Cone Beam CT Scanning in Lung and Bladder Cancer.

AHS Cancer Control Alberta

Status: Completed

Conditions: Bladder Carcinoma; Small Cell Carcinoma; Lung Neoplasm

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00469066

LU-11-0073

Details and patient eligibility

About

To study changes in tumor and normal organ size and/or position which occur during a course of radiation treatments.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient has biopsy proven limited stage SCLC
• receiving radical concurrent chemoradiotherapy
• no prior chest RT
• no prior surgical resection of lung tumor
• no prior chemotherapy
• patients' lung tumors should be centrally-located to minimize the effect of respiratory motion
• patient has biopsy proven TCC bladder
• receiving radical concurrent chemoradiotherapy or RT alone
• no prior chemotherapy
• patient signs study-specific consent form

Exclusion criteria

• mixed small cell and non small cell histology
• patient not being treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy
• chemoradiotherapy given sequentially
• previous chest RT
• previous chemotherapy
• prior surgical resection of lung mass
• patient ineligible for pelvic RT
• patient does not sign study consent