Quality of Life After Radiofrequency Ablation of Pancreatic Cancer

Brno University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pancreatic Cancer

Treatments: Procedure: Radiofrequency ablation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02637596

NT 14579-3

Details and patient eligibility

About

A prospective clinical study evaluating quality of life (QoL) in pancreatic cancer patients treated with intraoperative radiofrequency ablation (RFA).

Enrollment: 1 patient

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• histologically proved locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer. Patients with histologically proved resectable pancreatic cancer with low Karnofsky index.

informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• cystic tumor

age under 18

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1 participants in 1 patient group

RFA group

Experimental group

Description:

Twenty-fourth consecutive patients with histologically proved pancreatic cancer \[stage IIb (n=4), III (n=15), IV (n=5) \]underwent intraoperative RFA of primary tumor.

Treatment:

Procedure: Radiofrequency ablation