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CompletedNCT03834272Updated Jan 16, 2026

Feasibility of the LUM Imaging System for Peritoneal Surface Malignancies

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of LUM Imaging System in Peritoneal Metastases, sponsored by Lumicell, Inc.. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-01-16.

Sponsored by Lumicell, Inc. · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Device feasibility

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was Aug 2025, 1 year 2 months ago, and no results have been posted to the registry.
Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
18
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

The objective of this feasibility study is to assess the initial safety and efficacy of the LUM Imaging System for in vivo imaging of metastases to the peritoneum from primary gastrointestinal cancer, ovarian cancer and mesothelioma. This feasibility study consists of a dose escalation phase to select the optimal dose.

Read the detailed description

Subjects will be recruited and screened at a single institution, Massachusetts General Hospital. All subjects will have an established diagnosis of metastases to the peritoneum from primary colonic, appendiceal, or ovarian cancer or mesothelioma and are scheduled for surgical debulking. This study consists of a dose escalation and imaging timepoint evaluation.

18 patients will be enrolled into this study.

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Conditions studied

  • Peritoneal Metastases

Keywords

  • Gastrointestinal Cancer
  • Ovarian Cancer
  • Mesothelioma
  • Peritoneal surface malignancies
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In context

Gastrointestinal Neoplasms

695 studies on the registry are indexed under Gastrointestinal Neoplasms; 209 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 18 is below the median of 74 across 494 interventional studies indexed under Gastrointestinal Neoplasms.

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Lead sponsor

Lumicell, Inc. is the lead sponsor of 11 studies on the registry; 2 are open to participants now.

Of its 7 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 3 (43%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Subjects must have or cytologically confirmed to the peritoneum from gastrointestinal cancer, ovarian cancer or mesothelioma prior to surgery.
  • Subjects must be scheduled for surgical resection.
  • Age of 18 years or older.
  • Subjects must be able and willing to follow study procedures and instructions.
  • Subjects must have received and signed an form.
  • Subjects must be otherwise healthy except for the diagnosis of cancer, as per the criteria listed below.
  • Subjects must have normal organ and marrow function as defined as:

    • Leukocytes > 3,000/mcL
    • > 1,500/mcL
    • > 100,000/mcL
    • total within normal institutional limits
    • (SGOT)/ALT (SGPT) \< 2.5 X institutional
    • Creatinine within normal institutional limits or > 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 for subjects with creatinine levels above institutional normal.
  • Subjects with performance status of 0 or 1.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Subjects who are pregnant or nursing at the time of diagnosis.
  • Subjects who are sexually active and not willing/able to use medically acceptable forms of (hormonal or barrier method of birth control, abstinence) upon entering the study and for 60 days after injection of LUM015.
  • Subjects who have taken an drug within 30 days of enrollment.
  • Subjects who have not recovered from adverse events due to other pharmaceutical or diagnostic agents.
  • Subjects with uncontrolled hypertension defined as persistent systolic blood pressure > 180 mm Hg, or diastolic blood pressure > 100 mm Hg; those subjects with known HTN should be under these values while under pharmaceutical therapy.
  • History of allergic reaction attributed to drugs containing polyethylene glycol (PEG).
  • History of allergic reaction to any oral or intravenous contrast agents.
  • Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or asthma requiring hospitalization within the past 12 months, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
  • -positive individuals on combination antiretroviral therapy are ineligible.
  • Any subject for whom the investigator feels participation is not in the best interest of the subject.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(14)

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Histologically or cytologically confirmed

The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).

Your pathology report is the document that shows this.

Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

Informed consent

Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.

You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)

The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.

It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

ECOG performance status

A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

COPD

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe out, including emphysema and chronic bronchitis.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Device feasibility
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
18 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    1st Tier Dose Level- LUM Imaging System

    3 patients will be administered a single dose of LUM015 at 1.0 mg/kg. Imaging with the LUM imaging device will be performed in vivo on surgical tissue.

    Combination Product: LUM Imaging System

  • Experimental
    2nd Tier Dose Level- LUM Imaging System

    9 patients will be administered a single dose of LUM015 at 1.5 mg/kg. Imaging with the LUM imaging device will be performed in vivo on surgical tissue. Some patients may be imaged with an additional imaging device.

    Combination Product: LUM Imaging System

  • Experimental
    3rd Tier Dose Level- LUM Imaging System

    6 patients will be administered a single dose of LUM015 at 2.0 mg/kg. Imaging with the LUM imaging device will be performed in vivo on surgical tissue. Some patients may be imaged with an additional imaging device.

    Combination Product: LUM Imaging System

Interventions

  • Combination productLUM Imaging System

    Patients will be injected with one of 3 study doses of LUM015 and tissue will be imaged in vivo with the LUM imaging device. Some patients may be imaged with an additional imaging device.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Initial efficacy of LUM015 in labeling peritoneal surface malignancies by molecular imaging by comparing imaging results with pathology

    Correlate the fluorescence levels in tumor tissue imaging to the dose of LUM015 injected.

    Time frame: 1 Day

Secondary outcomes

  1. Number of patients with reported adverse events

    Reported adverse events will be assessed and aggregated according to event type, relation to device or drug, and severity.

    Time frame: up to 5 weeks post surgery

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Study locations

1 site
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
    Boston, Massachusetts 02114, United States
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jan 16, 2026, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03834272
Lead sponsor
Lumicell, Inc.
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 7, 2019
Start date
Mar 18, 2019
Primary completion
Aug 19, 2025
Completion
Aug 19, 2025
Last update
Jan 16, 2026

Study contacts

Jonathan Greer, MD
principal investigator · Massachusetts General Hospital

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
Yes
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