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NCT Number: NCT00826982

Minimally Invasive Detection of Lymphatic Micrometastases in Pancreatic Cancer

The major goal of this project is to reduce unnecessary pancreatic resections, namely resection in those patients with non-regional lymph node metastatses that cannot be cured with surgical resection. By combined minimally invasive methods for non-surgical biopsy and highly sensitive molecular assays for cancer cells, we believe we can increase the ability to detect distant lymph node metastases prior to surgical resection, and direct those patients for more appropriate therapy (including possible neo-adjuvant chemotherapy with or without surgery). We hypothesize that the combination of EUS-FNA and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) of a multimarker panel will increase the sensitivity for malignant lymph nodes compared with EUS-FNA cytology in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

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Key information

Conditions

Pancreatic Cancer Digestive System Diseases Digestive System Neoplasms Endocrine Gland Neoplasms Endocrine System Diseases Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Pancreatic Diseases Pancreatic Neoplasms

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Mayo Clinic

Jacksonville, Florida, 32224, United States

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients with a mass in the pancreas suspicious for adenocarcinoma without biopsy proven distant metastases.
  • Patients who are scheduled for clinically indicated EUS

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients who are medically unfit for endoscopic sedation or surgery due to severe comorbid disease such as uncontrolled coronary disease, or oxygen dependant pulmonary disease.
  • Patients who have any other malignancy other than basal cell carcinoma within the past 5 years.

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. To determine the if molecular biomarkers increase the sensitivity by at least 5% for detection of malignant lymph nodes in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma as compared to EUS-FNA cytology of lymph nodes alone.

    Time frame: End of study

Secondary outcomes

  1. To determine the degree of RNA overexpression of pancreas cancer specific biomarkers in the pre-operative fine needle aspirate of lymph nodes and tumors of patients with pancreatic cancer using a set of pancreas cancer specific biomarkers

    Time frame: End of study

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Mayo Clinic

Other

Registry information

Acronym: Sonoma

Important dates

Study start
2008
Primary completion
2011
First posted
Jan 22, 2009
Registry last updated
Apr 11, 2022

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