CyberKnife for Unresectable Renal Tumors
Study Details
Study Description
Brief Summary
This is a dose escalation study using the CyberKnife radiotherapy device for small surgical or medically untreatable renal tumors. Patients with renal tumors 5cms or less in diameter will be accrued onto this study. The ability of CyberKnife to ablate these renal tumors and maintain renal function with dose escalation will be assessed.
Condition or Disease | Intervention/Treatment | Phase |
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Detailed Description
The CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System is a unique radiosurgical system capable of treating tumors anywhere in the body noninvasively and with sub-millimeter accuracy. The CyberKnife System delivers radiation using a precise targeting methodology allowing a focal treatment margin around the target, thus limiting the volume of adjacent tissue receiving high doses radiation. This in turn allows the delivery of high doses of radiation to the prostate over a short series of treatments.
Study Design
Arms and Interventions
Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
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Experimental: 1 Phase I dose escalation |
Radiation: Stereotactic radiation
Dose escalation three consecutive treatments
Device: CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System
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Outcome Measures
Primary Outcome Measures
- To determine the maximum tolerated dose of CyberKnife radiation [2 years]
Secondary Outcome Measures
- To evaluate local control, overall survival and late toxicity including preservation of renal function [2 years]
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
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Tumor size 5 cm or less
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Radiographic evidence of malignancy or Histologically verified primary renal malignancy.
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If the kidney biopsy is inconclusive but the radiologist determines that the tumor based on the CT/MRI is highly suspicious for cancer, you may participate
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Patients with highly suspicious lesions on CT or MRI
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One -three gold fiducials placed in or around tumor
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Contradiction or patient refusal to partial or complete nephrectomy
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Age 18 or greater
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KPS score 70 or greater
Exclusion Criteria:
- Irreversible coagulopathies that preclude fiducial placement
Contacts and Locations
Locations
Site | City | State | Country | Postal Code | |
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1 | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Boston | Massachusetts | United States | 02215 |
Sponsors and Collaborators
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Investigators
None specified.Study Documents (Full-Text)
None provided.More Information
Publications
None provided.- 2005P00384