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Corticodependent or Corticoresistant Brain Radionecrosis After Radiotherapy for Brain Metastases
Brain metastases (BM) afflict a significant portion of cancer patients, ranging from 10% to 50%, leading to debilitating symptoms and diminished quality of life, thereby impacting overall survival. Treatment options typically include surgery, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), and whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT). SRS has emerged as the preferred focal treatment due to its efficacy, delivering ablative doses with notable overall survival benefits, especially for single BM or postoperative cases, while being less invasive than neurosurgery and capable of addressing inoperable sites and multiple lesions. Contrastingly, WBRT is now reserved for select cases with multiple BMs ineligible...
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Corticotrophin-releasing Hormone (CRH) Stimulation for 18F-FDG-PET Detection of Pituitary Adenoma in Cushing s Disease
Background: Cushing s disease is caused by a pituitary gland tumor. Patients with Cushing s disease suffer obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis, weakness, and hypertension. The cure is surgery to remove the pituitary tumor. Currently, MRI is the best way to find these tumors. But not all tumors can be seen with an MRI. Researchers hope giving the hormone CRH before a PET scan can help make these tumors more visible. Objective: To test whether giving CRH before a PET scan will help find pituitary gland tumors that might be causing Cushing s disease. Eligibility: People ages 8 and older with Cushing s disease that is caused by a pituitary gland tumor that cannot be reliably...
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CSF Proteomic Characterization of Glioblastomas
The goal of this observational study is to identify proteins that can be found in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with grade IV brain tumors, specifically glioblastomas, and correlate these proteins with progression free survival, overall survival and performance status (functionality). All participants with high probability of glioblastoma will initially be included, final inclusion will be dependent on the definitive histopathological diagnosis of the tumor. The main question is: Can the researchers identify a proteomic profile in CSF from study participants with glioblastoma in association with a longer progression free survival? Participants will undergo the...
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CUE-102 in Recurrent Glioblastoma
The goal of this study is to evaluate the safety of the experimental drug, CUE-102, and establish the recommended dose of CUE-102 for participants with Recurrent Glioblastoma (GBM). The name of the study drug involved in this study is: -CUE-102 (a type of fusion protein)
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Cytokine-induced Killer Study for Patients With Stage II Melanoma
For investigators' current experimental clinical trial, patients are given 4 injections of ipilimumab, given 3 weeks apart x 4 injections with or without cytokine-induced killer therapy. Investigators propose to test this dual therapy in patients with melanoma who have known stage I, metastatic melanoma. Investigators hypothesize that this form of combinatorial immunotherapy will result in tumor stabilization or shrinkage, significant prolongation of progression-free, disease-free or overall survival compared to the use of ipilimumab alone
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Dapagliflozin Versus Dexamethasone Role in Pre-operative Management of Non- Diabetic Brain Tumor Patients
The aim of the study is to compare between the role of dapagliflozin versus dexamethasone in pre-operative management of non-diabetic glioma patients on levetiracetam as anti-seizure drug.
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Datopotamab Deruxtecan (Dato-DXd) for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) Patients with Active Brain Metastases
This trial will study a type of advanced lung cancer that is defined as non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with active brain metastases (BMs). This type of cancer originates in peripheral lung tissue, which is composed of cancer cells that look different from normal lung cells when viewed under a microscope and is characterized by the presence of BMs, which indicates the spreading of such cancer cells into the brain. NSCLC tumors often have specific genetic alterations or mutations that drive their growth and are known as actionable genomic alterations (AGA). This trial will include patients with NSCLC tumors characterized by the presence or absence of such AGA....
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Dermoscopy Augmented Histology Trial, a Randomized Controlled Trial
Pathologists provide the current gold standard in skin lesion diagnostics, most often primarily based on the interpretation of histological slides. Still, it has been suggested that pathologists' diagnostic accuracy and confidence could be improved if they gained access to additional clinical information and in-vivo clinical and dermoscopic images of melanocytic tumors. This study examines the effect of digital training for pathologists in interpreting dermoscopic and clinical skin tumor images. Aim: To examine how case-based online training in interpreting clinical and dermoscopic images affects a pathologist's ability to diagnose skin tumors. Data collection of DAHT...
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Determining Patterns In Study Experiences of Neuroblastoma Patients
Historically, participation in clinical research is highly skewed towards particular demographic groups of people. This study will invite several participants to gather a wide range of information on clinical trial experiences for neuroblastoma patients. The aim of the study is to identify the factors that limit the ability of a person to enroll in, as well as complete a clinical trial for treatment of neuroblastoma. The data collected from this study will help improve future outcomes for all neuroblastoma patients as well as those in under-represented demographic groups.
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Development of an Aid to Melanoma Detection Using Artificial Intelligence Algorithms Based on Images From the VECTRA 3D System.
The background to this research is that frequent medical screening of the general population for melanoma is not feasible. The real challenge of this project is to develop an automatic process for detecting any potential melanoma. To this end, the project aims to design an algorithm to build a novel diagnostic aid that makes use of the similarity and disparity of pigmented lesions in the same patient. To achieve this, we need to obtain and structure a large database of images grouping all pigmented lesions per patient according to their similarities as perceived by dermatologists.
