Clinical trials: Suspected Mesothelioma
Malignant Mesothelioma, Metastatic Cancer
Video-Assisted Surgery or Talc Pleurodesis in Treating Patients With Malignant Mesothelioma
RATIONALE: Video-assisted surgery to remove part of the tissue layer covering the inside of the chest cavity may be effective in treating pleural effusion and cause less damage to normal tissue.
- Trial name
- MesoVATS (NCT00821860)
- Testing
- talc, therapeutic thoracoscopy, therapeutic videothoracoscopy
- Where
- 5 sites in United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 196 people
- Sponsor
- Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Suspected Malignant Lung Neoplasm, Pleural Effusion
First Local Anaesthesia Thoracoscopy for Pleural Effusion Diagnosis.
Non randomized study with two groups. The study group includes patients with suspected malignant pleural effusion, in whom the investigation of pleural effusion begins directly with pleural biopsy by Local Anesthesia Thoracoscopy…
- Conditions
- Suspected Malignant Lung Neoplasm, Pleural Effusion, Pleural Effusion, Malignant, Mesothelioma, Malignant
- Trial name
- FLAT (NCT06946498)
- Testing
- Local Anesthesia Thoracoscopy, Pleuroscopy with Rigid Thoracoscope and Forceps biopsies
- Where
- Greece
- Volunteers
- 100 people
- Sponsor
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Lung Cancer, Mesothelioma
Implantable Microdevices for in Situ Evaluation of Drug Responses in Lung Cancer
This research is being done to study the safety and feasibility of implanting and retrieving a microdevice that releases microdoses of 20 specific drugs or drug combinations as a possible tool to evaluate the effectiveness of…
- Conditions
- Lung Cancer, Mesothelioma, Suspected Lung Cancer, Suspected Mesothelioma
- Trial name
- NCT07892300
- Testing
- Implantable Micro- drug delivery Microdevice (IMD)
- Volunteers
- 20 people
- Sponsor
- Oliver Jonas