It is a single-center, prospective, observational, non-randomized study of newly diagnosed oligodendroglioma patients conducted in a tertiary hospital. The investigators conduct an eight-year follow-up, including patients' psychological stress, immune biomarker changes, quality of life, and disease progression of patients towards secondary glioma after the first definite diagnosis. In the first year after diagnosis, patients are followed up four times at 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months. After that, patients are followed up semiannually. The study had two cohorts, a high-stress cohort and a low-stress cohort, which are grouped after initial recruitment. Both groups...
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...
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...
The study is being done to learn more about the long-term health and well-being of participants treated for medulloblastoma. The study is to decide which evaluations focusing on therapy-related lasting effects (or toxicities) should be considered. Medulloblastoma outcomes have improved with contemporary therapies including modern neurosurgical techniques and risk-adapted radiotherapy and chemotherapy regimens. However, survivors remain at risk for long-term health problems such as neurocognitive deficits, hearing loss, impaired cardiorespiratory fitness and physical performance, cardiac and neuroendocrine dysfunction, musculoskeletal conditions, and infertility.
To find good information about medullary thyroid cancer that is easy to understand and reliable, so researchers aim to design some new educational materials to help.
This is a single-arm, open-label, multicenter, phase II study of CVL237 tablets in the treatment of advanced solid tumors with PTEN deficiency. It is planned to enroll patients with PTEN deficiency advanced solid tumors of different tumor types (PTEN deficiency gastric cancer, prostate cancer, endometrial cancer, colorectal cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer and melanoma etc.) to evaluate the preliminary efficacy, safety and pharmacokinetic profile of CVL237 tablets in patients with PTEN deficiency advanced solid tumors of different tumor types.
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
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.
Cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) is a common vascular abnormality of the brain, affecting 0.1%-0.5% of people. It often causes recurrent brain hemorrhages, epilepsy, and neurological impairments, with surgery being the main treatment. However, surgery carries high risks for patients with multiple lesions or lesions in critical areas, and no effective pharmacological treatment is available. CCM is linked to mutations in genes like CCM1, CCM2, CCM3, or MAP3K3, which activate the MEK5-ERK5-KLF2/4 pathway, disrupting endothelial function. Immune cell infiltration, particularly plasma cells with high CD38 expression, suggests a role for humoral immunity in CCM. Depleting B cells in...
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...