Clinical Research Directory

Management of Immune Checkpoint Inhibition-related Hepatitis Using Low-dose Corticosteroids

This study evaluates the effectiveness of low-dose corticosteroids in managing grade 2-3 immune-related hepatitis in cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. It aims to determine whether of 0.5-1miligram per kilogram bodyweight prednisolone is sufficient to manage immune-related hepatitis without the need for dose escalation or additional immunosuppressive therapy.

Evaluating Informatics-assisted Immune-related Adverse Event Detection to Improve Registration Onto a Biorepository

Immunotherapies have improved cancer outcomes, but have a unique profile of immune-related adverse events (irAEs). Biorepositories have been established to collect data and samples to help improve our understanding of irAEs, however identifying patients who are eligible for these biorepositories in a timely fashion can be challenging. The goal of this study is to determine if an informatics system for automated irAE detection can improve registration to a prospective irAE biorepository (NCT04242095). The informatics system automatically "reads" participants' electronic health records (EHRs) and determines whether that patient may be experiencing an irAE. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Is it feasible to implement an informatics system for daily analysis of EHR data to detect irAEs? * Does the automated irAE detection system improve registration rates to an irAE biorepository at our institution following an eligible irAE? Researchers will compare standard irAE monitoring to informatics-assisted irAE monitoring to see if using the informatics system increases the registration rate and improves data entry efficiency and quality. Participants will: * Be randomly assigned to standard monitoring or informatics-assisted monitoring for irAE detection. * Have their EHR reviewed to collect demographic, medical, and cancer treatment history. * Be monitored for irAEs through daily automated analysis of their EHR data for up to 12 months or until registration in the biorepository.

Multi-Centre, Prospective, Non-Interventional Study to Intensively Monitor the Safety of Sintilimab in Clinical Practice Among Chinese Patients

In recent years, immunotherapy has become one of the important treatments for malignant tumors. Among them, PD-1 inhibitors have been widely used in clinical practice, and have shown a significant survival benefits in many patients. However, the incidence of immune-related adverse reactions (irAEs) of PD-1 inhibitors is relatively high, and severe cases can even threaten patients's life. At present, irAEs have become a bottleneck and it is urgent to establish a prevention strategy for the prediction of irAEs. In this study, the investigators intends to use Sintilimab as the research drug. A prospective cohort study was carried out. Part of the sample which was used as a training set would be detected for producing a time-series multi-dimensional data such as differential genes, metabolites and immune factors. Then gene expression programming (GEP) was used to explore the irAEs recognition model. Then, based on this recognition model, internal verification ( part of samples from the center 1 ) and external verification ( part of samples from the center 2 and center 3 samples) are carried out to accurately predict the high-risk population of irAEs and realize the early-stage warning of Sintilimab induced- irAEs.