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Clinical trialNCT00064649TerminatedPhase 3Interventional

Minimally Invasive Surgical Therapy for BPH

SponsorNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)Enrollment49Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

The primary objective of this randomized clinical trial is to determine the efficacy and safety of three treatments for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH): transurethral needle ablation (TUNA), transurethral microwave therapy (TUMT), and medical therapy with alfuzosin and finasteride.
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Investigators

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Sites

7 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

    Denver, Colorado, United States

  • Northwestern University

    Chicago, Illinois, United States

  • Mayo Clinic

    Rochester, Minnesota, United States

  • Columbia University

    New York, New York, United States

  • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

    Dallas, Texas, United States

  • Baylor College of Medicine

    Houston, Texas, United States

  • Medical College of Wisconsin

    Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

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Drugs studied

The drug and biological interventions registered on this study, normalized to their RxNorm ingredient where possible.

Alfuzosin and finasteride
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Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
30 Apr 2004
Primary completion
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Completion
30 Jun 2006
Last update posted
14 Jan 2010
Registered enrollment
49
Registry id
NCT00064649
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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.