Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma"

The aim of this non-interventional study is to provide further data on the utilization, effectiveness, safety and clinical benefit including duration of response of Vismodegib for treatment of locally advanced basal cell carcinoma (laBCC), inappropriate for surgery or radiotherapy under real world clinical conditions.

This study is to investigate the efficacy and safety of Folfox4 chemotherapy regimen to prevent early recurrence for hepatocellular carcinoma patients with portal vein tumor thrombus following curative resection

The investigators hope to compare two different methods of closing skin wounds using sutures. One of these methods (the set-back technique) was recently described in 2010 and has been reported to be technically easier and reduces the chance of spitting sutures (deep sutures that are pushed to the surface of the skin as the wound heals). The other method (the vertical mattress technique) has been used for many years with good results. However, no controlled studies have been performed to clearly demonstrate a difference between the two methods. We hope to find differences in the height of the wound edges immediately after surgery(5 minutes following the procedure) as well as the appearance of the scar and symptoms associated with the scar 3 months after surgery.

Selection criteria for safe hepatectomy for HCC are not well established. The aim of this study was the validation of the selection criteria for safe hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma.

When the bladder is removed for bladder cancer, pelvic lymph nodes (LN) are also removed. While the anatomic extent of this LN dissection is critical, the investigators often use the number of LN removed as a measure of the extent, which in turn is essential for determining the patient's further treatment and prognosis. The LN count, however, is also dependent on the pathologist's processing of the LN tissue, and the standards for this processing are poorly defined. The goal of this study is to establish a standardized method for processing and analyzing lymph node specimens. The investigators hypothesize that if an organic solvent is used to remove excess fat from the lymph nodes that the investigators will discover more clinically significant nodes in a more reproducible fashion when compared to the current method.

This is a global, multi-centre, long-term, prospective, observational study to evaluate treatment patterns and clinical outcomes in patients with advanced or metastatic RCC treated for the first time with pazopanib. The study is designed to enroll approximately 700-1000 patients in over the course of an enrollment period of approximately 18 months.There are no protocol-mandated visits or procedures associated with the study. Each patient is expected to participate for a maximum of 30 months or until premature discontinuation (i.e., due to death, withdrawal of consent, lost to follow-up or study termination).

This is a pilot study to evaluate the difference between the protein expression between hepatocellular carcinoma and tumor with vessel invasion in Asian patients with hepatocellular carcinoma.

This is a prospective, observational, non-interventional, multicenter, post-marketing surveillance study to mainly collect safety information from subjects with locally advanced and recurrent/metastatic Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck (SCCHN) treated with cetuximab based on the locally approved label.

Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma is considerably more prevalent in East Asia. Despite of relatively high prevalence of esophageal SCC, prognosis is very poor with limited options of effective chemotherapy regimens. We attempted to identify favorable subgroups of patient who are likely to benefit from 5- fluorouracil/cisplatin(FP) or capecitabine/cisplatin (XP) chemotherapy as first-line treatment.Between January 2000 to December 2010, 239 patients were diagnosed of recurrent, metastatic esophageal SCC and received either FP or XP as first-line chemotherapy. Clinicopathologic variables and treatment outcome were retrospectively collected. we analysis treatment outcome of palliative chemotherapy in metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma and make prognostic scoring system. The present study represents the largest series to analyze the treatment outcome of FP/XP chemotherapy in metastatic SCC. Risk-adapted stratification of treatment for subgroup of metastatic SCC patients should be actively pursued.

This registry study is national, multi-center, prospective study without any interventions to the treatment strategies and/or decisions of the investigators. It is designed in order to determine the general profile of HCC patients in Turkey. Socio-demographic characteristics, family history, medical history and treatment pattern of HCC patients will be evaluated.