Quality of Life and Psycological Evaluation of Patients Affected by Head and Neck Cancer

Michele Tedeschi

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Quality of Life

Treatments: Radiation: Head and Neck patients

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02984033

1642

Details and patient eligibility

About

The prospective trial is to describe the quality of life and psychological effects in patients with head and neck tumor receiving curative intent treatment

Full description

The multicentric prospective trial is to evaluate the quality of life and psychological effects in patients with head and neck tumor treated by curative intent radiation therapy. The treatment consists in a conventionally fractionated Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) or until 2.2 Gy per fraction with a total dose of 50-66 Gy in post-operative setting and 66-72 Gy in radical setting.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck (oral cavity, larynx, pharynx and hypopharynx) in non-metastatic staging;
• curative intent treatment (radiation therapy associated or not to chemotherapy; surgery associated or not to post-operative radiotherapy and chemotherapy);
• performance status < 2;
• age ≥ 18 years;
• good knowledge of italian language;
• written informed consent

Trial design

0 participants in 1 patient group

Head and Neck patients

Description:

Patients affected by squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck (oral cavity, larynx, pharynx and hypopharynx) with no metastasis

Treatment:

Radiation: Head and Neck patients