High Dose-Rate Brachytherapy and/or Intensity Modulated External Beam Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Adenocarcinoma of the Prostate
In brief
The principal objective of this study is to demonstrate that patients can safely receive combined High Dose Rate brachytherapy and Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy without experiencing a treatment limiting toxicity.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00243321
- Run by
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- People needed
- 27
- Starts
- 2003-02-01
- Expected to finish
- 2012-01-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2017-07-13
Who can join
Age: any. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- TRUS biopsy proven adenocarcinoma of the prostate Pretreatment PSA <30 ng/ml Gleason's sum < 8 clinical stage T1 or T2a,b. patients that are at low-intermediate risk for disease beyond the prostate normal liver function for all patients beginning hormone therapy Karnofsky Performance score > 80 acceptable anesthesia risk as determined through routine pre-operative screening in the VCUHS Diagnostic Testing Clinic
You may not qualify if…
- pubic-arch interference or regional disease ( no evidence of metastatic disease for patients whose PSA is greater than 10 ng/ml, Gleason's sum is greater than 6, or T-stage is greater than T2a.
- Patients at high risk for distant disease (PSA > 30 ng/ml, Gleason's sum > 8 or clinical stage > T2c), clinically involved seminal vesicles or extension beyond the prostate capsule history of inflammatory bowel disease require steroid or cytotoxic therapy for collagen vascular disease uncontrolled or poorly controlled hypertension uncontrolled or poorly controlled diabetes mellitus history of cancer other than skin cancer within five years of the initiation of protocol treatment history of pelvic irradiation require the routine use of warfarin
Where it is running
- Virginia Commonwealth University — Richmond, Virginia, United States
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