Active clinical trials for "Neoplasms"

This is a long-term observational study of patients that were treated with at least 1 dose of study treatment (plerixafor or placebo) in the AMD3100-3101 protocol (NCT00103610).

After informed consent, participants will be asked to complete a medical/family history questionnaire and provide a blood sample. Participants will also be asked for their permission for study investigators to access medical records and/or recontact them for updates to their medical and family histories. Data and biospecimens will be stored for potential future research projects.

Radiotherapy is a common treatment for lung cancer. One Challenge of delivering radiation treatment to lung tumors accurately is tumor movement which occurs as a patient breathes. In some situations, tumors move enough during breathing so that some or all of the tumor may be missed by a radiation treatment. One way to decrease the amount a lung tumor moves during radiotherapy treatments is for patients to held their breath briefly during a radiation treatment. By doing this, a patient's lung tumor may not move as much as it would during regular breathing. In this study, the investigators aim to study patients with lung cancers which move during breathing. Patients will be asked to hold their breath after inspiration while a CT scan of their lung tumor is obtained. The purpose of this study is to study how much less patients' lung tumors move when they hold their breath

Microparticles are cellular fragments which are released actively or passively under conditions of inflammation and stress. The impact of surgical operations on quantity and quality of microparticles remains unknown. In this observatory study we investigate quantitative and qualitative aspects of microparticles during cardiac and abdominal operations.

According to Seoul cancer registry data (2000), cancer became the leading cause of death in Korea, accounting for 23.9% of all deaths and gastric cancer is the most prevalent malignant neoplasm, comprising 20.8% of all cancers. Korea and some part of Asian countries have the highest incidence of gastric cancer in the world. Therefore, gastrectomy became one of the most common cancer operation in Korea. Thanks to early detection and intervention, the mortality of early gastric cancer drops dramatically and is now believed to be one of the most curable diseases among all the cancers. However, after successful operation and the declaration of cure of the stomach cancer, the patients are left without stomach for all his remaining life. If the patients lose most of his stomach tissue, there are several problems, which include loss of reservoir function for food and indigestion. Besides, loss of appetite is of the paramount importance because the stomach is an important endocrine organ controlling the appetite via gut-brain axis and the main axis is through a hormone called ghrelin, the only orexigenic hormone in human. Because ghrelin is mainly secreted by the fundus and body, operations such as laryngoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: (LRYGBP), laryngoscopic-adjustable silicone gastric banding (LASGB) virtually abolish the ghrelin expressing cells. Thus loss of appetite is an inevitable consequence. Then what happens of the plasma ghrelin after Billoth surgery (standard gastric cancer operation) which removes antrum and body of the stomach where ghrelin expressing cells are relatively less distributed? Also puzzling is the fact that after surgery some patients start to gain weight while others continue to lose weight and appetite. Are there ghrelin-expressing cell hyperplasia in the patients who start to gain weight? The gastrectomy operation which is performed at the investigators institute is Billoth I or II operation. The operation virtually eliminate the half of the body and most of the antrum. If fundus is involved also, proximal gastrectomy is the operation of the choice. Most of the patients who have these operations will lose weight during 1-3 months after surgery, thereafter slowly recover. However, the mechanism of the weight recovery has not been elucidated so far. To elucidate the mechanism of re-gaining body weight and possible ghrelin expressing cell hyperplasia, the investigators designed the prospective study to investigate the stomach tissue as well as plasma ghrelin in the patients who are going to have Billoth surgery. The items to be investigated include plasma for hormones (ghrelin, leptin, insulin, CCK, PYY), stomach tissue for ghrelin, diet evaluation and body weight (body mass index) changes for 7 months after gastrectomy. The investigators hope that their study will reveal the valuable information on the body weight recovery and appetite issue. So far the issue of the stomach cancer patients was related to survival issue. However, to lead a comfortable life the quality of life is also very important. The investigators approach will hint the way of surgery which will benefit the patients to live a happy life.

It is known that radiation damages lung tissue. New human studies at University of Iowa show that the radiation damage is not as expected. The purpose of this study is to document lung function using four-dimensional computed tomography (CT) and quantify changes three months after radiation therapy for malignant lung disease.

SPECT was performed in 51 patients after cytoreductive surgery in combination with intraperitoneal chemotherapy. The detected volume was compared to the number of subsequent sequential postoperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy courses that could be performed without further surgical intervention. SPECT data was found to predict feasibility of sequential postoperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy.

Research Hypothesis: Treatment with dasatinib 100 mg QD is superior to imatinib 600 mg QD in terms of complete cytogenetic response (CCyR) in chronic phase (CP) Philadelphia chromosome-positive (Ph+) Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) subjects who are imatinib failures or who have achieved only a suboptimal response after 3-18 months (12-77 weeks) of therapy with imatinib 400 mg. Primary Objective: The primary objective of this study is to compare the rate of CCyR of dasatinib (100mg QD) to high-dose imatinib (600 mg QD) therapy at 6 months after randomization in CP Ph+ CML subjects who are imatinib failures or who have achieved only a suboptimal response after 3 - 18 months of imatinib monotherapy at 400 mg/day.

The purpose of this study is to determine the incidence and clinical history of neurofibromatosis type 1-related spinal abnormalities.

The purposes of this study are: To estimate the relative risk of ILD in advanced/recurrence NSCLC patients treated with gefitinib as compared to other chemotherapy treatment, and to assess the risk factors for ILD in advanced/recurrence NSCLC patients undergoing treatment To provide an estimate of the incidence of ILD in a group of advanced/recurrence NSCLC patients undergoing treatment