Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma"

This study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of VELCADE in patients with previously treated stage IIIB and IV bronchioloalveolar carcinoma and adenocarcinoma with bronchioloalveolar features.

RATIONALE: Gefitinib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking the enzymes necessary for their growth. It is not yet known whether surgery is more effective with or without gefitinib in treating ductal carcinoma in situ. PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying how well gefitinib together with surgery works compared to surgery alone for the treatment of women with ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast.

This phase I trial studies the side effects and best dose of vaccine therapy given directly into the bladder in treating patients who are undergoing surgery to remove all or part of the bladder. Vaccines made from a gene-modified virus may help the body build an effective immune response to kill tumor cells. Giving a vaccine directly into the bladder before surgery may cause a stronger immune response and keep tumor cells from coming back after surgery.

Patients with liver cirrhosis are at high risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) which implies significant mortality. At present current surveillance methods detect hepatocellular carcinomas at a late stage resulting in few treatment options for patients and, in the majority of cases, premature death. The goal of this study is to implement Elecsys® GAAD in real-world hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance for those with liver cirrhosis. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does the introduction of the Elecsys® GAAD algorithm to the surveillance pathway increase early detection of HCC? Does the introduction of the Elecsys® GAAD algorithm to the surveillance pathway reduce false positive tests and unnecessary confirmatory investigations? Does the new surveillance pathway improve adherence? Researchers will compare Elecsys® GAAD with standard of care tests to see if it results in earlier detection of hepatocellular carcinoma and will explore potential improvements to the surveillance pathway.

This Interventional Randomised Controlled study is intended to establish that presurgical margin mapping of BCCs with OCT results in a reduction of the number of MMS surgery stages without adversely impacting clinical outcome, resulting in shorter patient stays and more efficient use of surgical and operating room resources.

The purpose of the study is to identify the presence of residual superficial and nodular basal cell carcinoma (BCC) status-post curettage and desiccation (C&D) by using optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Randomized Controlled Trial to Prevent Peritoneal Seeding in Gastric Cancer

The primary objective of the study is to assess the bladder cancer recurrence free rate, according to a phase II pilot study, of intravesical instillation of sequential BCG and EMDA/MMC after TUR. The study is designed as a one-sample investigation: the outcome measure is disease recurrence rate. Follow up will continue up to 5 years. For sample size determination, disease recurrence rate will be compared with literature data of recurrence rate obtained in standard BCG alone administration (Lamm's protocol).

The hypothesis of this study is that the median time to progression in the experimental arm is 2 months as compared to the placebo arm of 1.4 months

This is a phase II monocentric study of oxaliplatin (Ox) in combination with gemcitabine (Gem; GEMOX) in patients (pts) with advanced/metastatic transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the urothelial tract.