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Robotic Compared to Fixed Gantry Radiosurgery for Brain Metastases
NCT01353573 · Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation · Updated 13 May 2011
- What is being tested
- Fixed Gantry Radiosurgery; Robotic Radiosurgery
- For
- Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Adult Brain
- Kind of study
- Tests a treatment or device on volunteers. Phase 3.
- Who can join
- Ages 18 years and older. About 60 people. The full rules are on the registry page.
- Where
- Canada
- When
- Starts or started July 2011, ends July 2013. Registered 13 May 2011.
- Results
- None posted yet.
In the researchers' words
Radiosurgery is precisely delivered high dose radiation. It can be performed using multiple cobalt sources, a modified traditional gantry-based linear accelerator or a robotic linear accelerator. The treatment of brain metastases represents the most common indication for radiosurgery while new indications for this technology are continually being discovered. With the increasing importance of radiosurgery and the resource implications for radiotherapy programs the investigators have proposed the first direct technological comparison of robotic to linear accelerator radiosurgery for brain metastases.
Sites
- Juravinski Cancer CentreHamilton, Ontario, Canada