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Harms of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Surveillance
Leveraging a multi-center randomized controlled trial assessing screening benefits in a socioeconomically and racially diverse population of patients with cirrhosis followed in 3 healthcare settings over a 4-year period, this …
Baylor Role: Collaborator
Active, Not Recruiting
TAA Specific Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes in Patients With Pancreatic Cancer
Status - CLOSED TO PATIENT ENROLLMENT (CNPE) The patient will give blood to make TAA-Specific cytotoxic T cells in a lab. These cells well be grown and frozen. If the …
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor
Active, Not Recruiting
Meclizine for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
The constitutive androstane receptor (CAR, NR1I3) is a nuclear receptor that plays a central role in hepatic detoxification of potentially toxic compounds, or xenobiotics. Chronic CAR activation by specific agonists …
Completed
Gravity Assisted Technique for Esophageal Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD)
Early precancerous esophageal lesions and esophageal cancer, are a threatening illnesses with high mortality rate, so the early intervention is critical during the course of treatment, statistically, every year an …
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor
Active, Not Recruiting
HPV-16/18 E6/E7-Specific T Lymphocytes, Relapsed HPV-Associated Cancers, HESTIA
HPV is found in the cancer cells of more than half the patients with certain types of cancer, suggesting that it may play a role in causing the cancer. The …
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor
Completed
NextSteps Intervention for Advanced Cancer Patients and Caregivers
In this study, 200 advanced cancer patients who are within one month of treatment initiation (baseline) and their caregivers will complete baseline surveys and be randomized to NextSTEPS or a …
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor
Completed
The Feasibility of Self or Partner-assisted Digital Anal Exam Screening
There is no standard screening protocol for anal cancer even as disease incidence and mortality increases; however, a digital anorectal exam (also called a digital rectal exam) will play a …
Baylor Role: Collaborator
Recruiting
Accuracy, Yield and Clinical Impact of a Low-Cost HRME in the Early Diagnosis of Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Primary outcomes: - the diagnostic yield (defined as the proportion of mucosal biopsy samples with neoplasia) of HRME with directed biopsy - compared to standard white-light endoscopy with 4-quadrant random …
Baylor Role: Collaborator
Completed
Pancreas Resection With and Without Drains
The rate of pancreatic fistula after pancreas resection is about 10% and surgeons have traditionally placed drains near the pancreatic anastomosis to control this potentially very serious complication. In recent …
Baylor Role: Lead Sponsor