Active clinical trials for "Carcinoma"

Digestive carcinomas chemotherapies regimen are mostly based on fluoropyrimidine drugs (5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) or capecitabine). 5-FU is mainly catabolised by dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) and partial or complete DPD deficiency can cause severe adverse reactions. Different strategies have been proposed to predict DPD deficiency; the two main approaches are phenotyping the enzyme activity (directly or indirectly), or genotyping the four main polymorphisms associated with 5-FU-toxicity. In February 2018, the French medicines agency (Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé, ANSM) recommended DPD genotyping for all patients receiving fluoropyrimidine-based treatment to improve its safety as compared to the European Medicines Agency (EMA)13 and others pharmacogenetics working group. In December 2018, a new guideline from the French cancer institute (Institut National Du Cancer, INCa) and the French health authority (Haute Autorité de Santé, HAS) recommended the measurement of the uracil blood level before genotyping DPD and dose adaptation if this level is greater than 16 ng/mL. The aim herein is to assess how this recommendation has been implemented in clinical routine. 5-FU displays a dose-response relationship regarding both its efficacy and its toxicity, did tailored-dose impair the treatment efficacy as it decreased the risk of toxicity? To address that matter we conducted a retrospective study to evaluate how fluoropyrimidine dosage is adapted to uracil concentration with an emphasis on how patients outcome were affected. We compared time to failure and overall survival between patients with an uracil concentration < 16 ng/mL and > or = 16 ng/mL.

atients with cancer face difficult choices that require balancing competing priorities such as survival, functional capacity and symptom relief. Most patients with advanced cancer (>80%) expect their sensitive discussions with physicians about prognosis and treatment choices, in order to be involved in the decision making process. Nevertheless, this kind of discussion is frequently lacking. Consequently, patients often have a biased view of their own prognosis such as an underestimation of disease severity, or unrealistic expectations for cure. Patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) may be treated with systemic therapies which may prolong survival, but are not curative. Patients with advanced HCC often report expectations for survival and treatment-related side-effects that differ from their treating physician. Accordingly, communication on prognostic and treatment choices is essential to obtain an accurate understanding of the disease that allows patients to make informed decisions. To the best of our knowledge, a thorough evaluation of the physician-patient communication quality has never been performed in advanced HCC patients. The aim of our study, is to assess the perception of the expected prognosis, the treatment side-effects; by the patient and by his investigator during the first consultation before the initiation

This is a retrospective real-world study to evaluate the efficacy and feasibility of modified reduce-volume target IMRT in the treatment of patients with non-metastatic NPC

This study aims to explore the value of 68Ga-FAPI PET/CT in the diagnosis of gastric cancer peritoneal carcinomatosis in high-risk patients compared with conventional abdominal enhanced CT and 18F-FDG PET/CT. The patients with gastric adenocarcinoma (cT4/N+/M0-1) will be studied.

The study aims to assess clinical outcomes in mRCC patients treated with sunitinib in second-line following IO therapy in real world clinical practices.

Inflammation plays an important role in the pathogenesis of peritoneal carcinosis. Patients with elevated levels of different inflammation cytokines show a worse prognosis at the time of diagnosis. In women, ovarian and colon cancer are the main causes of peritoneal carcinosis and a comparison of these two different types of peritoneal invasion have not been conducted yet. We found interesting studying the role of immune response, in particular tumour-associated antigens (TAA) that modulate the metastatic process. We will investigate also mitochondrial defects, such as mutations in mt-DNA, potentially involved in carcinogenesis.

This trial is a multi-center, phase III, randomized (1:1) clinical trial. The aim is to explore the efficacy and safety of Sorafenib combined with transarterial chemoembolization as adjuvant treatment for resectable advanced hepatocellular carcinoma, compared with Sorafenib alone. The primary endpoint is recurrence-free survival. This trial planned to recruit 158 patients who received curative hepatic resection with resectable advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. The patients will be randomized into Sorafenib group and Sorafenib+TACE group as 1:1 ratio.

To provide comprehensive efficacy and safety profiles of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NCRT) versus neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NCT) versus surgery alone in resectable oesophageal carcinoma.

The combination of pEBV DNA (half-life) and PET-CT following 1 course of chemotherapy allow earlier and more detection of drug response in advanced NPC than RECIST method, in patients with previously untreated advanced NPC who will receive platinum-based chemotherapy. This study will also determine if this new method can predict survival in these patients. This study may have far-reaching impact on drug development in NPC as it may offer a more optimal way of evaluating drug efficacy in clinical trials and also in clinical management.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the tumors with a rising incidence worldwide. The aim of this trial is to improve the detection of early HCC nodules in the liver. At the moment screening for HCC in patients with liver cirrhosis is performed by ultrasound and measurement of alpha- fetoprotein (AFP). In this trail the tumor markers AFP- L3 (a subfraction of AFP) and Des-y- carboxyprothromib (DCP) are measured in addition in order to receive information about the course of these markers before the detection of a HCC nodule.