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This repository will establish for the first time a system to carefully assess and monitor over time the general health and the amount of cholesterol in the arteries of U.S. children and adults with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (hoFH). Patients with this very rare dis…

The purpose of this study is to learn more about how being treated for breast cancer affects patients' employment, financial situation, and quality of life on a short-term basis and on a long term basis. Most studies of employment after breast cancer have focused on Caucasian wom…

Lymph node involvement remains the main criteria for postoperative chemotherapy in patients with colon cancer (CC) without distant metastasis. To date, the prognostic value of the somatic quantitative molecular alterations such as loss or gain of genomic region is not established…

This study is one of the three projects of an NIH Rare Disease Clinical Research Consortium. A "consortium" is a group of centres sharing information and resources to perform research. The consortium research focuses on brain blood vessel malformations in three different rare dis…

This study will evaluate a method to detect tumor cells that are circulating in the blood without getting a biopsy. The investigators already know from other studies that cancer tumors shed a small number of cells into the bloodstream every day. These are called circulating tumor…

The mechanisms of oxidative stress and inflammation involved in mood disorders are factors of chronicity and severity. These mechanisms induce a phenomenon of accelerated cellular senescence and are reflected by alterations in systemic gene expression detectable in leukocytes in …

This study aims to investigate the prognostic significance of LNM distribution and establish a new classification system integrating both nodal quantity and anatomical location.The main question it aims to answer is: Does the new N staging based on lymph node metastasis patterns…

The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not the use of an equimolar mixture of oxygen and nitrous oxide during the physical therapy for patients suffering from frozen shoulder (adhesive shoulder capsulitis) results in a gain in shoulder amplitude (Constant Score) and…

The study will evaluate the effect of an existing municipality-based and hospital-based obesity treatment in children and adolescents in relation to weight loss and motivation. This is to ensure that children who have developed obesity have the possibility to obtain a healthier l…

The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of the carbon dioxide for subcutaneous fat reduction.

Crohn's disease (CD), a chronic inflammatory process in intestinal segments leads to tissue damage. More than two thirds of CD patients need intestinal resection. Symptomatic clinical recurrence occurs in 60% by 10 years. The principal factors affecting postoperative recurrence a…

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the impact of exercise on physical activity levels and quality of life in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) receiving maintenance chemotherapy.

To study the contribution of osteopathy on the reduction of pain in adult patients with cystic fibrosis

This study will look for new types of gene changes that may be related to cancer in some patients. Some gene changes (mutations) are passed on from parents to offspring (child). Other gene changes are new and are seen for the first time in a child. They are not seen in the parent…

This was a multicenter, open-label extension study. Patients who received vismodegib (GDC-0449) in a Genentech-sponsored study and who had completed the parent study or who continued to receive vismodegib at the time the parent study closed were eligible for continued treatment i…

Vitamin D supplementation given to pregnant women will prevent asthma in their offspring and children.

Context. Faciocraniosynostoses present with an insufficient growth of the craniofacial skeleton due to premature fusion of skull and facial sutures. There are prenatal conditions with functional (risk of raised intracranial pressure) and morphological consequences (exorbitism, an…

RATIONALE: Gathering information about older patients with cancer may help the study of cancer in the future. PURPOSE: This research study is gathering information from older patients with cancer into a registry.

This randomized phase Ib trial studies standard-dose or high-dose erlotinib hydrochloride before surgery in treating patients with head and neck cancer. Erlotinib hydrochloride may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth.

The primary objectives of this study are twofold: 1) to detect and determine the level of symptoms, functional disability, and changes in quality of life that breast cancer patients experience from changes in their arms during and after treatment for breast cancer by collecting p…