Clinical trial · Interventional
Comfort Subcutaneous Drainage: a Descriptive Study Among Palliative Phase Cancer Patients
Comfort Subcutaneous Drainage: a Descriptive Study Among Palliative Care Cancer Patients Presenting Severe Refractory Lower Limbs Lymphedema
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Physical embarrassment, pain and psychological impact linked to the body image distortion are often associated to these lymphedemas. Investigators decided to study new therapeutic method because of major discomfort due to these oedemas and doctors' difficulty to manage them. Subcutaneous drainage also called lymphocentesis seems to be an interesting technique. This local treatment consists in inserting in lower limbs several catheters draining into enclosed bags in order to evacuate lymph fluid and to lower local pressure. Very few studies have been published concerning this technique and are presenting only a small number of cases. They cannot allow clear conclusions of this technique's efficiency but show encouraging results. Investigators want to collect more data on this technique using a larger number of subjects in order to evaluate subcutaneous drainage effects on the comfort of palliative care cancer patients presenting lower limbs lymphedema. Investigators will consider as lymphedema, oedemas with no renal or cardiovascular identified cause and excluding anasarca.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lymphedema | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| subcutaneous drainage | Procedure | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- subcutaneous drainage
- description
- This local treatment consists in inserting in lower limbs several catheters draining into enclosed bags in order to evacuate lymph fluid and to lower local pressure.
- interventionNames
- Procedure: subcutaneous drainage
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- evolution of the patient's discomfort due to his oedemas
- timeFrame
- on the 3rd day after lymphcentesis
- description
- It will be measured with a numeric scale from 0 no discomfort to 10 maximal discomfort.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Cancer patients * Palliative care patients according to the SFAP (French Palliative care society) definition * Patient taken care of in one of the palliative care structures implied in this project (palliative care unit, palliative care field team, hospital at home, palliative care day hospital) * Patients presenting lower limb lymphedema resistant to traditional treatments or for whom these treatments are not adapted * Lymphedema being a source of discomfort for the patient asking for relief * Patient wishing a new treatment for lymphedema * Patients with full cognitive capacities evaluated by the practitioner in charge of him * Patients available during the study Exclusion Criteria: * Lost-of-sight or transferred to another hospital subjects * Subjects wishing to end their participation before study ending
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