Active clinical trials for "Rectal Neoplasms"

This clinical trial is focused in the development of a screening test for the people at risk of colo-rectal cancer (aged more than 50 years old), valid and safe, improving the screening prognosis increasing the sensitivity and sensitive as compared with the current method, fecal occult blood.

The investigators evaluate the response of rectal cancer to neoadjuvant therapy and classify the response according to specific periods of time after the end of neoadjuvant treatment.

Rectal cancer patients who received neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in Peking University Third Hospital in 2021 are divided into acute myelosuppression group, chronic myelosuppression group and normal group. The differences of magnetic resonance parameters between the groups were compared. The risk identification model of acute and chronic myelosuppression after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy was established by clinical risk factors and quantitative parameters of magnetic resonance imaging, and the prediction efficiency of the model was evaluated.

This research plans to collect rectal cancer patients after sphincter-preserving surgery from 14 institutions in China mainland, observe the incidence and risk factors about bowel dysfunction after operation.

Extramural venous invasion (EMVI) is the spread of microscopic tumour cells into the veins around the tumour. Rectal cancer treatment has improved greatly over recent years. However, it is important for us to learn as much about the tumours as possible in order to develop newer therapies. Current treatments may benefit from new genetic information relating to the cancer. We hope to identify genetic differences in certain types of rectal cancer which will allow future treatments.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether whole-body MRI (WB-MRI) accuracy is superior to FDG-PET-CT considered as the gold-standard for the staging of distant lesions of rectal cancer.

Concurrent chemotherapy with external beam radiotherapy is the standard treatment of bulky or locally advanced cervical cancer, gastric cancer and rectal cancer.Despite excellent therapeutic results, acute hematologic toxicity (HT) is common with this regimen. Previous studies have founded acute HT was significantly associated the volume of pelvic (PBM) and lumbosacral bone marrow (LSBM) receiving 10 and 20 Gy radiation (RT). Therefore, reducing the volume of BM receiving low-dose RT might prevent HT. More than one-half of the body's bone marrow (BM) is located in the PBM, LSBM and proximal, where is just in the low dose of RT in patients with gastric, rectal and cervical cancer. Previous study have demonstrated highly conformal IMRT treatment plans reduced the volume of PBM irradiated resulting in less HT. We have since assumed that even better BM sparing is possible when the BM is entered as a separate constraint in the planning process. However, it is well known that hematopoietically active (red) BM is poorly visualized with computed tomography (CT). Consequently, the entire contents of the medullary canals must be entered as BM. Yet, a considerable portion of the medullary canal is comprised of inactive (yellow) marrow, which is composed primarily of fat. Contouring the entire medullary canals on CT thus overestimates the volume of active BM, unnecessarily constraining the IMRT plan. An alternative approach is the incorporation of functional BM imaging into the treatment planning process. One economical and efficiency approach involves the use of T1-weighted magnetic resonance (MR) images. Therefore, we designed this study to test whether a separate constraint of active BM identified by MR could reduce acute HT in course of concurrent chemoradiotherapy for patients with gastric and rectal cancer.

The purpose of this study is to implement and access a newly developed bladder filling protocol for patients receiving radiotherapy for rectal cancer using imaging on the treatment unit.