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UnknownNCT03804307
Short Course Radiation Therapy in Palliative Treatment of Thoracic Cancer
SHort Course Accelerated RadiatiON Therapy (SHARON) in Palliative Treatment of Thoracic Cancer: an Interventional, Randomized, Multicentric Study
- Status
- Unknown
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 72 (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 thoracic malignant lesions
Detailed description
Standard treatment for thoracic 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
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
- 2019-01-15
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Italy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03804307. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.