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Quantifying Lung Tumor Movement Under Deep Inspiration Breath Holds

NCT00643370 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 8

Last updated 2016-02-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Radiotherapy is a common treatment for lung cancer. One Challenge of delivering radiation treatment to lung tumors accurately is tumor movement which occurs as a patient breathes. In some situations, tumors move enough during breathing so that some or all of the tumor may be missed by a radiation treatment. One way to decrease the amount a lung tumor moves during radiotherapy treatments is for patients to held their breath briefly during a radiation treatment. By doing this, a patient's lung tumor may not move as much as it would during regular breathing. In this study, the investigators aim to study patients with lung cancers which move during breathing. Patients will be asked to hold their breath after inspiration while a CT scan of their lung tumor is obtained. The purpose of this study is to study how much less patients' lung tumors move when they hold their breath

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

CT scan of the chest under deep inspiration breath hold

computed tomography scan of the chest under dep inspiration breath hold conditions

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cross Cancer Institute

    collaborator OTHER

  • AHS Cancer Control Alberta

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Don Yee, MD, FRCPC · AHS Cancer Control Alberta

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-04-30
Primary Completion
2011-01-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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