This study is being done to test how effective cryoablation is in killing cancer cells. Cryoablation uses freezing temperatures to treat cancer. Cryoablation works by creating freezing temperatures within a needle probe. When this probe is inserted into a cancer, the freezing temperatures are used to try and kill the cancer. Unfortunately, the investigators don't know how well cryoablation works at destroying the cancer. This study will allow us to check to see how well cryoablation works for kidney cancers. After the investigators destroy the kidney cancers using cryoablation, the investigators will followup with you every 5-7 months to make sure the cryoablation worked and that the cancer was destroyed.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
17
All patients will have percutaneous image guided core biopsies of the treatment site and CT or MR imaging at approximately 5-7 months following the cryoablation. They will have repeat imaging every 5-7 months for a period of two years, and if there is evidence of recurrence (ablation zone increase \> 5 mm or increased enhancement 15 HU), then repeat biopsy will be obtained. Imaging follow-up past the two year point will be at the discretion of the patient's physicians.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
To determine the efficacy rate after percutaneous renal cryoablation.
Time frame: 2 years
To determine the complication rate of percutaneous renal tumor cryoablation.
Time frame: 2 years
To correlate post-treatment imaging parameters of CT/MR with therapeutic cryoablation success.
Time frame: 2 years
To assess the glomerular filtration rate changes associated with percutaneous renal cryoablation.
Time frame: 2 years
To investigate predictors of efficacy after cryoablation.
Time frame: 2 years
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