Active clinical trials for "Prostatic Neoplasms"

The investigators aim at comparing the perceived clarity of personal values in men considering PSA screening using decision aids with no VCM versus an implicit VCM versus an explicit VCM. This study will add to the body of evidence on the role of decision aids to support health preference-sensitive choices and provide further insight on the impact of different methods for eliciting people's values embedded within a decision aid.

Prostate cancer is the 7th leading cause of cancer death for men in Taiwan. It is important to identify the extent of disease extent to deliver adequate treatment, either for primary staging or in recurrence. However, conventional imaging techniques including computed tomography, bone scintigraphy, and immunoscintigraphy with 111In-capromab pendetide are not sensitive or specific enough to detect metastatic or recurrent disease. Although more widely applied, magnetic resonance still relies on size and shape criteria. 68Ga-PSMA is a new novel positron emission radiotracer which several preliminary data has shown to be effective of detecting recurrent or metastatic prostate cancer. These studies are confined to a small retrospective European population. In this study we aim to synthesize the novel tracer, find the usefulness of 68Ga-PSMA PET in detecting prostate cancer, including primary staging and recurrence, explore the relationship between imaging and clinical parameters, and seek the possibility of 68Ga-PSMA PET to predict tumor nature and prognosis.

As prostate cancer progresses into castration-resistant stage from initial hormone-sensitive status, the biological behavior of tumor cells that dissociated from primary lesions changed. Considered a "liquid biopsy," these circulating tumor cells (CTCs) can show how a patient's cancer responded to treatments. The purpose of this study is to determine whether sequentially analyzing the expression of molecular markers in high volume circulating tumor cells in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer patients can predict the therapeutic effects and outcomes of these patients.

This study will replicate/validate the risk prediction model developed for the Comparative Effectiveness Analysis of Surgery and Radiation (CEASAR) study in a more diverse patient population to assess generalizability of the model as well as evaluate the relative contribution of the Decipher Prostate Cancer Test and ProstateNext Test from Ambry Genetics, to the risk prediction model for estimating treatment outcomes, and thereby improve personalization of treatment options.

The purpose of this study is to test how a weight management program affects substances in the blood called biomarkers that can show the presence or severity of cancer, compared to a standardized diet and exercise educational flyer.

The study aims to identify potential urine marker metabolites as predictive or prognostic markers for treatment outcomes in patients with prostate cancer.

The investigator prospectively compare diagnostic concordance of whole body multi---parametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with current conventional multi---modality reference standard imaging (CT scan, isotope bone scan +/--- PET---CT scan) for staging of prostate cancer patients with biochemical relapse following external beam radiotherapy or brachytherapy of locally advanced prostate cancer.

The purpose of this study is to describe the urinary morbidity as a result surgery and radiation therapy, in patients treated for prostate cancer. All the patients will undergo a Urodynamic examination to verify the grade of Urinary morbidity.

This is to prospectively investigate whether the chemopreventive agent, MCS, may favorably alter biomarker expression, whether serum carotenoids levels are associated with biomarkers levels, and whether the alterations of biomarker expression may reflect the cancer risk as shown by cancer incidence at the end of the clinical trial.

There are substantial uncertainties with contemporary seed placement techniques in prostate brachytherapy, particularly with the impact of seed movement after an implant due to edema and migration of seeds in the prostate and peri-prostatic tissues. This study will accrue 20 patients undergoing prostate brachytherapy implants and perform serial CT and MRI scans at specified intervals (pre-operatively, day 0, day 3, day 10 and day 28) to characterize these phenomena.