Status:

COMPLETED

Swiss Prospective, Multicenter Study Sentinel Lymph Node Procedure in Colon Cancer

Lead Sponsor:

University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Conditions:

Colonic Neoplasms

Eligibility:

All Genders

Phase:

PHASE1

PHASE2

Brief Summary

The study is a feasibility and validation study of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) procedure in all stages of colon cancer. If the SLN can be reliably identified, it could be submitted to a more accurat...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Colon cancer at any stage diagnosed histologically or high degree of suspicion for colon cancer at endoscopy, which cannot be confirmed with certainty in the biopsy. The diagnosis of cancer must be certain in the definitive histology.
  • Possibility of transabdominal injection of the dye (cancers below the peritoneal reflection in which the injection of dye must be carried out through rectoscopy, are therefore excluded).
  • Patient's informed consent

Exclusion

  • Prior intrabdominal tumor surgery
  • Other preexisting malignancies
  • Hypersensitivity/allergy to dye (isosulfan blue)
  • Pregnancy
  • Breast-feeding
  • No patient's informed consent

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

May 1 2000

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

January 1 2009

Estimated Enrollment :

192 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00826579

Start Date

May 1 2000

End Date

January 1 2009

Last Update

March 12 2015

Active Locations (3)

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1

Carsten T. Viehl, MD

Basel, Switzerland, 4031

2

Urban Laffer, MD

Biel, Switzerland, 2501

3

Markus Zuber, MD

Olten, Switzerland, 4600