Review of Palliative Radiotherapy in the Management of Advanced Head and Neck Cancer

Alberta Health services

Status: Completed

Conditions: Head and Neck Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00280891

18882

Details and patient eligibility

About

To describe the charactersitics of patients with advanced head and neck cancer treated with palliative intent and determine outcome in terms of symptom control and toxicity

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, primary treatment given with palliative intent

Exclusion criteria

• radical treatment, palliative treatment following local recurrence, adenocarcinoma, salivary gland carcinoma or melanoma