Clinical Study on the Harvesting Lymph Nodes With Carbon Nanoparticles for Advanced Gastric Cancer

Summary

Carbon Nanoparticles (CNP),with a mean size of 150 nm,can be taken up selectively by lymphatics after injection into the tissue and draining regional lymph nodes are thereby colored black,which may provide surgeons the guidance to lymph node dissection and help them harvest lymph nodes after surgery,especially some small ones. but there was insufficient evidence to justify its efficacy for those purposes.Therefore,the investigators carried out a prospective randomized controlled trial on lymph node vital staining for lymph node dissection and harvesting in advanced gastric cancer to test this idea.

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Start

2013-12

Primary completion

2014-06

Completion

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Publications

• Background Sasako M, Sano T, Yamamoto S, Kurokawa Y, Nashimoto A, Kurita A, Hiratsuka M, Tsujinaka T, Kinoshita T, Arai K, Yamamura Y, Okajima K; Japan Clinical Oncology Group. D2 lymphadenectomy alone or with para-aortic nodal dissection for gastric cancer. N Engl J Med. 2008 Jul 31;359(5):453-62. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa0707035.
• Background Catarci M, Guadagni S, Zaraca F, Pistoia MA, Mastracchio A, Trecca A, Ruco L, Carboni M. Prospective randomized evaluation of preoperative endoscopic vital staining using CH-40 for lymph node dissection in gastric cancer. Ann Surg Oncol. 1998 Oct-Nov;5(7):580-4. doi: 10.1007/BF02303825.
• Background Okamoto K, Sawai K, Minato H, Yada H, Shirasu M, Sakakura C, Otsuji E, Kitamura K, Taniguchi H, Hagiwara A, Yamaguchi T, Takahashi T. Number and anatomical extent of lymph node metastases in gastric cancer: analysis using intra-lymph node injection of activated carbon particles (CH40). Jpn J Clin Oncol. 1999 Feb;29(2):74-7. doi: 10.1093/jjco/29.2.74.
• Background Siewert JR, Kestlmeier R, Busch R, Bottcher K, Roder JD, Muller J, Fellbaum C, Hofler H. Benefits of D2 lymph node dissection for patients with gastric cancer and pN0 and pN1 lymph node metastases. Br J Surg. 1996 Aug;83(8):1144-7. doi: 10.1002/bjs.1800830836.

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