Active clinical trials for "Neoplasms"

This study seeks to correlate microbiome sequencing data with information provided by patients and their medical records regarding colorectal cancer.

Knowledge about the correlations between the composition of the gut microbiome and a wide range of diseases has substantially increased in recent years. Nonetheless, there is no reference set of information about the microbiome in Poland. The development of such a reference will allow polish scientists conducting research in the field of interaction between gut flora components and such characteristics as lifestyle, certain diseases or patient's responses for treatment. Following the example of such countries as the United States, investigators propose to build a unique set of scientific processed information describing the variability of the polish population microbiome (Polish Microbiome Map). The investigators will provide a reliable dataset that will characterize the gut microbiomes and their diversity in the polish population. Additionally, thanks to the creation of the standard protocol for microbiome data collection the research conducted by the MMP users will be comparable with the information deposited in MMP.

Natural killer cells (NK cells) are cytotoxic lymphocytes that play an important role in the innate immune system. In particular, it plays a very important defense function against host cells or cancer cells infected with a specific virus. Recent studies have shown that the activity of NK cells is decreased in patients with various carcinomas compared with normal controls, suggesting that the measurement of activity of NK cells in the blood may be helpful in the early diagnosis of cancer. In a recent study analyzing NK cell activity in 762 patients undergoing colonoscopy, NK cell activity showed performance in diagnosing advanced colorectal adenoma and colorectal cancer with sensitivities 42.2% and 85.7%, and specificity 58.3% and 59.5%, respectively. This finding suggests that NK cell activity may be useful as a screening method for colorectal neoplasms. However, as a single test, this diagnostic power is relatively low. On the other hands, another blood-based colorectal cancer screening test that using 29 gene panels algorithm has recently been reported. According to this study, 29 gene panel algorithms (Colox®) showed performance in diagnosing advanced colorectal adenoma and colorectal cancer with sensitivity of 55.4% and 79.5% and specificity of both 90.0%, respectively. for diagnosis of advanced adenoma and colorectal cancer, respectively. Although the Colox® test seems to be useful for the colorectal cancer screening using blood test, this diagnostic power is relatively low. In order to overcome low diagnostic performance of aforementioned tests (NK activity and Colox®) as a single use, combination of individual biomarkers can be a promising alternative. In this regards, the aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic value for predicting advanced colorectal neoplasms by combining Colox® and NK cell activity indicators.

Glioblastoma is the most common adult brain tumour with approximately 2000 new cases each year in the UK. Optimal treatment consists of surgery followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy but despite this survival is poor with only 10% of patients alive at 5 years. Standard imaging (MRI and CT) may not detect the full extent of tumours before treatment and it can be difficult to assess how the tumour is responding to treatment. The study aims to evaluate more advanced imaging techniques to see if they are better at mapping the whole tumour and assessing response to treatment. Two different imaging techniques will be assessed: Positron Emission Tomography - Computed Tomography (PET-CT) uses a mildly radioactive compound injected into the patient which is taken up into brain tumour cells and shows up as a bright spot on scans. Brain tumours affect blood supply and how much fluid is in the brain tissue as well as how freely fluid can move around. Advanced MR imaging known as multiparametric MRI will be used to look at these additional features. This extra information may help improve planning of radiotherapy and assessing how tumours respond to treatment. Twelve adult patients with glioblastoma undergoing radical treatment will be recruited over a 12 month period. Each patient will have standard MR imaging before radiotherapy (after surgery) and 4-6 weeks following completion of radiotherapy. They will also have advanced MRI and PET/CT before, during and after treatment. The aim will be to study if this is feasible and could potentially improve radiotherapy planning and response assessment. Imaging will be interpreted by both imaging and brain tumour treatment experts.

Glioblastoma is the most common malignant brain tumor in adults. The primary treatment consists of maximal tumor removal followed by radiotherapy (RT) with concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide. Tumor recurrence after chemoradiotherapy has previously been shown to be predominantly within or at the margin of the irradiated volume, but distant failure are not rare, especially in patients with MGMT methylation.Traditionally, RT has been planned based on on planning CT with co-registered postoperative MRI, with the addition of a clinical target volume margin of 2-3 cm to account for infiltrative odema. To better characterize the disease, more specific physiological and/or metabolical markers of tumor cells, vascularization and hypoxia measured on multiparametric MRI as perfusion, diffusion and spectroscopy alongside with PET tracer like Fluoroéthyl-L-tyrosine ([18F]-FET) are now available and suggest that aggressive areas, like uptake of PET tracer and vascularity are present outside areas of contrast enhancement usually irradiated. These informations could be incorporated to optimize the treatment of radiotherapy.

Philadelphia-chromosome-positive or partial ph-like acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) preferred chemotherapy combined with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIS) therapy. Recently we found that there were cytomegalovirus reactivation and even cytomegalovirus infection in three ALL patients treated with chemotherapy combined with TKIs. However, the cytomegalovirus risk after dasatinib use in patients with philadelphia-chromosome-positive ALL is still unknown. It is reported that dasatinib can be observed in the treatment of philadelphia-chromosome-positive leukemia patients with significant increase in large granular lymphocytes, the cytomegalovirus is often positive, and this part of the patient's prognosis is relatively good. Dasatinib can inhibit SRC and TEC kinase, and induce immune function inhibition,and in vitro experiments have confirmed that it inhibits the immune function of T cells and NK cells. In this study, we examined the potential association between cytomegalovirus AND EBV reactivation the treatment of chemotherapy combined with TKIs, and the numbers of large granular cells and NK cell activity.

Resection of liver metastasis is potentially curative in patients with colorectal cancer bearing liver metastasis. However, early recurrence occurs in up to 30% in 3 months after liver resection. To optimize patient selection, the investigators propose to evaluate the the value of incorporating circulating tumor cells enumeration to clinical factors in a prospective study

This study is conducted to collect the symptoms of lung cancer patients and to observe the relationship with proteomics.

The purpose of this study was to compare the outcomes of medical augmented reality glasses and general monitors when distinguishing mucosal lesions from submucosal lesions in endoscopic diagnosis for early gastric cancer.

To study the immunophenotyping pattern of acute B lymphoblastic leukemia in south Egypt Cancer Institute iand its correlation with disease outcome