Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma"

Clinical research participation has historically been heavily biased toward specific demographics. This study will invite several participants to gather a wide range of information on clinical trial experiences for squamous cell carcinoma patients. The aim of the study is to identify the factors that limit the ability of a person to enroll in, as well as complete a clinical trial for treatment of squamous cell carcinoma. People with squamous cell carcinoma who are invited to take part in clinical research will benefit from the analysis of the data.

Thyroid cancer is a common head and neck malignancy. It is the most common endocrine tumor in the body accounting for 1% of all cancers worldwide. The incidence of thyroid cancer varies worldwide. Most countries have reported an upward trend in its incidence. Thyroid cancer encompass the most common well-differentiated papillary carcinoma (80% of all thyroid cancers) and follicular carcinoma (15%), as well as poorly differentiated carcinoma (< 1%) and anaplastic carcinoma (< 2%). Papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTCs) are the most commonly encountered thyroid malignancies. The diagnosis of PTC is based on the special nuclear features such as overlapping of nuclei, intranuclear inclusions, optical clearing, anisonucleosis and nuclear grooves. However, it is often difficult to differentiate PTC from benign papillary thyroid hyperplasia . As differentiation between benign or malignant thyroid lesions has clinical, therapeutic, and prognostic significance, it is necessary to make accurate diagnosis by using biomarkers. Recently, a large number of immunohistochemical (IHC) markers have been studied to assist in differentiating non-neoplastic lesions from malignant thyroid lesions. CK19, galectin-3, TG, Ki67, BRAF, calcitonin, HBME-1, TTF-1, and RET are some of the examples of these IHC markers. Galectin-3 is a 31-kDa β-galactoside binding lectin. It has been shown to be expressed by several types of non-neoplastic and neoplastic cells, and it is involved in cell-cell adhesion and in cell-matrix interactions.

Evaluating the nutrition status of patients with advanced HCC who received sorafenib. Using the pretreatment nutrition status and quality of life as predictors to sorafenib response

This project will clarify the potential interaction between HBV infection and steatosis, and their impact on genetic alterations and tumor immune microenvironment.

The aim of this study is to investigate the toxicity and immune response of therapy with tumor infiltrating lymphocytes as adjuvant treatment for head and neck cancer after primary operation and radiotherapy. Patient will receive a single treatment consisting of conditioning chemotherapy for seven days (cyclophosphamide for two days and fludarabine for five days), intravenous infusion of high number of in vitro expanded tumor infiltrating lymphocytes followed by two weeks with daily low-dose interleukine-2. Patients will be evaluated for toxicity and immune response.

The goal of this trial is to demonstrate the potential clinical benefit of irinotecan chemotherapy in patients with a specific NSCLC phenotype, ISG15-positive. The use of irinotecan in subjects with ISG15-positive NSCLC will be associated with an improved rate of clinical benefit (objective response, disease stability, and time to progression) compared to historical controls that were not previously selected for ISG-15 expression.

This clinical trial is studying how well lymph node mapping and sentinel lymph node identification work in finding lymph node metastases in patients with stage IB1 cervical cancer. Diagnostic procedures, such as lymph node mapping and sentinel lymph node identification, performed before and during surgery, may improve the ability to detect lymph node metastases in patients who have cervical cancer.

The goal of this interventional clinical trial is to evaluate the dose of radiation of Technetium-99m macroaggregated-albumin (99mTc-MAA) after an intra-arterial injection to the whole body and non-liver critical organs in patients who are undergoing evaluation for SIR-Spheres treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma.

This randomized clinical trial studies prophylactic colony stimulating factor management in patients with breast, colorectal or non-small cell lung cancer receiving chemotherapy and with risk of developing febrile neutropenia. Patients receiving chemotherapy may develop febrile neutropenia. Febrile neutropenia is a condition that involves fever and a low number of neutrophils (a type of white blood cell) in the blood. Febrile neutropenia increases the risk of infection. Colony stimulating factors are medications sometimes given to patients receiving chemotherapy to prevent febrile neutropenia. Colony stimulating factors are given to patients based on guidelines. Some clinics have an automated system that helps doctors decide when to prescribe them when there is a high risk of developing febrile neutropenia. Gathering information about the use of an automated system to prescribe prophylactic colony stimulating factor may help doctors use colony stimulating factor when it is needed.

Evaluates the effect of EPA supplementation in terms of muscle mass in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck locally advanced