Active clinical trials for "Melanoma"

The purpose of this study is to examine how different messages about risk of melanoma can impact the way people protect themselves against developing these diseases.

Background: Uveal melanoma (UM) is a common primary ocular malignancy associated with limited overall survival in the advanced stage of the disease. Fundamental breakthrough regarding the management of the disease and the overall-survival have not yet been achieved. Studies with large cohorts are difficult to perform due to limited patient numbers, therefore retrospective analyses are of great potential to gain further knowledge in a disease with high clinical needs. Aim: The proposed project is a register for patients with UM treated at the Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry at the Medical University of Vienna between 01.01.1997 and 31.12.2021. Patients and Methods: Patients treated for UM at the Department of Ophthalmology and Optometry at the Medical University of Vienna between 01.01.1997 and 31.12.2021 will be included in the register. Information on the baseline characteristics, survival times and course of the disease will be gathered via retrospective chart review and saved in a password-secured database.

This study learn how easily patients can use an educational tool that will be created for patients with melanoma and pre-existing autoimmune diseases who receive or will receive immune checkpoint inhibitor drugs. Patients will be asked their opinions about the design, accessibility, and content of the tool. Researchers will use the information collected to improve the educational materials that will help patients make future decisions about their treatment.

Melanoma in-transit metastases (ITMs) continue to represent a therapeutic dilemma, in that no standard method of treatment has been uniformly adopted. The complexity and heterogeneity of patient and disease characteristics, including the location and number of ITMs presents a barrier to a one size fits all treatment approach. Treatment of patients with limited regional disease remains challenging. Patients are typically treated with a combination of surgery, regional therapy, systemic therapy. Data on the management of ITMs is limited, even with the availability of immunotherapy (IMT). This study will use the unique etiology of ITMs to facilitate the understanding of how individual lesions metabolically and immunologically evolve as they move away from the primary tumor site. It is hypothesize that as ITMs move away from the primary melanoma site each will harbor progressively hypermetabolic tumor cells and a harsher microenvironment.

This study collects and stores blood and tumor samples from patients with malignant melanoma and healthy individuals. The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of the causes of melanoma and how melanoma tumors behave. Storing blood and tumor samples for future research may lead to new discoveries that may ultimately help with diagnosing or treating this disease.

This is an open-label positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) study to investigate the clinical predictive value of 68Ga-grazytracer in subjects with non-small cell lung cancer or melanoma receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors (e.g., Ipilimumab, Nivolumab). A single dose of 2.96 MBq/kg body weight of 68Ga-grazytracer will be injected intravenously. The visual and semiquantitative methods will be used to assess the PET/CT images.

The investigators' hypothesis is that cutaneous melanoma, melanoma in situ, dysplastic nevi and benign nevi all differ in not only clinical characteristics but also molecular and genotypic characteristics. Patients with suspected primary cutaneous melanoma or a differential diagnosis, or secondary melanoma can be asked to participate in the first part of the project and patients with suspected or confirmed secondary (spread) melanoma can be included in the second part of the study. Participants included in the study answer a validated questionnaire regarding epidemiological and phenotypic factors to map medical history, prior UV exposure, family history of melanoma and/or other cancer types, skin type, smoking habits, alcohol use and quality of life. Blood samples (whole blood) are collected before primary local excision and before secondary surgical procedures as well as during follow up of patients with secondary disease and oncologic treatment. During local excision of the primary pigmented skin lesion, full-thickness skin punch biopsies are taken by trained dermatologists. The biopsies, in the lesion and next to the lesion in the normal skin of the suspected melanoma, are taken, snap frozen and stored deep frozen. The primary lesions are documented by accurate imaging methods prior to excision. Tissue samples from suspected or confirmed secondary melanomas are collected mainly through surgical and core needle biopsies before, during and after treatment and in case of disease progress or treatment failure. Tissue samples are snap-frozen and stored in the same way as samples from primary melanomas. Comprehensive questionnaire based, imaging-based information, as well as histologic information provided from the pathologist report is included and stored in a secure database. All the information in the database, along with information from molecular analysis of tissue and/or blood samples will then be used to find objective, molecular and clinical differences in melanoma, melanoma in situ, dysplastic and benign nevi along with potential information of biological aggressivity of both primary and secondary melanoma in order to find more objective diagnostic markers.

Participants in this study will have Multispectral Optoacoustic Tomography/MSOT imaging of both breasts immediately before their ultrasound-guided breast biopsy procedure begins. After the MSO imaging is completed, participation in the study will end.

The goal of this patient registry is to describe risk factors for bad prognosis of melanoma in Spain. The main questions it aims to answer are: To describe socioeconomical individual risk factors associated with melanoma prognosis, such as gender, residence area or socioeconomic level. To describe potentially modifiable characteristics of health care associated with prognosis, such as waiting times, type of centre that makes the diagnosis or use of teledermatology Participants data will be gathered for analysis, without any change in the way that they are being treated.

Early detection testing is recommended for individuals at elevated risk for the development of Pancreatic Cancer. This Protocol will define sufficiently elevated risk as either equal to or greater than five times the general population risk, or five times the average risk (1.5%) of developing pancreatic cancer by age 70; that is a 7.5% lifetime risk. Our inclusion criteria has a strong focus on the risk for pancreatic cancer imparted by the presence of hereditary cancer genes, as well as by family history. Enrolled subjects will undergo Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) alternating with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), every six to 12 months, for up to 5 years.