Active clinical trials for "Recurrence"

The aim is to use the GRID to characterize the atrial substrate and develop a model for predicting recurrence rates after a single procedure using a PVI only approach and a contact catheter.

For now, neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy is routinely performed for T3N1-2M0 rectal cancer. However, there are lots of complications following neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy, such as Wound-related complications, anastomotic leakage, anastomotic stenosis, sexual dysfunction, testicular or ovary failure. Patients undergoing resection for rectal cancer had low rates of local recurrence and long disease-free survival regardless of whether an APR, CAA or low AR was performed. The main purpose of preoperative radiotherapy is to lower the local recurrence. For the T3N1-2M0 rectal cancer with negative circumferential resection margin based on MRI assessment, we suppose might not necessary to receive neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy, for operation can achieve the negative circumferential resection margin.

The musculi tibialis posterior can adduct the foot, so releasing the tedon of the muscle can help to correct the deformity of the forefoot adduction.

Thyroidectomy is the procedure by which surgeons treat various thyroid diseases and is considered the commonest endocrinal surgery. Yet, it carries a risk for intraoperative complications. The most distressing complications are recurrent laryngeal nerve and parathyroid injuries. Methylene blue spray is a technique than can be used for easy identification of both recurrent laryngeal nerve and parathyroid glands so we can avoid their injuries.

The LOCARE-Trial is an investigator initiated, randomized-controlled trial with two parallel arms (n=60 each) and investigates the influence of esophageal washout on long-term outcomes in patients undergoing elective esophageal resection for carcinoma. The primary endpoint is defined as local carcinoma recurrence. Secondary endpoints will be locoregional and distant recurrence, disease-specific survival and esophageal cancer specific survival.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether Cyclosporin A (CsA) - an immunosuppressant drug - in early pregnancy will reduce the risk of miscarriage in women who had a history of unexplained recurrent miscarriages, as compared with that treated with Dydrogesterone-an active comparator. The hypothesis is based on the evidence found in vitro and in vivo experiments that CsA can induce maternal-fetal tolerance so that it may reduce the risk of miscarriage.

Inclusion criteria: Patients with biochemical recurrence (Phoenix criteria: PSA nadir + 2 ng/ml) after radiation therapy for prostate cancer addressed for prostate biopsy OR Patients referred to our institution for biopsy-proven local recurrence after radiation therapy for prostate cancer but needing a re-assessment with biopsy (insufficient number of biopsy and/or imprecise location of positive biopsy and/or questionable diagnostic of recurrence) Study Design: Included patients will undergo an endorectal US examination with a Histoscanning™ acquisition and a multiparametric (T2-weighted, diffusion-weighted and dynamic contrast-enhanced) MRI. Two independent operators will separately define suspicious focal lesion on Histoscanning™ images and on MR images. Random biopsies (at least 2 cores) will be performed in sextants negative at Histoscanning™ and at MRI ; In sextants positive at Histoscanning™ and/or at MRI, targeted biopsies will be performed in the suspicious part of the sextant (at least two cores per suspicious lesion). Histoscanning™ and MRI results will be compared to biopsy results. A total of 30 patients will be included

The aim of this randomised case-controlled trial is to investigate whether ablation of incompetent perforating vein in addition to ablation of truncal vein reduces the rate of recurrent varicose veins post-treatment compared with patients who only have ablation of the truncal vein, who are left with untreated incompetent perforating veins.

Experience with substituting carboplatin for cisplatin is limited in advanced and recurrent cervix cancer and there has been no counterpart to GOG 158, which documented therapeutic equivalency of cisplatin/paclitaxel and carboplatin/paclitaxel for treatment of ovarian cancer, performed in a cervix cancer population.

The investigators compare two-week course of chemoradiation (33 Gy in 10 fractions with oral capecitabine) and conventional chemoradiation (50.4 Gy in 28 fractions with 5-FU and leucovorin) in this randomized trial.