Active clinical trials for "Mucositis"

Approximately 60% and 90% of patients with head and neck (H&N) cancers receiving standard radiotherapy (RT) and chemoradiotherapy (chemo-RT) will develop oral mucositis respectively. Oral mucositis (OM) is one of the dose-limiting adverse events which can also lead to emotional and nutritional problems. Clinically, it is usually observed by the end of first week of RT (after 10 Gy) and reaches peak damage in 14-21 days or by the end of treatment. Healing then takes approximately 2 to 3 weeks after completion of RT. For the Chinese Medicine (CM) interventions, many studies have been reviewed on the efficacy of mouthwash or internal herbal decoction to OM. Although some positive results were observed, most of them were performed by applying different assessment tools and lack of quality of life (QOL) or self-reported symptoms assessment. In addition, the intervention time and follow-up period were usually insufficient (stopped at the end of RT), therefore they could not review the long-term efficacy of CM according to normal progression of OM and the safety of using CM. Therefore, we hope this pilot study can evaluate the efficacy and safety of CM in a strict protocol.

Due to the limited efficacy of its treatment modalities, there is a stringent need to improve the prevention and early diagnosis of peri-implantitis. In fact, to date clinical and radiographic tools are not able to discern which patients are going to develop peri-implantitis and, among the ones already with peri-implantitis, which ones are currently loosing bone and which ones are going to progress. This project aims to analyze for the first time the whole large scale proteome and metabolome of peri-implant crevicular fluid (PICF) with an integrated approach from implants with peri-implant diseases. Twenty-five patients with at least one implant with peri-implant mucositis and one implant with peri-implantitis will be selected. For each of the selected participants, the PICF from an implant with peri-implant mucositis and from an implant with peri-implantitis will be sampled two different times before treatment. One year after the corresponding treatment is provided, the PICF of the treated implants with peri-implantitis will be sampled again. Both proteomic and metabolomic profiling of the samples will be carried out. The most important strength of this project will be the ability to evaluate together the whole proteome and the whole metabolome and to integrate them in the same framework.

The aim of the study is to evaluate the effects of Herbal gargle on chemoradiotherapy-induced stomatitis in head & neck cancer patients.

Patients expected to receive a continuous course of radiation as single daily fractions of 2.0 Gy treatment with a cumulative radiation dose of 70 Gy. The radiation can be 2DRT, 3DRT,IMRT etc. Prior to each radiation treatment the patients will receive a one-hour infusion of TK-90 or equivalent TK-90 placebo depending on randomization. 6 Hours after the completion of TK-90 infusion or TK-90 placebo dose, the patients will receive another identical TK-90 or TK-90 placebo treatment depending on randomization. This treatment cycle will continue for 7 weeks. The TK112690 dose will be 45 mg/kg.

The purpose of this study is to determine if RRx-001, which is added on to the cisplatin and radiation treatment, reduces the incidence of severe oral mucositis in patients with head and neck cancers. All patients in this study will receive 7 weeks of standard of care radiation therapy given with the chemotherapy agent, cisplatin. Patients will receive RRx-001 or placebo before start of standard of care treatment.

The MUSIC study is a multi-centre, longitudinal study set in the real world IBD clinical setting to investigate and develop a new biomarker approach that aims to inform both patients and clinicians of the current state of the affected gut lining (how inflamed or whether the bowel wall has completely healed). This new biomarker approach will study a panel of molecular signs in IBD patients' blood, stools and biopsies that will be correlated to the current gold standard of direct gut visual examination using ileo-colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy tests (a fibre-optic examination of the lower small bowel and large bowel). Here, the state and appearances of IBD patients' gut lining will be assessed over one year in response to treatment given to them by their NHS IBD consultant. This approach will focus on the role of damage associated molecular patterns (DAMPs), also known as 'danger signals'. DAMPs are found in our own cells and are released during tissue stress or injury. Like signals from bacteria, they can trigger inflammation. In the MUSIC study, blood, stool, saliva and gut samples obtained from participants during active IBD and in clinical remission will be used in order to understand how DAMPs contribute to the development of gut inflammation.

Exploring effective risk prediction models for severe RTOM, providing a research basis for mitigating oral radiation toxicity, and effectively improving the sensitivity of dentists in predicting the risk of severe RTOM in locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients.Based on precise radiotherapy, it is proposed to extract OAR using the contour of local oral areas. Explore more accurate RTOM dose-response relationships.Exploring a new type of fusion classifier, by complementing the information between each base classifier, helps to maximize the utilization of the information contained in different factors to build a more objective, reliable, and efficient multi criteria decision-making based risk prediction model for severe RTOM.

Patients expected to receive a 500 mg/m2 of Leucovorin by iv & 500 mg/m2 of Fluorouracil (5FU) by iv bolus for their Colorectal Cancer. The patients will receive a one-hour infusion of TK-90 or equivalent TK-90 placebo depending on randomization at 5 hours & 11 hours post 5-FU iv bolus. This treatment cycle will continue weekly for 6 weeks. The TK112690 dose will be 45 mg/kg.

After signing the informed consent, the participant will be allocated to either intervention or control group, then each participant will use either 0.15% benzydamine (Comparator) or 4% tulsi (Intervention) four times a day and also once half an hour before each radiotherapy session.

Oral and intestinal mucositis are major risk factors for the occurrence of fever during neutropenia and bloodstream infections after intensive chemo- and radiotherapy. These complications often require dose reductions or cause delay of treatment, and thereby interfere with optimal anticancer treatment. Currently, there are no effective strategies to prevent or treat mucositis and the related complications. The pro-inflammatory cytokine interleukin-1β (IL-1β) has shown to be pivotal in the pathogenesis of mucositis and recently, it has been established in murine models that IL-1 inhibition significantly ameliorates chemotherapy-induced intestinal mucositis. The investigators recently conducted a phase IIa study (AFFECT-1, NCT03233776) studying the safety and maximum tolerated dose of anakinra, a recombinant human IL-1 receptor antagonist in adult patients with multiple myeloma receiving high-dose melphalan (HDM) in the preparation for an autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (ASCT) who are at high risk for experiencing mucositis and fever during neutropenia (FN). Since treatment with anakinra has shown to be safe in this study population, the investigators will continue with a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled multicenter phase IIb trial to establish efficacy in the management of fever during neutropenia and mucositis.