Cancer of the Pancreas Screening Study (CAPS 3)
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Official title
Screening for Early Pancreatic Neoplasia
Brief summary
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The purpose of this study is to find the best and most sensitive screening modality (CT, MRI, EUS)for very small pre-cancerous pancreatic lesions and to treat these small lesions before they turn into cancer. Another purpose of this study is to search for common markers on DNA that would increase the chance of someone developing pancreatic cancer, and locate proteins in pancreatic juice that indicate tumor development.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00438906
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Observational
- Phase
- Not listed
- Enrollment
- 200 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
Procedure · Drug
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 40 Years to 80 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Nov 30, 2006
- Primary completion
- Nov 30, 2009
- Completion
- Nov 30, 2009
- Last update posted
- Jun 17, 2021
2006 – 2009
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 1
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins Hospital | Baltimore | Maryland | 21287 | — |
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- Last update posted Jun 17, 2021 · Synced Sep 5, 2026
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