastatic, locally advanced, or recurrent cancer. The pharmacokinetic (PK) profile and pharmacodynamic (PD) effects of single-dose XRD-0394 administered in combination with palliative RT will also be characterized.
This study investiagates deep-regional or superficial hyperthermia to enhance radiotherapy or chemoradiation in patients that suffer recurrent disease after previous radiotherapy.
This is a prospective multicenter non-randomized phase II study: proton therapy with nanoparticles based on polysiloxane and gadolinium chelates injectable intravenously
Pancreatic head malignancies are aggressive cancers that are often inoperable when they are diagnosed. In the ~20% of patients who are diagnosed when the disease is still operable, surgery is the only treatment that can provide a chance of cure. Unfortunately, up to 75% of patients undergoing surgery will have the cancer come back (recur). One of the reasons for this is the challenge of removing the whole tumour with some surrounding non-cancerous tissue to ensure that every tumour cell has been removed. This is difficult because there are many structures very close to the pancreas (such as the blood vessels that supply the intestines) that cannot be removed. A recent review study of >1700 patients who had a Whipple's operation (the cancer operation that is performed to remove the head of pancreas) and found that whilst the majority of patients had cancer recurrence in distant sites (like the liver) that would not be affected by how the operation was performed, 12% of patients had the cancer recur just at the site of where the operation had been; this is known as 'local' recurrence. This suggests that a small amount of cancer was not removed at the time of surgery in these patients. Very few studies have looked at the relationship between the Computerised Tomography (CT) scan before surgery and the histology results (information about the tumour after it has been examined under the microscope) and whether this can predict exactly where the tumour recurs. If investigators can find factors that predict which patients get local only recurrence, investigators may be able to offer improved surgical techniques or other therapies during or immediately after the operation to these patients, hopefully leading to improved cure rates. This retrospective international study will look at these factors in patients who underwent a Whipple's operation for pancreatic cancer, bile duct cancer or ampullary cancer over a three year period between 2012 and 2015. Participating centres will provide data on pre-operative scans, complications around the time of surgery, any therapies (e.g. chemotherapy) that the patients had and if and where the cancer recurred. With this information, investigators hope to find ways to predict which patients will get local-only recurrence, so researchers can select them for future studies to see if additional treatments can improve the chance of cure from surgery for these patients.