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UnknownNCT03525301
Short Course Radiation Therapy in Palliative Treatment of Brain Metastases
SHort Course Accelerated RadiatiON Therapy (SHARON) in Palliative Treatment of Brain Metastases: an Interventional, Randomised, Multicentric Study
- Status
- Unknown
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 108 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Aim of the study is to assess efficacy of a short course radiation treatment in patients with symptomatic brain metastases from solid tumors
Detailed description
Standard treatment for brain metastases (3000 cGy in 10 daily fractions of 300 cGy each) is compared with experimental treatment (1800 cGy in 4 fractions of 450 cGy twice a day) to demonstrate non-inferiority of this scheme
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| RADIATION | standard treatment | 3000 cGy in 10 daily fractions |
| RADIATION | short course treatment | 1800 cGy in 4 fractions administered twice a day |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2017-11-08
- Primary completion
- 2022-11-08
- Completion
- 2023-11-08
- First posted
- 2018-05-15
- Last updated
- 2018-05-18
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Italy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03525301. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.