Digestive System Neoplasms Clinical Trials

This is a single-center randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind feasibility study comparing the intervention of perioperative nutritional supplements (immunomodulation, carbohydrate loading, and protein isolate) with an identical placebo for each solution in patients with gastrointestinal cancer undergoing surgery. Eligible and consenting patients will be randomly allocated to receive the intervention or placebo ...

Summary Purpose and Objective: The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility of rapid acquisition of point of care 3D ultrasound in obtaining abdominal and/or pelvic images. The study will use a newly developed acquisition method and post-processing technique to create three dimensional image models of the abdomen ...

Undernutrition associated with cancer, or cancer cachexia results from a deterioration of the energy balance that leads to a gradual mobilization of energy reserves in the body and to increasing deterioration of the nutritional status of patients. This will thus significantly reduce quality of life and survival of patients with ...

The clinical trail of electroacupuncture combined with oxaliplatin regimen on gastrointestinal carcinoma.This trail is randomized controled.Patients are diagnosed gastrointestinal cancer based on pathology or cell biology.They are randomized into 2 groups:both groups receive Oxaliplatin regimen.The treatment group receives electroacupuncture in addition to the chemotherapy.The control group only receive the same ...

60 patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma, who had received Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization (TACE) , will be randomly divided into group A (receive DC-CIK+ TACE treatment) or group B (just receive TACE), and the randomize ratio will be 1:1.

Endoscopic resection can be an appropriate approach in early neoplasms, challenging adenomas or sub-epithelial lesions. Endoscopic resection can be considered as a less invasive approach than surgery. Moreover, endoscopic resection can be available to patients who are ineligible for surgery or who have refused more aggressive surgical intervention. The study ...

Study design: clinical within-subject randomized controlled trial. Study population: 25 patients with unresectable, chemorefractory, liver-dominant colorectal liver metastases. Intervention: scout and therapeutic doses of holmium-166 microspheres will be administered in the left and right hepatic artery during two sequential angiography procedures on the same day. In all subjects, the use ...

Patients accepted laparoscopic radical operation for carcinoma of colon and upper middle section of the rectum will be as the research object. Cancer patients are diagnosed based on pathology or cell biology. The trial is randomized, parallel and open. They are randomized into 2 groups: both groups receive surgery. The ...

Goals of treatment of metastatic breast cancer remain largely comfort care. However, there has been improvement in median survival among women with metastatic disease over the last two decades, mainly due to availability of more effective agents. Women are now living longer with metastatic disease and are on therapy for ...

An observational, prospective, multicentre and international study. This will be a non-interventional study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of endoscopic resection of gastrointestinal lesions and to determine what are the factors related to complications, and to describe these lesions according to the different morphologic and histologic classifications.