NCT04214119Recruiting
EsophaCap for the Detection of Early Esophageal Carcinoma
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 16 Dec 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study is to identify potential biomarkers for the early detection of Barrett's Esophagus, esophageal carcinoma (both adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma), and gastric cancer via sponge cytology.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 2500 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 26 Dec 2019
- Start date
- 12 Jan 2016
- Primary completion date
- 19 Dec 2028
- Lead sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
- Diseases
- Gastric and esophageal cancer
- NCT number
- NCT04214119
What you commit to
- Study type: Observational
- Planned participants: 2500
- From 12 Jan 2016 to the primary completion date, 19 Dec 2028
- 2 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Patients who have undergone radiation to the chest
Other illness
- Patients in either arm with extra-esophageal malignancies including head and neck and gastric cancer
Age
- Patients who are younger than 18
Other
- Patients who have undergone esophagectomy
- Patients with esophageal stents
- Patients with esophageal strictures disabling passage of the capsule
Who the study is looking for
- Undergoing esophagogastroduodenoscopy at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1/2016 to 12/2025
- Age greater than 18 years
- Patients must be able to swallow a capsule
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
Sites in registry order. Save your city in your profile to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Baltimore | United States | Recruiting |
| Bayview Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Baltimore | United States | Recruiting |
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