NCT06037902Recruiting
CPAP for Esophageal Cancer With Radiotherapy
Use of CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) for Simulating Esophageal Cancer Patients Prior to Radiotherapy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 14 Sept 2023 · Not updated for over 12 months - ask the site whether it is still open
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The goal of this clinical trial is to test the use of CPAP in patients with esophgaeal cancer undergoing radiotherapy. The main questions it aims to answer are: * does use of CPAP decrease exposure of normal lung to radiation? * does use of CPAP decrease exposure of normal heart to radiation? Participants will undergo simulation twice: * with CPAP * without CPAP
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 44 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 28 Aug 2023
- Start date
- 21 Aug 2023
- Primary completion date
- 30 Sept 2027
- Lead sponsor
- Sheba Medical Center
- Diseases
- Gastric and esophageal cancer
- NCT number
- NCT06037902
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 44
- From 21 Aug 2023 to the primary completion date, 30 Sept 2027
- 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
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Other illness
- A history of a psychiatric problem that may impair the patient's ability to understand the research requirements or respond to them, or to give his consent
Other
- A person who meets any of the following exclusion criteria will not be able to participate in the study:
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding
- Significant comorbidity at the starting point that would prevent the use of CPAP
- Hospitalized in an institution by virtue of an administrative order or a court order.
- Special population
Who the study is looking for
- Diagnosis of cancer, with a tumor (primary or secondary) in the esophagus including tumors in the esophagus-stomach junction.
- Age ≥ 18
- Planned RT treatment
- The level of functioning ≥ 60 on the Karnofsky scale
- Life expectancy ≥ two months
- All patients must understand the informed consent form document and sign it of their own free will before any test/procedure related to the study is performed.
- Able to undergo simulation and radiation with CPAP
- Candidate patients can be recruited to receive definitive, palliative or pre-operative radiation, with or without chemotherapy.
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheba medical center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ramat Gan | Israel | Recruiting |
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