Active clinical trials for "Pancreatic Neoplasms"

In people with both burdens of OPC and DM, fatigue is the most common and deliberating symptom that likely impacts their quality of life and diabetes self-management. However, little is known about the longitudinal relationships among fatigue, its influencing factors, glycemic status, diabetes self-management, and quality of life in people with both OPC and DM during the first-year post-operation. Thus, the purposes of this study are to (1) describe the trajectories of fatigue, HbA1c, diabetes self-management, and quality of life in people with OPC and DM within 12 months post-operation; (2) examine the relationships among the trajectories of fatigue, its influencing factors, diabetes self-management, and quality of life in people with OPC and DM; and (3) understand the experiences of people with both OPC and DM regarding changes in challenges with diabetes, fatigue, diabetes self-management, diabetes care needs, and quality of life.

The goal of this observational study is to screen and differentiate common cancers in participants with or without suspicious lesions. The main question the investigators aim to answer is: Can the developed model, using peripheral blood cell-free DNA sequencing, work well in screening and classifying common cancers especially in the early stages? Participants will undergo the collection of 15~20ml of blood and 1~2 telephone follow-up calls.

This study will evaluate the development of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and possible determinants in patients with primary pancreatic cancer undergoing pancreatic cancer resection.

This study is a dynamically adjustable prospective longitudinal study designed to capture biospecimen (biopsy, blood, surgical) and multimodal treatment (imaging, dosimetry, clinical) data before, during, and after treatment with definitive-intent standard of care (SOC) chemoradiotherapy (CRT) for patients with locally advanced cervical and pancreatic cancer.

This study evaluates the use of indocyanine green to predict postoperative pancreatic leaks in patients undergoing transection of the pancreas.

The investigator is developing an immune therapy against pancreatic cancer. Immune cells, known as "T cells with tumor killing capacity", are involved in this immune therapy. In mice with pancreatic cance there is evidence that one tetanus toxoid (TT) vaccination (that patients receive from childhood) combined with Gemcitabine activates these killer T cells. (Gemcitabine improves T cell responses) These killer T cells are able to destroy tumor cells uploaded with TT protein (such studies are planned in future clinical trials). The goal of this study is to test whether one TT vaccination combined with Gemcitabine treatment activates the same T cells in pancreatic cancer patients.

The investigators create organoid from the pancreatic cancer tissue obtained via EUS-FNA and EUS-FNB within the pancreatic cancer diagnostic process. And also the investigators create organoid from the pancreatic cancer tissue obtained after surgery as part of the pancreatic cancer treatment process. Check for the reactivity to anti-cancer drugs through cell viability assay after treating with various anti-cancer drugs, such as anti-cancer drugs used as neoadjuvant chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer to the organoid. Also, perform genomic analysis on each organoid, and then check if there are any unique genomic mutations for each organoid. By recognizing the relationship between the unique genomic mutations and reactivity to the anti-cancer drug within pancreatic cancer patients eligible for surgery, the investigators aim to strategize appropriate neoadjuvant chemotherapy before surgery, thus developing a platform to predict the outcomes of each patient.

To investigate whether pancreatic cancer is the cause of heterotopic ossification of abdominal incision.

We believe that laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy for cancer allows quicker recovery and significantly reduces the chances of postoperative wound breakdown. This will shorten the wait time required to begin adjuvant therapy to one week after surgery thereby combating the micrometastasis unseen at the time of surgery. Prognosis for patients with pancreatic cancer will therefore improve along with decreasing the incidence of locoregional recurrence.

Randomized study comparing endoscopic stent insertion strategy versus double-bypass surgery in non-resectable periampullary cancer