Active clinical trials for "Colorectal Neoplasms"

Gastric cancer and colorectal cancer are common gastrointestinal malignancies in the world.Early cancer generally has no obvious symptoms. Endoscopy is the "gold standard"for the diagnosis of gastric cancer and colorectal cancer.gastric cancer and colorectal cancer treatment mainly includes surgery and medication.Compared with traditional diagnosis and treatment methods, the application of gene detection technology, especially high-throughput sequencing technology (NGS) in tumor diagnosis and treatment, performs multi-dimensional and multi-target detection of cancer-related genes, which can quickly and accurately determine the target gene mutations Morphology and expression differences, so as to provide personalized guidance to patients in terms of medication, treatment or prognosis evaluation, which can save a lot of time and treatment costs, and improve the overall treatment effect and patient quality of life. Cystoscopy and biopsy sampling pathological testing are the gold standard for bladder cancer diagnosis, and have been widely used in clinical diagnosis and prognosis judgment. However, cystoscopy is cumbersome, expensive, and often causes pain to the patients under test. At present, the main clinical non-invasive detection technique for bladder cancer is still the cytological examination of urinary tract bladder cells in urine, and its sensitivity and specificity are not good, especially for the diagnosis of early lower grade bladder cancer.For bladder cancer, tumor tissue (puncture biopsy or surgical resection) DNA, urine ctDNA, urinary tract exfoliated cell DNA and peripheral blood ctDNA can be used for genetic testing, but the consistency of the genetic testing results of these four types of samples has not been verified, especially There is no systematic evaluation of the guidance effect of non-invasive gene detection of free tumor DNA and urinary tract shed cell DNA in the diagnosis and treatment of bladder cancer.The corresponding relationship between the significant mutation genes contained in the DNA derived from bladder urinary tract cancer and the various types and stages of bladder cancer is not clear.

The present study is aimed at detecting and measuring mRNA levels of genes involved in epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) in biological samples, i.e. in peripheral blood samples of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients and healthy controls, to determine the presence of disease, its progression and risk of recurrence.

With increasing age and the additional impact from the bowel cancer and the chemotherapy and/ or radiotherapy it has been described that testosterone (a male hormone produced naturally in the body) levels are reduced. Testosterone has an impact on numerous body functions including the muscle mass and quality. Previous studies have identified that muscle mass is reduced as a result of ageing but also because of the deleterious effect of cancer and chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy. There is growing evidence from published studies that patients with better muscle mass and quality, do better after surgery. Mr Jenkins and his team are therefore looking at ways, the investigators can try and prevent or reduce this muscle loss and therefore improve patient outcomes. The aim of this study is to assess whether using testosterone replacement therapy in the form of a topically applied gel daily for a total of 12 weeks, is feasible and acceptable by the patients who are diagnosed with colorectal cancer and are waiting to undergo surgery. The investigators will also collect information related to the testosterone replacement therapy such as questionnaires on the quality of life, fatigue and muscle mass, and blood biomarker changes in the blood.

This randomized clinical trial studies how well neomycin and metronidazole hydrochloride with or without polyethylene glycol work in reducing infection in patients undergoing elective colorectal surgery. Polyethylene glycol, may draw water from the body into the colon, flushing out the contents of the colon. Antibiotics, like neomycin and metronidazole hydrochloride, may stop bacteria from growing. It is not yet known whether it's better to give preoperative neomycin and metronidazole hydrochloride with or without polyethylene glycol in reducing surgical site infection after colorectal surgery.

