Active clinical trials for "Neoplasms"

In this trial, patients with cancer in the upper gastrointestinal canal who are going to receive first line palliative chemotherapy and patients with colorectal cancer who are going to receive second line palliative chemotherapy will be included. Participating patients will be randomized between early contact with a palliative care unit, or contact with a palliative care unit when needed. The objectives with the trial is to investigate if an early establishment with a palliative care unit will have a positive impact on the patients quality of life, this also applies for the nearest relative, survival, and if a difference in numbers of chemotherapy cycles can be detected.

Investigators will administer a brief, anonymous survey at the Texas Academy of Family Physicians (TAFP) annual Primary Care Summit to better understand the readiness of primary care physicians in Texas to implement lung cancer screening programs in their practice settings.

At the standard follow-up moment one year after primary TKA for gonarthrosis, all patients will be checked for signs of fibrosis diathesis. This will be done by examining their hands for Dupuytren's nodules and contractures and recording risk factors associated with increased severity and risk of recurrence of Dupuytren's contracture. These include family history, bilateral DD, and ectopic lesions, age of onset less than 50 years, male gender, Ledderhose disease, first ray involvement, multiple ray involvement and ectopic fibromatosis. This way, two groups of patients will be identified: those with and those without signs of fibrosis diathesis. For both groups, the range of motion (ROM) of the operated knee at 3 and 6 months will be retrieved in the charts, the ROM at 12 months will be measured at that time. Also, additional procedures performed to increase ROM postoperatively will be retrieved from the charts (e.g. continuous passive motion, mobilization under anesthesia). Other causes for knee stiffness will have to be recorded, since these will be the most important exclusion criteria. In the patients with clear signs of finger contractures, any impression of increase of contracture over the past 12 months will be recorded.

The objective of this study is to evaluate the prognostic factors of acute leukemia patients and to invent the molecular genetic test for sensitive detection of minimal residual disease, and thereby this study would contribute to plan the risk adapted treatment. Patients will have samples of blood and/or bone marrow collected during diagnosis process, treatment and/or thereafter

Anesthesia favouring deep/intense neuromuscular blockade during laparoscopy may restore hemodynamics. However, no studies has been performed comparing oxygenation parameters during laparoscopy in colorectal surgery in either moderate or intense neuromuscular blockade. The investigators aim to investigate whether the intense neuromuscular blockade produces a better oxygenation profile measured by the central venous oxygen saturation than the moderate neuromuscular blockade. This is a one centre, prospective clinical trial to compare oxygenation data at different stages of neuromuscular blockade in high-risk patients scheduled for colorectal surgery. Data recording will be blinded to the anesthesiologist in charge of the patient, who will manage patients by a determined protocol, based on stroke volume data to direct fluidotherapy. Data analyzer will be not be involved in the study design or in writing reports from the study. Inclusion criteria: Be a candidate to a colorectal surgical resection procedure and one of these conditions: ≥ 70 y.o, or respiratory co-morbidity, or cardiac co-morbidity or haemoglobin level < 11g/dl. The primary outcome is the absolute number of the central venous oxygen saturation, measured at the following points: basal, after tracheal intubation, before pneumoperitoneum or abdominal incision, after pneumoperitoneum or abdominal incision, 5 and 10 minutes before administration of rocuronio to produce intense blockade, continuously during profound neuromuscular blockade until the end of surgery, before sugammadex administration, after sugammadex administration, after tracheal extubation, for the 24 hours post surgical. Data of the regional cerebral oxygen saturation will be measured at the same points. The investigators hypothesize that oxygenation data will be favourable by applying the intense neuromuscular blockade in comparison with moderate neuromuscular blockade. Also, the investigators hypothesize that oxygenation data obtained during the whole procedure including the first 24-hours post-surgery, measured by the regional cerebral oxygen saturation are comparable to data obtained by the central venous oxygen saturation. The investigators want to obtain information about influence in the outcome of producing profound neuromuscular blockade during laparoscopy colorectal by comparison of outcome data with matched historical control.

Et-C02 is used to predict PaCO2 during surgery. There are controversies regarding the value of ETCO2 to predict PaCO2. The aim of this study was to investigate the relation between Et-CO₂ and PaCO₂ measurements in patients undergoing laparoscopic colorectal surgery. Patient and surgical characteristics, mechanical ventilation adjustments, and intraabdominal pressure values and the corelation between these parameters and EtCO₂ - PaCO₂ difference were also investigated.

Surgery may be the best treatment choice for early stage non-small cell lung cancer. And VATS major lung resection have been preferred as a standard radical procedure for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).This study aim to investigate the outcome of VATS major lung resection for lung cancer as a real-world study in china.

The study's chief objective is to observe the evolution of cellular (in terms of expression of transmembrane transporters and their transcriptional regulators) and viral resistance (in terms of development of mutations in the HIV genome that may confer resistance to future treatment for HIV) in HIV-infected patients with lymphoma.

This study aims to determine whether or not gadoxetate disodium (Eovist) enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has a higher sensitivity for detecting hepatocellular carcinoma (Liver Cancer) comparison to multi-detector computed tomography (CT).

The purpose of this study is to differentiate Kikuchi's disease and malignant lymphoma by soft tissue ultrasound.