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Effect of Aromatherapy Massage on Symptom Control

Although the incidence of colorectal cancers is high, it is often possible to treat it when diagnosed at an early stage. Although the treatment options vary according to many factors such as the type and stage of the cancer, possible side effects, the preference of the patient, and the general health status, surgery stands out as the most commonly used treatment method. However, in addition to the methods and drugs used in the diagnosis and treatment process, temporary or permanent stomas that are opened to ensure discharge cause biopsychosocial effects on the life of the individual and lead to deterioration of the quality of life. In this context, knowing and resolving the problems experienced by patients in the pre-operative and post-surgical period, which is the most commonly used treatment method, will also increase the quality of life of patients. In the literature, it was stated that patients experienced high levels of anxiety before colorectal surgery and this situation caused emotional and cognitive reactions; in the postoperative period, it is seen that they experience many problems such as anxiety, restlessness, fatigue, gastrointestinal dysfunction, pain, loss of control (inability to control gas and stool output), decreased appetite, insomnia, nausea-vomiting, abdominal distension, constipation. However, modern treatment methods, drug and non-drug treatments used to control these symptoms are not effective in some cases. At this stage, complementary and alternative medicine applications come into play, one or more of these methods are used to alleviate symptoms and increase well-being during traditional treatments. In this study, it was planned to evaluate the effect of aromatherapy massage after colorectal surgery on postoperative symptom control (pain, anxiety, fatigue, sleep quality, nausea-vomiting, flatulence).

Start: June 2021

Study of CRX100 in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors

This clinical study is an open-label, phase 1, dose-escalation study to determine the safety, tolerability, and pharmacokinetic (PK) properties of CRX100 in adult subjects with advanced solid tumors. Patients will be screened and evaluated to determine whether or not they meet stated inclusion criteria. Enrolled subjects will undergo leukapheresis to enable the ex vivo generation of autologous cytokine induced killer (CIK) cells. Patients with triple-negative breast cancer, colorectal cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, osteosarcoma, epithelial ovarian cancer, and gastric cancer will be considered.

Start: January 2021

TH1902 in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors

Open label first-in-human study of TH1902 in solid cancer, with 2 sequential parts: Part 1 (dose escalation): patients with recurrent advanced solid tumors (all comers) that have relapsed or are refractory to standard chemotherapy, surgery, radiation therapy, and for which no known effective therapies exist. Part 2 (expansion): selected patient populations with recurrent advanced TNBC, gynecological cancer (epithelial ovarian or endometrial cancer), colorectal cancer and pancreatic cancer that have relapsed or are refractory to standard chemotherapy, surgery, radiation therapy, and for which no known effective therapies exist.

Start: March 2021

Paired Promotion of Colorectal Cancer and Social Determinants of Health Screening

This work is an implementation science study that examines different aspects of implementing a single intervention. The intervention consists of asking community health centers to implement an outreach strategy to screen patients for colorectal cancer and for social determinants of health in community health centers at the same contact point. These are both clinical targets that the CHCs feel that their patients need and want to offer at a higher rate. The intervention consists of outreach to patients in need of colorectal cancer screening (CRC) to offer fecal immunochemical test (FIT) screening and screening for social determinants of health (SDOH). In this implementation science study, the intervention is an evidence-based intervention being implemented in real-world clinical practice. The intervention is the outreach to offer FIT and SDOH, conducted by clinic staff. Both evidence-based screening activities-FIT and SDOH screening-are used in the practices included in the study but pairing them is intended to increase efficiency and patient-centeredness by addressing health related social needs that may impact patients' ability to engage in cancer screening. The study aims to test the effect of implementing the intervention on clinical and process outcomes. Clinical outcomes are CRC screening and SDOH screening. Analysis of process outcomes includes measuring what organizational factors influence implementation.

Start: October 2020

An Audit of Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy

Peritoneal carcinomatosis is a common event in the natural history of colorectal and other digestive tract cancers. Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) provides a promising therapeutic option for highly selected patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis arising from different malignancies such as colorectal cancer, gastric cancer, ovarian cancer, or peritoneal mesothelioma with improvement of both patient survival and quality of life. CRS, i.e., removal of all visible metastatic abdominal and pelvic disease with peritonectomy along with HIPEC (for 90 min at a temperature of 42º C) and/or early postoperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy (EPIC) in order to eradicate all microscopic metastasis. CRS with HIPEC is a long and complex procedure with significant blood and fluid loss during debulking, hemodynamic, hematological, and metabolic alterations before and during the HIPEC phase, and even in the early postoperative period, with resultant significant morbidity and mortality. Despite that most of the reported patients are in American Society of Anesthesiologist class I and II, without significant comorbidities or systemic disorder; the morbidity and mortality ranges from 12 to 65% in these procedures, so a well coordinated team of anesthesiologist, surgeons and intensivist and other ancillary services can result in good outcome. This study will see the challenges faced by the team regarding the pathophysiological alterations during the CRS with HIPEC in the perioperative period.

