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Real-time Margin Assessment in Head and Neck Cancer

Real-time Margin Assessment in Head and Neck Cancer - Enhancing Specificity by Combining Fresh Frozen Sectioning With Targeted Fluorescence Imaging

Status
Completed
Phases
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05499065
Acronym
LIGHTNING
Enrollment
23
Registered
2022-08-12
Start date
2023-03-01
Completion date
2025-01-10
Last updated
2025-05-31

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Conditions

Head and Neck Cancer, Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Keywords

Cetuximab-800CW, Fluorescence guided surgery

Brief summary

To investigate if the combination of fresh frozen sectioning based on cetuximab-800CW can enhance tumor-positive margin detection intra-operatively.

Interventions

PROCEDUREFluorescence guided detection of tumor positive margins

To test if the fluorescence can guide the location for fresh frozen section sampling intra-operatively

Administrate 75mg cetuximab + 15mg cetuximab-800CW for fluorescence visualization

Sponsors

University Medical Center Groningen
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

* Cytology and/or histology-confirmed diagnosis of oral squamous cell carcinoma and scheduled to undergo surgical removal as decided by the multidisciplinary head and neck tumor board of the UMCG; * Age ≥ 18 years; * Written informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

* Medical or psychiatric conditions that compromise the patient's ability to give informed consent; * Concurrent uncontrolled medical conditions; * Received an investigational drug within 30 days prior to the dose of cetuximab-800CW; * History of myocardial infarction, cerebrovascular accident, uncontrolled cardiac heart failure, significant liver disease (ALT \>3X upper limits of normal or increased total bilirubin) or unstable angina within 6 months prior to enrollment; * Inadequately controlled hypertension with or without current antihypertensive medications; * History of allergy or infusion reactions cetuximab or other monoclonal antibody therapies; * Pregnant or lactating women. Documentation of a negative pregnancy test must be available for women of childbearing potential. Moreover, the need to be willing to ensure that she or her partner uses effective contraception during the trial and for 6 months thereafter. Woman of childbearing potential are premenopausal women with intact reproductive organs and women less than two years after menopause; * Evidence of QT prolongation on pretreatment ECG (greater than 440 ms in males or greater than 450 ms in females) * Patients receiving Class 1a (quinidine, procainamide) or Class III (dofetilide, amiodarone, sotalol) antiarrhythmic agents. * Life expectancy \< 12 weeks;

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Enhanced intra-operative margin detectionPostoperatively, i.e. 7-10 working daysTo determine the feasibility of fluorescence imaging combined with fresh frozen sectioning of a fluorescence guided biopsy of the excised tissue specimen in an on-site intra-operative setting. Outcome parameter: Detection rate of tumor-positive margins based on standard of care histopathological H/E assessment compared to fresh-frozen section analysis combined with fluorescence

Countries

Netherlands

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Mar 12, 2026