Active clinical trials for "Neoplasm Metastasis"

In this pilot study the investigators will treat all patients known with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) who are diagnosed with advanced malignancies with everolimus 10mg daily until disease progression. Most patients with PJS have an inherited LKB1 mutation leading to aberrant m-TOR activity. Their risk to develop malignancies or intestinal polyps is probably related to this constitutive mTOR signaling. The hypothesis is that mTOR inhibition is an effective anticancer treatment in PJS patients with advanced malignancies.

The next influenza pandemic is expected to spread rapidly in resource-poor settings. Influenza viruses spread from human-to-human via large respiratory droplets. Transmission via large-particle respiratory droplets is believed to be mediated by close contact between infected and susceptible persons or contact with droplet-contaminated fomites. Close contact between infected and susceptible persons may consist of skin-to-skin contact (e.g., via hands) or inhalation of respiratory droplets (e.g., due to talking, coughing, or sneezing by the infected person). Airborne transmission, which is expected to result in transmission over long distances (>1 meter) and which would be mediated by ventilation, is believed to be uncommon. Therefore, the greatest risk of transmission from personal contact comes from those people who are closest to an index case, such as contacts living in the same household. There are, to date, no published estimates of the secondary attack ratio of influenza among household contacts of index case-patients in low-income countries. Moreover, the investigators do not have data on the risk factors for secondary transmission of influenza from index case-patients to their household contacts. There is some data for the benefits of promoting handwashing with soap on the risk of all-cause acute respiratory illness among children < 15 years old in a resource-poor setting in Pakistan. But, the investigators do not have evidence that promoting handwashing with soap will acutely reduce the risk of secondary transmission. Therefore, the investigators propose to conduct a study in rural Bangladesh to assess the following: The secondary attack ratio of influenza among household contacts of an index case-patient with influenza The risk factors for secondary transmission of influenza from an index case-patient to household contacts The impact of promoting handwashing with soap on the risk of secondary transmission of influenza from an index case-patient to household contacts The impact of handwashing promotion on handwashing behavior six months after intervention The impact of handwashing promotion on the prevalence of respiratory infections, diarrhea and influenza

This study is conducted to compare the contrast effect and safety of SH L562BB with ProHance, which has already been approved as a pharmaceutical product of similar indication.

Hepatic artery infusion (HAI) with oxaliplatin (OX), systemic 5 fluorouracil (5FU), and leucovorin (HAI/OX/FU) will be implemented using an interventional radiology technique to obviate the need for initial major surgery (catheter placement) in patients who have unresectable liver metastasis from colorectal cancer. The study goal is to reduce tumor size to make possible a complete resection of all lesions. Secondary goals are to reduce or eliminate the complexity usually associated with HAI, to accomplish most or all of the treatment as an outpatient, to reduce costs, and to avoid the hepatotoxicity associated with HAI/floxuridine (FUDR). Oxaliplatin has been selected because of its ease of use, known toxicology, and established efficacy in colorectal cancer.

The purpose of this study is determine if NPPV can be performed in a pre-hospital setting very early after onset of dyspnea with a similar benefit in need of intubation and mortality as in previous study in hospital context and if early NPPV intervention have a real, rather standard medical therapy, value, both on objectively measured parameters and on patient's clinical status.

This study were designed to verify the better method of survival for metastatic ICC. Since the traditional method for metastatic ICC was GEMOX(first-line treatment from NCCN guideline), our previous study found similar results from FOLFOX (second-line treatment from NCCN guideline) compared with GEMOX. Our current study were conducted for further investigation to verify the better method for metastatic ICC.

This is a single arm, open label trial to assess the safety and efficacy of tucatinib in combination with pembrolizumab and trastuzumab for the treatment of HER2+ breast cancer brain metastases (BCBM). A total of 33 patients with untreated or previously treated and progressing HER2+ BCBM not requiring urgent central nervous system (CNS)-directed therapy will be enrolled. The study will determine the recommended dose of tucatinib in this combination and assess the efficacy of this combination in controlling CNS disease in patients with HER2+ BCBM.

An open-label, single dose, single arm, prospective, multicenter Phase 3 study to establish the diagnostic performance of 18F fluciclovine positron emission tomography (PET) in detecting recurrent brain metastases after radiation therapy

The aim of this study is to evaluate the safety and feasibility of curative intended irreversible electroporation (IRE) in the treatment of liver tumors neighboring major vessels or bile ducts.

The goal of this clinical trial was to assess the diagnostic performance and safety of Sodium Fluoride F-18 Positron Emission Tomography / Computed Tomography (18F-NaF-PET/CT) in bone metastases of malignant tumors compared with Technetium[99mTc] Methylenediphosphonate Bone Scintigraphy ± Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (99mTc-MDP-BS±SPECT). The enrolled subjects were randomly assigned to two sequences A and B at a ratio of 1:1. Within 7 days, 18F-NaF-PET/CT and 99mTc-MDP-BS±SPECT bone imaging were performed alternately. The sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive value of 18F-NaF-PET/CT and 99mTc-MDP-BS±SPECT were calculated respectively based on the diagnostic data of standard of truth.