Impact of C-arm CT in Patients With HCC Undergoing TACE: Optimal Imaging Guidance

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Conditions studied: Carcinoma, Hepatocellular

In brief

Patients will be enrolled based on presence of HCC and eligibility for TACE. They will be randomized to one of two arms for imaging navigation to the optimal catheter location for chemotherapy injection to treat the first (possibly sole) tumor target. The two arms will be: TACE using C-arm CT supplemented by DSA or DSA only (only DSA images will be used for navigation and tumor vessel tracking). Navigation to subsequent treatment targets in all patients will be done with fluoroscopy, CACT, and DSA, as is standard of care at Stanford University Medical Center, and is not part of the study. Vascular complexity, which affects navigation difficulty and thus the need for imaging, will be assessed separately for use in data analysis by two radiologists on a four-point scale.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00926536

Run by

Stanford University

People needed

84

Starts

2009-04-01

Expected to finish

2010-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-04-04

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients must be affected by HCC
• Patients must be 18 years old or older
• Patients must have received an abdominal CT, PET/CT scan or MRI, completed prior to the TACE procedure.
• Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.

You may not qualify if…

• Subjects under the age of 18
• Pregnant women

Where it is running

• Stanford University School of Medicine — Stanford, California, United States

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