An interventional study of Colon Polypectomy in Right Colon Adenoma Miss Rate and Right Colon Hyperplastic Polyp Miss Rate, sponsored by Evergreen General Hospital, Taiwan. Completed at 1 site in Taiwan. Open to participants aged 45 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-12-08.
Sponsored by Evergreen General Hospital, Taiwan · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
A prospective multicenter randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing water exchange (WE) colonoscopy and carbon dioxide (CO2) insufflation in terms of right colon combined adenoma miss rate (AMR) and hyperplastic polyp miss rate (HPMR) by tandem inspection.
This will be a prospective RCT comparing CO2 insufflation and WE in terms of right colon combined AMR and HPMR by tandem inspection. It will be a multicenter study conducted in three community hospitals (Evergreen General Hospital, Taoyuan; Dalin Tzu-Chi Hospital, Chiayi; Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taipei) in Taiwan. Consecutive patients aged 45 years or older undergoing colonoscopy for screening, surveillance, and positive FIT will be considered for enrollment from December 2019 to May 2021. A written informed consent will be obtained from all participating patients. Participants will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to undergo either the CO2 insufflation colonoscopy (CO2 group) or WE colonoscopy (WE group). WE colonoscopies will be performed by five board-certified colonoscopists (Chi-Liang Cheng, Yen-Lin Kuo [Evergreen General Hospital]; Yu-Hsi Hsieh, Chih-Wei Tseng [Dalin Tzu-Chi Hospital]; Jui-Hsiang Tang [Taipei Medical University Hospital]. Standard colonoscopes (CF-Q260AL/I, CF-HQ290L/I; Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, Japan) will be used. Felix W. Leung will be involved in the study design, data analyses, and report preparation, but not in patient enrollment. Antispasmodic medication will not be administered during colonoscopy examination. CO2 insufflation will be used for CO2 group and the withdrawal phase of the WE group. In the WE group, the air pump will be turned off before starting the procedure. During the insertion phase, air and residual water or feces in the rectum will be aspirated, and then the colon will be irrigated with warm water. When the cecum is reached and after most of the water is suctioned to collapse the cecal lumen, CO2 will be opened. In the CO2 group, colonoscopy is performed in the usual fashion, with minimal insufflation required to aid insertion. Cleaning in the CO2 group will be performed entirely during withdrawal. Upon arriving at the cecum, CO2 insufflation will be used in both groups and the scope will be withdrawn from the cecum to the hepatic flexure, with inspection of the mucosa at the same time. All polyps identified will be resected and sent for pathology evaluation. The most distal part of the hepatic flexure will be marked by a forceps biopsy and then the scope will be reinserted into the cecum by the first endoscopist using CO2 insufflation. A tandem inspection of the right colon will then be performed by a blinded endoscopist in both study groups. All polyps found herein will be counted as the missed polyps. After the second withdrawal to the mark of distal hepatic flexure, the remainder of the colon will be examined in a standard manner by the first endoscopist. Polyp search and resection will be performed during the withdrawal phase in both groups. Insertion polypectomy will not be performed.
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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.
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In the WE group, the air pump will be turned off before starting the procedure. During the insertion phase, the colon will be irrigated with warm water (32C-35C). WE entails the infusion of water to open the lumen and simultaneous suction if the endoscope has two channels, and sequentially if the endoscope has only one channel. When the cecum is reached and after most of the water is suctioned to collapse the cecal lumen, CO2 will be opened. The colonoscope will be withdrawn to the hepatic flexure. All polyps identified will be resected (colon polypectomy). The colonoscope will then be reinserted into the cecum by the first endoscopist. A tandem inspection of the right colon will be performed by a blinded endoscopist. All polyps found herein will be counted as the missed polyps. After the second withdrawal to the distal hepatic flexure, the remainder of the colon will be examined in a standard manner by the first endoscopist.
Procedure: Colon Polypectomy
In the CO2 group, colonoscopy is performed in the usual fashion, with minimal insufflation required to aid insertion. Cleaning in the CO2 group will be performed entirely during withdrawal. Upon arriving at the cecum, CO2 insufflation will be used and the colonoscope will be withdrawn from the cecum to the hepatic flexure. All polyps identified will be resected (colon polypectomy). Then, the colonoscope will be reinserted into the cecum by the first endoscopist. A tandem inspection of the right colon will be performed by a blinded endoscopist. All polyps found herein will be counted as the missed polyps. After the second withdrawal to the distal hepatic flexure, the remainder of the colon will be examined in a standard manner by the first endoscopist.
Procedure: Colon Polypectomy
Polyp search and resection will be performed entirely during the withdrawal phase in both WE and CO2 groups. Insertion inspection and polypectomy will not be performed. All polyps in the proximal colon, defined as cecum, ascending colon, hepatic flexure, and transverse colon, will be removed irrespective of their size and appearance.
Right Colon Adenoma Miss Rate
Lesions detected on the tandem right colon examination will be used for the calculation of adenoma miss rate. Right colon adenooma miss rate will be calculated as the the number of adenomas missed during the first right colon examination divided by the total number of adenomas detected during both the first and tandem right colon examinations.
Time frame: One day
Right Colon Hyperplastic Polyp Miss Rate
Lesions detected on the tandem right colon examination will be used for the calculation of hyperplastic polyp miss rate. Right colon hyperplastic polyp miss rate will be calculated as the the number of hyperplastic polyps missed during the first right colon examination divided by the total number of hyperplalstic polyps detected during both the first and tandem right colon examinations.
Time frame: One day
Plan to share: No
Ran from Dec 2019 to primary completion in Nov 2022, 35 months.
Of 68 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Polyps, half reached primary completion within 23 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 12 and three quarters within 42. This study's 35 months is above that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 79 studies reached it within 23 months; a quarter within 12 and three quarters within 42.
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