Tumor Monitoring Using Thermography During Radiation Therapy

Sheba Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Malignancy

Treatments: Other: Thermography imaging

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02776995

1216-14-SMC

Details and patient eligibility

About

This research aims to investigate the correlation between tumor temperature difference and biological factors, such as size, metabolism, treatment response, and tumor aggressiveness.

In addition, normal tissue response to adjuvant radiation therapy in treated organs following surgery, will be evaluated.

Full description

During radiation session, the investigators would evaluate the changes that will be detected by thermal imaging and correlate them with visible side effects as well as with known tumor biology factors and skin-tumor distance.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• signed informed consent
• will undergo radiation therapy for palliation or curative intent due to cancer, biopsy proven

Exclusion criteria

• not eligible to sign informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 1 patient group

Patients undergoing radiation

Other group

Description:

In this study, patients undergoing radiation treatment will undergo thermography imaging during radiation treatment course. Patients will be evaluated with thermography imaging every 5 fraction of radiation, starting prior to the first radiation treatment, periodically, until the end of radiation therapy (a period of several weeks).

Treatment:

Other: Thermography imaging