Worldwide, nearly 1.25 million patients are diagnosed with and more than 600,000 patients die from colorectal cancer each year. The third leading cause of death is colorectal cancer in Taiwan 2012. The current treatments for colorectal cancer including surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy are prescribed to improve survival and lower the risk of recurrence. However, disease and treatment-related toxicities in cancer patients may result in fatigue and interfered quality of life (QoL). Previous studies have reported that cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is the most common symptom experienced by patients at all stage of diseases, it can occur during treatment, in advanced disease and in disease-free survivors; the prevalence of fatigue is reported to be between 59-96% in patients undergoing chemotherapy, 65-100% in patients receiving radiation therapy, and 30% in long term survivors. Also, CRF has been reported as the most frequent and distressing toxicity of colon and rectal chemotherapy. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has published guidelines for the definition of CRF as ''a persistent subjective sense of physical, emotional, and/or cognitive tiredness or exhaustion related to cancer or cancer treatment that is not proportional to recent activity and that significantly interferes with usual functioning." Besides, CRF could dynamically change with the interactions among disease progression, treatment regimen, tumor site, nutrition, infection or other factors. Therefore, to minimize the impact of CRF on cancer patients, more in-depth researches on CRF are needed. The aim of this longitudinal study is to examine the dynamic changes, correlated factors and QoL of CRF among colorectal cancer patients during adjuvant chemotherapy. Furthermore, the results will supply physicians with more understanding about CRF, and help them to enhance the quality on cancer care to being perfected in the future.

As a newly developed subject, metabolomics can detect accurately and quantitatively small molecule metabolites such as proteins, carbohydrates and lipids from plasma, tissue and even single cell, which aims to analyze systemic dynamic change during physiological and pathological processes, and thus reveals certain reactions that whole organism responds to specific stimulation. Colorectal cancer is one of common gastrointestinal tumors, whose morbidity rate tends to increase in recent years for modern diet and life style, and colectomy serves as one standard treatment for it. Under total stimulation of surgical operation, general anesthesia and mechanical ventilation, a series of stress reactions happen complicatedly to colorectal patients during anesthesia-ventilation process. Without timely recognition and management of adverse reactions, side effects like hypoxemia, hemorrhage, inflammation, and even death will happen intraoperatively or postoperatively. With different metabolomics methods applied to collect, detect and analyze blood samples, metabolomics provides an innovatory approach to elucidate systemic response during anesthesia-colectomy process with multi-factors included. By analyzing and comparing dramatic alteration of small molecule metabolites in colorectal cancer patients' or healthy controls' plasma in this project, data can reflect the influence of certain disease (colorectal cancer), anesthetics and mechanical ventilation on colorectal patients with colectomy, which is helpful for prevention and treatment of intraoperative and postoperative complications.

Although patients of colorectal cancer use Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) herbal therapy extensively in China, no strong evidence exists to demonstrate the safety and survival outcomes of TCM herbal therapy combined with conventional western medicine for treatment of this disease. The purpose of this multi-center perspective cohort study is to evaluate the relationship between TCM herbal therapy and survival outcomes in patients with advanced colorectal cancer.

This is a pilot study designed to evaluate a programme of rehabilitation for patients undergoing elective colorectal resection surgery.

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer and the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death in the world. Despite potentially curative surgery and the use of modern adjuvant chemotherapy, up to 40% of CRC patients subsequently develop local tumor relapse or metastatic disease. Currently, aside from post-operative pathological staging, early follow up of the patients does not include a specific test or any other evaluation that could predict disease recurrence. Therefore, exploring and identifying novel biomarkers of CRC's following diagnosis of the primary tumor may help us in identifying patients at high risk for recurrence. Modifications in signaling pathways and their regulation by microRNAs (miRNAs) are being evaluated as biomarkers and therapeutic targets for cancer in general and CRC in particular. It has been established, although not completely, that miRNAs have a role in initiation and progression of CRC. Modifications of miRNAs have been recorded in CRC tumors, and the expression patterns of these miRNAs could in principle biomark this cancer's phenotype. As miRNAs are well documented to regulate critical molecules in signaling pathways, their regulation of tumor relevant pathways may also serve to further sub-classify patients into drug responsive groups. Moreover, miRNAs may be sampled from peripheral blood and are available as a non-invasive diagnostic method, their application as biomarkers is of special interest. In this study the investigators aim to quantify miRNA levels in human colon and rectal tumors, tumor adjacent and normal tissues. By comparing this data from a large cohort of patients, the investigators aim to identify specific, relevant miRNAs that may serve as biomarkers to stratify CRC patients according to their clinical characteristics such as disease stage, specific treatment, prognosis and disease recurrence.

This observational, multicenter, prospective study will evaluate the use of bevacizumab in real clinical practice in chinese patients with metastatic colorectal cancer.