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Filter by:Background: - People who have cancer might have more medical problems if they smoke. Some studies show that smoking even makes cancer treatment less effective. Researchers want to teach people about how tobacco use affects people after a cancer diagnosis. They want to come up with questions for people who have cancer and who have survived cancer. The questions will be about using cigarettes and other tobacco products and about second-hand smoke. The questions will be used to understand how using tobacco affects people with cancer before, during, and after treatment. This will help doctors plan how to treat people with cancer and create programs to help people quit smoking in the future. Objective: - To evaluate and refine questions that assess tobacco use. Eligibility: - Adults age 21 or older who have cancer or are cancer survivors. The cancer can be at any site and any stage. Design: - This study will take about 1 hour. - Participants will meet one-on-one with an interviewer. They will fill out a questionnaire and talk about the questions. Participants will explain how easy or hard it was to answer the questions and how they decided on their answers. - All participants will be asked the same or very similar questions. Specific questions will be based on the participant s own experiences with tobacco products. - There will be no follow-up activities.
This study is being conducted to identify altered genetic factors that may exist and influence endocrine cancers in unrelated MEN1 families with different cancers. A grading system will be developed for endocrine cancers, including pancreatic cancers, thymus gland cancers, parathyroid disease and MEN1 syndrome as low-risk and high-risk to improve screening and timing of surgery.
Cancers that have spread to the inner lining of the chest are classified as Stage IV and bear a poor prognosis. Surgery is rarely an option, with palliative chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy the only treatment options. This study intends to evaluate whether surgical removal of all visible tumor on the chest wall followed by bathing the chest cavity in heated chemotherapy solution will improve outcomes for these advanced cancers.
The purpose of this study is to determine the rate of response with the combination of erlotinib and bevacizumab in previously treated patients with thymoma or thymic carcinoma, and to determine potential molecular markers that may predict response to therapy in patients with thymoma or thymic carcinoma.