Glowing dye may guide surgeons during stomach cancer operations
NCT ID NCT04943484
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at whether using a dye called indocyanine green (ICG) during surgery for advanced stomach cancer helps surgeons see cancer more clearly and change their approach. About 360 adults with stomach cancer will take part. The goal is to see if the dye improves how surgery is done, not to test a new cure.
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Study facts
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- Participants
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About 360 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jan 2022
- Expected to finish
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Nov 2026
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.
Who is studied
Male and female subjects, over 18 years of age, with histological diagnosis of locally advanced gastric carcinoma (AGC), surgically resectable, without evidence of distant metastases (cT2-T4a; N0-3; M0) for which a surgical intervention with curative purposes is indicated both as a first treatment and following preoperative neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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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 * Age ≥ 18 years old * Preoperative histologically proven adenocarcinoma of the upper, middle or lower part of the stomach. * Advanced disease (Staged cT2-T4a, N0-3;M0 according to 8th edition of the AJCC TNM Staging System) at diagnosis, in which resection can be safely achieved by distal or total gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy via a minimally invasive (laparoscopic or robotic) approach, either as first treatment or after neoadjuvant treatment * No distant metastasis, no direct invasion of pancreas, spleen or other organs nearby in the preoperative and intraoperative examinations * Written informed consent Exclusion criteria * Women during pregnancy or breast-feeding * History of previous upper abdominal surgery (laparoscopic cholecystectomy will be allowed) * History of previous gastrectomy, endoscopic mucosal resection or endoscopic submucosal dissection * History of allergy to iodine agents * Cancer located at the esophago-gastric junction (Siewert I, II, III tumors 29) * Patients candidates to transthoracic esophagectomy, transhiatal extended gastrectomy or proximal gastrectomy * History of previous neoadjuvant chemotherapy (except perioperative chemotherapy for gastric cancer) or radiotherapy
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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ASST GOM Niguarda
RECRUITINGMilan, Italia, 20162, Italy
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