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Regional Versus Systemic Chemotherapy in the Treatment of Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer

NCT01665625 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2012-08-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Systemic chemotherapy with cytotoxic drug is of limited effectiveness in advanced pancreatic cancer patients. Gemcitabine has been used as the first-line drug for advance pancreatic cancer for over two decades and combinations of gemcitabine with different chemotherapeutic drugs have been investigated to improve the outcomes of pancreatic cancer. However, no substantial improvement in patient survival has been achieved. Locoregional chemotherapy via intra-arterial perfusion or chemoemoblization takes advantage of the increasing local drug concentrations and reducing systemic toxicities. In this study, the investigators hypothesis that artery infusion chemotherapy had a better antitumor effect than systemic chemotherapy. The investigators will analyze and evaluate the effect and safety of an implanted percutaneous left subclavian artery port-catheter drug delivery system for regional chemotherapy of inoperable pancreatic carcinoma.

Conditions

  • Unresectable Pancreatic Cancer

Interventions

PROCEDURE

regional interventional chemotherapy group

The patients in experimental group were monitored by X-ray imaging. A 0.038 super-sliding guide wire was inserted after successful puncture, and when site of the pancreatic carcinoma was reconfirmed by conventional angiography, a 5F cobra catheter was used to place the port-catheter drug delivery system in the celiac artery (pancreatic head) or the hepatic artery (pancreatic body and tail). Finally, the port-catheter was embedded under the left upper chest.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Air Force Military Medical University, China

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Guohong Han, MD · Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases, Fourth Military Medical University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-08-31
Primary Completion
2015-08-31
Completion
2016-02-29

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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