Efficacy of Topical Mitomycin C for Complex Benign Esophageal Anastomotic Strictures

• Status: Suspended
• Trial end date: 2022-12-15
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study evaluates Mitomycin C as treatment for dysphagia in adult subjects with documented complex esophageal anastomotic strictures. Patients will be randomized in a double-blinded fashion to topical application of normal saline (NS) or Mitomycin C (MMC) at the time of time of index procedure.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Fox Chase Cancer Center
• Treatments: Mitomycin; Mitomycins

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Ability to understand and willingness to sign a written informed consent and HIPAA consent document

• Patients must have symptomatic (dysphagia ≥2), treatment naïve complex esophageal anastomotic stricture (length >2 cm or diameter ≤9mm).

• Age ≥ 18

• Esophago-gastro or esophago-jejunal anastomosis with or without having undergone neoadjuvant or adjuvant radio-chemotherapy

• Any patient taking antiplatelet agents such as Plavix, Effient, Brilinta, Aggrenox must be able to hold the drugs 5 days prior to dilation and may resume 3 days after the dilation.

• Any patient on vitamin K antagonists such as warfarin must be able to hold the drugs 5 days prior to dilation and may resume 3 days after the dilation. INR should be checked for such patients at least 24 hours before dilation and it must be < 1.5

• Patients taking direct thrombin inhibitors such as Pradaxa, Angiomax must be able to hold the drugs 5 days prior to dilation and may resume 3 days after the dilation

• Patients taking Factor Xa inhibitors must be able to hold the drugs 2 days prior to dilation and may resume 3 days after dilation

• Patients taking GIIB/IIIA inhibitors must be able to hold the drugs1 day prior to dilation and resume 3 days after the dilation.

• Patients taking unfractionated heparin must be able to hold the drug 6 hours before dilation and low molecular weight heparin must be held 24 hours before dilation. Unfractionated heparin may resume immediately after the dilation while low molecular weight heparin may resume 3 days after dilation

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with malignant strictures

• Patients with non-complex benign strictures.

• Patients with anastomosis creation within ≤ 2 weeks

• Patients with suspected gastrointestinal perforation or leak that could result in extraluminal extravasation of Mitomycin C

• Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.

• Pregnant or breast feeding. Refer to section 4.4 for further detail.

• Patients receiving systemic chemotherapy during the treatment of esophageal stricture.