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The goal of this randomized clinical trial is to determine if there is difference in pathological and clinical outcomes between MOSES and TFL in the transurethral laser enucleation of bladder tumors. The main question it aims to answer is: Is there a difference in pathological and clinical outcomes between MOSES Holmium and Thulium Fiber Laser (TFL) in the transurethral laser enucleation of bladder tumors? Participants will randomized to either TFL of MOSES arm for their bladder resection procedure.
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Urolithiasis of BladderLocation:
- Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
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Over 18In partnership with youth, parents, and community members the investigators have co-developed a program of research designed to address the substantial health disparities faced by First Nations children and families, and the calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Report. Specifically; the investigators aim to address the high rates of kidney disease in Indigenous children living with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), by identifying and understanding the root causes for progression of kidney disease and working together to build an evidenced based, novel therapy for diabetes that focuses on mindfulness, personal strengths and incorporates traditional medicine practices that are meaningful to patients. The investigators have planned 2 pilots in order to address the uncertainties surrounding the planning of a larger definitive trial and allow adequate engagement and building of a meaningful traditional medicine component. These pilots will inform the development of a co-designed, feasible, and embraced Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) skills training and traditional teachings intervention, which is adequately powered to examine effectiveness on outcomes such as mental wellness, medication adherence, and improved glycemic control and renal function. Research Aims: 1. Determine the recruitment, enrollment and adherence rates to the intervention. 2. Evaluate acceptability of the intervention using traditional qualitative methods and Indigenous world view methodology 3. Determine the estimated effect size required to power a large-scale DBT randomized control trial for the outcomes quality of life (primary), glycemic control and albuminuria (secondary). Study Hypotheses: 1. The investigators hypothesize that a DBT intervention will be feasible on a local and National Platform and will be acceptable and embraced by youth with T2D as an important component of their management plan. 2. The investigators hypothesize that the additional of traditional medicine elements will increase the acceptability and adherence to DBT for Indigenous children.
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Diabetes Mellitus Type 2, Childhood-OnsetLocation:
- Diabetes Education Resource Centre for Adolescents Clinic, Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- Clinic Y, Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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14 - 22This human laboratory study aims to assess the effects of cannabidiol on alcohol consumption and craving in participants with alcohol use disorder. In this double-blind within-subject placebo-controlled crossover trial, participants will be randomized to receive both cannabidiol and placebo with a 2-week washout period separating the two treatment phases.
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Alcohol Use DisorderLocation:
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Over 19Islet transplantation is an effective modality for treating type 1 diabetes. Despite marked progress in clinical islet transplantation with the achievement and maintenance of insulin independence in over half of recipients up to 5 years, transplant approaches are limited to those that struggle to control their diabetes. Furthermore, this approach remains restricted due to the scarcity of human pancreas donors. While transplanting insulin-producing cells into the liver has been demonstrated as an efficacious means of restoring glycemic control to patients with T1D, the procedure often results in cell loss, and carries risks. Moreover, transplant in to the liver does not permit imaging or retrieval of donor islets. The ability to retrieve the cells is also important for safety reasons. In theory, the space under the skin is an attractive alternate site for transplanting insulin producing cell, due to ready access, and potential for monitoring cellular transplant function through novel imaging techniques. However, transplantation of insulin producing cells into an unmodified site under the skin universally fails to reverse diabetes in research animal models, or in human studies. Other techniques using devices with different type of technologies and biomaterials have been explored with variable success. Unfortunately, the foreign body and inflammatory reaction persist in the implant. Shapiro Lab, has developed a novel technique called 'device-less' (DL) transplant modality. This approach was designed to harness an innate foreign body response in a favorable and controlled manner, to induce growth of new blood vessels to allow the survival of the insulin producing cells without the natural body response to foreign body. Briefly, this site transforms the inhospitable under the skin site into a viable location through the temporary implantation of a small tube called angiocatheter. For this study, 5 patients will received transplant in to the modified site under the skin using the DL transplant technique.
