A listing of surgery medical research trials actively recruiting patient volunteers. Search for closest city to find more detailed information on a research study in your area.
Join our ADDS-UP3 (Atopic Dermatitis Disparities Study – University of Pennsylvania & Philadelphia Partnership): Eczema Interview Study!The purpose of this study is to understand your experience living with eczema (also known as atopic dermatitis) and identify the things in your daily life that affect your skin. Study Details: Your participation in the …
The research study is being done to better understand how and why the airway collapses during sleep. We would like to find out what types of things (for example, air flow, air pressure, or face shape) affect if someone’s throat closes up during sleep and how well they do after …
The purpose of this research study is to learn more about how the brain stores and retrieves different kinds of information from memory, and whether brain stimulation can improve the storage and retrieval of memories. We are enrolling subjects with drug-resistant epilepsy, who are expected to undergo placement of electrodes …
The purpose of this protocol is to allow for intraoperative electrophysiological recording from patients already scheduled to undergo a craniotomy that will expose the cerebral cortex. During surgery, a recording array will be briefly placed on the surface of the brain and signals will be recorded while the patient is …
The purpose of this study is to investigate if minimally invasive surgery, called robotic assisted laparoscopy (small incision surgery), is better or worse than open surgery (otherwise known as a laparotomy) when performing a radical hysterectomy for cervical cancer. A radical hysterectomy is surgery to remove the uterus, cervix, the …
This clinical trial studies how well two surgical procedures (bilateral salphingectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy) work in reducing the risk of ovarian cancer for individuals with BRCA1 mutations. Bilateral salpingectomy involves the surgical removal of fallopian tubes, and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy involves the surgical removal of both the fallopian tubes and ovaries.
The goal of this study is to find out if the experimental product, sacituzumab govitecan-hziy (SG) in combination with pembrolizumab given after surgery, is effective and safe compared to the treatment of physician's choice (TPC) which includes either pembrolizumab or pembrolizumab plus capecitabine in participants with triple negative breast cancer …
The primary aims of this trial are to determine (i) whether patients undergoing (a) major inpatient surgery, (b) minor inpatient surgery, or (c) outpatient surgery have a superior quality of recovery after INVA or TIVA and (ii) whether TIVA confers no more than a small (0.2%) increased risk of intraoperative …
This phase II/III trial compares the effect of adding chemotherapy before and after surgery versus after surgery alone (usual treatment) in treating patients with stage II-III gallbladder cancer. This study will determine whether giving chemotherapy before surgery increases the length of time before the cancer may return and whether it …