Active clinical trials for "Adenoma"

Nano-based diagnostic tool can provide promising highly sensitive, specific biomarker for early detection and treatment of salivary gland tumours compared to non-conjugated biomarkers and in turn improves patient prognosis and outcome.

The purpose of this study is to assess whether the use of large screen during colonoscopy will increase adenoma detection rate.

New Zealand (NZ) has high bowel cancer rates, which the Bowel Screening Programme aims to reduce by early detection of bowel cancer and its precursor, adenomas (polyps). Bowel cancer and adenoma rates are higher in countries like NZ with low intake of the essential trace mineral selenium. Overseas, trials of selenium supplements reduced adenoma recurrence in people with low blood selenium, but not with high levels (where adding selenium increased health risks). Laboratory research explained this, and found certain types of selenium are safer and more effective. The optimal type and dose of selenium to use in NZ cancer prevention trials is not known. The main objective of this trial is to evaluate which dose and type of selenium (either selenomethionine or methylselenocysteine) gives optimal selenium status to maximise cancer prevention without causing health problems from excessive selenium intake. We also want to see how much selenium is needed according to selenium blood levels before starting selenium in the trial. Side effects will be evaluated, as will recruitment rates. This will determine the feasibility of developing a large randomised trial of selenium to reduce the recurrence rates for advanced adenomas in NZ. This trial will recruit 60 patients from Middlemore and Waikato Hospitals with an advanced adenoma removed through the Bowel Screening Programme. Patients will take one selenium compound, dosed at 50 mcg/day for 6 weeks then 100 mcg/day for 6 weeks, and will have blood tests at baseline, then blood tests and evaluation of side effects at 6 weeks and 12 weeks.

Most of the sporadic colorectal cancer (CRC )develop from colorectal adenoma (CRA), patients with CRA have a high risk of recurrence and development of metachronous CRA or CRC after removal, therefore, the investigators conducted this clinical trial to explore the chemoprevetion effect of metformin for CRA recurrence after removal.

PURPOSE OF PROTOCOL Objective: To evaluate if the speedometer based on the real-time image analysis can help endoscopists increase their withdrawal time, which is defined as time spent examining the colon during withdrawal of the colonoscope, during colonoscopy. Hypothesis: The trial hypothesis is that use of the speedometer during colonoscopy will increase the average withdrawal time, which is defined as time spent examining the colon during withdrawal of the colonoscope, by 1.6 minutes, possibly increasing the performance of the participating endoscopists. Our objective is to clarify the clinical benefits of this digital tool in colonoscopy. Endpoint: Withdrawal time difference between colonoscopies done without the speedometer (control period) and colonoscopies done with the speedometer (intervention period).

Non-ampullary sporadic duodenal adenomas (SDA) are rare lesions, incidentally discovered in up to only 5% of patients during routine endoscopy. In any case, these lesions require treatment due to their potential malignant transformation because of the adenoma-carcinoma sequence, occurring in 30-85% of cases. Endoscopic resection (ER) of SDA represents an attractive alternative to surgical resection in appropriately selected patients, with lower morbidity and mortality rates. However, most endoscopists are not keen to resect larger lesions due to the risk of complications. Indeed, endoscopic resection in the duodenum has unique challenges: thin wall, high vascularity, very limited space and harmful effects of bile and acid both acting on the ER defect. Cold snare endoscopic resection has been shown to be a viable method for removing colorectal lesions with comparable efficacy outcomes compared to conventional polypectomy/endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) and a promising safety profile. As a matter of fact, adverse events associated with hot snare resection technique such as delayed bleeding, post-polypectomy syndrome, and perforation are all related to electrocautery-induced injury. Performing cold snare piece-meal resection and avoiding the need of thermal therapy, may have a major impact in the duodenum where the risk of delayed bleeding and perforation is consistent. The aim of this pilot study is to prospectively evaluate the feasibility and the efficacy in term of safety and efficacy of cold snare endoscopic resection.

to determine screening value of stool-based SDC2 DNA methylation test for advanced colorectal neoplasia in the asymptomatic Chinese community population.

Our previous study (Am. J. Gastroenterol. 2017 04;112(4)) showed that water exchange (WE) colonoscopy was able to increase the detection of flat adenomas as well as overall ADR. We hypothesized that WE based whole-colon acetic acid（AA） staining might be useful to improve the detection of flat lesions compared with WE alone.

Comparison of the number of adenomas missed by the first exploration of the right colon by LCI (linked color imaging) or by white light during a colonoscopy, according to the order of randomization.

Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK. It develops through smaller growths in the bowel called polyps. Early recognition and removal of these polyps result in prevention of developing bowel cancer in an individual. However, not all polyps will lead to cancer, certain polyps are just growths of normal tissue and can be left in the bowel. We therefore need to know which polyps to remove and which ones to leave. One way of doing this is to have a better look at these polyps. This can be done by new technologies. One of them is called Blue Light Imaging (BLI). This is a new light source at the end of the camera which is activated by the push of a button. It will help us in looking at these polyps more closely. This helps us decide which polyps to remove and which ones are safe to leave as there is always a small risk in removing a polyp. It would also give us a better idea as to when to repeat the camera test if necessary (endoscopic surveillance). By reducing the number of polyps resected and sent to the pathology labs for diagnosis, the work load on the pathology department is also reduced and in the process, providing cost savings to the Trust, The study aims to see if using Blue Light during endoscopy helps us to identify and characterize small polyps better