Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma"

This study was designed to verify the role of salivary LINC00657 as a diagnostic marker in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) patients as compared to oral lichen planus (OLP) (as an example of oral potentially malignant lesions) and normal individuals, and to show its relation to miR-106a. A total of 36 participants were included.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is characterized with vascular invasion, particularly of the portal vein, resulting in portal vein tumor thrombus (PVTT) in 10%-40% of HCC patients at the time of HCC diagnosis. The prognosis of these patients is extremely poor.Treatment efficacy and safety using a combined therapy (TACE-HAIC combined with TKIs and PD-1 inhibitors) were compared with TACE alone in treatment of HCC patients with PVTT.

A patient decision aid (PDA) was tested in a population of patients with superficial basal cell carcinoma. This study evaluates whether the use of a PDA improved outcomes like decisional conflict and knowledge.

Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a tumor originating from parafollicular C cells of the thyroid. (1) Representing 1 to 7% of all thyroid carcinoma cases (2, 3, 4). It can occur in two clinical forms, the sporadic or non-hereditary, in 75-80% of patients, and the hereditary form in the remaining 20-25%. It can be part of different clinical syndromes depending on the organs involved: Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 2A (MEN2A), Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 2B (MEN2B) and Familial Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma (FCM) whose clinical expression is only CMT. A distinctive characteristic of this tumor is its capacity to secrete calcitonin (CT), which, measured in serum, sanctions suspicion of this pathology (5-8) leading to diagnostic studies to confirm CMT. For the preoperative diagnosis of thyroid nodules, ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is a useful and safe procedure; however, its sensitivity to exclude CMT is low (9-15). In 2015, a meta-analysis of 15 studies (16) found that the accuracy of FNAC in diagnosing CMT was around 50%. For this reason, other studies have indicated that the measurement of calcitonin in the fine-needle lavage aspirate fluid of thyroid nodules (CT-guided FNAC), which have suspected medullary carcinoma, can significantly improve the accuracy in the diagnosis of MTC (17 -19). Therefore, clinical practice guidelines recommend its determination in patients with suspected MTC (1,2). The diagnostic importance of pre-surgical medullary carcinoma lies mainly in two points: first, it changes the surgical approach of the patients, and second, it allows one to rule out associated pathologies such as hyperparathyroidism and pheochromocytoma, which are associated when the entity is hereditary. The performance of CT-guided FNAC by the chemiluminescent (CL) method has been widely disseminated. However, to the best of our knowledge, to date there are no data available on the appropriate cut-off value of CT-guided FNAC with calcitonin electrochemiluminescence (ECL) immunometric assay method. As previously stated, it is of particular interest to determine the calcitonin cut-off point in needle washing by electrochemiluminescence method that allows diagnosing medullary carcinoma. Clarifying this point allows improving the approach to patients in whom medullary carcinoma is suspected. This work seeks to determine the cut-off point of CT-guided FNAC for the diagnosis of CMT with the ECL assay method.

The purpose of this study is to describe the following safety and the efficacy of Lenvima for the first-line treatment indication of participants with uHHC in the post marketing setting: (1) Serious adverse events and serious adverse drug reactions (2) Unexpected adverse events and adverse drug reactions not reflected in the precautions for use (3) Known adverse drug reactions (4) Non-serious adverse drug reactions (5) Other safety and efficacy related information.

This study is aiming to evaluate the clinical efficacy of complete laparoscopic resection of recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

This research trial studies comprehensive patient questionnaires in predicting complications in older patients with gynecologic cancer undergoing surgery. Comprehensive patient questionnaires completed before surgery may help identify complications, such as the need for assistance in taking medications, decreased mobility, decreased social activity, and falls, and may improve outcomes for older patients with gynecologic cancer.

Metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC) is the most common malignant tumour of the kidneys. Targeted therapies, which were recently introduced in the treatment of mRCC, have become the standard treatment in these patients. With improved survival rate and a tolerable side effect profile, Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors (TKIs) have largely replaced conventional immunotherapies worldwide. In Turkey, due to reimbursement conditions, cytokine (interferon alpha) treatment is the standard treatment as first-line therapy. Therefore, the data on quality of life (QoL) from the pivotal studies with standard TKI treatment does not reflect the QoL status of patients treated with TKIs as second or third line treatment in Turkey. In this study, the clinical outcomes and the impact on quality of life of targeted treatments following TKIs will be explored. To our knowledge, since there is no similar reimbursement condition in the world placing IFN as the first line standard treatment, this will be the first study evaluating the QoL status with targeted therapies used as 3rd line treatment in mRCC patients.

The overall aim of this population-based screening study is to assess whether the skin cancer screening training of family physicians and dermatologists leads to improved screening outcomes. The training course aims to increase the accuracy of detecting early stages of skin cancer. Screening outcomes of an intervention region (Calgary, Canada) in which physicians receive training will be compared with screening outcomes of a control region (Edmonton, Canada) where no physician training is administered. The investigators will determine whether: clinical screening outcomes are more favorable in the group of trained physicians compared to non trained physicians there is an increase of knowledge about skin cancer screening among trained physicians, compared to non trained physicians skin cancer screenings are associated with psycho-social harms population-based screening has an effect on the overall incidence and stage-specific-incidence of skin cancer in Alberta The investigators are aiming to recruit 100 physicians per region (total of 200 physicians) who will screen 40,000 to 80,000 individuals over a period of 20 months.

Non-persistence to adjuvant hormonal therapy for breast cancer at 5 years decrease its efficacy. The objective of this study is to know the women experience (persistence, treatment changes, quality of life) and its determinants, in a french population.