Active clinical trials for "Urinary Bladder Neoplasms"

The purpose of this study is to document the additional detection of papillary bladder cancer and the reduced early recurrence due to the improved detection and resection of these tumors after Hexvix cystoscopy compared to standard cystoscopy in patients with papillary bladder cancer.

The purpose of this study is to compare the first attempt success rate of laryngeal mask airway insertion according to the degree of head elevation.

By doing this study the investigators hope to learn if educational videos focusing on nutrition for bladder cancer patients are a good and effective way to help people improve their nutrition and recovery after radical cystectomy (RC).

A retrospective study was designed in this study. The surgeon performed high-power green-light laser endoscopic submucosal dissection (HPL-ESD) for the treatment of primary non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). This surgical treatment was novel and safety and efficacy of the treatment has not been established. We collected relative data in Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong First Medical University from May 2018 to December 2020. Preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative clinical data were collected and analysed. The safety and efficacy of the novel surgical treatment were verified by the short-term and long-term clinical outcomes. Fifty patients with NMIBC were planed to be enrolled in the study.

In this study, investigators aim to reveal how the COVID-19 pandemic process affects primary bladder cancer presentations, tumor stages and degrees, the time elapsed between diagnosis and intervention, tumor recurrence and progression, which are oncological results.

Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common histological form, accounting for 85% of all bronchopulmonary cancers (PBC). The advent of Immunity Checkpoint Inhibitors (ICIs) targeting Programmed cell Death-1 (PD-1) is changing current treatment algorithms. Preliminary results from work carried out in the Medical Oncology Department of the University Hospital of Tours suggest that immunotherapy targeting ICI, when administered beforehand, increases the effect of catch-up chemotherapy. In NSCLC, the progression-free survival (PFS) of 3rd line chemotherapy after anti-PD-1 immunotherapy was better than the PFS of 3rd line chemotherapy performed at the end of conventional chemotherapy. Moreover, the combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy gives paradoxically better results than immunotherapy alone. Immunotherapy restores the anti-tumor T immunity inhibited by the cancer cell. While the mode of action of ICIs is well known, the mechanisms of resistance to them are poorly understood. Several pathways are evoked, in particular the modulation of cellular interactions within the tumour microenvironment (TME), the molecular expression profile of cancer cells, or the immunological status of the patient. Regulatory T lymphocytes (Treg) participate in the maintenance of immune system homeostasis by ensuring tolerance to self antigens. Within TME, Treg inhibit anti-tumor T cell activity and potentiate tumor proliferation. The latter, by specifically recognizing tumor antigens, block the activity of effector T lymphocytes directed against tumor cells. Thus, an increase in circulating Treg concentrations and in TME is a poor prognostic factor, especially in NSCLC. Gemcitabine chemotherapy is commonly used in the management of NSCLC. Recent data show that gemcitabine decreases Treg activity and regulates levels of anti-inflammatory TME cytokines such as IL10, TGF-β and interferon-Ɣ. The hypothesis of this study is that the decrease in Treg blood concentration by catch-up chemotherapy restores sensitivity to immunotherapy.

To evaluate the possibility to properly discriminate between healthy bladder tissue and BCa with a multimodal fiber optic spectroscopy (MFOS) technique, in order to possibly introduce a more objective way to detect BCa, thus reducing inter-observer variability and maybe to determine urothelial carcinoma stage and grade with a comparable accuracy, specificity and sensibility of the current gold standard histopathological analysis

Patients diagnosed with posterolateral bladder tumors will be invited to participate in the study. Subjects will be randomized to receive an ultrasound-guided obturator block or a neuromuscular blocking agent after the induction of general anesthesia in an attempt to block the obturator reflex during surgery.

The primary outcome of this study is to determine the minimal dwell time needed for adequate detection of hexaminolevinulate HCL avid tumors using protoporphyrin IX (PpIX) near infrared fluorescence (NIRF).

Rationale: Cystoscopy and cytology, the current 'gold standard' for detection and follow-up of primary and recurrent bladder cancer have some limitations. CLE, a high resolution imaging technique, that can be used combined with endo-urological procedures, seems promising to improve diagnosis of bladder cancer. The diagnostic accuracy of cystoscopic applied confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) still has to be defined. Objective: To directly correlate CLE images with histopathology, and identify and define CLE characteristics of normal urothelium, benign bladder urothelium, and bladder tumors (low-grade, high-grade and carcinoma in situ (CIS)) of the lower urinary tract. Primary objective: to develop descriptive image interpretation criteria and a classification of CLE images of bladder tissue through a review of prospectively obtained CLE videos from bladder tissue correlated with histopathology. Secondary objectives: Assessing procedure related adverse events of CLE Assessing technical feasibility of CLE To develop a CLE image atlas for urothelium of the lower urinary tract (normal, benign, low-grade or high-grade and CIS)