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NCT00496522Active, not recruitingPhase 2

Proton Beam Therapy for Chondrosarcoma

Phase II Evaluation of Proton Beam Therapy for Skull Base Chondrosarcoma

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 29 Sept 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The goal of this clinical research study is to learn if proton beam therapy, with or without photon beam radiation therapy, is effective in the treatment of skull base chondrosarcoma. The safety of this treatment will also be studied.

Status (registry)
Active, not recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
15 (actual)
First submitted
2 Jul 2007
Start date
28 Apr 2006
Primary completion date
19 Aug 2028
Lead sponsor
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
NCT number
NCT00496522

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
  • Participants enrolled: 15
  • From 28 Apr 2006 to the primary completion date, 19 Aug 2028
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Previous irradiation of the skull base

Other illness

  • Documented evidence of disseminated metastatic disease

Who the study is looking for

  • Pathologically confirmed Grade 1-3 chondrosarcoma of the skull base
  • Contrast enhanced postop MRI or CT if there is clinical contraindication for MRI of the skull base obtained with 90 days of study registration at M. D. Anderson
  • The patient has been assessed by MDACC skull base surgeons to have undergone maximal surgical debulking of disease
  • Karnofsky Performance status greater than or equal to 60
  • Signed informed consent

Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
MD Anderson Cancer Center
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HoustonUnited StatesUnknown status

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