Digestive System Neoplasms Clinical Trials

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 ...

Cancer of the head and neck (HNC), lung (LC), upper gastrointestinal channel (CUGI) and colo-rectal cancer (CRC) accounts for approximately 40% of cancer incidence in elderly people (defined as 70 years) in Denmark (DK). The four cancers account for more than 50% of the annual cancer-related deaths in DK. Incidence ...

Study Groups: If you agree to take part in this study, you will be randomly assigned (as in the flip of a coin) to 1 of 2 groups. This is done because no one knows if one study group is better, the same, or worse than the other group. You ...

The purpose of the Dose Escalation Phase is to examine the safety and determine the maximum tolerated dose of CGX1321 when administered to subjects with advanced GI tumors that have relapsed or are refractory to or not considered medically suitable to receive standard of care treatment. Once the dose is ...

After the end of treatments, cancer patients face a difficult time because it is expected that they return to normal, but at the same time they still have to struggle with the aftermath of cancer and fear of recurrence. This is why there is room in this period for an ...

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 ...

Implementation of a translational research project is part of the Cancer Plan 2014-2019 and its axis 5 "Advancing clinical and translational research in oncology", and more precisely Action 5.1. The national health strategy launched by the Minister of Health and the Minister of Research will allow a better integration between ...

The EUROCRINE project aims to decrease morbidity and mortality of rare endocrine tumours, by means of a pan-European database. Recording and accessing data at the European level, makes it possible to identify these tumours, which cannot be distinguished at local or national level, because of their extreme rarity. Dissemination of ...

Current curative treatment of digestive peritoneal carcinomatosis consists of complete cytoreduction surgery associated with intraperitoneal chemotherapy. This treatment has important limits: a high morbimortality and the impossibility of repeating the sessions. The majority of patients are therefore treated with systemic chemotherapy, which despite its progress, remains palliative. Pressurized Intraperitoneal aerosol ...

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 ...