Active clinical trials for "Neoplasms"

Within community with high incidence of HCC, stretching the limits could be justified based on tumor characters and its biological behavior

This study is designed to look at whether it is feasible to observe women with atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH) of the breast, or whether surgical excision is necessary.

The aim of this study is to prove the superiority of entecavir over lamivudine for preventing the risk of hepatitis B virus reactivation in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma on CHOP/R-CHOP.

The investigators' primary objective is to study prevalences of myocardial iron overload, defined as a cardiac T2*< 20 ms, in 3 populations of multiply transfused patients, affected with thalassemia, sickle cell disease, and myelodysplasia.

The purpose of this study is to provide patients who have relapsed or refractory Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL) with early access to an investigational medication called ibrutinib (PCI-32765) and to collect safety information about the drug.

Empyema following pneumonectomy for Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is a known problem that occurs in about 2% of pneumonectomy patients.

Purpose: To assess equivalence between low cost manual liquid based cytology (pap smear) and standard Thin prep cytology screening. Participants: 100-120 healthy women presenting for standard pap smear screening Procedures (methods): After routine care pap smear, another pap smear will be performed and placed in the study medium. Clinical care pap and study pap will be reviewed by a single pathologist to assess for equivalent findings. Hypothesis: Manual liquid based cytology is equivalent to conventional liquid based cytology.

The project is based on a case-control study including cirrhotic patients with (200 cases) and without (400 controls) Hepatocellular carcinoma. The determination of sample sizes in proteomic or spectroscopic studies has to be adapted to the high dimensional setting. The proteomic analysis will be conducted by Clinical Innovation Proteomic Platform of Dijon. Two approaches will be used in the proteomic study: A global approach based on the comparison of proteomic spectra profiles obtained after mass spectrometry analysis (MALDI-TOF). The particularity of this study with regard to previous studies is : the procedures used to purify the sub proteomes (Five automated methods including depletion fractionation and purification will be applied), the qualification of the generated data with the introduction of quality controls, the high number of samples included in the study. The second approach BIA-MS (Biomolecular interaction analysis mass spectrometry) is targeted approach allows the capture, quantification and characterization of proteins. The quality controls allow to quantify the various variability sources and to validate that biological variability is higher than technical variability. All the samples will be treated and analyzed with the same protocols, 100 samples will be used to validate the marker and statistical models developed after analysis of the first 500 samples. The infra-red spectroscopy analysis will be conducted by MéDIAN team, CNRS UMR 6237 of Reims university. The first 300 samples after feature selection reference spectra, are classified into different classes by means of mathematical classification methods such as multivariate statistical processes of pattern recognition, neuronal networks, support vector machines and methods of case-based classification or machine learning, genetic algorithms or methods of evolutionary programming. The analysis of a second set of samples (300) will validate the different mathematical classification methods developed. In the global study the investigators will unravel the relationship between proteomic, spectroscopic and metabolic/nutritional data. The description of these relationships will use canonical analysis and multi-block analysis in a more general extent. The goal of these methods is to explore relationships that may exist between several groups of quantitative variables observed on the same set of individuals.

The primary goal of this study is to compare in the long-term costs of laparoscopic or open right colectomy in patients sustaining a colon cancer controling for the carcinologic equivalence of the two surgical strategies. The secondary goals to compare long-term mortality, morbidity as well as quality of life of the two groups.The present study is an prospective multicentric observational trial taking into account the usual surgical strategy of every centers

Early detection of lung cancer and early removal of the cancer nodules facilitates the diagnosis and treatment. However, not all nodules are malignant. Currently the standard method to diagnose lung cancer is to remove any suspicious nodules from the lung in a surgical procedure. This study is being conducted to evaluate the performance of a laboratory test to detect changes in lung cells that might be an early indicator of lung cancer. The test uses mucus (sputum) which is collected in a non-invasive method. This study will compare the results of the lung biopsy with the laboratory test to determine if the test can detect cancer or the lack of cancer. The laboratory test will not be shared with the treating physician or the patient as the current standard for lung cancer diagnosis is a biopsy. Approximately 330 patients will be enrolled in the study. There is one visit involved and includes the collection of a sputum specimen by coughing into a cup. The medical records of patients who are negative for cancer by biopsy will be reviewed for 2 years to detect any changes in diagnosis.