New catheter aims to sharpen liver cancer radiation targeting
NCT ID NCT05743842
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Sep 17, 2026 · Updated 2 times
Summary
This study tests whether a special catheter (TriNav) helps deliver radiation more accurately to liver tumors. About 19 adults with liver cancer that cannot be removed by surgery will receive a test dose followed by the actual treatment. The goal is to see if the two doses match better than with a standard catheter.
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Study facts
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- 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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19 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Mar 2023
- Expected to finish
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Dec 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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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 years and older
- 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: * Patients over 18 years of age, of any race or sex, who have unresectable primary or metastatic tumors of the liver, and who are able to give informed consent. * Patients must be eligible for Y90-radioembolization treatment, have an ECOG Performance Status score of ≤ 2, with a life expectancy of ≥ 3 months, and must be non-pregnant with an acceptable contraception in premenopausal women. * At least one lesion ≥ 3.0 cm in shortest dimension * Negative pregnancy test in premenopausal women Exclusion Criteria: * Contraindications to angiography and selective visceral catheterization * Evidence of potential delivery of greater than 30 Gy absorbed dose to the lungs with a single injection. * Evidence of any detectable Tc-99m MAA flow to the stomach or duodenum, after application of established angiographic techniques to stop or mitigate such flow (eg, placing catheter distal to gastric vessels) * Infiltrative tumors * Target vessel sizes outside of TriNav device prescribed diameter range of 1.5 - 3.5 mm
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, 77030, United States
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