Esophageal Stump Washout

Kantonsspital Liestal

Status: Completed

Conditions: Esophageal Cancer; Gastrooesophageal Cancer

Treatments: Procedure: Esophageal Stump Washout

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01980394

Liestal-2012-OES

Details and patient eligibility

About

Intraluminally shed viable tumor cells might contribute to local recurrence in cancer of the esophagus and the cardia. The aim of the the study was to establish a method of mechanical lavage of the remaining part of the esophagus and, hence, to reduce the intraluminal cancer cells before doing the esophageal anastomosis.

Full description

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Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 95 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• histologically confirmed cancer of gastro-esophageal junction with indication for surgery

Exclusion criteria

• missing informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 1 patient group

prospective cohort study

Other group

Treatment:

Procedure: Esophageal Stump Washout