Active clinical trials for "Alopecia"

Chemotherapy (CT) is a frequent and well established treatment in women with breast and gynecological tumors. Alopecia is one of the most common side effects of CT seriously impairing patient quality of life and body image. While other CT associated side effects can be controlled by supportive treatment strategy, adequate preventive measures for alopecia have been lacking. New evidence supports the efficacy of scalp cooling for alopecia prevention during CT.

It is a well known fact that the JAK-STAT pathway plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of alopecia areata. Both phosphorylated STAT 1 and 3 have been found to be upregulated in the disease. However, whether this pathway plays a role in other hair loss disorders remains unclear. The study aims at assessing STAT3 levels in male patients with androgenetic alopecia. The investigators hypothesize that STAT3 levels will be elevated (due to a previous study proving that JAK-STAT pathway is involved in non-immune mediated hair loss in mice.

To assess Banana flower extract supplement on hair and body health care

To assess TCI999 on hair and body health care

Androcur is a type of treatment called cyproterone acetate (CPA). Androcur and other CPA treatments work by blocking a group of male sex hormones called androgens in the body. It can be given to men and women to treat conditions that are caused by higher levels of androgens. CPAs, including androcur, are currently available as treatments for doctors to give to patients who have these types of conditions. But, in a study, researchers found that participants had a certain medical problem when they took CPAs for a long time. This medical problem was a tumor of the brain or spinal cord that is mostly not malignant and is called meningioma. This eventually led health authorities to change the instructions for how doctors should use CPAs to treat patients. This included what health conditions should be treated with CPAs, how long patients should receive them, and what dose of CPA should be given. In this study, the researchers want to learn more about how doctors are using CPAs to treat patients after the update to the instructions. To answer this research question, they will give to the doctors a web-based questionnaire asking about the advisability or necessity of the treatment (also called "indications of approved use"), the measures to be followed to reduce the risk and how much the doctors knew about the risk of meningioma. The researches will then analyze the answers to the questionnaire. The results will be the percentage of physicians with correct answers for each individual knowledge question from the questionnaire. The study will include information collected from a diverse sample of doctors during approximately 3 months. The doctors must have given CPAs as a treatment to at least 1 patient in the last 12 months. There are no required visits or tests in this study.

The objective of this study is to assess the parathyroid-vitamin D-calcium axis in subjects with alopecia areata. The hypothesis behind this study is that hypovitaminosis D might contribute to the pathogenesis of alopecia areata.

Pilot study intended for hair loss prevention in patients with pancreatic cancer who are receiving treatment containing nab-paclitaxel, gemcitabine and cisplatin.

The study series consists of three studies with the aim to assess the incidence, prevalence, risk factors, comorbidities and management of patients with alopecia areata in Czech Republic based on the patients and registry of a dermatology clinic of a metropolitan hospital.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can cause variable symptoms ranging from mild common cold-like symptoms to severe life threatening pneumonia. Recent studies show severe outcomes of COVID-19 patients specially in males who suffer from androgenetic alopecia, would be significant and is of particular interest of this study and could help further support the hypothesis that anti-androgen therapy might represents an additional potential intervention against severe COVID-19.

The purpose of this study is to assess whether patients with the classic form of Fabry disease have significantly less androgenic alopecia (male pattern baldness).