NCT00168116

Xerostomia in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Receiving Radiation as the Primary Treatment Versus Patients Who Will Not Have Such a Procedure

To Evaluate the Effects of Transfer of Submandibular Salivary Gland to the Submental Region (Outside the Radiation Field) on Xerostomia in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Receiving Radiation as the Primary Treatment Versus Patients Who Will Not Have Such a Procedure

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 42 (actual)
• Sponsor: AHS Cancer Control Alberta · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the side effects of radiation treatment and surgery versus radiation alone, where no surgery is done to move the salivary gland and place it under the chin region where it can be shielded from radiation.

Conditions

• Head and Neck Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	radiation treatment and surgery
PROCEDURE	radiation alone

Timeline

• Start date: 2000-07-01
• Primary completion: 2009-05-01
• Completion: 2009-06-01
• First posted: 2005-09-15
• Last updated: 2016-02-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada