Electric shocks + chemo: new hope for inoperable tumors?
NCT ID NCT06753136
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests a treatment called electrochemotherapy for people with tumors in organs like the liver or pancreas that cannot be removed by surgery. The treatment uses short electrical pulses to help chemotherapy drugs enter cancer cells more effectively. The goal is to shrink these tumors and possibly make them operable. The study will enroll 24 adults with various types of cancer.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 24 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jul 2025
- Expected to finish
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Feb 2030
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 99 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Male/Female ≥ 18 years * Ability to understand the proposed treatment and express an informed acceptance by signing the informed consent * Diagnosis of primary and/or secondary visceral localizations of any histotype * Patients who are not eligible for standard curative procedures Exclusion Criteria: * Absolute contraindications to invasive procedures * Concomitant presence of brain, lung, bone metastases * Uncorrectable coagulation changes * Bleomycin allergy * Absolute contraindications to taking Bleomycin * Poor respiratory function or pulmonary fibrosis * Acute lung infections * Is pregnant or breastfeeding or expecting to conceive or father children within the projected duration of the study
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Conditions
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How to take part
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Istituto Oncologico Veneto
RECRUITINGPadova, 35128, Italy
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