Utility and Cost-effectiveness of Microscopic Examination of the Neck Dissection.

Completed

Conditions studied: Metastasis

In brief

Most patients with cancer of the head and neck are offered surgical resection of the primary tumor. In order to determine how the tumor will eventually behave, along with the resection of the primary tumor, lymph nodes present in the neck are also dissected. Different institutes have different protocol on handling of the specimen that is received by the pathology labs after dissection of the neck. The investigators intend to analyze the protocol that they use to evaluate the neck dissection specimen.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03237195

Run by

University of Mississippi Medical Center

People needed

139

Starts

2013-01-01

Expected to finish

2017-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2018-02-20

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Neck dissection (unilateral and/or bilateral)
• Primary squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck

You may not qualify if…

• Any neck dissection performed outside UMMC and case received as a consult.

Where it is running

• University of Mississippi Medical Center — Jackson, Mississippi, United States

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