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Utility of PET In the Pre-Operative Assessment of Patients With Hepatic Colorectal Metastases

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT00588549

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Official title

Utility of Whole-Body 18-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography (PET) In the Pre-Operative Assessment of Patients With Hepatic Colorectal Metastases

Brief summary

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This study aims to determine whether a test, called the PET scan, may be useful in determining if there are additional locations of cancer not otherwise detectable by other tests. The PET scan is a nuclear medicine imaging study that measures how much radioactive sugar is used by your tumor. The study will compare pictures of the cancer from the PET scan to other x-ray exams, such as a CT scan, as well as to what your doctors find at the time of surgery. If the study results show that the PET scan gives us a good idea of what is happening to the tumor, then it may be useful in deciding which patients with colorectal metastases to the liver should be operated on and what operation should be performed. Additionally, by comparing the results of PET scans with the other studies that will be performed as part of your care, we will try to determine which test best tells us which patient is most likely to benefit from surgery.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT00588549
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Observational
Phase
Not listed
Enrollment
204 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Not listed

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years and older
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.

Study timeline

Start date
Jun 30, 1998
Primary completion
Feb 28, 2009
Completion
Feb 28, 2009
Last update posted
Mar 18, 2009

1998 – 2009

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York New York 10065

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