Active clinical trials for "Lymphatic Metastasis"

This is a clinical trial from Eastern Cooperative Thoracic Oncology Project (ECTOP), numbered as ECTOP-1018. The goal of this clinical trial is to confirm the theraputic effect of selective lymph node dissection for cT1N0M0 invasive non-small cell lung cancer with CTR>0.5 located in the apical segment. The main questions it aims to answer are: The 5-year overall survival of patients having cT1N0M0 invasive non-small cell lung cancer with CTR>0.5 located in the apical segment; The post-operative lymph node metastasis and recurrence-free survival. Participants will receive selective lymph node dissection as the surgical procedure.

RATIONALE: It is now standard for most breast cancer patients with 1-2 positive sentinel nodes to avoid completion node dissection when eligibility criteria from the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG) Z0011 trial are met. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) recently proposed to extend this indication to patients that present with biopsy proven node positive disease if only 1 or 2 suspicious nodes are found on imaging, these positive nodes are not palpable clinically, and the other eligibility criteria from the Z0011 study are otherwise met. However, this recommendation is based on an expert consensus and no study has yet confirmed the optimal method to stage the axilla in this patient population. PURPOSE: Evaluate the technical success rate and accuracy of sentinel node biopsy (SNB) and the potential benefits of clipping and removing the biopsy proven node using radioactive seed localisation (RSL) (SNB+RSL = Targeted Axillary Dissection (TAD)) in patients with biopsy proven positive nodes, limited nodal disease in imaging and clinically negative axillary examination.

The study aims to compare the effects of chemoradiation versus radical surgery in treating retro-peritoneal or para-aortic lymph node metastasis in colorectal cancer. By prolonging patients' progression-free survival, local control rate and overall survival, investigators can conclude the best regimen for colorectal cancer patients.

The study is designed to investigate the safety and efficacy of central D3 lymphadenectomy in cases of small bowel tumors. Such dissection is under debate; consensus guidelines are vague when it comes to surgical techniques and practice is highly variable.

Cervical cancer with pelvic or para-aortic node involvement has a poor prognosis. Despite low-quality data, the routine practice to treat these patients is radiation with concurrent cisplatin. The aim of this study is to compare systemic chemotherapy with observation after radiation with concurrent cisplatin of cervical cancer ( with pelvic or para-aortic node involvement) for incidence of adverse events and local recurrence rate.

This study will evaluate the clinical response and safety of ultrasound guided percutaneous thermal ablation of lymph node metastases from thyroid carcinoma as an alternative to surgical treatment. The ablation of cervical lymph node metastases from differentiated thyroid carcinoma or medullary thyroid carcinoma will be directed to lesions larger than 0.8 cm, using ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation (RFA), laser ablation (LA) or cryoablation (Cryo) techniques, randomly assigned. Clinical and ultrasound monitoring will be carried out during 24 months, with examinations before the ablation procedure, immediately after including contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) when applicable, and B-mode, color Doppler and Shear-Wave elastography ultrasound follow up with 6, 12, and 24 months.

Gastric cancer with retroperitoneal lymph node metastasis was considered as unresectable, to improve these patients' prognosis, we designed systematic conversion therapy including immunotherapy and chemoradiotherapy. The purpose of this study is to estimate safety and efficacy of Sintilimab in combination with chemoradiothrapy followed by D2 surgical resection in patients with advanced gastric cancer with retroperitoneal lymph node metastasis.

The study aims to estimate the efficacy and safety of systemic therapy sequenced radical surgery in treating patients with synchronous isolated para-aortic lymph node metastasis of colorectal cancer.

Vulvar cancer patients with SN-metastasis > 2mm will receive chemoradiation instead of an inguinofemoral lymphadenectomy.

This study is a multi-center, prospective, self-controlled study, to evaluate the feasibility of targeted axillary lymph node resection (TAD) guided by tissue marker clip with methylene blue single tracer after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in T1-4N1M0 breast cancer patients. Evaluate the accuracy and false negative rate of TAD, comparing with sentinel lymph node biopsy, and explore a new axillary-preserving mode after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer.