NCT03804073

Short Course Radiation Therapy in Palliative Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer

SHort Course Accelerated RadiatiON Therapy (SHARON) in Palliative Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer: an Interventional, Randomized, Multicentric Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 82 (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 head and neck (H\&N) malignant lesions

Detailed description

Standard treatment for H\&N lesions (3000 cGy in 10 daily fractions of 300 cGy each) is compared with experimental treatment (2000 cGy in 4 fractions of 500 cGy twice a day) to demonstrate non-inferiority of this scheme

Conditions

• Head and Neck Cancer
• Radiotherapy
• Palliative Care

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
RADIATION	standard treatment	3000 cGy in 10 daily fractions
RADIATION	short course treatment	2000 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: 2019-01-15
• Last updated: 2019-01-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy