Inhale and Exhale Breath Holds to Improve the Radiation Therapy Accuracy in People With Upper Abdominal Cancers
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An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Simulation and treatment imaging.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Abdominal Cancer. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Canada
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Inhale and Exhale Breath Holds to Improve the Therapeutic Ratio in Upper Abdominal Cancers Treated With SBRT
Overview
This is a prospective quality improvement study. The INEX RT P study will prospectively evaluate INEX RT R that optimizes radiation dose delivery to the target while minimizing dose to critical organs at risk (OAR) by treating patients with different phases of breath hold (inhale and exhale) during the same course of SBRT. 15 patients with abdominal cancer whom are expected to achieve a dosimetric advantage from this technique due to OAR proximity to target will be treated using INEX RT. Investigators hypothesize increasing the dose to the RT target by at least 10% while simultaneously decreasing or maintaining dose to adjacent critical OARs when using a combination of breath hold positions to purposefully vary the position of OARs during different fractions of the same treatment course, when compared to RT treatments planned on a single breath hold phase alone (present standard of care).
Interventions
- Diagnostic test Simulation and treatment imaging
Obtain inhale and exhale breath hold images planned to split radiation delivery between inhale and exhale breath hold phases. For radiotherapy courses with an odd number of fractions, the phase of breath hold with higher reproducibility or anatomic advantage will be used for the additional fraction of radiotherapy. If during the treatment planning the investigators determine that the patients will benefit from the multiple breath holds technique, the patients will be treated using the composite
Primary outcome measures
- Total dose to radiation targets and OARs [Time frame: 12 Months]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Positional change between a deep inhale and deep exhale breath hold [Time frame: 12 Months]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Age ≥ 18
- Any patient undergoing radiation therapy for a cancer lesion in the abdomen in close proximity to OARs that is hypothesized to have differential displacement on inhale and exhale breath hold CT scans of the OAR relative to the tumor.
- Patients need at least 3 fractions of RT
- Critical OARs are within 2 cm of luminal GI structures, chest wall, or previous radiation fields
- Able to receive and understand verbal and written information regarding study and able to give written informed consent
Exclusion criteria
- Inability to perform inhale or exhale breath holds during standard workflow CT simulation evaluation
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Canada · 1 center
- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre Toronto, Ontario — Toronto
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07594691 · 26-5095