Active clinical trials for "Liver Neoplasms"

RATIONALE: Internal radiation therapy uses radioactive material placed directly into or near a tumor to kill tumor cells. Using radiolabeled glass beads to kill tumor cells may be effective treatment for liver cancer that cannot be removed by surgery. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well radiolabeled glass beads work in treating patients with metastatic liver cancer that cannot be removed by surgery.

RATIONALE: Motivational counseling may help prevent pregnant women from smoking again after pregnancy. PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying three different types of counseling to see how well they work in preventing smoking relapse after pregnancy in pregnant women who quit smoking during pregnancy.

The purpose of the trial is to evaluate the differences between PercuNav assisted and unassisted biopsy in the areas of CT radiation dose, procedure time and biopsy accuracy. This prospective, randomized, controlled trial will compare the use of electromagnetic tracking and image guidance (CT) during biopsy procedures verses the typical CT image guided procedure alone.

RATIONALE: Taking part in a clinical trial may help children with cancer receive more effective treatment. PURPOSE: Determine why patients who are eligible for protocols made available through the Pediatric Oncology Group do not enroll in them, and develop strategies to increase enrollment on these clinical trials.

The research aims to the primary hepatic carcinoma patients whose diameter of the single tumor is equal or less than 5cm.By supervising the changes of liver function, Child-Pugh score, ICG-R15 value, secondary reaction, incidence rate of RILD during and after the radiotherapy, meanwhile combining the outcome of the progression of disease and the condition of survival quality, the optimum proposal could be obtained and apply to clinic thus make the treatment safe, effective and personalized.

To our knowledge, it has not been analyze whether 3D printed liver model would improve the perception of a given liver tumor or the precision of operation planning in liver surgery. We design this prospective controlled trial to test whether the 3D-printed patient specific liver model could be more informative than standard MDCT (multi-row detector computed tomography ) and 3D visualization system in predicting the surgical anatomy of liver.

This phase I/II trial studies how well patient portal and navigation program work in providing information for Asian American cancer patients. Patient portal and navigation program may help to improve the care provided to Asian American cancer patients.This study is offered in the following languages in addition to English: Chinese (Cantonese or Mandarin) and Vietnamese.

Investigation of respiratory-related tumour motion in liver cancer patients undergoing stereotactic body radiotherapy treatment (SBRT) using audiovisual (AV) biofeedback.

Hepatocellular cancer is the 6th most common seen disease in the world and the 3rd in cancer-related deaths. Liver transplantation is the primary curative treatment of HCC, as it eliminates liver cancer and underlying cirrhosis. However, liver transplantation is not offered to every HCC patient, since advanced stage HCC patients are lost with tumor recurrence early after liver transplantation. The Milan criteria, which are accepted worldwide, are the patient selection criteria that we have to follow in cadaver-to-liver transplantation for HCC in our country. However, as the Milan criteria are very strict criteria, it pushes patients out of liver transplantation who exceed the Milan criteria but who can benefit from liver transplantation. Liver transplantation centers all over the world have declared their own criteria under the expanded Milan criteria. In our country, Malatya Criteria have been defined by İnönü University on this subject, and our studies on this subject still continue. When we scan the original articles of all these defined criteria, incomplete data are formed and therefore the strength of the criteria cannot be clearly revealed. For this reason, we aimed to analyze the results of our center and present information about the power of the criteria to the literature.

Objective:To confirm the effect of preoperative oral nutrition therapy on patients with malnourished before liver cancer resection. Study design:Prospective, randomized, controlled clinical study. Primary end point: incidence of all complications 30 days after surgery.