Start: April 2016

Adoptive Transfer of Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes for Advanced Solid Cancers

This is a Phase 2 study to evaluate the efficacy of a non-myeloablative lymphodepleting preparative regimen followed by infusion of autologous TIL and high-dose aldesleukin in patients with locally advanced, recurrent, or metastatic cancer associated with one of the following cancer types: 1.) gastric/esophagogastric, 2.) colorectal, 3.) pancreatic, 4.) sarcoma, 5.) mesothelioma, 6.) neuroendocrine, 7.) squamous cell cancer, 8.) Merkle cell, 9.) mismatch repair deficient and/or microsatellite unstable cancers, and 10.) patients who have exhausted conventional systemic therapy options by using the objective response rate (ORR).

Start: December 2019

The Registry of Oncology Outcomes Associated With Testing and Treatment

This study is to collect and validate regulatory-grade real-world data (RWD) in oncology using the novel, Master Observational Trial construct. This data can be then used in real-world evidence (RWE) generation. It will also create reusable infrastructure to allow creation or affiliation with many additional RWD/RWE efforts both prospective and retrospective in nature.

Start: April 2021

PEA Promote Gastrointestinal Function Recovered After Colorectal Cancer Operation

To investigate whether perioperative electroacupuncture is more effective than postoperative electroacupuncture in improving gastrointestinal function after colorectal cancer operation

Start: March 2021

Study of the Safety and Effectiveness of HIFU Combined With REGOTORI for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

This study intends to perform high-intensity focused ultrasound combined with REGOTORI in patients with multiline drug-resistant metastatic colorectal cancer to explore the safety and efficacy of patients. Patients receive HIFU local treatment combined with REGOTORI treatment, and receive corresponding clinical data collection at different follow-up points, including necessary data from various laboratories, CT/MRI, and immune function tests that are exactly the same as before surgery collection.

Start: December 2020

Effect of the Nutraceutical "MICODIGEST 2.0" on the Complications After Surgery for Colorectal Cancer

Most of Colorectal cancer (CRC) diagnosed are candidates for surgical resection with curative intent, although colorectal surgery is associated with some complications that could be life-threatening. Antibiotic prophylaxis is commonly used prior to the admission for the prevention of postoperative complications. However, this intervention can change the composition of intestinal microbiota and promote adverse inflammatory outcomes in CRC patients after surgery. It seems the combination of different fungal extracts could be beneficial because of their role in gut microbiota modulation and their anti-inflammatory activity. Therefore, the fungal extract nutraceutical MICODIGEST 2.0 could be used to reduced the complications after CRC surgery. Based on this hypothesis, we have designed a double-bind randomized clinical trial to evaluate the effect of MICODIGEST 2.0 on the complications after surgery with curative intent for CRC.

Start: April 2021

Meditation and Cancer, Pilot Feasibility Study (MAEva Pilot Study)

MAEVA, which stands for Meditation, Acceptance and Commitment towards Values, is an open and circular program, made up of 3 themed sessions, following a weekly rhythm. It is proposed here to study this program over a period of 3 months, which will give participants the opportunity to complete up to three complete cycles. This program is based on the practice of and the processes of acceptance and commitment therapy. These approaches, used for several years, have proven their effectiveness in the management of stress, chronic anxiety, insomnia, chronic pain, distress in the face of chronic disease, as well as in the prevention of depressive relapses and management of impulsivity. Unlike conventional 8-week meditation programs, the MAEva program allows patients to enter the study at any stage of the disease (within, outside the exclusion criteria) and from any session and to participate according to their possibilities. The patient can participate in a weekly session of the program for 3 cycles. During the sessions, it will be proposed to train meditative practices and 3 different themes will be addressed (one theme per session): Meditation, Acceptance and Commitment to values. .

Start: June 2021

Neoadjuvant Electrochemotherapy for Colorectal Cancer - a Randomized Controlled Trial

This is a randomized controlled trial investigating efficacy of electrochemotherapy for early colorectal cancer

Start: May 2021

BESPOKE Study of ctDNA Guided Immunotherapy

This is a prospective data collection study of patients with advanced solid tumors who will receive standard of care immunotherapy (IO) and will be monitored with SIGNATERA™ testing. SIGNATERA™ test will be performed at baseline and during routine care. The test results will be part of assessing tumor response. The correlation between SIGNATERA™ test results and subsequent treatment decisions will be examined to compare actual treatment delivered against treatment decisions potentially impacted by SIGNATERA™ results. Treatment administered, tumor assessment results, time to progression, overall survival, physician questionnaires, and patient-reported outcomes will be collected/recorded.

