Spots Global Cancer Trial Database for Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy of Electrochemotherapy in the Treatment of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

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Trial Identification

Brief Title: Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy of Electrochemotherapy in the Treatment of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

Official Title: Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy of Electrochemotherapy in the Treatment of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

Study ID: NCT02514421

Conditions

Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma

Interventions

Electroporation

gemcitabine

nab-paclitaxel

Study Description

Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to see how well electrochemotherapy works at treating people with Stage III pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Electrochemotherapy is a treatment that combines electroporation and chemotherapy administration. Electroporation uses an electric current to produce holes in pancreatic tumor, which causes the tumor cells to die or take up a higher concentration of administered chemotherapy agent. This study will test the safety and look at the effect of electrochemotherapy in the treatment of stage III pancreatic adenocarcinoma. This study will also help to find the safest and most effective amount of electroporation voltage to apply to this type of tumor.

Detailed Description: This is a phase I dose escalation trial using a 3 + 3 dose escalation scheme to evaluate the maximum tolerated field strength dose of administered irreversible electroporation in combination with chemotherapy. During the first cycle of chemotherapy, patients will receive electroporation of the primary pancreatic tumor prior to administration of chemotherapy with gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel. The schedule of administration of gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel will be administered as per standard of care. The investigators will use non-invasive dynamic magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy to detect and describe changes within the tumor. Safety will be determined by assessing the number of class three or higher toxicity events in cohorts of 6 patients at progressively higher electroporation voltages. The maximum tolerated dose (MTD) will be defined as one voltage level less than the voltage at which two or more patients out of six total patients have a class three or higher toxicity event.