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Table 3 List of clinical trials of nanotechnology-based applications in cancer diagnosis

From: Nanotechnology in cancer diagnosis: progress, challenges and opportunities

Title

Disease

Nanotechnology

Purpose

Phase

NCT number

Carbon Nanoparticles as lymph node tracer in rectal cancer after neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy

Rectal cancer

CNP (carbon nanoparticle)

Lymph node tracer

Not applicable

NCT03550001

Ferumoxytol-iron oxide nanoparticle magnetic resonance dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI

Head and neck cancer

Iron oxide nanoparticle

Imaging

Early Phase 1

NCT01895829

Application of carbon nanoparticles in laparoscopic colorectal surgery

Colorectal tumor

CNP

Tumor localization and lymph node mapping

Not applicable

NCT03350945

Sentinel lymph node mapping in endometrial cancer

Endometrial neoplasms

CNP

Lymph node mapping

Not applicable

NCT03778255

Sentinel lymph node mapping in cervical cancer

Uterine cervical neoplasms

CNP

Lymph node mapping

Not applicable

NCT03778268

Targeted silica nanoparticles for real-time image-guided intraoperative mapping of nodal metastases

Head and neck cancer Melanoma

Breast cancer

Colorectal cancer

Fluorescent cRGDY-PEG-Cy5.5-C dots

Imaging/Localization

Phase 1/Phase 2

NCT02106598

Nanochip technology in monitoring treatment response and detecting relapse in participants with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma

Lymphoma

Immuno-tethered lipoplex nanoparticle

Monitoring/detection

Not applicable

NCT03656835

Diagnosis of gastric lesions with Na-nose

Stomach diseases/Gastric cancer

Nanosensors

Diagnosis

 

NCT01420588

PET imaging of patients with melanoma and malignant brain tumors using a 124I-labeled cRGDY silica nanomolecular particle tracer: a microdosing study

Metastatic melanoma/malignant brain tumors

124I-cRGDY-PEG-dots

Localization

Not applicable

NCT01266096

Imaging of patients with malignant brain tumors using 89Zr-cRGDY ultrasmall silica particle tracers: a phase 1 microdosing study

Brain cancer

89Zr-DFO-cRGDY-PEG-Cy5-C' dots

PET imaging

Phase 1

NCT03465618