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RATIONALE: It is not yet known which regimen of enteral nutrition is more effective in preventing infections in patients undergoing surgery for cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract. PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is comparing three nutrition regimens in treating pat…

To evaluate for the effect of corticosteroid epidural injections on bone mineral density in postmenopausal women. Candidates for the study: Post menopausal women between the ages of 55 and 80. No history of bone disease. No thyroid/parathyroid disorder. not used injected or oral …

To determine safety, tolerability and preliminary efficacy of intraglandular injections of MYOBLOC for the treatment of sialorrhea in Parkinsons' Disease patients

RATIONALE: Learning about the risk factors for endometrial cancer in black women may help the study of endometrial cancer in the future. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying risk factors for endometrial cancer in black women.

This study aims to look at the safety and tolerability of immunization with dendritic cell vaccine prepared using the patient's own cells and virus. It also aims to explore the virologic efficacy of the vaccine as determined by a decrease in the viral load 12 weeks after analytic…

Evaluation after 4 weeks of treatment or at end of treatment if it occurs before. Efficacy will be defined as objective responses; complete and partial response.

The purpose of this research is to determine if two proteins in the blood are increased during acute myocardial infarction and whether their levels are higher in those who develop heart failure than those who do not. These two proteins are produced and potentially released when t…

This is an open, non-randomized, phase I-II, pilot study, which evaluates the combination of optimum cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraoperative peritoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) with mitomycin C (MMC) and irinotecan. The latter drug will be administered in escalating dos…

In HIV infected patients, individuals exposed to the virus of Hepatitis B are more susceptible to develop a chronic and severe liver disease with a major risk of cirrhosis and liver cancer. However, the existing protocol of vaccination against Hepatitis B is less efficient in HI…

Single agent anti-VEGF therapies such as ranibizumab have shown great promise and have set the standard for visual outcomes in treating wet macular degeneration. However, they need to be administered frequently by intraocular injections with the attendant risk of endophthalmitis,…

Retrospective studies have established a strong correlation between reports of life stress and depression. Investigators have begun to further explore this relationship by examining the role of gene x stress interactions in the pathogenesis of depression. In a recent landmark stu…

This phase II trial studies how well sorafenib works with carboplatin and paclitaxel in treating participants with head and neck squamous cell cancer that has spread to other parts of the body or that has come back. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as sorafenib, carboplatin, and …

The purpose of this study is to determine if reducing or eliminating radiation treatment to one or both sides of the neck where there is no evidence of cancer can help spare the side effects of radiation treatment for head and neck cancer. In this study, the investigators plan to…

The goal of this clinical research study is to see if RAD001 can help to control the disease in patients with systemic mastocytosis (SM). The safety of this treatment will also be studied.

The prospective clinical diagnosis of hyponatremia is often very difficult- but requirement for an appropriate and riskless treatment of hyponatremia. This study try to establish an algorithm handling a prospective clinical categorization of hyponatremia and approving together th…

The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether a monotherapy of boosted darunavir is able to maintain the virological success until 48 weeks in comparison to a standard therapy 2 INTI + darunavir/r in HIV infected patients with full viral suppression.

I. Research Objectives Primary Objectives: To evaluate the effect of low-dose antihypertensive therapy on the incidence of new-onset hypertension and new-onset diabetes in individuals with high-normal blood pressure and cardiovascular risk factors. To assess the impact of low-…

Donor mobilization : Donor will be mobilized with G-CSF (Granocyte) sub-cutaneous 10 µg/kg/day during 5 to 6 days. Hematopoïetic Stem Cell Harvest: By 1, 2, or 3 aphaeresis, a number of 4 x 106 cellules CD34+ /kg is required. If the CD34+ \>= 2 and \<= 4x106/kg: the center mus…

This is an observational registry-based study of long-term outcome after vaginal native tissue repair for pelvic organ prolapse designed to emulate a pragmatic open-label two-arm trial for which patients, in whom perineorrhaphy is not strictly indicated but clinically tenable, pe…

The purpose of the study is to assess the role of mitral valve apparatus in the development of outflow tract obstruction in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and to identify the best surgical treatment modality to relieve outflow tract obstruction in such patients