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NCT02843945RecruitingPhase 1/2

Initial Feasibility Study to Treat Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer With a Planar LDR Source

Initial Feasibility Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of the Permanently Implantable LDR CivaSheet® in Combination With External Beam Radiation in the Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 17 Jun 2025 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open

Brief summary (registry, in English)

Initial study to evaluate local control and the preferred method of attachment of the CivaSheet in the setting of suspected close or positive margins at the time of surgical tumor removal.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
80 (estimated)
First submitted
16 Jun 2016
Start date
31 May 2017
Primary completion date
29 Oct 2027
Lead sponsor
CivaTech Oncology
NCT number
NCT02843945

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 1/2
  • Planned participants: 80
  • From 31 May 2017 to the primary completion date, 29 Oct 2027
  • 6 sites in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.

Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Not surgical candidate
  • Recurrent or previously resected tumors

Other illness

  • Any other invasive cancer in the past 5 years, except basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer
  • Documented History of Alcoholism and or drug abuse

Other

  • An IRE candidate (IRE is Percutaneous irreversible electroporation)
  • Participant in other clinical trials

Who the study is looking for

  • • Subject signed inform consent
    • Age \> 18 years
    • Not pregnant or breast feeding
    • Patient capable of undergoing anesthesia
    • Patient selected to undergo Whipple procedure or distal pancreatectomy
    • Patient does not have metastatic disease
    • Patients will have close margins
    • No prior radiation therapy to the region for separate cancer
    • Confirmed diagnosis of borderline resectable or locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma
    • Patient Received neoadjuvant chemoradiation (4-10 weeks prior to surgery)
    • Chemotherapy was administered for 2-6 cycles with any combination of the following agents:
    • Gemcitabine + nb-paclitaxel
    • FOLFIRINOX
    • Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation was administered as IMRT or 3DCRT (up to 56 Gy), or SBRT (up to 36 Gy) with Pre-operative External beam dose (NCCN)
    • up to 56 Gy (1.8-2.0 Gy per fractions) with concurrent gemcitabine, capecitabine, or infusional 5-fluorouracil

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (6)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Rush University Cancer Center
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ChicagoUnited StatesCompleted
University Medical Center LSU
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New OrleansUnited StatesCompleted
Advocate Christ Medical Center
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Oak LawnUnited StatesRecruiting
Fox Chase Cancer Center
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PhiladelphiaUnited StatesCompleted
Virginia Commonwealth University/Massey Cancer Center
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RichmondUnited StatesCompleted
Tampa General Hospital
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TampaUnited StatesNot yet recruiting

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