View clinical trials related to Lymphatic Metastasis.
Filter by:Aim of the study will be to investigate if Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) with elastography can be purposed between the routine staging examinations in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma without distant metastasis for the staging of lymph nodes status ("N" in TNM classification) - in RESECTABLE pancreatic cancer the investigators will evaluate the concordance with EUS elastography and histological findings of lymph nodes obtained during surgery, in order to assess the sensibility, specificity and the positive and negative predictive value of EUS with elastography, the disease-free survival, the percentage of metastatic patients and the overall survival (in patients with or without metastatic lymph nodes). - in "BORDERLINE resectable" and UNRESECTABLE non-metastatic ("advanced" locally") disease, the investigators will evaluate if the malignant lymph nodes samples during EUS with elastography and fine needle aspiration (FNA) will be related to a decreased survival. Secondary aim will be to register the prognosis (in terms of survival) of the patients with para-aortic and mediastinal pathological lymph nodes (related to a decreases survival in some series in literature)
This research study investigates if SpotTM ink can help breast surgeons retrieve sampled lymph node as well as or better than the standard clip and radioseed guidance methods. The names of the novel study intervention involved in this study is: - SpotTM ink tattooing The names of the standard of care study interventions involved in this study are: - Core needle biopsy and/or fine needle aspiration - Surgical Removal of the Lymph Nodes via clip and radioseed guidance
Adenocarcinoma's of the pancreas and periampullary region (distal bile duct, ampulla of Vater and duodenum) are cancers with a poor survival. Good preoperative TNM staging is important to determine the appropriate therapy and prognosis. An important negative prognostic factor is the presence of para-aortic lymph node (LN) metastases which are regarded as distant metastases and precluding a curative resection. Determining LN status, however, is challenging. Ferrotran, (SPL Medical) an ultra-small superparamagnetic iron oxide (USPIO) particle, has proven to be a valuable contrast agent for detecting LN metastases of solid tumours, like prostate and breast cancer, using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The aim of this study is to validate USPIO-MRI to pathology in patients with pancreatic or periampullary cancer.