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Assessment of Autologous Blood Marker Localization in Laparoscopic Colorectal Cancer Surgery

Assessment of Autologous Blood Marker Localization and Intraoperative Colonoscopy Localization in Laparoscopic Colorectal Cancer Surgery: a Randomized Controlled Trial

Status
UNKNOWN
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05597384
Acronym
ABILITY
Enrollment
220
Registered
2022-10-28
Start date
2022-11-01
Completion date
2024-06-30
Last updated
2023-03-08

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Conditions

Colorectal Cancer

Keywords

Colorectal cancer, Autologous blood, Endoscopy tattooing, Preoperative localization

Brief summary

Laparoscopic colorectal surgery has been proved to have similar oncological outcomes with open surgery. Due to the lack of tactile perception, surgeons may have misjudgments in laparoscopic colorectal surgery. Therefore, the accurate localization of a tumor before surgery is important, especially in the early stages of cancer. Recently, some retrospective studies reported the use of patients' autologous blood for preoperative colonic localization in colorectal cancer with successful detection by laparoscopy, but its benefits remain controversial. This study aimed to assess the accuracy and safety of autogenous blood marker localization in laparoscopic radical resection for colorectal cancer.

Detailed description

Laparoscopic surgery has become the standard for management of colorectal cancer(CRC) with the advantages of less traumatic procedure, but similar oncological outcomes to open surgery. Due to the lack of tactile perception (haptic feedback), surgeons may have misjudgments in patients with small or flat early colon cancer, malignant polyps resected by endoscopic mucosal resection or endoscopic submucosal dissection. Therefore, the accurate localization of a tumor before surgery is important, especially in the early stages of cancer, to clarify the extent of surgical resection. Several methods are currently being proposed and used to identify the location of tumors. These include endoscopic tattooing with India ink, indocyanine green (ICG), preoperative endoscopic metal clipping with detection using an x-ray or palpation during surgery, and intraoperative endoscopy. Recently, some retrospective studies reported the use of patients' autologous blood for preoperative colonic localization in CRC with successful detection by laparoscopy. Autologous blood was thought a feasible and safe tattooing agent for preoperative endoscopic localization. Nonetheless, all currently available evidence comes from observational studies that are susceptible to bias. We therefore proposed to conduct this randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate the accuracy and safety of autogenous blood marker localization in laparoscopic radical resection for colorectal cancer.

Interventions

This is one of the routine procedures used for colorectal cancer resection.

Sponsors

Shanghai East Hospital
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 80 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

1. Age from 18 to 80 years 2. Large lateral spreading tumors that could not be treated endoscopically, serosa-negative malignant colorectal tumors (≤ cT3), and malignant polyps treated endoscopically that required additional colorectal resection. 3. The tumor is located in the colon, middle and high rectum (the lower margin of the tumor does not exceed peritoneal reflexes) 4. No distant metastasis. 5. American Society of Anesthesiology score (ASA) class I-III 6. Performance status of 0 or 1 on Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group scale (ECOG) 7. Written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

1. BMI \> 35kg/m2 2. Previous history of gastrointestinal surgery that altered the gastrointestinal anatomy. 3. Pregnant or lactating women 4. Severe mental disorder 5. History of previous abdominal surgery (except cholecystectomy and appendectomy) Rejection of laparoscopic resection 6. History of cerebrovascular accident within the past six months 7. History of unstable angina or myocardial infarction within the past six months 8. History of previous neoadjuvant chemotherapy or radiotherapy 9. Comorbidity of emergent conditions like obstruction, bleeding or perforation. 10. Needing simultaneous surgery for other diseases.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Autogenous blood marker localization was not inferior to intraoperative colonoscopy localizationFrom the beginning of endoscopic tattooing to the end of the surgery.While checking the intraperitoneal cavity at the start of the surgery, the visibility of tattooing will be first checked. After the complete resection of the colon segment, resected colon specimen will be checked the localization with autologous blood tattooing. The localization accuracy of autologous blood marker will be similar to that of intraoperative colonoscopy localization.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Adverse events related to endoscopic tattooingFrom the beginning of colonoscopic tattooing to 2 weeks after surgery.The secondary endpoint is the localization safety. Adverse events related to endoscopic tattooing, such as perforation, abscess formation, peritonitis, post-tattoo fever, post-tattoo abdominal pain, and intraperitoneal spillage of tattooing agent, were evaluated in autologous blood group.

Countries

China

Contacts

Primary ContactXiao-hua Jiang, MD
jiangxiaohuash@163.com(8621)38804518
Backup ContactShun Zhang, MD
v2zs@hotmail.com(8621)38804518

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 9, 2026