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Study of Respiratory Gated Proton Beam Radiotherapy for Inoperable Pancreas Carcinoma

NCT00658801 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 4

Last updated 2011-07-08

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The only curative option for pancreatic cancer patients is surgery, but the patients within 20% of them are possible for a radical surgery. Accordingly, concurrent chemo-radiation therapy is generally used for palliation of unresectable pancreatic cancer patients. So far, the use of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) was the traditional method of chemotherapy. However, these days, oral anti-cancer medicine, capecitabine(Xeloda®), was developed and considered as an alternative medicine of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). Furthermore, according to the recent results of clinical trials, the clinical use of capecitabine(Xeloda®) with radiation therapy was proved to be very effective and safe. Proton therapy is a new radiation therapy which remaining energy is released when they reach the tumor, delivering the most effective dose of radiation and which can minimize the exposure to normal tissues. The purpose of this trial is to improve the therapeutic effects by using proton therapy and chemotherapy concurrently.

Conditions

Interventions

RADIATION

Respiratory gated proton beam radiotherapy

Prescription dose to PTV as according to the following dose escalation schema: 1. Group 1: Tumor size ≤5cm Dose level 1: 60 GyE /20 fx, 3GyE fraction dose, 5 days/week. Dose level 2: 66 GyE /22 fx, 3GyE fraction dose, 5 days/week. Dose level 3: 72 GyE /24 fx, 3GyE fraction dose, 5 days/week. 2. Group 2: 5cm \<Tumor size ≤10cm Dose level 1: 54 GyE /18 fx, 3GyE fraction dose, 5 days/week. Dose level 2: 60 GyE /20 fx, 3GyE fraction dose, 5 days/week. Dose level 3: 66 GyE /22 fx, 3GyE fraction dose, 5 days/week.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Center, Korea

    lead OTHER_GOV

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-01-31
Primary Completion
2010-02-28
Completion
2010-02-28

Countries

  • South Korea

Study Locations

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