Active clinical trials for "Stomach Neoplasms"

The objective of this study is to compare the possible time savings from reduction of nursing and pharmacy time to manage AEGC patients using capecitabine-based regimens versus traditional intravenous chemotherapy in the Hong Kong public hospital setting.

This trial studies nutritional preferences and product accessibility in oral nutritional supplements in participants with breast, colorectal, upper gastrointestinal, or prostate cancer. Learning what participants like and dislike about their current or past used nutritional supplements may help doctor know how to improve them.

To explore the predictive factors of frailty trajectories and develop a web-based nomogram among gastric cancer survivors.

This study is a retrospective study with a propensity score-matched analysis in order to balance differences between patients with D1 and D2 lymphadenectomy for gastric cancer.The main aim is to analyse differences in the postoperative and oncological outcomes of patients with gastric cancer (GC) who underwent D1 and D2 gastrectomy.

In line with improvements in oncologic outcome for patients with esophageal cancer, the attritional impact of curative treatment with respect to functional status and health-related quality of life (HR-QL) in survivorship is increasingly an important focus. Functional recovery after surgery for esophageal cancer is commonly confounded by anorexia and early satiety, which may reduce oral nutrient intake with consequent malnutrition and weight loss. One in three disease-free patients has more than fifteen percent body weight loss at three years after esophagectomy. The ESPEN Special Interest Group on cachexia-anorexia in chronic wasting diseases has defined sarcopenia as skeletal muscle index (SMI) of ≤39 cm2/m2 for women and ≤55cm2/m2 for men, while similar cut-off points have been validated in upper gastrointestinal and respiratory malignancies (less than 38.5 cm2/m2 for women and 52.4 cm2/m2 for men). The European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) additionally recommends that assessment should also include determination of muscle function, for example gait speed or grip strength, where possible. The presence of sarcopenia is associated with increase treatment-associated morbidity, impaired HR-QL, reduced physical and role functioning, and increased pain scores in older adults. In addition, a previous longitudinal study demonstrated that the decline in HR-QL over a six year period in older adults was accelerated in the presence of sarcopenia. As such, sarcopenia may represent a modifiable barrier to recovery and subsequent retention of HR-QL and functional status, and may reinforce a persistent illness identity, among patients following potentially curative treatment for esophageal cancer.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the utility of the QLQ-GINET21 in making clinical and therapeutic decisions.

Data from this study will contribute additional knowledge regarding patient outcomes and direct somatostatin analogue (SSA) treatment related costs in clinical practice in the Nordic countries. Such knowledge can be of importance in a treatment decision, decision support for development of care, follow up and training of both patients and primary care nurses.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate sensitivity and specificity of newly defined tumor biomarker with gastric cancer pts and cancer-free healthy volunteers.

Gastrectomy is curative treatment for early gastric cancer (EGC). Recently, endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) has been accepted as standard treatment in selected patients with negligible risk of lymph node metastasis. However, there are limited data regarding the long-term outcomes of ESD in comparison with surgery. This protocol aims to compare overall survival rate, tumor recurrence, development of metachronous cancers after ESD and surgery.

This study aims to examine the use of Linked Color Imaging in detection of gastric cancer precursors, as well as oesophageal and duodenal lesions.