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Completed Phase 1 Interventional

NIR-Guided Sentinel Lymph-Node Mapping for Esophageal Cancer

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01808417

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Official title

Intraoperative NIR-Guided Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping in Esophageal Cancer

Brief summary

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This research study is a Phase I clinical trial. Phase I clinical trials test the feasibility and safety of an investigational technique or drug. This study will try to define an appropriate dose of the investigational drug indocyanine green (ICG) in combination with near infrared (NIR) imaging to use for further studies. "Investigational" means that this drug, ICG, is approved by the FDA for other imaging uses, but not for lymphatic mapping using NIR light. Its use for following lymphatic pathways from tumors in the human body is still being studied and research doctors are trying to find out more about it. It also means that the FDA has not approved ICG mapping for your type of cancer. ICG is a dye and is approved for testing liver function and measuring blood flow from the heart. This drug has been used in studies to map lymphatic pathways in lung cancer and breast cancer and information from those other research studies suggests that this dye may help to identify lymph nodes associated with your esophageal tumor in this research study. ICG can be detected within the body using special near-infrared light cameras. In this research study, the investigators are looking at how easily ICG can get to the first lymph node (called the sentinel lymph node or SLN) associated with your esophageal tumor and whether the investigators can see the path of the ICG and the respective SLN using a near infrared camera.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT01808417
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 1
Enrollment
10 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Drug

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 20, 2013
Primary completion
Apr 10, 2014
Completion
Apr 6, 2015
Last update posted
Dec 1, 2017

2013 – 2015

United States locations

U.S. sites
2
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston Massachusetts 02215
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Boston Massachusetts 02215

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