Magnetic Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping in Gastric Cancer

Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

I. To assess safety by assessing short term toxicity associated with the gastric injection of the novel magnetic tracer.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine the feasibility of sentinel lymph node (SLN) imaging and mapping using novel magnetic nanoparticles (iron conjugated polymers in saline suspension [FerroTrace]) for gastric cancer, and to determine whether pre-operative injection, intra-operative injection, or both are feasible.

II. To test the validity of this procedure by correlating sentinel lymph nodes (SLN) to predict pathologic Lymph node (LN)-positive status i.e., will a negative SLN accurately predict the negativity of the other LNs? III. To determine the diagnostic value of additional hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) sections and immunohistochemistry to assess sentinel lymph nodes compared to routine assessment with one H&E stain alone.

OUTLINE: Patients are assigned to 1 of 2 cohorts.

COHORT I (PREOPERATIVE INJECTION): Patients receive FerroTrace peritumorally within days 1-21. Patients then undergo gastrectomy and receive indocyanine green (ICG) peritumorally.

COHORT II (INTRAOPERATIVE INJECTION): Patients undergo gastrectomy and receive FerroTrace and ICG peritumorally during surgery.