Active clinical trials for "Prostatic Neoplasms"

The purpose of this study is to develop a Question Prompt List (QPL) about clinical trials for cancer patients and find out what cancer patients and their caregivers think of the QPL. A QPL is a list of questions patients might want to ask their doctors during their appointments. We will conduct three focus groups to talk about using QPL's as a new way to recruit patients like you to clinical trials. The three groups will be made of patients who have and have not participated in clinical trials, their caregivers and doctors. This study is also being done to learn about how the QPL affects the question asking behavior of patients during their appointments with doctors at Memorial SloanKettering Cancer Center (MSKCC).

This is an observational study in which a questionnaire is used to obtain quality of life data after patients undergo a hypo-fractionated course of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for the treatment of their prostate cancer. The SBRT itself is considered standard of care for these patients and as such, is not an official component of the study.

The primary purpose of this study is to examine the feasibility of collecting pain and other symptom data in outpatient treatment centers across multiple institutions in the Texas Medical Center (TMC). We will also examine the prevalence and severity of cancer-related pain and begin to identify other commonly reported symptoms in outpatient settings. Factors that interfere with management of pain will also be examined. Additionally, the study will explore patient satisfaction with pain management and pain education in outpatient settings. The specific aims of this study include: Primary Objective: -Explore the feasibility of a collaborative effort by oncology nurses to collect pain and symptom data across multiple institutions that care for ambulatory cancer patients in the TMC. Secondary Objectives: Describe the prevalence and severity of pain and other symptoms in persons with breast, colorectal, lung, or prostate cancer who are receiving chemotherapy in the outpatient setting. Describe factors that interfere with adequate pain management in these patients. Examine patient satisfaction with pain management and patient education about pain management.

Past studies have shown that MRI is useful for staging prostate cancer. This study will use magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) to obtain more information. MRSIs with MRIs help doctors locate prostate cancer and determine the extent of tumor before deciding on treatment. This study looks at structural and chemical properties of prostates in prostate cancer patients before and after treatment.

This is a single center pilot study to asses the feasibility of conducting a larger population-based study. It is an investigator-initiated study funded yb the UC Davis Cancer Center's Development Award Program. The hypothesis is that the percent african ancestry in an individual may determine their prognosis if diagnosed with prostate cancer.

This clinical trial studies whether screening methods used to diagnose cancer of the prostate, lung, colon, rectum, or ovaries can reduce deaths from these cancers. Screening tests may help doctors find cancer cells early and plan better treatment for prostate cancer.

Aiming to explore predictive factors of fitness to taxane chemotherapy in elderly patients, the investigators collected data from a prospective mono-centric database of patients aged >/= 70 years old treated in our department, and explored association between baseline age, G8 score and Charlson comorbidity index with taxane dose reduction, treatment temporary suspension or definitive interruption.

This is an observational cohort study with a non-concurrent comparison group evaluating the use of a digital decision support tool (MiProstate/ISPM) at pre-prostatectomy, multidisciplinary conferences.

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common solid organ cancer in North American men. Patients becoming refractory to loco-regional therapy receive androgen deprivation therapy, but their disease will inevitably progress to metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Treatment failure and poor progression-free survival could be explained by the fact that PCa metastases in the same patient may be polyclonal, showing opposite responses to systemic therapies. This project aims to recruit 100 patients with mCRPC in order to determine the prevalence of intrapatient intermetastasis polyclonality and NED using PET/CT triple-tracer PSMA/FDG/OCTREOTATE imaging and eligibility for either PSMA or OCTREOTATE radioligand therapy (RLT).

Background: Bracco has released the VueBoxTM-Prostate software, aimed at distinguishing prostate cancer from prostate benign peripheral zone (PZ) at contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) using SonoVue® as contrast agent. The software analyses the ascending phase of enhancement (wash-in) and calculates the mode and the dispersion (sigma) of the wash-in rate in a given region of interest. The diagnosis of cancer is based on the combination of these two parameters. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the diagnostic value of the VueBoxTM-Prostate software in distinguishing prostate cancer from normal PZ at contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS). The secondary objective is to evaluate the diagnostic value of the wash-out rate, the time to peak, the transit time and the area under the enhancement curve (parameters not used by the VueBoxTM-Prostate software) in distinguishing prostate cancer from prostate benign peripheral zone at contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS). The study will enroll patients referred for prostate biopsy. The US transrectal probe will be inserted and the local anesthesia performed as per the institution's standard of care protocol. Then, the biopsy operator will choose an axial plane likely to contain cancer (e.g. based on MRI or Digital rectal examination results). Half a vial (2.4 ml) of SonoVue® will then be injected and the ultrasound enhancement of this plane will be recorded during 2 minutes while the biopsy gun is already in place. Then, the biopsy will be taken while the recording is still on, so that it will be possible to calculate quantitative enhancement parameters at the exact location of the biopsy. Then, the operator will choose a plane that is likely not to contain cancer in the opposite prostate lobe and the same process will be repeated with injection of the second half of the vial. The rest of the biopsies will be performed as per the institution's standard of care protocol. The two recordings will be sent to Bracco's Research center in Geneva in order to: Predict the biopsy result (cancer vs benign) based on the VueBoxTM-Prostate software results Calculate the wash-out rate, the time to peak, the transit time and the area under the enhancement curve at the biopsy location. The two biopsy samples performed after the injection of SonoVue® (as the rest of the biopsy samples) will be processed and analysed at the institution's department of Pathology and their results will be blinded to the Bracco's Research center. The correlation between the biopsy results, the VueBoxTM-Prostate software results and the wash-out rate, time to peak, transit time and area under the enhancement curve will be performed by the study investigator. In total, 130 patients will be included (hypotheses of 20% of malignant biopsy cores and of an area under the ROC curve of 0.85 for the VueBoxTM-Prostate software).