North York, Canada Clinical Trials
A listing of North York, Canada clinical trials actively recruiting patients volunteers.
Found 1,056 clinical trials
TOward a comPrehensive Supportive Care Intervention for Older Men With Metastatic Prostate Cancer
TOPCOP3 is a pilot factorial RCT of geriatric assessment and management, remote symptom monitoring, both interventions or neither, accompanied by an embedded process evaluation. This design is widely used to guide the evaluation of complex interventions and provides important data to aid design of larger RCTs. The trial itself falls …
Extended Effects of Cannabis Abstinence on Clinical Symptoms and Cognition in Depression
The prevalence of major depressive disorder (MDD) is ~5.0%, and rates of co-occurring SUDs in these patients approach 40-50%. Specifically, rates of co-morbid cannabis use disorder (CUD) in patients with MDD are elevated 2-3 fold compared to 2.9% in the general population, and is associated with poorer treatment outcomes and …
Feasibility of Early Swallowing and Speech Intervention for Head and Neck Cancer Patients Treated SURGically
Oral cavity cancer (OCC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide, with tongue cancer being one of the most common subtypes. Patients with oral cancers can experience painful swallowing, swallowing difficulty (dysphagia), and associated weight loss long after surgery. Not only is dysphagia an independent predictor of quality of …
Phenotyping Patients With Alcohol and Cannabis Use Disorders Using the Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment
Although effective evidence-based interventions have been developed for alcohol and cannabis use disorders, it is still unclear which individuals respond best to treatment. A recent model known as the Addictions Neuroclinical Assessment (ANA) proposes that assessing for differences in three neurofunctional domains (executive function, incentive salience, and negative emotionality) could …
Helping People Adhere to Their Varenicline Treatment by Co-creating a Conversational Agent: A Feasibility Study
The goal of this feasibility study is to co-create and evaluate a theory informed, evidence-based, patient-centered healthbot aimed at helping people adhere to their varenicline regimen. The main research questions it aims to answer are: What are the challenges to varenicline adherence and strategies to overcome such challenges from the …
A Phase II Study of Durvalumab Treatment - Substudy A: In Patients Who Discontinued Prior Checkpoint Therapy Due to Immune Related Toxicity - Substudy B: For Continued Treatment (+/- Tremelimumab) of Patients Previously Enrolled to Completed CCTG Studies
I238A: The purpose of this study is to find out what effects being treated with durvalumab has on cancer. The researchers doing this study also want to evaluate if prednisone (a type of steroid), when given together with durvalumab, can reduce any side effects. I238B: The purpose of this study …
The Young Adult Clinic (YAC) Study
The overarching aim of the Young Adult Clinic (YAC) study is to evaluate the DOZE app, a digital, transdiagnostic behavioral sleep medicine and self-management approach in young adult patients (ages 18-25) with chronic pain.
Testing the Safety of the Anti-Cancer Drugs Durvalumab and Olaparib During Radiation Therapy for Locally Advanced Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer
This phase I trial tests the safety and tolerability of olaparib in combination with durvalumab and radiation therapy in patients with pancreatic cancer that has spread to nearby tissue or lymph nodes (locally advanced) and cannot be removed by surgery (unresectable). Olaparib is an inhibitor of PARP, an enzyme that …
Opioid Use Post-Discharge After Ambulatory Distal Arm Surgery
The aim of this study is to determine if a standardized evidence-based opioid prescription following elective hand and forearm surgery at Toronto Western Hospital (TWH) will decrease the number of unused opioid pills consumed by patients while still maintaining adequate pain control as compared to usual treatment. Currently, no standardized …
Study of Pembrolizumab With Bendamustine in Hodgkin Lymphoma
This is a phase 2 open-label study to test the safety and effectiveness of combining pembrolizumab and bendamustine in patients with relapsed (cancer that has come back or started getting worse) or refractory (cancer that is not responding or has stopped responding to treatment) Hodgkin lymphoma.
