Short course palliative radiotherapy for symptom relief in large inoperable cancer of breast
Phase 1
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Advanced Incurable Breast Cancer in Female
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2018/04/013209
- Lead Sponsor
- Tata Medical Center
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Closed to Recruitment of Participants
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 31
Inclusion Criteria
Age �18 years
1. Female
2. Invasive carcinoma of the breast
3. ECOG performance status 0-2
4. Locally advanced breast cancer which is not amenable to curative surgery as decided by
multidisciplinary tumour board.
5. Metastatic breast cancer patients:
6. Who are awaiting palliative locoregional radiotherapy for symptom (pain
bleeding, ulceration, impending fungation) control.
7. Who have completed a scheduled course of palliative chemotherapy and is felt to
benefit from local radiation therapy
8. Able to give informed consent
Exclusion Criteria
1. Breast reconstruction using implants
2. Concurrent cyto-toxic chemotherapy
3. Prior radiation to the chest wall / breast
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ToxicityTimepoint: At one week and four weeks
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Quality of lifeTimepoint: One year;ResponseTimepoint: 3 months