Cordotomy in Reducing Pain in Patients With Advanced Cancer

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2024-09-30
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This trial studies how well cordotomy works in reducing pain in patients with cancer that has spread to other places in the body (advanced). Cordotomy is performed on the spinal cord with a needle and guided by computed tomography scans and is designed to help reduce pain. This study is being done to learn if a cordotomy reduces pain in patients with unmanageable cancer pain.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
• Collaborators: National Cancer Institute (NCI); National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)
• Treatments: Morphine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Ability to provide informed consent

• Has undergone 3 palliative care evaluations

• Pain intensity >= 4 on a 0-10 numerical scale

• Unilateral pain due to cancer below the shoulder level (arm, trunk, hip, leg)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Uncorrectable coagulopathy

• Large intracranial mass

• Inability to complete assessment forms

• Life expectancy < 1 month

• Contraindication to intravenous sedation

• Morphine allergy