Early Detection of Skin Cancer With Sensor Technology

NCT ID: NCT02668614

Last Updated: 2018-11-06

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2016-02-29
• Study Completion Date: 2018-02-28

Brief Summary

Skin cancer represents a large problem in today's healthcare setting. The majority of cancer diagnoses are attributed to malignant skin diseases including its major types: basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma. Early diagnoses is critical given early detection of malignant lesions largely increases chances of successful treatment. The current gold standard of diagnosis is histopathological examination of biopsied skin. Biopsies are not only invasive and expensive, they have variable positive predictive value, meaning they may often be preformed unnecessarily. As such, the investigators have developed a skin scanner, which is less bulky and expensive than existing similar technologies, as a tool to evaluate skin lesions prior to determining the need for a biopsy. Their objective is to obtain information in order to validate this skin scanner in the context of its ability to accurately identify basal cell carcinoma skin lesions.

Conditions

Carcinoma, Basal Cell

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: DIAGNOSTIC
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

WR-22 model microwave sensor

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

WR-22 model microwave sensor

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Interventions

WR-22 model microwave sensor

Intervention Type: DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patient requiring skin biopsy for suspected basal cell carcinoma skin lesion
• 18 years of age or older

Exclusion Criteria

-Poor english fluency, Pregnancy

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute OR Lawson Research Institute of St. Joseph's

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Other Identifiers

HSREB 107218

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id