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Type 1 DiabetesLocation:
- University of Alberta Clinical Islet Transplant Program, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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18 - 68A Study to evaluate the PK, PD, efficacy, and safety of Anifrolumab in children with moderate to severe active SLE
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Systemic Lupus ErythematosusLocation:
- Research Site, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Research Site, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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5 - 17The study " Autologous cultured corneal epithelium (CECA) for the treatment of corneal lesions associated with limbal stem cell deficiency" is the first clinical trial of this product manufactured at the LOEX laboratory. The culture of corneal epithelium strives to produce a reconstructed tissue with the therapeutical aim of treatment of limbal stem cell deficiency. The study is a phase I/phase II study with the goal to evaluate safety and efficacy of the CECA graft for the treatment of human patients suffering from limbal stem cell deficiency. The trial is open to all genders. The inclusion of 5 minors is planned.
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Limbal Stem Cell DeficiencyLocation:
- Centre universitaire d'Ophtalmologie CHU de Québec - HSS, Québec, Quebec, Canada
- McGill University Health Centre; Centre de Médecine Innovatrice/Centre for Innovative Medicine, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- University Health Network - Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- CIUSSS de l'Est de l'île de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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Over 1The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of glofitamab monotherapy compared with an investigator's choice of either rituximab plus bendamustine (BR), or lenalidomide with rituximab (R-Len) in patients with relapsed or refractory (R/R) mantle cell lymphoma (MCL).
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LymphomaLocation:
- The Ottawa Hospital - General Campus, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Victoria Hospital - London Health Sciences Centre, London, Ontario, Canada
- Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Over 18A focus of research for youth and Emerging Adults with early phase psychosis (EPP) has been cannabis use. However, this focus has led to overlooking the possible negative influence of another legal recreational drug, alcohol. Previous studies our research group has done have demonstrated that over use of alcohol reduces the effectiveness of early intervention in psychosis treatment services. These treatment services are wrap around services that address medical, and social needs of young people with psychosis. Individuals with alcohol use disorder and EPP have fewer positive symptoms such as hallucinations which are the aspects of psychotic disorders that respond most readily to medication but have greater levels of depressive symptoms. Biologically, we can see the negative impact of alcohol on brain structure in our MRI studies. Our aim presented in this grant is to pilot a psychosocial intervention using cognitive enhancement therapy to reduce alcohol consumption in individuals with early phase psychosis. This intervention has shown promise in reducing alcohol use in individuals with long standing schizophrenia and compare it to treatment as usual which involves brief (1 session) psychoeducation. The investigators hope to reduce substance use in young people in the early stages of a psychotic disorder and improve their odds of a full recovery. In addition to measuring symptoms and hospitalizations, this trial will measure what are called social determinants of health such as return to school or work and resumption of relationships. These variables have not been measured previously in alcohol use interventions in this population but in our experience are the best indicators of long term recovery from psychosis. The symptoms will generally improve with antipsychotic drug treatment but reach a threshold after 6 months in most individuals who engage with our 5 year program. Further functional and social recovery seem to be the best determinants of a full return to health in this population.
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Alcohol Use Disorder | PsychosisLocation:
- Nova Scotia Health Authority, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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16 - 35Breast-conserving surgery followed by re-irradiation with partial breast irradiation (rPBI) has recently been found to be a safe alternative to mastectomy for women who have undergone prior whole breast radiation. By reducing the volume of tissue receiving radiation, rPBI has been associated with less toxicity and improved cosmetic outcomes. For many women with early-stage breast cancer, shorter 1-week (5-fraction) courses of breast radiation (ultra-fractionation) have been found to be equivalent to longer fractionation schedules in the upfront treatment setting. These 1-week schedules are more convenient for patients, with fewer treatments and shorter overall treatment time. The investigators hypothesize that a 1-week ultra-hypofractionated rPBI regimen following breast-conserving surgery (BCS) for local recurrence or new primary breast cancer in the previously irradiated breast (LR) will be associated with acceptable toxicity at 1 year (\<13% grade \>3 toxicity).
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Breast Cancer | Breast Cancer RecurrentLocation:
- Hôpital Maisonneuve-Rosemont - CIUSSS de l'Est-de-l'Île-de-Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Odette Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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18 - 99The purpose of this study is to assess efficacy and safety of neoadjuvant durvalumab in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy (CT) given as initial therapy after cancer diagnosis followed by either surgery and adjuvant durvalumab or chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and consolidation durvalumab given alone as further therapy in participants with resectable and borderline resectable stage IIB-IIIB NSCLC.
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Non-small Cell Lung CancerLocation:
- Research Site, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Research Site, Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada
- Research Site, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada
- Research Site, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Research Site, Kingston, Ontario, Canada