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This study will evaluate the rate of radiation necrosis following treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) treatment and radiation therapy in subjects with metastatic brain cancer. Subjects will be treated with the standard of care immunotherapy followed by radiation therapy via stereotactic radiosurgery at a reduced dose.
Background. Brain metastases are the most common intracranial tumor and occur in 20-40% of all oncological patients. The most common primary cancer in brain metastases is lung cancer, followed by melanoma, breast cancer, renal cancer and colorectal cancer. The incidence of brain metastases has been increasing but the occurrence of brain metastases is still associated with high morbidity and poor prognosis. The main treatment methods are stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), microsurgical resection and whole brain irradiation (WBRT). The stereotactic Gamma Knife Radiosurgery (GKRS) is a non-invasive method, applying high dose radiation into an exact defined volume within the cranium, and thereby associated with significantly decreased neurotoxicity. It is the only treatment method for multiple disseminated and thereby non-resectable brain metastases. A novel treatment method of brain metastases is the combination of GKRS and systematic immunotherapy (IT), targeted therapy (TT) or chemotherapy, which showed significant improvements in survival. Furthermore, patients with brain metastases often develop cerebral edema, which is commonly treated with glucocorticoids to relieve the symptoms and decrease the fluid accumulation, but the long-term use was shown to be unfavorable due to various side effects. One of the potentially concerning side effect of glucocorticoids is the immunosuppressive properties. This raises the question of whether glucocorticoids might influence the effect of immunotherapy. Aim. The aim of the study is to evaluate if the use of glucocorticoids before, during and after treatment with gamma knife radiosurgery and immunotherapy effect the overall survival in patients with brain metastases, in contrast to patients undergoing gamma knife radiosurgery and immunotherapy alone. In addition, the effect of glucocorticoids on progression-free survival and clinical outcome will be evaluated. For the evaluation of the modern oncological treatment, patients with gamma knife radiosurgery, receiving immunotherapy, will be compared to patients not receiving immunotherapy. Patients and methods. The investigators plan to conduct a observational prospective preliminary study including about 200 radiosurgically treated patients with brain metastases. Patients will be included to our study, if they were diagnosed with one of two most common primary cancers (lung cancer or melanoma) and were treated with at least one Gamma Knife radiosurgical treatment for at least one brain metastasis. For the outcome evaluation of the different treatment options, a comprehensive database will be established. The study participations will not interfere with any clincally indicated therapeutic decisions and the study participants will not be exposed to any additional risks.
This study is a prospective cohort study to find the incidence of re-craniotomy and predictive factors. The secondary outcomes are to find the incidence of major non-neurological complications and predictive factors.
4-Demethyl-4-cholesteryloxycarbonylpenclomedine (DM-CHOC-PEN) is a polychlorinated pyridyl cholesterol carbonate that is lipophilic, electrically neural, crosses the blood brain barrier (BBB), ability to localize in intracranial tumor tissue, lacks neurotoxicity and not transported out of the brain via Pgp (p-glycoprotein). DM-CHOC-PEN has completed a Phase I Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) trial in humans, some of which possessed primary and secondary tumors involving the brain. Complete remissions in both primary (astrocytoma, GBM) and metastatic lung cancers were reported. This Phase II trial is closed for adolescent and young adults (AYA) subjects with advanced cancer - brain involvement is required.
The first-line treatment with single agent AZD3759 results in superior Progression Free Survival (PFS) compared to Standard of Care (SoC) Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors (EGFR-TKI), in patients with advanced EGFR mutation positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with Central Nervous System (CNS) metastasis
A propensity- matched study was conducted to investigate the feasibility and safety of adding temozolomide to hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy for large brain metastases.
