Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Brain Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

RATIONALE: Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage tumor cells and may be an effective treatment for patients with anaplastic astrocytomas.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to study the effectiveness of radiation therapy in treating patients with anaplastic astrocytomas.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - EORTC
• Treatments: Carmustine; Cobalt; Mitolactol

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically confirmed anaplastic astrocytoma Standard maximum resection or stereotactic biopsy required within 4 weeks prior to therapy

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: Over 16 Performance status: ECOG/ZUBROD/WHO 0-2 Life expectancy: At least 8 weeks Hematopoietic: WBC greater than 4,000 Platelets greater than 100,000 Hematocrit greater than 30% Hepatic: Bilirubin less than 2 mg/dl Renal: Creatinine less than 1.5 mg/dl Creatinine clearance greater than 70 ml/min BUN less than 40 mg/dl Other: No major medical illness

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: No anticancer drugs between surgery and protocol treatment No steroids after 10 days following surgery (may be resumed occasionally during radiotherapy)