Active clinical trials for "Liver Neoplasms"

The goal of this observational study is to collect data on efficacy and safety of microwave ablation (MWA) used to treat subjects with primary and secondary liver malignancies and renal malignancies. The main question it aims to evaluate the short, medium and long-term clinical course of patients treated with MWA. Participants will not alter their normal clinical and therapeutic practice, due to the observational nature of the study, and all data regarding microwave treatments will be collected (including demographic data). follow their normal clinical and therapeutic path

Ultrasound (US) used for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) surveillance suffers from low sensitivity (60-78%) due to fatty liver, obesity, and diffusely nodular appearance in cirrhosis. Once a suspicious malignant lesion is detected at US, guidelines recommend contrast-enhanced US, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT) scans to confirm suspicion. The investigators' team has developed innovative quantitative US (QUS) techniques that have a high potential to improve tissue characterization in terms of sensitivity and specificity. The investigators hypothesize that advanced QUS providing tumor viscoelasticity assessment, sub-resolution tissue structure characterization and US attenuation in the framework of a machine learning classification model can improve HCC diagnosis compared with standard US. Early detection through systematic US surveillance translates into curative therapy in a higher proportion of patients and into improvements in survival rates. Thus, there is an urgent need to investigate innovative and cost-effective imaging techniques for improving detection and characterization of HCC. The proposed QUS methods are experimental and will be validated in this proof-of-concept clinical study. A major impact of this work, for patients and medical institutions, will be to improve early-stage detection and characterization of HCC, and offer alternatives in patients with negative or inconclusive conventional US. QUS are low-cost, non-invasive and non-irradiating imaging modalities available from a single exam (i.e., no additional imaging session is necessary).

This study is a survey in Japan of Cabozantinib tablets used to treat Japanese people with a type of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma. The study sponsor will not be involved in how the participants are treated but will provide instructions on how the clinics will record what happens during the study. The main aim of the study is to check for side effects from Cabozantinib. During the study, participants with hepatocellular carcinoma will take Cabozantinib tablets according to their clinic's standard practice. The study doctors will check for side effects from Cabozantinib for 12 months.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) occurs in 90% of cirrhosis primary liver cancers. In France, 8,500 new cases of HCC occur each year, and about 8,000 deaths per year are related to this cancer. The 5-year survival rate is 10%, one of the lowest survival rates of all cancer types. HCC raises a number of major challenges: HCC is discovered at a curable stage in only 25% of cases, reflecting the marked delay in the diagnosis of early stages. The state of knowledge about HCC is well behind that of other cancers (no biomarker, complex carcinogenesis, influence of the aetiology, poorly valorised data, etc.). Rapid technological progress requires large-scale studies to evaluate new diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. The CHIEF project constitutes a common basis knowledge for research project using prospectively collected data in patients with HCC, regardless of the cause and stage of the cancer. This project is a Multicentre longitudinal observational study of patients with HCC with prospective data collection on inclusion and patient follow-up. Constitution of a biological resources collection. 5,000 patients will be included over 2 years with a follow-up of patients of 5 years.

Colorectal cancer is the second deadliest malignant tumor worldwide, and liver is the most common site of hematogenic metastasis of Colorectal cancer. Surgery is an effective treatment for colorectal cancer with liver metastasis, however, only 10%-20% of patients with liver metastasis are feasible for radical surgical resection. Many single-center retrospective studies have demonstrated that thermal ablation for liver metastases is comparable to surgery. Chemotherapy can kill the microscopic cancer foci of the liver. The timing of ablation-related chemotherapeutic administration still needs to be explained. The purpose of this study was to compare the clinical efficacy of thermal ablation or combined with perioperative chemotherapy and postoperative chemotherapy in the treatment of colorectal cancer with liver metastasis.

This is a multicenter, observational registry that follows patients for a total of 5 years from the date of the first liver ablation procedure with the NEUWAVE Microwave Ablation System.