For patients with cerebral oligometastases who are in adequate clinical condition stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is the treatment of choice, being recommended by international guidelines for the treatment of one to four lesions. Newer findings have shown that for patients with more than four lesions SRS can be considered as a favorable alternative to whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT), the currently established standard-of-care treatment. With modern techniques highly conformal SRS of multiple lesions has become feasible with comparable clinical effort and minimal toxicity as compared to WBRT. Developments in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI- imaging) have produced highly sensitive contrast-enhanced three-dimensional fast spin echo sequences such as SPACE that facilitate the detection of very small and early-stage lesions in a fashion superior to the established Magnetization Prepared Rapid Gradient Echo (MPRAGE) series. Since it has been established that the response of brain metastases to SRS is better for smaller lesions and that WBRT can come at the price of significant neurotoxicity, the investigators hypothesize that 1) earlier detection of small brain metastases and 2) early and aggressive treatment of those by SRS will result in an overall clinical benefit by delaying the failure of repeated localized therapy and thus preserving quality of life and potentially prolonging overall survival. On the other hand however, overtreatment might be a valid concern with this approach since it has yet to be proved that a clinical benefit can be achieved. The current study aims to stretch the boundaries of the term "cerebral oligometastases" by performing SRS for up to ten cerebral metastases, compared to the established clinical standard of four, given that existing data supports the non-inferiority of this approach and given that modern Cyberknife SRS facilitates the treatment of multiple lesions with minimal treatment-associated toxicity.
Patients suffering from small cell lung cancer (SCLC) are at high risk for developing brain metastases (BM). To prevent a clinical manifestation of preexisting microscopic brain dissemination, prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) is offered to both limited and extensive disease patients, if they respond to first line regime, thus being at risk or at chance to develop clinical brain metastases. However, up to 10-15% of patients present with BM at initial diagnosis. If MRI is used as a diagnostic tool for initial staging the number even increases up to 15-20%. Additionally, between 40 - 50% of patients develop BM until time of death and the risk of developing BM further increases with prolonged survival. Treatment options are usually limited to WBRT and palliative chemotherapy but the actual effect of therapeutic WBRT has mainly been studied in small retrospective and nonrandomized studies. WBRT has been established as the treatment standard in patients with cerebral metastases from SCLC, however, it has only modest efficacy. Results might be improved by additional dose escalation. A SRS to cerebral metastases may be indicated in patients with intracranial disease, and the current protocol is aimed at exploring the neurocognition and efficacy of SCLC in patients with brain metastases treated with SRS or WBRT. The present trial aims to exploratory investigate the treatment response to ´conventional whole brain radiotherapy´ (WBRT) and ´stereotactic radiotherapy´(SRS) in SCLC patients.
This trial is a pilot, Phase 2, sequential two-cohort study designed to test two de-escalated whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT) dose levels and assess their ability to maintain acceptable in-brain distant control. The WBRT dose would decrease as the study moves forward, both in terms of absolute value and equivalent dose in 2 Gray fractions (EQD2) (as determined by the linear quadratic radiobiological model). The absolute value of the simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) dose will change with each dose level because the number of fractions delivered will depend on the WBRT dose. As such, the SIB dose will be manipulated such that the EQD2 will remain essentially equivalent despite the difference in the number of fractions delivered. This design will ensure that the only variable is the change in WBRT dose. The concept is that WBRT with SIB would be expected to maximize both local and in-brain distant control as has already been shown in studies exploring WBRT with SRS boost. However, by itself WBRT with SIB does not address the concern over neurocognitive outcomes. Therefore, investigators hypothesize that there is a lower WBRT dose threshold that will maintain acceptable in-brain distant control, particularly in the setting of a SIB to gross lesions to maintain treated lesion control. In addition, lower overall brain dose (including lower hippocampal dose without specific hippocampal avoidance) may potentially improve neurocognitive function. Investigators are also interested in evaluating treated lesion control, overall survival, neurocognitive sequelae of therapy, quality of life, performance status, and adverse effects of therapy. Biomarker identification for potential correlative circulating tumor DNA and microRNA is an exploratory endpoint to generate data for future prospective evaluation.