Protocol for Radiofrequency Ablation of Pulmonary Neoplasms

Oncology Specialties, Alabama

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Pulmonary Neoplasms

Treatments: Procedure: Radiofrequency Ablation of pulmonary neoplasms

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00232128

CCI LUN 02

Details and patient eligibility

About

This research trial involves the development of a new treatment for lung tumors. It is for patients whose tumor cannot be surgically removed, have refused surgery, or the tumor has not responded well to other forms of treatment. This treatment uses a needle probe to deliver energy into the lung tumor. This probe is placed utilizing a CT scan image. The energy heats the tumor causing tumor cell death.

Sex: All

Ages: 19+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria: The patients enrolled in this study should be judged to have sufficient survival to benefit from control of local disease and include at least one of the following:

1. unresectable primary or metastatic lung tumors
2. may benefit from multiple modalities of therapy
3. chemotherapeutic or radiation oncologic options have been exhausted

Exclusion Criteria:

1. co-existing morbidities that preclude the use of surgery

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)