Active clinical trials for "Prostatic Neoplasms"

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety in patients with prostate cancer receiving the drug in the routine clinical setting.

The current limitations in prostate cancer diagnostics lead to over- and undertreatment for a significant fraction of patients. Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy (CLE) and Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) are focal imaging modalities with potential for in-vivo prostate imaging. The investigators anticipate that integrating focal imaging with MRI/TRUS fusion will further improve prostate cancer detection and provides a real-time histopathological threedimensional representation of the tumor lesions. This is an investigator-initiated, prospective in-vivo safety and feasibility study with transperineal template mapping biopsies (TTMB) and two focal imaging methods, CLE and OCT, in prostate tissue.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the difference between the optic nerve sheath diameter measured during total intravenous anesthesia and the optic nerve sheath diameter measured during inhalation anesthesia in patients undergoing robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy.

This study investigates if a new drug (PSMA) makes prostate cancer easier to identify in positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging. If this works, prostate cancer treatments can be prescribed that match the location of the disease. PSMA is radiolabeled with Gallium-68 (Ga-68). This means a participant receives a small dose of radiation from the drug - less than the annual radiation limit for a medical worker. To test this new drug, participants will receive an injection of Ga-68 PSMA and then have a PET scan. This PET scan, and the reported results, will be entered into the medical record and shared with the treating oncologists.

Genomic Health's OncotypeDX® Prostate Cancer Assay is a commercially available laboratory test that measures the activity of certain genes in prostate cancer. The purpose of this study is to better understand how the use of this test result impacts or affects treatment decisions for men newly diagnosed with low risk prostate cancer, their confidence in the treatment decision, and the effects and side effects of the treatment chosen on certain aspects of Quality of Life. This study will also determine what percentage of men choosing an active monitoring program as prescribed by their doctor remain on Active Surveillance and have avoided any treatment at one year after diagnosis after receiving the assay result.

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the effectiveness and safety of the ClariCore System in obtaining prostate biopsies with device feedback that provides real-time tissue classification.

This research has the overall goal of increasing rates at which African American and White men with prostate cancer make an informed decision to participate in a cancer clinical trial.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate possible changes in quality of life related to health (HRQL) in locally advanced and metastatic prostate cancer patients, after one year of follow-up.

Since 13 November 2013, XOFIGO has been authorised on the European zone for the treatment of patients with prostate cancer, in the phase of resistance to castration, with symptomatic bone metastases. bone metastases frequently give rise to "bone events" that include spinal cord compressions and pathological fractures requiring surgery or external radiotherapy. Bone metastases are an important cause of death, disability, quality of life degradation and increase the cost of treatment. Xofigo is indicated in patients with bone metastases symptomatic of hormone-resistant prostate cancer and without known visceral metastases.

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether an encounter decision aid (used during a consultation) containing cost information about options, combined with clinician training about cost discussions and available financial resources, influence surgeon-patient cost conversations, referrals to address costs, patients' financial stress, and high-quality decision-making for patients with slow-growing prostate cancer.