NCT00392119

MR Guided Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy for the "Minimal Invasive" Treatment of Brain Metastasis and Primary Brain Tumors

The Clinical Evaluation of the Stereotactic, MR Guided, Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT ) for the "Minimal Invasive" Treatment of Brain Metastasis and Primary Brain Tumors - a Phase I Study With Direct Patient Benefice

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 18 (estimated)
• Sponsor: BioTex, Inc. · Industry
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if the stereotactic, MR guided, laser interstitial thermal therapy treatment technique can be safety and efficiently used for human brain metastasis and primary brain tumors.

Detailed description

This new "minimally invasive" technique has been tested so far, with success, on animal brain tumor models and on human liver metastasis. The main purpose of this study is to determine if the stereotactic, MR guided, laser interstitial thermal therapy treatment technique can be safety and efficiently used for the human brain metastasis and primary brain tumors. As secondary objectives for this clinical study, the following are to be explored: * Eventual evaluation of the eventual mid and long term post-intervention complications, * Evaluate the contra indication for the technique, * Evaluate and optimize clinical and logistic intervention protocols, * Evaluate the mean duration for the procedure, * Evaluate the mean cost for the procedure The clinical trial will include a statistical sample of 12-18 treatments and will run over a period of 18 months. The inclusion period will be for 6 months and the patients will be followed up during 12 months post intervention. The clinical trial will be performed at the Lariboisiere University Hospital of Paris and the patients will be coming from all the Assistance Publique de Paris ( APHP ) hospitals

Conditions

• Brain Neoplasms
• Brain Tumor
• Brain Cancer
• Recurrent Brain Tumor

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	MR-guided Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy System

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-10-01
• Completion: 2008-12-01
• First posted: 2006-10-25
• Last updated: 2010-01-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France