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Clinical trialNCT00372450WithdrawnInterventional

Plastic Stents Compared With Metal Stents in Treating Patients With Malignant Dysphagia Caused by Esophageal Cancer or Gastroesophageal Junction Cancer

SponsorSidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns HopkinsEnrollment0Esophageal CancerGastrointestinal Complications
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Summary

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RATIONALE: Placing a stent in the esophagus may lessen swallowing difficulties and improve quality of life in patients with malignant dysphagia caused by esophageal cancer or gastroesophageal junction cancer. PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying self-expanding plastic stents to see how well they work compared with self-expanding metal stents in treating patients with malignant dysphagia caused by esophageal cancer or gastroesophageal junction cancer.
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Investigators

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  • Sanjay Jagannath, MD

    Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

    Study Chair
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Sites

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

United States
  • Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

    Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

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

Start
31 Dec 2006
Primary completion
11 Apr 2008
Completion
11 Apr 2008
Last update posted
20 Mar 2019
Registered enrollment
0
Registry id
NCT00372450
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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.