# Video-Assisted Surgery or Talc Pleurodesis in Treating Patients With Malignant Mesothelioma

> **NCT00821860** · PHASE3 · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust** · enrollment: 196 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Malignant Mesothelioma
- Metastatic Cancer

## Interventions

- **OTHER:** talc
- **PROCEDURE:** therapeutic thoracoscopy
- **PROCEDURE:** therapeutic videothoracoscopy

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00821860
- **Lead sponsor:** Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER_GOV
- **Phase:** PHASE3
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2003-09
- **Primary completion:** 2013-02
- **Final completion:** 2013-05
- **Target enrollment:** 196 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2013-06-28


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00821860

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00821860, "Video-Assisted Surgery or Talc Pleurodesis in Treating Patients With Malignant Mesothelioma". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00821860. Licensed CC0.

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