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Filter by:The goal of this study is to learn if women of Hispanic/Latina ethnicity are willing to self-collect a cervico-vaginal sample for HPV testing. The main question the study will answer is: • Does a brief educational intervention increase the feasibility and acceptability of HPV self-sampling among Hispanic/Latina women? The study team will compare whether including a brief educational intervention with a mailed HPV self-sampling kit is more acceptable than receiving a mailed HPV self-sampling kit alone. Participants will be asked to complete surveys at study entry (baseline) and then randomized to receive only the HPV self-sampling kit, or the kit plus a small group education that meets with a bilingual health educator. Participants will then be contacted about one-month later to complete a follow-up survey. The study team will also measure the number of participants in each group who self-collect a sample and mail it in for HPV testing.
Most uterine cervical high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) infections are transient, with only a small fraction developing into cervical cancer. Family aggregation studies and heritability estimates suggest a significant inherited genetic component. Candidate gene studies and previous genome-wide association studies (GWASs) report associations between the HLA region and cervical cancer. Adopting a genome-wide approach, we aimed to establish an early warning model for a high-risk population of cervical cancer.
Cervical cancer is one of the major health problems for chinese women. Besides surgery and radiotherapy, neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been proved to be an effective program by many studies. However, not all patients respond well to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. This is an open-label, single-arm, multi-center clinical trial to evaluate whether PD-1 in combination with neoadjuvant chemotherapy will achieve better objective response rate.
This study evaluates the effect and feasibility of expanding the target population in the Danish cervical cancer screening program to include women aged 65 to 69 years. The study also evaluates if HPV self-sampling constitutes an appropriate screening method among older women.
Prevention of cervical cancer with cervical screening is one of the most successful screening activities in medicine. In Sweden, screening was implemented in the 1960s and has since prevented tens of thousands of women from having cervical cancer. Individual invitations to screening result in increased attendance therefore evaluating strategies for reaching women through invitations is particularly valuable. Women who regularly attend screening following an invitation reduce their risk of cervical cancer by as much as 90%. Of the women who are diagnosed with cervical cancer (about 550 women per year in Sweden), as many as 38% did not participate in the screening. Invitations for screening are sent to the entire population in Sweden aged 23-70. The current coverage of screening is 82.9%, which represents the proportion of women ages 23-70 who attend according to recommendations. In addition, many women are sporadic attenders who reduce their risk for cancer somewhat. The highest cancer risk is seen among those women who have never participated as well as women who have had a history of precancerous lesions or HPV infection but have not been followed-up. Cervical cancer is the first form of cancer for which there are approved molecular screening tests (HPV test). Unlike the older screening method (cytology), self-collected samples can be analyzed for HPV (the analysis method is so sensitive that it does not matter if the sample is not optimally taken). Invitations and reminders about cervical screening are sent by letter to the woman's home address (about 3 million letters per year in Sweden). This strategy results in a waste of resources and has a negative environmental impact. Regarding reminders, we have seen in previous research that the effect is not optimal. When sending a physical reminder letter to women who have not participated in more than 10 years (current routine), only 2% of the women invited came for sampling. Reminders with SMS are now standard for many businesses in society, such as car testing or dental appointments. It is inexpensive, saves the environment and there are studies that suggest it is more effective than sending physical letters. In this study, we intend to investigate whether SMS reminders, electronic letters, and physical letters for screening lead to increased participation and thus to a higher proportion of detected, treatable precursors of cervical cancer compared to before.
Cervical cancer is the most common cause of death from gynecological cancer world-wide. With technological innovation, minimally invasive or even non-invasive medical treatment has become a trend. Since the first cases of laparoscopic radical hysterectomy of cervical cancer have been reported in 1992, many single-center observational cohort studies have shown that compared to open abdominal surgery ，minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopic or robotic radical hysterectomy) showed advantages of less blood loss, shorter hospital stay and fewer intraoperative complications, while the 5-year survival and disease-free survival were similar. The NCCN guidelines and ESGO recommendations also clearly indicated that patients with FIGO stage IA2 -IIA cervical cancer could undergo open or laparoscopic/robotic radical hysterectomy. However, in October 2018, the results of two studies published in the《New England Journal of Medicine》have subverted our traditional perception of minimally invasive surgery and caused widespread controversy in the field of gynecologic oncology treatment. Both studies showed that the survival rate in the minimally invasive surgery group was lower than that in the open surgery group. The results of these two studies have brought unprecedented doubts and challenges to the minimally invasive surgery for cervical cancer. The MD Anderson Cancer Center has even stopped minimally invasive surgery for cervical cancer. Several hospitals in Hong Kong have responded similarly. The NCCN guidelines are also quickly updated based on the results of those studies: patients should be informed of the results of this study and doctors should respect the patient's choices. The above research results have also attracted the attention of many gynecological oncologists in the mainland China. Some experts questioned the design of this study design as well as surgical skills. We need to look at these findings cautiously. So, we launched a real-world study of clinical outcomes affected by different surgical treatment for patients of early stage cervical cancer. We plan to recruit 2000 patients with early cervical cancer from 20-30 selected surgical centers nationwide and perform surgery on patients with qualified and experienced doctors.We will inform the patients current status of the study in detail, divide the patients into different observational group according to their choices on surgical methods. The patients will be followed up closely after surgery. We will compare the differences in clinical outcomes between the two surgical methods and conduct subgroup and stratified analysis. We hope that this study can truly reflect the actual status and clinical l level of early cervical cancer treatment in China, and provide a high level of clinical evidence for the treatment of cervical cancer in China .
This multi-center, randomized controlled study aims to compare the survival outcomes (including overall survival, progression-free survival and disease-free survival between Chinese uterine cervical patients receiving different surgical routes (laparotomy and laparoscopy) for radical hysterectomy or trachelectomy, which is the primary study objective. All patients with uterine cervical cancer of FIGO stage IA1 (with lymphovascular space invasion), IA2 and IB1 will be included and randomized into two groups: laparotomy and laparoscopy groups for radical hysterectomy or trachelectomy. Secondary study objectives include: patterns of recurrence, treatment-associated morbidity (6 months from surgery), cost-effectiveness, pelvic floor function, and quality of life.
In recent years, the patients with IB2 and IIA2 stage cervical cancer are still treated with radiotherapy and chemotherapy based treatment, but the radiotherapy will severely damage the function of ovary, cause endocrine dyscrasia and the sexual function of vagina. So we want to study whether neoadjuvant chemotherapy without radiotherapy will achieve the same outcome compared with traditional therapy including radiotherapy. So we randomly divide IB2 and IIA2 stage cervical cancer patients into two groups. The neoadjuvant chemotherapy group will receive two courses of chemotherapy basically composed of platinum, and then undergo surgery, after that, doctors will add more courses of chemotherapy according to the situations of the patients, including whether the patients have the adverse prognostic factors. The control group will undergo surgery directly, and then receive chemotherapy and radiotherapy at the same time. Then we will compare the outcomes of these two groups, and analyze the therapeutic effect, the impact on survival rate and the effect on improving the living quality of patient from two groups. All the outcomes will be fed back to clinical doctors and instruct them to choose better treatment for patients.