Active clinical trials for "Abdominal Neoplasms"

Abdominal surgery is usually associated with severe postoperative pain. The transverse abdominal plane (TAP) block is considered an effective means for pain control in such cases. The quadratus lumborum (QL) block is another option for the management of postoperative pain. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of quadrates lumborum blocks and Transversus abdominis plane blocks for pain management after abdominal cancer surgery.

This phase Ib trials studies the side effects and best dose of eribulin mesylate when given together with radiation therapy in treating patients with retroperitoneal liposarcoma that can be removed by surgery. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as eribulin mesylate, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill tumor cells and shrink tumors. Giving chemotherapy with radiation therapy may kill more tumor cells.

In recent years, template guidance has been applied and developed in the field of puncture related operations, such as template-assisted radioactive seed implantation. With the guidance of template, needle pathway of seed implantation, biopsy and fiducial marker implantation can be precisely planned actual operation, which is conducive to the accurate proceeding. Templates can be divided into coplanar templates and non-coplanar templates. The digital coplanar template coordinate puncture system has been developed in China and has been applied in clinical practice. In our previous studies, coplanar template assisted CT-guided radioactive seed implantation has good clinical feasibility for percutaneous biopsy of small pulmonary nodules. However, the accuracy of coplanar template assistance for abdominal tumor puncture are lacking in prospective studies. The study aims to prospectively observe the accuracy and safety of coplanar template assisted CT-guided abdominal tumor puncture during biopsy and fiducial markers implantation.

The aim of the study is to retrospectively review data about malignancies that arise primarily in the pelvis and/or in the pelvic organs, in pediatric cancer patients & categorize the spectrum of these malignancies according to experience at South Egypt Cancer Institute which is the largest referral site in Upper Egypt.

Families of children with rare diseases (i.e., not more than 5 out of 10.000 people are affected) are often highly burdened with fears, insecurities and concerns regarding the affected child and his/her siblings. The aim of the present research project is to examine the psychosocial burden of the children with rare solid abdominal tumors and their family in order to draw attention to a possible psychosocial care gap in this population.

A more recent competing technology for implementing the DIBH technique is real-time surface photogrammetry using the AlignRT system (Vision RT Ltd., London, UK). AlignRT system use non-ionization near infrared light to track patient surface motion. The system has one projector projecting near infrared optical pattern on patient surface. The optical pattern is imaged by optical cameras (two per pod) at ~25 Hz. The user selects a region-of-interest (ROI) on the surface and the software calculates and displays the real-time position in six degrees (3 translations and 3 rotations) in real-time. Once the patient has matched the pre-determined DIBH position (within threshold accuracy), the radiation beam is enabled to be turned on for treatment.

60 Patients will be randomly assigned using computer generated randomization program (http://www.randomizer.org) into two groups, First group (Control group ,Group of continous epidural infusion [CEI]), where patients will receive continuous epidural infusion of L-bupivacaine 0.125 % at a rate of .1 ml/kg/h during the first 48 hours after surgery. Second group (Group of continous preperitoneal infusion [CPI]), where patients will receive continuous pre-peritoneal wound infusion with L-bupivacaine 0.25% at 10 ml/h during the first 48 hours after surgery.

To investigate the ability of 600 mg of Glivec®, given once daily by mouth to patients with rising PSA following radical prostatectomy, to produce a sustained biochemical response during the first 6 months of treatment.

The purpose of this study is to compare the results of combining two anesthetic medications (dexmedetomidine and propofol) in low doses with a standard dose of a single drug that is commonly used to provide sedation/anesthesia for MRI studies in young children (propofol). The drugs used for the MRI scan in this study will be chosen randomly. Half the patients will receive small doses of propofol and dexmedetomidine. The other half will receive propofol administered constantly throughout the scan. Other drugs that may be used include sevoflurane and nitrous oxide at the start of the sedation (for placing an intravenous), lidocaine (to reduce the pain of propofol injection) and glycopyrrolate (to prevent the heart rate from decreasing too low. The investigators will record 5 additional blood pressures and heart rates. If additional medications are required to complete the scan, the investigators will administer whatever is necessary. At the end of the study, the investigators will have an observer record the time it takes for participants to spontaneously open eyes , to be able to drink liquids and/or eat and to behave as before the study. Also, it is very important that the investigators find out from participants about changes in behavior, or if eating or sleeping habits were unusual following completion of the study. For that reason, the investigators will call participants in a day or so following the MRI scan. The investigators expect to recruit 40 children between the ages of 12 and 72 months for the study and hope to have the study completed in December 2018.

Comparing the analgesic effects of ketamine and dexmedetomidine when added to local anesthetic in TAP block for postoperative analgesia after lower abdominal cancer surgery.