Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma"

This pilot clinical trial studies magnetic resonance thermal image guided laser interstitial thermal therapy in treating patients with breast cancer. Magnetic resonance thermal image guided laser interstitial thermal therapy may be able to kill tumor cells by heating up the tumor cells without affecting the surrounding tissue

Background: Survival rates for colorectal cancer depend on a number of factors, including the existence of tumors outside the colon and rectum. Patients who had tumors elsewhere in the abdomen (such as in the peritoneum or ovaries) when they were diagnosed, as well as patients who had bleeding or obstruction when they were diagnosed, have a high risk of cancer recurrence even after surgery or other treatment. If additional tumors are discovered early and removed while they are still small (often before they can show up on scans), survival rates may improve. In addition, patients who receive a heated chemotherapy solution delivered directly to the abdomen often have better treatment outcomes regardless of whether additional tumors were found. Further research can help determine the usefulness of both of these treatments in improving the outcomes of patients with colorectal cancer. Objectives: - To determine whether patients who have had surgery for colorectal cancer have improved outcomes after receiving additional surgery combined with direct chemotherapy, compared with those who receive the current standard of care. Eligibility: - Individuals at least 18 years of age who have had surgery for colorectal cancer within the past 14 months, who are considered to be at high risk for cancer recurrence, and whose current imaging scans show no signs of additional tumors. Design: Participants will be divided into two treatment groups: a surgery group and a standard of care group. Participants who had surgery less than 11 months ago will be enrolled in a 3-month lead-in phase to receive standard follow-up care, including labs, scans, and physical examinations, before being randomized to a treatment group between 11 and 14 months after surgery. Participants who had surgery between 11 and 14 months ago will be randomized at the time of enrollment. Participants in the surgery group will have the following procedures within 2 weeks of randomization: Abdominal surgery where surgeons will look for and remove any tumors and take biopsies to check for cancer cells Heated chemotherapy, with three chemotherapy drugs administered directly to the abdomen In-patient recovery and follow-up visits beginning 3 to 6 weeks after discharge. Participants in the standard of care group will have the standard follow-up schedule for high-risk colorectal cancer patients: Clinic evaluations every 3 months for 2 years, and then every 6 months for 3 years and yearly thereafter....

[18F] FMISO Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to determine hypoxia in patients with HCC treated with TACE.

A phase II, open label, single arm, single agent study using nivolumab in patients who failed 2 or more lines of previous chemotherapy for recurrent/metastatic NPC (At least 1 line should include platinum based chemotherapy)

This is a randomized phase II study comparing microwave ablation (MWA) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for localized hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). This trial will be the first prospective comparison of these modalities for the treatment of HCC and will provide critical information regarding which local ablative modality is most appropriate for which patients. This study will also provide important information regarding quality of life and liver function changes following these two different treatment modalities.

The main objective is to describe the evolution of patients treated for a primary malignant hepatobiliary tumor (hepatocellular carcinoma or cholangiocarcinoma) over the long course.

Cytoreductive surgery with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) has prolonged the survival substantially for selected patients with peritoneal metastases from colorectal cancer.Bleeding and thromboembolic disease have been reported as postoperative complications related to this advanced open surgical treatment. However, perioperative changes in coagulation and fibrinolysis are only sparsely reported in the literature.The mainstay of treatment with curative intend of none-advanced colorectal cancer is minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy. The approach is considered associated with a lower risk of thromboembolic disease than open surgery. Despite differences in extent of surgery and thromboembolic risk the same extended thromboprophylaxis regimen for 28 days is currently prescribed to patients undergoing cytoreductive surgery with HIPEC as well as minimally invasive rectal cancer resection. This study aims to investigate all parts of the coagulation system and fibrinolysis, and thereby thromboembolic risk and potential bleeding in two groups of patients with different extent of surgical trauma: 1) Colorectal cancer patients undergoing cytoreductive surgery with HIPEC and 2) rectal cancer patients undergoing minimal invasive rectal cancer resection. Our hypothesis is that patients undergoing cytoreductive surgery with HIPEC are exposed to more aggravated alterations of coagulation and fibrinolysis than patients undergoing minimally invasive rectal cancer resection.

This study is a dynamically adjustable prospective longitudinal study designed to capture biospecimen (biopsy, blood, surgical) and multimodal treatment (imaging, dosimetry, clinical) data before, during, and after treatment with definitive-intent standard of care (SOC) chemoradiotherapy (CRT) for patients with locally advanced cervical and pancreatic cancer.

The goal of this observational study is to apply the CNN-based DL method to extract the three-dimensional spatial information of IMRT dose distribution to predict the occurrence probability of serious radiotherapy and chemotherapy induced oral mucositis(SRCOM), and compare with a model based on dosimetry, NTCP or doseomics to improve the prediction accuracy of SRCOM, thus guiding the clinical planning design, reducing the occurrence probability of OM, and may have the potential value of preventing serious complications and improving the quality of life in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

In this study, various health care professionals will follow an E-learning module in which BCC detection on OCT is explained. Thereafter, the participants will test their skill by assessing OCT-scans. Their performance will be monitored using cumulative-sum analysis. After completion, newly trained OCT assessors will test their diagnostic accuracy for BCC detection on OCT in a exploratory study. The trainability, amount of required training and diagnostic accuracy will be compared between dermatologist and non-dermatologists.