Status:

COMPLETED

Respiratory Tumor and Normal Tissue Motion

Lead Sponsor:

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Conditions:

Lung Cancer

Abdominal Cancer

Eligibility:

All Genders

Brief Summary

Primary Objectives: * To collect accurate and reliable respiration-induced anatomic structure motion data using four-dimensional (4-D) imaging technology. * To analyze these data to study respiration...

Detailed Description

You will be taking part in this study while you receive radiotherapy treatment for your tumor. You will be trained to breathe in a certain way that will help the study staff to perform motion CT scan...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patients with pathological diagnosis of cancer in the thorax or abdomen.
  • Patients must be planned to have radiation therapy delivered over at least 4 weeks (a minimum standard duration of curative radiotherapy).
  • Patients must be able to lie flat for the duration of the CT image acquisition sessions.

Exclusion

  • 1\. Patients who are neither able to breathe nor hold breath in a regular and reproducible manner will be removed from the study as being ineligible. Breathing or breath-holding regularity determination will be based on respiration traces acquired with the RPM system.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

November 1 2004

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

Estimated Enrollment :

86 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00415675

Start Date

November 1 2004

Last Update

October 23 2012

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UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas, United States, 77030