Novel Screening Modality for Early Gastric Cancer

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gastric Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04114006

IRB00001470

Details and patient eligibility

About

Potential patients will be recruited at participating sites based on routine care with clinical indications for upper endoscopy. Following informed consent, patients will undergo their scheduled endoscopy with standard forceps biopsies along with the transepithelial brush samples. All samples, biopsy and brush samples, will be sent for pathology analysis, per standard clinical practice.

Full description

Potential patients will be recruited at participating sites based on routine care with clinical indications for upper endoscopy. Following informed consent, patients will undergo their scheduled endoscopy with standard forceps biopsies along with the transepithelial brush samples. All samples, biopsy and brush samples, will be sent for histologic analysis, with planned study of the diagnostic yields of each method.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subject is informed of the investigational nature of this study and given verbal and written informed consent in accordance with local, U.S., and international guidelines.
• Both males and females at least 18 years.
• Patients with clinical indications for upper endoscopy

Exclusion criteria

• Patients should not have an advanced medical or psychiatric conditions which that may limit their ability to participate in the study, as judged by the physician.