Active clinical trials for "Uterine Cervical Neoplasms"

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as paclitaxel, carboplatin, and cisplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill tumor cells. Giving combination chemotherapy together with radiation therapy may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving paclitaxel together with carboplatin followed by cisplatin and radiation therapy works in treating patients with stage IB, stage II, stage III, or stage IVA cervical cancer.

This prospective randomized pilot study is aimed to verify if the operative time of a LRH with pelvic lymphadenectomy for early stage cervical cancer (FIGO stages IA2-IB1-IIA<2cm) and for advanced stage cervical cancer (FIGO stages IB2-IIA>2cm-IIB) submitted to neoadjuvant chemotherapy with complete clinical response could be reduced using Thunderbeat (an ultrasonic energy device that incises and coagulates by using ultrasonic and bipolar technology ) (Olympus Medical Systems Corp, Tokyo) vs. bipolar electrosurgery . Secondary endpoints of this comparison are incidence of intra- or postoperative complications, estimated blood loss, postoperative pain, days of hospitalization and costs for the health care system.

The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and complication of the treatment of pelvic external combined with 252-Cf neutron intracavitary radiotherapy with or without platinum in local advanced cervical cancer patients in the short and long term.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficiency and safety of weekly Cisplatin /Liposome paclitaxel concurrent chemoradiothrapy in the treatment of locally advanced cervical cancer in elderly women.

This study evaluates the safety, the immunological response and the clinical outcome of a vaccination with survivin peptides for patients with advanced melanoma, pancreatic, colon and cervical carcinoma.

The purpose of this study is to gain information about intravaginal practices, like intravaginal "twalet deba", among Haitian women living in South Florida. Intravaginal "twalet deba" may include douching, cleaning inside the vagina with different kinds of products, or using steam/vapor that enter the vagina. The investigators want to help learn the best way to increase early detection and/or prevention for cervical cancer. The investigators would like to know what plants, herbs, commercial products and medicines are used in these practices, how these products are prepared, applied, why these products are used, and how these products affect the vagina and cervix.

When a woman has an abnormal pap smear or tests positive for a high risk strain of the HPV virus, the current standard of care includes culposcopic examination of the cervix with biopsy. A culposcope is essentially a microscope for examining the cervix. Culposcopes cost $5-10,000 each. The device being tested in this trial is an adaptor for a smart phone that will cost ~ $125. The larger goal of this line of studies see if the images obtained using the smart phone adaptor are non-inferior to those obtained with standard culposcopes. If the device is found to provide images equal to those of standard culposscopes, it could save thousands of dollars in healthcare expenditure currently that go to the purchase and maintenance of culposcopes. This has potential world-wide applications, especially for resource poor countries. This initial trial is a non-inferiority trial to compare the images obtained with the smart phone based device of those obtained by a standard culposcope

Cervical cancer in young patients increased significantly in recent years, and early surgical treatment for patients with 5 years of survival rate is as high as 90%, But the traditional extensive hysterectomy (RH) caused by intraoperative pelvic autonomic nerve may damage the bladder and rectum and the incidence of complications such as sexual dysfunction is nearly 25% to 80%, thus seriously affect the patient's quality of life.Pelvic autonomic nerve preservation system of extensive hysterectomy (NSRH) can decrease the complications of above, but at home and abroad mainly adopts pulling the urine tube time, determination methods of residual urine volume, bladder function are studied in only a few scholars urine flow mechanics method is applied to carry on objective appraisal limited cases of postoperative bladder function, and the anorectal function damage ，we can use the anorectal dynamics to get objective index of anorectal function .overall research lack of large sample research of dynamic system. No objective index to evaluate the anorectal function In the early stage of the study, we have conducted about uterine ligament, sacral ligaments and nerve distribution of the bladder cervix vaginal ligament of experimental research, provide the neural anatomy basis for NSRH operation, and based on research for innovative operation scheme is put forward.Proposed on the basis of the above research, this study adopt the internationally used - urine flow mechanics, the method for evaluating the bladder function of NSRH, RH, two kinds of the injured function of bladder surgery patients before and after operation of comparative study, the change of dynamic assessment before and after surgery in patients with bladder function,and the anorectal function dameage and than provide the basis for further treatment.

This is a single-center prospective clinical trial to evaluate non-inferiority of indocyanine green guided sentinel lymph node biopsy compared with the gold standard Technecium99 guided sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with cancers and subjected to surgery. The diagnostic performance and the tolerance of indocyanine green (ICG) to the radio-isotope (Techniciun99) in the detection of sentinel lymph nodes will be assess using an "Optonuclear" probe (EURORAD S.A.) and QUEST camera

The central hypothesis is that use of mIVAA (mobile Inspección Visual con Ácido Acético - Spanish for Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid (VIA)) will increase the proportion of VIA positive women who complete follow-up clinical evaluation compared to VIA positive women in situations in which mIVAA was not used, thus potentially improving cervical cancer treatment and survival rates. The study will collect qualitative and quantitative data to examine the feasibility and preliminary impact of mIVAA on reducing attrition for follow-up clinical evaluations.