Active clinical trials for "Urinary Bladder Neoplasms"

This randomized clinical trial studies the Family Caregiver Palliative Care Intervention in supporting caregivers of patients with stage II-IV gastrointestinal, gynecologic, urologic and lung cancers. Education and telephone counseling may reduce stress and improve the well-being and quality of life of caregivers of cancer patients.

Transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURB) has been essential treatment for bladder tumours. Direct electrical stimulation of an obturator nerve during the TURB procedures can trigger an inadvertent adductor muscle spasm, which can cause a serious complication like bladder perforation. General anesthesia with muscle relaxants for TURB does not guarantee a prevention of the adductor muscle spasm. Spinal anesthesia with selective obturator nerve block (ONB) can be an alternative anesthesia for TURB, but adductor spasm can also be induced because of incomplete ONB. Recently, ultrasound guidance with nerve stimulator has been used to enhance the safety, efficacy and shortening the onset time of ONB. Some papers describe that comparable ONB can be done using ultrasound only without nerve stimulator, in which there is a principle that obturator nerve runs along a given pathway. Basically, obturator nerve is divided into two branches after exiting the obturator canal. The anterior branch is located in the fascial planes among adductor longus, adductor brevis and pectineus muscles, and the posterior branch is located between the adductor brevis and adductor magnus muscles at the inguinal area. But it has been known that there are many branching patterns of obturator nerve and high anatomic variability in the inguinal area in a cadaver study. And subdivisions of obturator nerve in the inguinal area have been described. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the success rate of ultrasound-guided obturator nerve block with interfascial injection approach group (US-IFI; experimental group) was comparable to ultrasound-guided obturator nerve block with nerve stimulating approach group (US-NS; control group) in TURB under spinal anesthesia. And we also evaluated adductor muscle twitching patterns at the inguinal region when the ONB was performed.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a goal directed nutritional intervention can reduce the convalescence period for patients undergoing radical cystectomy (RC). The aim is to examine the effect on quality of life of a standard nutritional strategy of resting the bowel till clear signs of bowel recovery and feeding orally after bowel recovery versus a goal-directed nutritional intervention combining oral intake and parenteral nutrition, in patients undergoing RC.

RATIONALE: Physician-initiated smoking cessation strategies may be effective in getting early-stage cancer patients to quit smoking. PURPOSE: Randomized clinical trial to compare the effectiveness of a physician-initiated stop-smoking program with the usual care for patients receiving treatment for early-stage cancer.

Compare the different supposed clinical treatment of side effects associated with intravesical BCG by levofloxacin (quinolones) vs solifenacin (selective anti-muscarinic) vs lornoxicam (NSAID)

ABACUS is an open-label, international, multi-centre, window of opportunity phase II trial for patients with histologically confirmed (T2-T4a) transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder. The trial aims to test the efficacy of preoperative MPDL3280A and will include extensive biomarker work on samples from these patients. Eligible patients will receive two 3-weekly cycles of MPDL3280A pre-cystectomy. Following cystectomy, patients will be followed up for safety, survival, and disease data.

Primary Objective: To show that small pTa bladder tumors can be removed with diode laser in an outpatient department. Secondary Objective: To evaluate the patients' symptoms during and after the laser TURBT. Tertiary Objective: To evaluate the rate of remnant tumor tissue one month after the laser TURBT.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of applying cryoablation as an adjuvant therapy with TUR to treat bladder tumor.

This pilot research trial studies how well myeloid derived suppressor cells (MDSC) clinical assay works in finding and monitoring cancer cells in blood and urine samples from patients with or without localized or metastatic bladder cancer. Studying samples of blood and urine from patients with or without bladder cancer in the laboratory may help doctors identify and learn more about biomarkers related to cancer and may help doctors improve ways to diagnose and treat patients.

This study compare the efficacy of conventional photodynamic (PDD) guided transurethral bladder tumor resection in the operating theatre with outpatient PDD guided laser destruction of bladder tumors through flexible cystoscopes.