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An Early Feasibility Study of Perfusion-Induced Hyperthermia for Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma and All Relapsed Malignancies, for Which Curative Therapy is Not Possible
The purpose of this study is to gather information on how safe the hyperthermia treatment delivered via the Exatherm-TBH (the device that will heat your blood and deliver it back to you), added to the best supportive care is to patients who have advanced persistent or recurrent, unresectable Cancer.
One potential candidate for a new approach to advanced cancer therapy is hyperthermia because cancer cells are thermo-sensitive, with significantly reduced heat shock protein (HSP) expression. Moreover, hyperthermia (42°C) causes repression of genes involved in the cell cycle and cellular growth and proliferation. Upon exposure to hyperthermic conditions, HSP expression is increased in normal cells. However, when cancer cells are exposed to hyperthermia, they initially express significantly less HSPs than normal cells, which sensitizes them to hyperthermia. Mild hyperthermia (43°C for less than two hours) induces extensive double-stranded DNA fragmentation and, at a later time, apoptosis in murine thymocytes. In cells with irreparable levels of DNA damage, apoptosis is the means of elimination.
Age
22 - No limit years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No
University of Kentucky, Markey Cancer Center
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Start Date
July 1, 2015
Primary Completion Date
April 1, 2018
Completion Date
February 16, 2019
Last Updated
April 12, 2019
4
ACTUAL participants
Exatherm-TBH system
DEVICE
Lead Sponsor
Jonathan Kiev
Collaborators
Data Source & Attribution
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