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This is an observational data registry study of pediatric cancer patients at participating Beat Childhood Cancer Consortium sites involving specimen banking and data collection.

One third of individuals aged \>60 years will be diagnosed with at least one renal cyst following abdominal imaging. These cystic lesions are categorized according to the Bosniak classification which categorizes cysts according to their degree of complexity and risk of malignancy…

Resistance to treatment is one of the major themes in cancer research. Despite this, the definition and clinical implications of resistance to treatment remain under-explored, and patient-physician communication in this context still constitutes a challenge. When resistance to ca…

The investigator's pre-preliminary study showed that the urine from a portion of study participants had anti-adhesion activity. The investigators propose that UTI susceptible women can be divided into responders and non-responders depending on whether cranberry intake increases a…

The goal of this proposal is to identify how the composition of the gut microbiome and diet interact to impact chemotherapy-induced diarrhea incidence and severity.

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a debilitating condition involving excessive and uncontrollable worry and anxiety. Difficulty tolerating the uncertainties of life, known as intolerance of uncertainty (IU), has been shown to be key in the development and maintenance of GAD s…

This study aims to evaluate the comparative risk of dementia/Alzheimer's disease onset between patients treated with medications that target specific metabolic pathways and patients treated with alternative medications for the same indication.

Researchers are trying to identify predictors for gastroesophageal reflux disease after sleeve gastrectomy.

Mental health problems frequently complicate recovery from mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) but are under-recognized and under-treated. Our research program aims to identify evidence-based strategies for closing this knowledge-practice gap. Building on a successful pilot trial,…

Shoulder dysfunction frequently occurs after cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) implantation, adversely affecting quality of life. While early postoperative exercise is known to be effective in the short term, data on long-term durability is limited. This 3-year longitu…

This observational study aims to investigate the long-term outcomes of transconjunctival lower eyelid blepharoplasty, with a specific focus on changes in lower eyelid hyperpigmentation or hypopigmentation and morphological alterations of wrinkles at short-term and long-term posto…

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) defines a disparity as a difference or a gap that exist between two groups, which is both statistically significant, larger than 10%, and indicates poor quality for the minority (non-referent) group. Despite advances in public…

An observational cohort study to show the effect of parents' presence beside their infants, skin-to-skin contact (SCC), participation in infant care, or any interaction with their infants on parents' and infants' short- and long-term outcomes. Investigators create a hypothesis th…

This study aims to compare clinical outcomes (informed choice and genetic counselling outcomes) and cost (provider and patient time, travel, and telehealth platform) between telegenetics and in-person genetic counselling.

This study aims to explore the use of proximal femoral head for the assessment of skeletal maturity in patients with idiopathic scoliosis. The aim is to validate the use of the stages of proximal femoral epiphyseal closure in assessing pubertal growth landmarks in this patient co…

Perioperative immunologic signatures can predict the risk of postoperative complications. The results will be puplished as two smanuscripts. The manuscript will focus on preoperative immunologisk data,the second manuscript will include both pre- and postoperative data.

This is a prospective bi-centric study, which evaluate the evolution of RMI signal of transplant till 12 months after ligament plasty surgery. As the primary objective, the study aims to define the post-operative timeframe needed to obtain an optimal quality of repair, especiall…

This is a combination of retrospective and prospective observational study that will be performed across NCG and other participating centers to report compliance to chemoradiation for cervical cancer. This audit will include patients treated with standard of care treatment, in th…

Beyond EV-B, there are clinical observations to implicate other viruses in birth defects, including CHD. Since the Rubella epidemic of 1960s', however, viruses have received little attention and certainly no comprehensive study, especially using next generation sequencing (NGS), …

To discuss the effects of improving the irritable bowel syndrome patients' quality of life and defecation after implementing acupuncture-like Transcutaneous Electrical nerve stimulation.