Skip to main content
Clinical Trials/CTRI/2024/07/071024
CTRI/2024/07/071024
Not yet recruiting
Phase 2

Prophylactic Swallowing Exercises among Head and Neck Cancer Patients Treated with Chemo Radiation Therapy

Sri Ramachandra Hospital and Medical Center0 sites0 target enrollmentTBD

Overview

Phase
Phase 2
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Not specified
Sponsor
Sri Ramachandra Hospital and Medical Center
Status
Not yet recruiting
Last Updated
last year

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
TBD
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
last year
Study Type
Interventional

Investigators

Sponsor
Sri Ramachandra Hospital and Medical Center

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • It is proposed to enrol a cohort of HNC adults\= 18 years of age, both sexes, newly diagnosed carcinoma of the oropharynx, hypopharynx, or supraglottic larynx with squamous cell carcinoma histology in stages T2\-T4, N\+, and M0\. Patients who will have to be scheduled for chemotherapy with IMRT with a dose of 66 Gy in 33 fractions of the gross tumor volume and involved nodal disease over 6\.5 weeks with chemotherapy and are willing to participate will be included.

Exclusion Criteria

  • Patients other than the oropharynx, hypopharynx, and supraglottic larynx or with distant metastasis will be excluded from the study. Also, patients with a history of recurrence, head and neck surgery, or surgery scheduled due to HNC or co\-morbid neurological deficits or diseases affecting swallowing function will be excluded from the study.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

Similar Trials