Colon cancer is a common malignancy with a low survival rate worldwide, and unresectable colon cancer liver metastases (ICRLM) have a worse prognosis. The liver is the most common metastatic organ of colorectal cancer, and palliative chemotherapy is the only option for most ICRLM patients. Regrettably, the median survival time of all patients receiving chemotherapy is only 2 years, and the 5-year survival rate is only 10%. Liver transplantation is an ideal choice for patients with ICRLM, which can significantly improve the postoperative survival rate. But the most serious problem facing such patients is the shortage of donor livers. In 2015, Norwegian scholars proposed a new surgical method, that is, resection and partial liver segment (2-3 segment) transplantation combined with delayed total hepatectomy can greatly alleviate the shortage of liver donors in the above-mentioned patients. Based on the experience of clinical operation, our center proposes and designs a clinical study of sequential adult left lateral lobe liver transplantation (SALT) for the treatment of iCRLM. On the basis of RAPID, the safety and efficacy of sequential adult left lateral lobe liver transplantation were evaluated for the above patients.

Liver malignant tumor, including liver cancer and liver metastasis, is common in China [1]. Previous studies have shown that cyber-knife stereotactic radiotherapy is effective and safe for locally advanced liver malignancies with improved local tumor control [2]. Real-time tumor tracking in cyber-knife stereotactic radiotherapy is currently used as tumors have respiratory movements [3]. At present, fiducial marker is used to realize the real-time track of tumor [4, 5]. However, the fiducial marker are likely to displacement usually within 7 days after implantation [4, 6, 7]. Therefore, simulated CT are delayed 7 days before the fiducial marker stabilization and significantly extend the radiotherapy planning process, increase the risk of tumor progression. As far as we know, there is no prospective study on the specific displacement distance and duration before the fiducial marker stabilization after implantation. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to study the displacement distance and stabilization time before stereotactic radiotherapy for liver malignant tumors guided by 3D printing template-assisted CT. B.K. Chang, R.D. Timmerman, Stereotactic body radiation therapy: a comprehensive review, Am J Clin Oncol 30 (6) (2007) 637-644. Kato Y, Kamomae T, Kumagai M, Oie Y, Noguchi Y, Okudaira K, et al. Hybrid 3D T1-weighted gradient-echo sequence for fiducial marker detection and tumor delineation via magnetic resonance imaging in liver stereotactic body radiation therapy. 2022;95:9-15. D.K. Bhasin, S.S. Rana, S. Jahagirdar, B. Nagi, Does the pancreas move with respiration? J Gastroenterol Hepatol 21 (9) (2006) 1424-1427. N. Kothary, J.J. Heit, J.D. Louie, W.T. Kuo, B.J. Loo, A. Koong, D.T. Chang, D. Hovsepian, D.Y. Sze, L.V. Hofmann, Safety and efficacy of percutaneous fiducial marker implantation for image-guided radiation therapy, J. Vasc. Interv. Radiol. 20 (2) (2009) 235-239. C.G. Trumm, S.M. Häussler, A. Muacevic, R. Stahl, S. Stintzing, P.M. Paprottka, F. Strobl, T.F. Jakobs, M.F. Reiser, R.T. Hoffmann, CT fluoroscopy-guided percutaneous fiducial marker placement for CyberKnife stereotactic radiosurgery: technical results and complications in 222 consecutive procedures, J. Vasc. Interv. Radiol. 25 (5) (2014) 760-768. Y. Seppenwoolde, W. Wunderink, V.S. Wunderink-van, P. Storchi, R.A. Méndez, B.J. Heijmen, Treatment precision of image-guided liver SBRT using implanted fiducial markers depends on marker-tumour distance, Phys. Med. Biol. 56 (17) (2011) 5445-5468. K. Valentine, T. Cabrera, D. Roberge, Implanting metal fiducials to guide stereotactic liver radiation: McGill experience and review of current devices, techniques and complications, Technol Cancer Res Treat 13 (3) (2014) 253-258.

Establishment and validation of the deep learning model of Cetuximab efficacy in simultaneous RAS wild unresectable CRLM patients

The purpose of this study is to develop new ways to make medical images of the lungs and liver of adults using a technique called four-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (4D-MRI). This technique produces three-dimensional movies of the inside of the chest and abdomen while the patient is breathing. (The fourth dimension is time!) This new way of medical imaging is being developed to help cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy. Radiation therapy is used to treat cancerous tumors. For radiation therapy to be effective, the precise size, shape, and location of the tumor within the body must be known. A particular difficulty for radiation treatment of lung and liver cancer is that the tumor moves during treatment because the patient is breathing. Therefore, tumor motion must also be incorporated into the treatment plan. This study aims to improve radiation treatment planning through better targeting and dose estimation based on 4D-MRI. Before this new imaging method can be used for radiation treatment planning, it must be tested in living, breathing volunteers.