Data Visualization of Kidney and Prostate Tumors Using Routine Pre-Operative Imaging, 3D Printed, and 3D Virtual Reality Models

Completed

Conditions studied: Pleural Effusion

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine whether adding new methods of data visualization to routine clinical care will improve (i) surgical planning and (ii) surgical outcomes in patients with kidney and prostate tumors.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03656822

Run by

NYU Langone Health

People needed

303

Starts

2017-02-07

Expected to finish

2019-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2020-02-06

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 100. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Outpatients with MPE undergoing IPC placement
• Sufficient mental capacity to provide informed consent and answer Short-Form Six-Dimension health index (SF-6D) and Borg score questions

You may not qualify if…

• Patients undergoing pleurodesis for benign disease (e.g., spontaneous pneumothorax)
• Inability or unwillingness to give informed consent
• Inability to perform phone call and clinical follow-up at MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC)
• Pregnancy
• Previous intrapleural therapy for MPE on the same side
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) of 4 and life expectancy ≤ 2 weeks
• Doxycycline allergy
• Extensive loculations or hydropneumothorax or other contraindication to pleurodesis
• Chylous effusions associated with malignant disease

Where it is running

• New York University School of Medicine — New York, New York, United States

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