Start: March 2021

Calcium: Magnesium Balance, Microbiota, and Necroptosis and Inflammation

In addition to microbiota-host interaction on inflammatory response, many enzymes, including three enzymes critical in gluconeogenesis and transport of amino acids and carbohydrates in energy metabolism, are dependent on the Ca/Mg ratio, indicating critical roles of the Ca/Mg ratio in carbohydrate fermentation and energy metabolism in bacteria. In pilot metagenomic study conducted by the investigators, they found all the significantly changed biologic functions within the microbial community caused by a reduction in the Ca/Mg ratio are biologically dependent on the Ca/Mg ratio or Mg. It is striking that the functions with significant changes in stool samples were centered on the fermentation of carbohydrates and energy metabolism while the functions in rectal swabs were related to immune response. Tissue also had a distinct profile from stool and swab. These findings have very broad clinical and public health significance for many inflammation-related diseases or metabolic disorders. Due to the small sample size in the pilot study, the investigators plan to confirm these findings using the biospecimens collected in the parent study (Personalized Prevention of Colorectal Cancer Trial, NCT01105169).

Start: May 2017

Changes in Reproductive and Sexual Health in People With Early Onset Colorectal Cancer

The purpose of this study is to find out how cancer treatments (chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy) affect reproductive and sexual health in people with early onset colorectal cancer. The study researchers will observe and track changes in hormone levels and in sexual and reproductive health in people with early onset colorectal cancer. This information will help researchers know more about how cancer treatments affect reproductive and sexual health, including the ability to have children (fertility).

Start: March 2021

Mechanism and Process Regulation for Colorectal Tumors

This study focused on the key nodes, molecular events and regulatory mechanisms of intestinal microecological disorders that affect the malignant transformation of intestinal epithelial cells into tumors during the occurrence and development of colorectal cancer.

Start: June 2021

Comparison of the Benefit of Chromoendoscopy in Addition to High Definition White Light and Narrow Band Imaging for the Prediction of Submucosal Invasive Cancer in Colonic Lesions

To compare the incremental benefit of chromoendoscopy in addition to high definition white light and narrow band imaging in predicting submucosal invasion within laterally spreading lesions in the colon and in determining the presence of residual or recurrent adenoma at the post endoscopic resection scar

Start: February 2018

Cold Snare Polypectomy Versus Endoscopic Mucosal Resection for Colonic Sessile Serrated Polyps

Comparing the efficacy of cold snare polypectomy with endoscopic mucosal resection

Start: August 2016

Virtual Colonoscopy Using Omnipaque as a Contrast Agent

CT colonography (CTC) is a validated screening exam for colorectal cancer. The diagnostic accuracy of CTC depends on the quality of the bowel cleansing and contrast tagging of residual stool and fluid. New bowel preparation media for CTC should be assessed for their efficacy and for patient satisfaction. Iohexol is currently approved by the FDA for oral use for imaging of the gastrointestinal tract. A potential advantage of using iohexol for CTC is that low-and iso-osmolar oral contrast agents have fewer risks than hyperosmolar contrast agents, which make them ideal for use in all patients, especially those who are frail and/or have multiple co-morbidities. For example, hyperosmolar contrast agents that are accidentally aspirated into the lungs during ingestion may result in life-threatening acute pulmonary edema and severe chemical pneumonitis, which is not the case for low- and iso-osmolar contrast agents. It may even be safer to use low- or iso-osmolar contrast agents for patients undergoing CTC on the same day as their incomplete colonoscopy, since they are at risk for aspiration from being sedated for their colonoscopy. Additionally, unlike hyperosmolar contrast agents, low- and iso-osmolar contrast agents do not cause sudden and massive fluid shifts, thus eliminating the risk of dangerous electrolyte imbalances.

Start: February 2021

Samples Procurement for Colorectal Cancer, Gastric Cancer, and Non-malignant Disease

The purposes of this study are to collect and store samples including blood, normal and tumor tissue from patients with colorectal cancer or gastric cancer, to collect and store samples including blood and/or normal gastrointestinal tissue (if available) from patients with non-malignant disease (including, but not limited to, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), gastric ulcer, hemorrhoids or hernia), and to create a database for the collected samples and allow access to relevant clinical information for current and future protocols.

Start: December 2020