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CT-guided Microwave Ablation in Ground Glass Nodules

A Pilot Study to Exam the Flexibility, Safety and Efficacy of Using Microwave Ablation in Patients With Ground Glass Nodules

Status
UNKNOWN
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT03652350
Enrollment
47
Registered
2018-08-29
Start date
2018-09-13
Completion date
2019-02-28
Last updated
2018-09-27

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Ground Glass Nodules Less Than 3cm

Brief summary

In order to conduct a multicenter comparative effectiveness clinical research of phase II to investigate safety and efficacy of applying microwave ablation in patients with Great-glass lung nodules ≤ 3cm, a single center, non-randomized, open label pilot study is conducted to examine the flexibility, safety and efficacy of using Microwave Ablation in Patients with Ground Glass Nodules that are poor candidate of surgery.

Detailed description

Lung cancer is the most common cancer worldwide contributing 13% of the total number of new cases diagnosed. The main treatments of lung cancer are based on surgical resection and adjuvant postoperative chemotherapy. However, the patients who are intolerant of surgery wouldn't be benefit from surgical resection. Microwave ablation provide new choice for lung cancer, which can effectively treat early lung cancer. The diagnosis of early lung cancer can be based on the results of biopsy of ground-glass nodules (GGNs), which is one of the diagnostic criteria for preoperative diagnosis of early lung cancer. The microwave ablation is the good choice for patients who cannot tolerate surgical resection. However, the flexibility, safety and efficacy of using Microwave Ablation in Patients with Ground Glass Nodules are still unclear.

Interventions

PROCEDURECT-guided microwave ablation

Using thermal ablation electrode ECO-100AL6 probe target the GGN zone with the guidance performed by CT (Bright Speed Scanner )

Sponsors

Wuxi People's Hospital
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

1. Signed informed consent, inclusive of release of medical information. 2. Age ≥ 18 years 3. CT scan indicates presence of Ground Glass Lung Nodules less than 30mm 4. Willing to comply with all protocol required follow-up: 30 days and 90 days post microwave ablation 5. Patients who cannot tolerate surgical resection due to cardiopulmonary dysfunction and advanced age 6. Patients who refuse surgical resection 7. Patients who don't have serious complications

Exclusion criteria

1. Unable to give informed consent or potential for noncompliance with the study protocol in the judgement of the investigator 2. Pregnant or breast-feeding at time of screening 3. Active skin infection and ulceration around the percutaneous site 4. Severe pulmonary fibrosis, especially drug-induced pulmonary fibrosis 5. Tendency of severe bleeding, platelets less than 50 × 109 / L and severe blood coagulation disorders. Anticoagulant therapy and/or antiplatelet agents should be discontinued for at least 5d-7d before microwave ablation. 6. Ablation of the ipsilateral malignant pleural effusion is not well controlled 7. Liver, kidney, heart, lung, brain dysfunction, severe anemia, dehydration and serious disorders of nutritional metabolism, cannot be corrected or improved in the short term, severe systemic infection, high fever (\> 38.5 oC) 8. Extensive extrapulmonary metastasis, expected to survive \< 3 months 9. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status \> 3

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Number of participants recruited; Number of participants complied with protocol; Number of participants finished the study; Number of participants withdrew from the study6 monthsFeasibility data that help identify potential population target of CT-guided microwave ablation

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Number of participants with treatment-related adverse events assessed by CTCAE v4.06 monthsSafety data of CT-guided microwave ablation
Number of participants successfully removed ground glass nodules and no relapse in follow-up visit6 monthsEfficacy data of CT-guided microwave ablation
Confounding variables identified that interfere with efficacy of microwave ablation6 monthsAge, sex, medical history and ground glass nodules size examined by regression analysis

Countries

China

Contacts

Primary ContactJian Bao, MD
13358119776@189.cn13358119776
Backup ContactPeihua Lu, MD
13621500031@189.cn13621500031

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026