The study designed is to evaluate the safety of Canady Helios™ Cold Plasma Scalpel (CHCPS) in patients with solid tumors with carcinomatosis scheduled to undergo surgical resection for cytoreduction. Patients with stage 4 resectable tumors as decided by a multidisciplinary disease management team may be included if the metastatic disease is non-synchronous (e.g. recurrent colorectal carcinoma with hepatic metastasis amenable for surgical resection).. Plasma is an ionized gas typically generated in high-temperature laboratory conditions. Plasma coagulators are currently used routinely as surgical tools with multiple applications that create temperatures between 37° C to 43°C and cause thermal injury. Earlier studies demonstrated the non-aggressive nature of cold plasma. As evidence accumulates, it is becoming clear that low-temperature cold plasma has an increasing role in biomedical applications.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
20
Device used to distribute cold plasma energy at the resected tumor margins.
Canady Surgical Group PC
Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
Number of Participants With Complications Due To Cold Plasma Application
Adverse events (CTCAE event version 4.03 to 5.0) within 30 days after Canady Helios Cold Plasma Scalpel treatment.
Time frame: Immediate after application of cold plasma, followed by 3 months, 6 months, 12 months and 15 month observations.
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