Initial Feasibility Study to Treat Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer With a Planar LDR Source

NCT ID: NCT02843945

Last Updated: 2025-06-17

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

PHASE1/PHASE2

Total Enrollment

80 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-05-31

Study Completion Date

2028-10-30

Brief Summary

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Initial study to evaluate local control and the preferred method of attachment of the CivaSheet in the setting of suspected close or positive margins at the time of surgical tumor removal.

Detailed Description

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This is a Feasibility study to determine the safety and efficacy of a new brachytherapy device that provides unidirectional radiation which utilizes active components (Palladium-103) of standard devices in a novel configuration.This pilot study may benefit pancreatic cancer patients by reducing the radiation dose to adjacent critical structures, while giving a therapeutic dose to diseased tissue, such as at a surgical margin. The appropriate dose and local control rate will be recorded the primary endpoint in order to provide an efficacy assessment.

Conditions

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Pancreatic Cancer

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Dose escalation Phase I followed by a feasibility trial in Phase II
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Directional Brachytherapy Source Implant

Patients undergoing a pancreatic cancer resection will receive a CivaSheet LDR directional brachytherapy implant at the time of surgery. The directional nature of the FDA cleared CivaSheet is expected to allow physicians to increase the radiation dose given to the surgical margin safely, reducing risk of recurrence without increasing radiation side effects.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Directional Brachytherapy Source Implant

Intervention Type DEVICE

The FDA Cleared CivaSheet Directional Pd103 Brachytherapy Source is a planar radiaiton source which utilizes gold shielding in its construction. This device is radioactive on one side only, and is capable of safely delivering high doses of radiation to target areas even when placed directly adjacent to sensitive, healthy tissue or critical structures.

Interventions

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Directional Brachytherapy Source Implant

The FDA Cleared CivaSheet Directional Pd103 Brachytherapy Source is a planar radiaiton source which utilizes gold shielding in its construction. This device is radioactive on one side only, and is capable of safely delivering high doses of radiation to target areas even when placed directly adjacent to sensitive, healthy tissue or critical structures.

Intervention Type DEVICE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* • Subject signed inform consent

* Age \> 18 years
* Not pregnant or breast feeding
* Patient capable of undergoing anesthesia
* Patient selected to undergo Whipple procedure or distal pancreatectomy
* Patient does not have metastatic disease
* Patients will have close margins
* No prior radiation therapy to the region for separate cancer
* Confirmed diagnosis of borderline resectable or locally advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma
* Patient Received neoadjuvant chemoradiation (4-10 weeks prior to surgery)
* Chemotherapy was administered for 2-6 cycles with any combination of the following agents:
* Gemcitabine + nb-paclitaxel
* FOLFIRINOX
* Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation was administered as IMRT or 3DCRT (up to 56 Gy), or SBRT (up to 36 Gy) with Pre-operative External beam dose (NCCN)
* up to 56 Gy (1.8-2.0 Gy per fractions) with concurrent gemcitabine, capecitabine, or infusional 5-fluorouracil

Exclusion Criteria

* Not surgical candidate
* Any other invasive cancer in the past 5 years, except basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer
* An IRE candidate (IRE is Percutaneous irreversible electroporation)
* Recurrent or previously resected tumors
* Documented History of Alcoholism and or drug abuse
* Participant in other clinical trials
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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CivaTech Oncology

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Joshua Meyer, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Fox Chase Cancer Center

Locations

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Tampa General Hospital

Tampa, Florida, United States

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Rush University Cancer Center

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Site Status COMPLETED

Advocate Christ Medical Center

Oak Lawn, Illinois, United States

Site Status RECRUITING

University Medical Center LSU

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Site Status COMPLETED

Fox Chase Cancer Center

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status COMPLETED

Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center

Richmond, Virginia, United States

Site Status COMPLETED

Countries

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United States

Central Contacts

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Carra Castagnero

Role: CONTACT

919-314-5515

Kristy Perez, PhD

Role: CONTACT

9193145515

Facility Contacts

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Raegen Einsmann

Role: primary

813-974-7247

Colleen Valenti, OCN

Role: primary

708-684-4694

Other Identifiers

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CT004

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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