Proton Beam Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Low Grade Gliomas

Completed · Phase 1/Phase 2

Conditions studied: Adult Brain Tumor, Adult Brain Stem Glioma, Adult Diffuse Astrocytoma, Adult Ependymoma, Adult Grade II Meningioma, Adult Melanocytic Lesion, Adult Meningeal Hemangiopericytoma, Adult Mixed Glioma, Adult Oligodendroglioma, Adult Pineal Gland Astrocytoma, Adult Pineocytoma, Recurrent Adult Brain Tumor

In brief

RATIONALE: Specialized radiation therapy, such as proton beam radiation therapy, that delivers a high dose of radiation directly to the tumor may kill more tumor cells and cause less damage to normal tissue. PURPOSE: This phase I/II trial is studying the best way to give proton beam radiation therapy and to see how well it works in treating patients with low grade gliomas.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT01024907
Run by
Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine
People needed
23
Starts
2009-12-17
Expected to finish
2014-02-01
Last updated by the study team
2020-12-10

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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