Active clinical trials for "Hyperthermia"

Millions of patients die of cancer every year. There are several methods to treat cancer, including surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy. Recently, hyperthermia therapy started playing a role in cancer therapy. It has shown effect in animal experiments and clinical practice. The sponsor has developed a novel device to use hyperthermia for advanced cancer. This study is to prove the safety in human patients of this device & therapy and get the first data on efficacy.

This is a single-center study design, and 30 patients will be enrolled. Eligible patients will receive docetaxel at different dose levels according to the trial schedule.All the enrolled patients were treated with docetaxel during the first HIPEC treatment and cisplatin during the second HIPEC treatment at 43℃ for 1 hour.The dose of docetaxel for patients in the next group was determined according to the incidence of dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) of the previous docetaxel dose level. Finally, the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of docetaxel for HIPEC was calculated according to the incidence of dose-limiting toxicity.

Purpose: Patients with severe traumatic optic neuropathy (TON) have limited improvement in visual function despite therapy. The hypothesis of the study is that the targeted shortwave diathermy combined with perceptual training may enhance visual function in patients with severe TON after endoscopic optic nerve decompression (EOND) surgery. Design: Clinical trial Subjects: Twenty-two subjects with severe TON after EOND surgery were randomly assigned to either a rehabilitation (Reh) group or nonrehabilitation (Nreh) group. Methods: High-resolution computed tomography and MRI were used to locate the impaired nerve. The subjects in the Reh group received targeted shortwave diathermy therapy 5 days per week for 4 weeks and perceptual training 5 days per week for 10 weeks. Main Outcome Measures: A thorough evaluation of visual function, visual evoked potential, and diffusion tensor imaging was executed.

Metastatic disease to the bone is a common cause of pain. External beam radiation therapy (EBRT) is the standard palliative treatment BUT pain improvement is observed in 60% to 80%. Combination of hyperthermia (HT) with radiation is strongly compelling. MR is providing accurate, tissue-independent thermometry for intra-procedural guidance of thermal therapy. In this project we aim to combine in an adjuvant setting mild hyperthermia to EBRT for sustained relief of pain in patients with symptomatic bone metastases.

The aim of this study is to investigate whether the application of concomitant modulated electro-hyperthermia in a neoadjuvant chemotherapeutic setting is beneficial for patients with HER2-negative, stage II-III breast cancer.

This is the first randomized trial comparing Early post-operative intraperitoneal chemotherapy (EPIC) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) for appendiceal and colorectal cancer. The purpose of this study is to find out what effects, good and/or bad, EPIC and HIPEC after cytoreductive surgery have on the patient and the appendiceal, rectal or colon cancer.

This study is designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of adjuvant hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) with raltitrexed or oxaliplatin versus no HIPEC in locally advanced colorectal cancer

A phase III prospective study with the primary objective to investigate the benefit of Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) in ovarian cancer patients with mutations in homologous recombination repair (HRR) genes. The target population for this study is patients with recurrent ovarian, peritoneal or fallopian tube cancers undergoing Cytoreductive Surgery (CRS). Patients will be divided into two groups according to HRR genes mutation, each group will be further divided into two sub-groups with different intervention. Patients in Group A are HRR mutated type, sub-group 1 will undergo CRS plus HIPEC and then go on to receive standard platinum-based combination doublet intravenous chemotherapy, sub-group 2 will undergo CRS and then go on to intravenous chemotherapy. Patients in Group B are HRR wild type, sub-group 3 will undergo CRS plus HIPEC and then go on to receive standard platinum-based combination doublet intravenous chemotherapy, sub-group 4 will undergo CRS and then go on to intravenous chemotherapy. All patients will receive maintenance therapy with Niraparib after primary treatment. Prognostic information will be collected for investigation of survival benefits of patients.

This randomised controlled trial will determine the non-inferiority of stopping empiric antibiotics prior to absolute neutrophil count (ANC) recovery (Early Stopping) versus stopping antibiotics upon ANC recovery (Standard of Care/ Late Stopping) , in children with cancer and high-risk febrile neutropenia (FN).

This study is a prospective, randomized, comparative clinical trial conducted by Wuhan Union Hospital and aim to compare the therapeutic effects of Lobaplatin and Paclitaxel in advanced gastric cancer patients with D2 surgery combined with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy