Tissue Analysis After Thermal Ablation for Colon Cancer Liver Metastases Leading to Immediate Retreatment
Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases
About this trial
This is an interventional diagnostic trial for Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases focused on measuring Optimizing Thermal Ablation, Rapid Tissue Analysis, Metabolic Imaging Biomarker Validation, Predictive Genetic Signatures, 19-332
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosis of colorectal cancer liver metastases (CLM)
- Confined liver disease or limited extrahepatic disease stable/controlled for at least 4 months (extrahepatic disease amenable to treatment is allowed)
- Lesions of ≤3 cm in maximum diameter
- At least one FDG-avid lesion to be treated***
- Any patient with CLM treated with Microwave ablation (as per clinical IR Guidelines)*
- INR < 1.5*
- Platelet count ≥ 50,000
Exclusion Criteria:
- Age < 18
- Less than 5 mm distance to a structure (GI or biliary tract), that cannot be protected from ablation injury with technical modifications such as hydro or air dissection
- INR > 1.5 that cannot be corrected with fresh frozen plasma **
- Platelet count of <50,000 that cannot be corrected with transfusion
- More than 3 tumors in the liver
- More than 5 tumors of extrahepatic disease (including mediastinal nodes and pulmonary nodules, abdominal or other lymph nodes, and bone metastasis)
Presence of any peritoneal Carcinomatosis
- Institutional IR guidelines:
https://one.mskcc.org/sites/pub/radiology/lptestapp/Split%20Dose%20PET%20Ablation%20Liver%20tumors.pdf
For patients on Coumadin, general clinical guidelines for IR ablation will be followed.
- For patients with no FDG-PET avid tumors aim 2 of the protocol will not be assessed
Sites / Locations
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Experimental
Patients with Colon Cancer Liver Metastases
The standard of care thermal ablation procedure, post-ablation biopsies and pre- and post-ablation PET scans. If the PET scan is positive (shows areas of cancer in the treated metastases), study participants will undergo additional needle biopsies of the positive areas on the scan. If the biopsies show areas of cancer cells that are still alive, the participants will be immediately retreated with a second ablation procedure.