Future of Colorectal Cancer Surgery
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- STATUS
- Recruiting
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- participants needed
- 250
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- sponsor
- Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
Summary
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK and Ireland, it is the second commonest cancer in both men and women. Very often the diagnosis is made by either endoscopy/colonoscopy and the surgical treatment is carried out by a minimally invasive approach ("Keyhole"surgery). Tissue samples gathered by either approach are sent to the pathologist to confirm the nature of their content. At present this takes some time (days) and so the information cannot guide the procedure being done or indeed any other investigations or processes that need implementation as soon as possible until the pathology process is completed. Fluorescence guided surgery uses an approved dye along with approved cameras to add more information regarding tissue characteristics then is available by normal viewing alone. It has already been shown to be associated with an improvement in safety related to healing after colorectal surgery and the investigators are sooning in a randomised trial examining this in rectal cancer to prove it. Whether or not this trial proves this or not, the ability to better understand tissue health during investigation/operation needs further examination and development. In this study, the investigators will examine the role of computer vision and machine learning in determining the nature of the tissue being seen in real-time additive to the surgeons' own opinion and experience. This is needed because the dynamic phases of fluorescence inflow into any tissue is difficult to interpret most especially when it relates to microvasculature as is present within a cancer site or deposit. By this means the investigators hope to better understand the dynamic perfusion in and out of tissue whether normal or abnormal and define signatures that can speed up and/or help inform the surgeon regarding the actual nature of the tissue being seen. The investigators will compare the data being generated with that already being captured with regard to standard pathology and radiology and other laboratory measures of clinical course. Tissue resected from a patient will also be examined in the laboratory under near-infrared microscopy and analysed for fluorescence intensity to understand where exactly and how much of the dye accumulates in specific regions of tissue. There are no new operations in this study and no new interventions are being made on the basis of the information being gathered- it's a comparative study to see how this added information can add value to interventionalists during surgery. There are four collaborating groups involved in this research consortium, two are commercial partners as they add value in both this advanced field of analytics and in the ensuring a clinical business case is included so that findings of this work can be useful for patients.
Description
This is a combined retrospective and prospective, unblinded, non-CTIMP, multicentre, observational study to develop and determine methods of applying CV and AI with IFA in surgery for clinical benefit in surgery. Surgery can be performed via a minimally invasive fashion whether by an endoscopic or a laparoscopic or robotic technique (the latter depending on surgeon's preference) as part of either a diagnostic or therapeutic intervention in the standard way based on the patients' clinical need. Either before or during the procedure, a visual contrast agent will be administered by peripheral cannula and the area of interest examined by use of a near-infrared scope to determine presence, persistence and inflow/outflow pathways of the dye. The video image will be subjected to further analysis by computer vision and data analytics for the purposes of elucidating specific patterns enabling machine learning to build algorithms for flow characterisation informed by biophysics and pseudo-anonymised clinical data. The developmental algorithms will be additionally informed by mechanistic work quantifying and localising the fluorescence agent within and around sites of abnormal disease by digital fluorescence scanning and near-infrared microscopy as well as deep characterisation of dye clearance dynamics and local tissue metabolites (particularly acidosis). In addition, some tissue from the resected specimens provided in the course of diagnostic investigation or cancer surgery will be used to develop organoids for the purpose of examining in vitro tumour uptake and distribution of fluorescence agents.
In all 250 patients will be studied over the three-year period, comprising 100 patients undergoing anastomotic construction and 100 undergoing cancer diagnostics/resection. Some patients can be included in both groups). Following development (potentially earlier then above), prospective validation will be performed on approximately 25 patients in each group. The follow-up period ends 30 days after recruitment. The trial will not be blinded to participants, medical staff, or clinical trial staff. The contrast agents used are clinically approved (including indocyanine green) for such use within this study. While the validation component of this work will be performed prospectively, the initial model development will include some data from patients retrospectively who have already undergone similar evaluation.
Details
Condition | Surgery, Colorectal Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Rectal disorder, Surgical aspects, Surgery |
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Age | 18-100 years |
Treatment | Video recordings with analysis thereafter applied, Examination of microsections of tissue excised for the purposes of cancer resection, Cancer organoid development and testing |
Clinical Study Identifier | NCT04220242 |
Sponsor | Mater Misericordiae University Hospital |
Last Modified on | 19 February 2024 |
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