A Pilot Trial of Image-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Head and Neck Cancer, Oropharyngeal Cancer
In brief
The goal of this clinical research study is to use computed tomography (CT) scans to measure and guide your radiation therapy. Researchers want to learn if the CT scans can be used to adapt radiation therapy to the changes in normal tissue and to the shrinking of the tumor that may occur as a reaction to radiation therapy. Researchers also want to see if magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning can detect certain changes in the tumor any earlier than with standard tests.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00490282
- Run by
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- People needed
- 25
- Starts
- 2007-06-01
- Expected to finish
- 2015-05-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-12-30
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patients older than 18 years of age with histologically proven squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx, dispositioned to receive definitive radiotherapy for intact primary tumor.
- Stage III, IVa, or IVb disease as defined by American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) cancer staging criteria.
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0-2.
You may not qualify if…
- Patients who have undergone definitive resection of the primary tumor.
- Prior cancer diagnosis, except appropriately treated localized epithelial skin cancer or cervical cancer.
- Prior radiation therapy to the head and neck region.
- Patients unable or unwilling to give written, informed consent or to undergo MRI imaging.
- Women of childbearing potential (A woman of child-bearing potential is a sexually mature woman who has not undergone a hysterectomy or who has not been naturally postmenopausal for at least 24 consecutive months [i.e., who has had menses at any time in the preceding 24 consecutive months]) and male participants must practice effective contraception (oral, injectable, or implantable hormonal contraceptive; tubal ligation; intra-uterine device; barrier contraceptive with spermicide; or vasectomized partner) throughout the study
- Patients unable to tolerate DW-MRI or DCE-MRI or having an estimated glomerular filtration rate (GFR) < 60 ml/min/1.73m2.
- Patients who have had prior chemotherapy.
Where it is running
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas, United States
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