Parotid-sparing IMRT for Nasopharyngeal Cancer

Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nasopharyngeal Cancers; Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy With Chemotherapy

Treatments: Radiation: Intensity modulated radiotherapy with chemotherapy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02149641

CCR2608

Details and patient eligibility

About

In the treatment of nasopharyngeal cancers, to determine the incidence of high grade (≥G2) subjective xerostomia at 1 year.

Full description

The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility in delivering induction chemotherapy and concomitant chemotherapy with IMRT in the treatment of locally advanced nasopharyngeal cancers and to determine the incidence of high grade (≥G2) subjective xerostomia at 1 year.

Enrollment: 42 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• nasopharyngeal cancers

Exclusion criteria

• Patients <16 years old or with a previous malignancy other than non-melanomatous skin cancer were excluded

Trial design

42 participants in 1 patient group

Nasopharyngeal cancers

Description:

Intensitiy modulated radiotherapy with chemotherapy

Treatment:

Radiation: Intensity modulated radiotherapy with chemotherapy