Phase I/II Study Examining Pharmacokinetics, Adverse Events, and Surgically Resected Histopathological Response Utilizing a Dose Escalation Model of Doxorubicin Loaded Drug Eluting Superabsorbent Polymer Microspheres in Surgically Resectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Humans

The study is designed to determine whether loading doxorubicin (a type of chemotherapy), when loaded onto a drug eluting microsphere will result in increased destruction of a tumor. The study will treat patients with surgically resectable liver cancers with varying doses of doxorubicin loaded into microspheres, with a close review of any side effects and chemotherapy concentrations in the bloodstream. The tumors will be surgically removed after at least 1 month, to determine how much the tumor has shrunk, and the amount of tumor destroyed. It is hoped that the study results will determine if this treatment has a role in controlling tumor growth prior to surgical removal.