Libourne Cedex, France Clinical Trials

GISTs are uncommon visceral sarcomas that arise predominantly in the gastro-intestinal tract. Most GIST cells are positive for c-kit (CD117), a cell surface antigen corresponding to the Stem Cell Factor (SCF) receptor. The receptor has an intracellular tyrosine kinase (TK) joined by a juxtamembrane domain. It is hypothesized that all ...

Study Design This will be an observational cohort study of patients with locally advanced or metastatic NSCLC (non-small cell lung cancer). Patients will be recruited from participating sites in Europe, Asia, and Canada. Patients meeting the study inclusion/exclusion criteria will be selected during a 24-month enrolment period per country and ...

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This is a trial comparing two strategies with the aim to determine the best place for cerebral radiotherapy (initially or only systematic progression). Arm A: Initial cerebral radiotherapy and chemotherapy, standard arm Arm B: Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy brain if clinical or radiological cerebral progression , experimental arm (The chemotherapy treatments ...

The aflibercept-5-FU combination has never been evaluated as yet. Aflibercept, at a dose of 4 mg/kg, has already been used in combination with 5-FU at the doses used in the simplified LV5FU2 regimen (folinic acid 400 mg/m2 IV in 90 min, then 5-FU 400 mg/m2 IV bolus on D1, followed ...

The recent discovery of calreticulin mutations in myeloproliferative neoplasms point to the unexpected role of the endoplasmic reticulum biology in the pathophysiology in these diseases. Otherwise, the association of endoplasmic reticulum stress with solid cancers, in particular in resistance to chemotherapy, is well documented, contrary to hematological malignancies. The study ...

Monitoring of neutrophils, lymphocytes, immune activation markers, immunoglobulins have not been prospectively studied in such patients. Preliminary retrospective studies have shown that total lymphopenia was independently associated with an increased risk of infections. A previous retrospective study from our group have also shown that total lymphopenia and CD3- lymphopenia three ...

Very few data has been published on the epidemiology of hypoparathyroidism worldwide. None exists specifically in France. Hypoparathyroidism could led to complications: e.g. symptomatic hypocalcemia, calcifications (brain, eye and other soft tissues), nephrolithiasis/nephrocalcinosis, renal insufficiency. Here,the investigators plan to collect data about both epidemiology, medication and complication of hypoparathyroidism in ...

Objectives To define a difficult intravenous access score in adult during the preoperative period Methods Multicenter, Observational prospective study Patients patients >18 years old, undergoing peripheral IV placement just before a surgery in operating room excision criteria: pregnant woman, induction of anesthesia with sevoflurane, Predictor variables include: history of patient ...

Given the complexity and evolution of recommendations and to harmonize these, it appears necessary to establish a central database for recording , monitoring patients with CML supported by the participating centers the region and evaluation of care practices in use . Indeed , the main purpose of this database is ...