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Terminated Not applicable Interventional

DEB-TACE for Hepatocellular Carcinoma

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02748161

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Official title

Surefire vs. Endhole for DEB-TACE: Quantifying Hepatic Artery Embolization to Improve Outcomes by Comparing Two Different Catheter Systems for DEB-TACE (QED Study)

Brief summary

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Patients enrolled in this study have been diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and are scheduled to have a procedure called drug-eluting bead trans-arterial chemoembolization (DEB-TACE). During the DEB-TACE procedure, very small beads are mixed in with a chemotherapy drug, doxorubicin, and delivered to the tumor through an arterial catheter. The DEB-TACE procedure allows the treatment to be delivered directly into the liver. It also causes arterial embolization, the process in which a blood vessel is blocked. Treatment of HCC using DEB-TACE may help delay tumor progression and can downstage (decrease the size) the cancer in order to meet the criteria which may allow patients to become candidates for liver transplantation. The purpose of this study is to compare tumor response and medical outcomes for patients who undergo DEB-TACE with standard endhole catheter versus Surefire® Infusion System.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT02748161
Recruitment status
Terminated
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Lead sponsor
Surefire Medical, Inc.
Industry
Enrollment
170 participants

Conditions and interventions

Interventions

Procedure

Eligibility (public fields only)

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

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Study timeline

Start date
Jul 31, 2015
Primary completion
May 14, 2018
Completion
Jun 14, 2018
Last update posted
Jun 20, 2018

2015 – 2018

United States locations

U.S. sites
11
U.S. states
9
U.S. cities
9
Facility City State ZIP Site status
University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham Alabama
University of Arizona Phoenix Arizona
UCLA Los Angeles California
USC Los Angeles California
Radiology Imaging Associates Denver Colorado
Georgetown University Washington D.C. District of Columbia
University of Maryland Baltimore Maryland
New York University New York New York
Cleveland Clinical Foundation Cleveland Ohio
University Hospitals of Cleveland Cleveland Ohio
University of Utah Salt Lake City Utah

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