Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
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2025-12-25 @ 2:46 AM
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2025-12-25 @ 2:46 AM
NCT ID:
NCT00499733
Brief Summary:
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cyclophosphamide, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Cryoablation kills cancer cells by freezing them. Giving chemotherapy together with cryoablation may kill more cancer cells.
PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how well giving cyclophosphamide together with cryoablation works in treating patients with advanced or metastatic epithelial cancer.
Detailed Description:
OBJECTIVES:
* Document radiologic and/or tumor marker response to cryotherapy of tumor lesions followed by cyclophosphamide.
OUTLINE: This is a pilot study.
Patients undergo percutaneous biopsy of the targeted lesion prior to cryoablation. Patients then undergo percutaneous or open cryotherapy of the largest or most accessible lesion on day 0. On day 3, patients receive cyclophosphamide IV over 1 hour.
Tumor markers (if applicable) are assessed at baseline and monthly during study until marker progression.
After completion of study therapy, patients are followed periodically for up to 3 years.
Study:
NCT00499733
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00499733