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Sponsors and Collaborators: |
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center National Cancer Institute (NCI) |
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Information provided by: | National Cancer Institute (NCI) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00255671 |
RATIONALE: Learning about the side effects of stereotactic radiosurgery in patients with brain tumors or other brain disorders may help doctors plan treatment and help patients live more comfortably.
PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying the acute side effects in patients who are undergoing stereotactic radiosurgery for brain tumors or other brain disorders.
Condition | Intervention |
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Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors Cancer-Related Problem/Condition |
Procedure: management of therapy complications Procedure: stereotactic radiosurgery |
Study Type: | Observational |
Official Title: | Prospective Study on the Short-Term Adverse Effects From Gamma Knife Radiosurgery |
Estimated Enrollment: | 94 |
Study Start Date: | November 2005 |
OBJECTIVES:
OUTLINE: Patients undergo stereotactic radiosurgery. Patients also complete questionnaires about the side effects they experience from radiosurgery. The questionnaires are completed at baseline and at 1 week, 1 month, and 2 months after radiosurgery.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 94 patients will be accrued for this study.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
Diagnosis of brain tumor or other brain disorder, including, but not limited to, 1 of the following:
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
Performance status
Life expectancy
Hematopoietic
Hepatic
Renal
Other
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
Endocrine therapy
Radiotherapy
United States, Ohio | |
Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center | |
Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44195 |
Study Chair: | Samuel T. Chao, MD | The Cleveland Clinic |
Study ID Numbers: | CDR0000447067, CASE-CCF-4Z05, CASE-CCF-8078 |
Study First Received: | November 18, 2005 |
Last Updated: | November 22, 2008 |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00255671 |
Health Authority: | United States: Federal Government |
adult pineocytoma radiation toxicity adult tumors metastatic to brain adult anaplastic astrocytoma adult anaplastic ependymoma adult anaplastic meningioma adult anaplastic oligodendroglioma adult brain stem glioma adult central nervous system germ cell tumor adult choroid plexus tumor adult craniopharyngioma adult diffuse astrocytoma adult ependymoblastoma adult ependymoma adult giant cell glioblastoma |
adult gliosarcoma adult medulloblastoma adult melanocytic lesion adult meningeal hemangiopericytoma adult meningioma adult myxopapillary ependymoma adult oligodendroglioma adult papillary meningioma adult pineoblastoma adult subependymoma adult supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) adult grade I meningioma adult grade II meningioma adult grade III meningioma adult mixed glioma |
Choroid Plexus Neoplasms Glioblastoma Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive Astrocytoma Central Nervous System Neoplasms Pituitary Neoplasms Brain Diseases Hemangiopericytoma Recurrence Ependymoma Brain Neoplasms |
Neuroectodermal Tumors Craniopharyngioma Medulloblastoma Neuroepithelioma Meningioma Oligodendroglioma Glioma Choroid Plexus neoplasms Gliosarcoma Pinealoma Nervous System Neoplasms |
Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Nervous System Diseases |