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This is a single-arm single center study to prospectively evaluate the safety and efficacy of ultra-fraction radiotherapy bridging CAR-T therapy in relapsed/refractory diffuse large b cell lymphoma
This study is looking to see if sintilimab, an anti-PD-1 McAb given with cisplatinum and paclitaxel (2 chemotherapy agents) during induction therapy in advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma can significantly shrink the subject's cancer, then de-escalation radiotherapy can be used.
This study is a multicenter, randomized, phase 3 clinical trial in patients with breast cancer, randomizing radiotherapy group (postmastectomy radiation therapy (PMRT)/whole breast irradiation plus regional radiotherapy (WBI+regional RT) versus and no PMRT/WBI alone group. This is a non-inferiority study aiming that there is no significant difference in the 7-year disease-free survival rate between the two groups.
The primary objective of this study is to determine in women with node negative BC ≤3cm in size, if PBI compared to WBI, both given once-a-day over 1 week following BCS, is non-inferior for LR and reduces adverse cosmesis. The primary outcomes are LR and patient-assessed cosmesis at 3 years post randomization.
To our knowledge, the investigators have not found any scientific article dealing with cooperation between radiation oncologists and medical radiation technologists in the context of monitoring patients undergoing radiotherapy. Cooperation protocols between health professionals are in progress but concern mainly technical procedures (ultrasound, laserthermal sessions). This study aims to evaluate whether MERMs, after training by physicians, can monitor clinical signs (for usual well-described toxicities) during treatment via a dedicated consultation. This approach participates in the development of new professions and cooperation protocols between health professionals. This mission of accompaniment on a dedicated time would make it possible to develop the caring role of the medical electroradiology manipulator.
Radiotherapy for advanced-stage head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) results in an unfavorable 5-year overall survival of 40%, and there is a strong biological rationale for improving outcome by combinatorial treatment with immunotherapy. However, also immunosuppressive effects of radiotherapy have been reported and recently a randomized phase-III trial failed to show any survival benefit following the combination of a PD-L1 inhibitor with chemoradiotherapy. The hypothesis is that the combination of these individually effective treatments failed because of radiation-induced lymphodepletion and that the key therefore lies in reforming conventional radiotherapy, which typically consists of large lymphotoxic radiation fields of 35 fractions. By integrating modern radiobiology and individually established innovative radiotherapy concepts, the patient's immune system could be maximally retained. This will be achieved by 1) increasing the radiation dose per fraction so that the total number of fractions can be reduced (HYpofractionation), 2) by redistributing the radiation dose towards a higher peak dose within the tumor center and a lowered elective-field dose (Dose-redistribution) and 3) by using RAdiotherapy with protons instead of photons (HYDRA). The objectives of this study are to determine the safety of HYDRA with protons and photons by conducting two parallel phase-I trials. HYDRA's efficacy will be compared to standard of care (SOC). The immune effects of HYDRA-protons will be evaluated by longitudinal immune profiling and compared to HYDRA-photons and SOC (with protons and photons). There will be a specific focus on actionable immune targets and their temporal patterns that can be tested in future hypofractionated-immunotherapy combination trials. This trial therefore is an important step towards future personalized immuno-radiotherapy combinations with the ultimate goal to improve survival for patients with HNSCC.
SBRT (stereotactic radiotherapy) can provide a higher dose to the target area without increasing the risk of surrounding normal tissue / organ injury in selective cases. At present, SBRT has been widely used in radiotherapy of lung cancer and it can also play a better local control for lung metastasis. However, there are parallel organs and series organs in the chest, and different organs have different tolerance to radiotherapy, so the toxicities of SBRT in different sites are different, and the prescription dose is also different. This study intends to make a detailed division of the chest region and explore the safety and efficacy of SBRT in different areas. It is divided into four types: chest wall type: the lesion is directly adjacent or overlapped with the chest wall; peripheral type: the lesion is more than 1cm away from the chest wall and more than 2cm away from the bronchial tree; central type: the lesion is less than 2cm away from the bronchial tree; ultral-central type: the lesion is directly adjacent or overlapped with the mediastinal structure. 48-60Gy / 4-10f (EQD2 = 62.5Gy ~ 99.7Gy) was given according to the location of the tumor. Main outcome measures are local progression free survival and radiation toxicities; secondary outcome measure is overall survival.
Radiotherapy (RT) is an established treatment option for localized prostate cancer (PCa), with cure rates similar to those of radical prostatectomy. In the last decade, conventionally fractionated RT (1.8-2.0 Gy per fraction to 78-80 Gy) has been replaced by moderately hypofractionated RT (2.3-3.65 Gy per fraction to 56-70 Gy). The rationale behind this change is the scientific level 1 evidence that a higher dose per fraction may improve the cost-benefit of RT due to the specific radiobiology of PCa (a lower alpha/beta than that of adjacent healthy tissues). Additionally, there is a practical advantage both for patients and the radiation department due to a reduced number of fractions. More recently, extreme hypofractionation or stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) (7-9.5 Gy per fraction to 36-43 Gy in 4-7 fractions) has been introduced as RT modality, and proved to be an effective and safe treatment option for patients with low and intermediate clinically-localized PCa, with similar incidence of late toxicity and 5-year disease free survival outcomes when compared to hypofractionated and conventional radiotherapy regimens. International guidelines endorse extreme hypofractionated SBRT as routine treatment option for low and intermediate risk PCa patients. For high-risk prostate cancer, preliminary results of ongoing prospective studies are promising, but these data are not yet mature enough to recommend extreme hypofractionated SBRT in high-risk prostate cancer. Upon this, ongoing prospective trials handle strict eligibility criteria hereby selecting patients with few comorbidities. This may not necessarily fully reflect the real life patient population. Indeed, patients with a large prostate size, a history of transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), or 'significant' urinary baseline symptoms may be at risk for experiencing increased toxicity. Based on this concern, these patients were excluded from ongoing clinical trials. However, whether these patients will really develop more toxicity, is a theoretical concern, not yet based on clinical evidence. It is our hypothesis that using modern radiotherapy such as volumetric arc therapy (VMAT) and image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) - both standard technologies at the Radiation-Oncology department in Leuven University Hospitals - extreme hypofractionated SBRT can be successfully implemented in the treatment of intermediate risk and a select group of high-risk PCa patients and/or patients with pre-existing urinary morbidity.
This study is a prospective, multicenter, phase II clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of albumin-bound paclitaxel plus bevacizumab for platinum-resistant recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer. Patients with platinum-resistant recurrent ovarian cancer who meet the inclusion criteria, and don't meet any of the exclusion criteria, are enrolled in the study. They will receive albumin-bound paclitaxel (260 mg/m2) and bevacizumab (7.5mg/kg) intravenously every 21 days. The total treatment periods are no more than 6 cycles. Treatment continue until disease progression, intolerable toxicity, or patient refusal. Objective response rates primary objective. Progression-free survival, overall survival, and safety are secondary objectives. The study will enroll a total of 50 patients.