Clinical Study Examining the Safety and Efficacy of Doxorubicin Drug Eluting Microspheres Transarterial Embolization in the Setting of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)

Summary

The study is designed to determine whether loading doxorubicin (a type of chemotherapy), when loaded onto a drug eluting microsphere will result in increased destruction of a tumor. The study will treat patients with surgically resectable liver cancers with varying doses of doxorubicin loaded into microspheres, with a close review of any side effects and chemotherapy concentrations in the bloodstream. The tumors will be surgically removed after at least 1 month, to determine how much the tumor has shrunk, and the amount of tumor destroyed. It is hoped that the study results will determine if this treatment has a role in controlling tumor growth prior to surgical removal.

Timeline

Start

2010-01

Primary completion

2012-01

Completion

2012-01

Publications

• Klass D, Owen D, Buczkowski A, Chung SW, Scudamore CH, Weiss AA, Yoshida EM, Ford JA, Ho S, Liu DM. The effect of doxorubicin loading on response and toxicity with drug-eluting embolization in resectable hepatoma: a dose escalation study. Anticancer Res. 2014 Jul;34(7):3597-606.

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