Active clinical trials for "Ovarian Neoplasms"

This research study is testing the use of a smartphone app to identify clinically meaningful changes in the behaviors of patients' with gynecological cancers by using passively collected smartphone data.

RATIONALE: Measuring levels of interleukin-6 and depression may help doctors understand the relationship between interleukin-6 and depression. It may also help the study of cancer in the future. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying depression and interleukin-6 production in patients with ovarian epithelial cancer.

The investigators propose to test for non-BRCA1/2 mutations in new and existing families with hereditary ovarian cancer in order to better define penetrance and associated malignancies of rare ovarian cancer susceptibility genes. The hypothesis is at least one third of hereditary ovarian carcinoma families wildtype for BRCA1/2 can be solved using an updated version of BROCA (BROCA-HR) that targets 47 genes, including all known ovarian cancer genes and additional candidate genes in related pathways. The objective is to identify families with mutations in rare ovarian cancer susceptibility genes and test both affected and unaffected family members, thereby generating a rough estimate of penetrance for each mutated gene as well as identify new ovarian cancer susceptibility genes. The investigators also plan to enroll self identified African America women, who have been drastically under-represented in clinical cancer genetic testing programs and in OC susceptibility research.

Based on studies of "Inherited Susceptible Genes Among Epithelial Ovarian Cancer" (NCT03015376, clinicaltrials.gov) and "Cohort Study of Universal Screening for Lynch Syndrome in Chinese Patients of Endometrial Cancer" (NCT03291106, clinicaltrials.gov), we provide risk-reducing surgeries of salpingo-oophorectomy with/without hysterectomy for healthy carriers with mutation genes of hereditary ovarian cancer, which is defined ovarian cancer with relevant pathogenic mutations.

Gynecological ultrasound is well known as the preferred exam to assess patients with ovarian tumors. The International Ovarian Tumor Analysis (IOTA) group developed the 'Simple Rules' to classify an ovarian tumor as benign or malignant. In about 1/5 of patients the Simple Rules give an inconclusive result and therefore a suitable second line test is necessary. Recently the ADNEXMR SCORING system was developed, this is the first Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) score system that focuses on ovarian tumors. The aim of this prospective study is to evaluate the performance of pelvic MRI examination with perfusion -and diffusion- weighted sequences and the application of the ADNEXMR SCORING system in ovarian tumors that cannot be classified by the IOTA Simple Rules (regarding the prediction of malignancy). Other aims are the determination of the malignancy rate per ADNEXMR SCORING system class, the evaluation of interobserver reproducibility and the assessment of the accuracy of the specific diagnosis based on MRI images. The study is a multicenter prospective study. In centers where perfusion -and diffusion weighted MRI imaging is not a part of clinical routine in unclassifiable ovarian masses based on ultrasound, the study is considered to be interventional. However, in other centres, depending on the local guidelines, perfusion -and diffusion weighted MRI imaging can be standard of care. In these centres, the study can be considered to be observational. The IOTA-MRI project is linked to the IOTA study. In this multicenter study different diagnostic ultrasound algorithms are tested prospectively in patients with an ovarian mass prior to surgery. This study allows to define a subgroup of patients in which Simple Rules are inconclusive, in other words the population eligible for inclusion in the IOTA-MRI project. We plan to include 250 patients in the IOTA-MRI study. Patients will be included consecutively, yet only after completing the informed consent. Recruitment will take 2 years of time as of the start of the individual center. The gold standard is the histopathology diagnosis of the mass within 120 days after ultrasound evaluation. The surgical approach is chosen by the managing clinician.

To demonstrate that ultra-radical surgery with multiple visceral resections and high tumor burden prior to surgery independently reduces the survival of patients with advanced ovarian cancer treated with complete cytoreductive surgery.

This is a multicentre, non-interventional, prospective study to be carried out in representative hospitals in order to assess 1st line treatment management and diagnostic approaches applied to ovarian, peritoneal and fallopian tube cancer management in Russia and assess patients' characteristics and the occurrence of BRCA (Breast Cancer gene) mutations among Russian women with serous and endometrioid ovarian, peritoneal and fallopian tube cancer. No additional procedures besides those already used in the routine clinical practice will be applied to the patients. Treatment assignment will be done according to the current practice.

This is a multicenter, international, prospective, observational study of patients who are receiving systemic chemotherapy for solid tumour cancers (breast, colorectal, ovarian, prostate, lung, bladder, endometrial, renal, pancreatic, esophageal or gastric) and who are receiving darbepoetin alfa (Aranesp®) or other erythropoiesis-stimulating agent (ESA) to treat symptomatic anaemia. Quality of Life will be assessed electronically with the aim of estimating improvement in quality of life for those patients receiving darbepoetin alfa (Aranesp®) who also have an increase in haemoglobin (Hb) of ≥1 g/dL

The purpose of this study is to evaluate new biomarkers for patients presenting to a physician for surgery to remove a mass in their pelvis and to continue to evaluate these types of patients using the ROMA algorithm for post-market benefits.

Objectives: The objective of this study is to delineate and measure the symptom burden experienced by patients with ovarian cancer. The Primary Aim is to develop and validate an ovarian-cancer module of the M. D. Anderson Symptom Inventory (MDASI-Ovarian Cancer) to measure the severity of multiple symptoms and the impact of these symptoms on daily functioning in patients with ovarian cancers. The Secondary Aims are: To develop a detailed description of symptom severity and interference with daily activities experienced by patients with ovarian cancer; To assess the impact of symptom severity on standard functioning and quality of life (QOL) measures, including Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (ECOG PS), Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Ovary (FACT-O), and a single-item QOL scale, in patients with ovarian cancer; To define the qualitative symptom burden of patients with ovarian cancer receiving various treatments.