Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01858805
Circulating Tumor Cells as a Biomarker for Preoperative Prognostic Staging in Patients With Esophageal Cancer
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 123 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Despite the availability of several preoperative diagnostic techniques, accurate pretreatment staging of esophageal cancer (EC) remains challenging. Therefore, The investigators evaluated the prognostic significance of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in patients with EC.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | esophagectomy |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2010-04-01
- Primary completion
- 2014-04-01
- Completion
- 2014-04-01
- First posted
- 2013-05-21
- Last updated
- 2014-11-18
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Germany
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01858805. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.