NCT03021200

Laser Fluorescence in Cancer Surgical Treatment

Status unknown NA Last updated 12 November 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Green indocianine in Esophageal Cancer in 270 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

12 July 2016

Primary endpoint
12 October 2017

10 December 2020

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Instituto do Cancer do Estado de São Paulo
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	non randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	270
Start date	12 July 2016
Primary completion	12 October 2017
Estimated completion	10 December 2020
Sites	1 location across Brazil

Drugs / interventions tested

• Green indocianine

Conditions studied

• Esophageal Cancer — all drugs for Esophageal Cancer →
• Gastric Cancer — all drugs for Gastric Cancer →
• ColoRectal Cancer — all drugs for ColoRectal Cancer →
• Prostatic Neoplasms — all drugs for Prostatic Neoplasms →

Sponsor

Instituto do Cancer do Estado de São Paulo — full company profile →

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Esophageal Cancer or Gastric Cancer. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The use of fluorescence for real-time evaluation of organ and tissue vascularization and lymph node anatomy is a recent technology with potential for the surgical treatment of cancer. The real-time analysis of tissue vascularization allows immediate identification to the surgeon of areas with greater or lesser blood circulation, favoring surgical decision making and prevention of complications related to tissue ischemia (necrosis, dehiscences and infections). It is a technology with potential application in the areas of Digestive Surgery, Repairing Plastic Surgery in Oncology, Head and Neck Surgery. In addition, fluorescence can be used as a method to identify lymph node structures of interest in the oncological treatment of patients with urologic, gynecological and digestive tumors.

Introduced by Pestana et al. In the late 2000s, the perfusion mapping system through intraoperative indocyanine assisted laser angiography (SPY Elite System © LifeCell Corp., Branchburg, N.J.) had its initial application in repairing surgery after breast cancer treatment. The method proved to be useful in the prevention of ischemic and infectious complications in cancer surgery. Pestana, in a prospective clinical series of 29 microsurgical flaps used in several reconstructions, observed a single case of partial loss of the flap, the present technology having a relevant role in intraoperative decision making. In the same year, Newman et al. The first application of the system in breast reconstruction surgery. In an initial series of 10 consecutive cases of reconstruction with microsurgical flaps, in 4 cases the system allowed the intraoperative identification of areas of low perfusion, thus changing the surgical procedure. According to the authors, there was a 95% correlation between indocyanine laser assisted and subsequent development of mastectomy skin necrosis, with sensitivity of 100% and specificity of 91%. Similarly, Murray et al. Evaluated the intraoperative perfusion, however, of the areola-papillary complex in patients submitted to subcutaneous mastectomies with satisfactory results in terms of predictability of cutaneous circulation. Other authors in larger clinical series and evaluating other procedures have observed valid results in terms of prevention of complications.

Vascular perfusion of anastomoses and fistulas following bowel surgery for cancer remain a serious and common complication. These fistulas can be caused by insufficient perfusion of the intestinal anastomosis. Intraoperative angiography with indocyanine assisted laser can be used to visualize the blood perfusion following intravenous injection of the indocyanine green contrast. Several groups reported the ability to assess blood perfusion of the anastomotic area after bowel surgery. Although they studied retrospectively, Kudszus and colleagues described a reduction in the risk of revision due to fistula in 60% of patients whose anastomosis was examined using laser fluorescence angiography compared to historically paired patients without this method. The same principle can be used to evaluate the tubulized stomach to be transposed to the cervical region after subtotal esophagectomy.

Currently, fluorescence-guided sentinel lymph node mapping has been studied in breast cancer as well as investigative character in colorectal cancer, skin cancer, cervical cancer, vulvar cancer, head and neck, lung cancer, penile cancer, cancer Endometrial cancer, gastric cancer and esophageal cancer.

These early studies demonstrated the feasibility of this methodology during surgery. Comparison of laser fluorescence images on blue dyes indicate that fluorescence images can replace blue dyes because they exceed them due to increased tissue penetration depth and absence of staining in the patient and cleaning of the operative field.

To date, there are no clinical studies involving intraoperative perfusion mapping and identification of lymph node structures with the SPY Elite System © system or other platforms (Pinpoint or Firefly) in Brazil that evaluate the Brazilian population. In an objective way the influence of this technology as predictive in the better or worse evolution of the oncologic surgery as well as in the prevention of the local ischemic complications by means of intraopeal change of conduct

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Indocyanine green imaging to guide lymphadenectomy in laparoscopic distal gastrectomy - With vídeo.
   Sakamoto E, Kodama Pertille Ramos MF, Dias AR, Safatle-Ribeiro AV, et al · · 2021 · PMID 34408870 · DOI 10.1016/j.amsu.2021.102657