Portable device zaps brain tumors in major trial

NCT ID NCT02831959

Summary

This study tested whether adding a portable, battery-powered device that creates low-intensity electric fields could help control brain tumors that have spread from lung cancer. After receiving targeted radiation to their brain tumors, 298 patients were randomly assigned to either use the experimental device continuously or receive standard supportive care alone. The main goal was to see if the device could delay the tumors from growing back in the brain and help preserve patients' thinking abilities.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • (CHUS) Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke, Service de Neurochirurgie

    Sherbrooke, Quebec, J1H 5N4, Canada

  • A.O.S.G. Moscati Azienda Ospedaliera di Rilievo Nazionale e di Alta Specialità

    Avellino, 83100, Italy

  • A.O.U Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino

    Torino, 10126, Italy

  • Abbott Northwestern Hospital - Givens Brain Tumor Center

    Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55407, United States

  • Adult Oncology Research

    Orlando, Florida, 32806, United States

  • Aurora Research Institute

    Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53215-5221, United States

  • Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale di Lecco

    Lecco, Italy

  • BRCR Medical Center INC

    Plantation, Florida, 33324, United States

  • Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center - McKee Medical Center

    Loveland, Colorado, 805838, United States

  • Banner North Colorado Medical Center (NCMC) - Oncology - Greeley

    Greeley, Colorado, 80631, United States

  • Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Jacksonville, Florida, 32207, United States

  • Barrow Neurological Institute

    Phoenix, Arizona, 85013-4407, United States

  • Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Temple

    Waco, Texas, 76712-8897, United States

  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02215, United States

  • CDH-Delnor Health System

    Warrenville, Illinois, 60555, United States

  • Cancer Hospital Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

    Beijing, Chaoyang, 100023, China

  • Cancercare Manitoba

    Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3E 0V9, Canada

  • Catalan Institute of Oncology

    Barcelona, Spain

  • Center for Neuro-oncology, Neurosurgery Clinic, Clinical Center of Serbia

    Belgrade, 11000, Serbia

  • Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint-Étienne

    Saint-Etienne, 42055, France

  • Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal (CHUM)

    Montreal, Quebec, H2L 4M1, Canada

  • Clairval Hospital Center

    Marseille, 13009, France

  • Cleveland Clinic

    Cleveland, Ohio, 44195, United States

  • Clinica Universidad de Navarra

    Pamplona, Spain

  • Dignity Health - Mercy Cancer Centers

    Sacramento, California, 95816, United States

  • Dr. Senckenbergisches Institut for Neurooncology,

    Frankfurt am Main, 60528, Germany

  • Dr. Senckenbergisches Institut für Neuroonkologie, Zentrum der Neurologie und Neurochirurgie

    Frankfurt am Main, 60528, Germany

  • Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, University of Missouri Healthcare

    Columbia, Missouri, 65212, United States

  • Erlanger Baroness Hospital

    Chattanooga, Tennessee, 37403, United States

  • First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University

    Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710063, China

  • Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center

    Shanghai, Xuhui District, China

  • Gamma Knife Center Warsaw

    Warsaw, 03-242, Poland

  • Geisinger Medical Center

    Danville, Pennsylvania, 17822, United States

  • General Hospital Gavazzeni

    Bergamo, 24125, Italy

  • Geza Hetenyi Hospital-Clinic of Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok County

    Szolnok, 5000, Hungary

  • Grandview Medical Center - Cancer Center

    Birmingham, Alabama, 35243-3326, United States

  • Hadassah Medical Organization

    Jerusalem, 91120, Israel

  • Heidelberg University Clinic for Radiooncology and Radiation Therapy

    Heidelberg, 69120, Germany

  • Hopital Pitié-Salpétriere

    Paris, 75013, France

  • Hospital Universitario HM Sanchinarro Edificio CIOCC

    Madrid, 28050, Spain

  • Houston Methodist Hospital

    Houston, Texas, 77030, United States

  • Hubei Cancer Hospital

    Wuhan, Hubei, China

  • Infirmary Cancer Care

    Mobile, Alabama, 36607, United States

  • Jewish General Hospital

    Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1E2, Canada

  • John Nasseff Neuroscience Institute ANW Brain Tumor Center

    Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55407, United States

  • Kaiser Permanente - Sacramento

    Sacramento, California, 95825, United States

  • Kaiser Permanente Redwood City

    Redwood City, California, 94063, United States

  • Karmanos Cancer Institute

    Detroit, Michigan, 48201, United States

  • Klinik für Radioonkologie und Strahlentherapie der Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Charité Virchow-Klinikum

    Berlin, 13353, Germany

  • Le CIUSSS de I'Est-de-L'ile de Montreal - Hôpital Maisonneuve Rosemont

    Montreal, Quebec, H1T-2M4, Canada

  • Liaoning Cancer Hospital

    Shenyang, Liaoning, 110042, China

  • MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper

    Camden, New Jersey, 08103, United States

  • MS Clinsearch Sp. z.o.o.

    Lublin, 20-064, Poland

  • Marek Harat Private Practice, Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology

    Bydgoszcz, 85357, Poland

  • Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology

    Gliwice, 44-101, Poland

  • Mayo Clinic

    Jacksonville, Florida, 32224, United States

  • Mayo Clinic Phoenix

    Phoenix, Arizona, 85054, United States

  • Medical University of South Carolina- Hollings Cancer Center

    Charleston, South Carolina, 29425-8900, United States

  • Medizinische Universität Innsbruck

    Innsbruck, 6020, Austria

  • Memorial Health University Medical Center

    Savannah, Georgia, 31404-6220, United States

  • MemorialCare Cancer Institute

    Long Beach, California, 90806, United States

  • Miami Cancer Institute

    Miami, Florida, 33176, United States

  • Mischer Neuroscience Associates - Texas Medical Center

    Houston, Texas, 77030-1536, United States

  • Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital

    Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210008, China

  • National Koranyi Institute of Tb and Pulmonology

    Budapest, 1122, Hungary

  • Northern Jiangsu People's Hospital

    Yangzhou, Jiangsu, 225007, China

  • Ochsner Health System

    New Orleans, Louisiana, 70121, United States

  • Oncology Research | Mercy Research

    St Louis, Missouri, 63141, United States

  • Onkologiai Osztaly, Balassa Janos Korhaz

    Szekszárd, Hungary

  • Peking University Third Hospital

    Beijing, China

  • Piedmont Brain Tumor Center

    Atlanta, Georgia, 30309, United States

  • Prisma Health - Upstate

    Greenville, South Carolina, 29605, United States

  • Providence St. Vincent Medical Center

    Portland, Oregon, 97225, United States

  • Qilu Hospital of Shandong University

    Jinan, Shandong, China

  • Qingdao Central Hospital

    Qingdao, Shandong, China

  • Queen Mary Hospital

    Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  • Rabin Medical Center

    Petah Tikva, 4941492, Israel

  • Radiochirugia Zagreb

    Sveta Nedelja, 10431, Croatia

  • Radioterapia Oncologica AOU Careggi

    Florence, 50134, Italy

  • Rambam Medical Center

    Haifa, 3109601, Israel

  • Renown Regional Medical Center

    Reno, Nevada, 89502, United States

  • Rhode Island Hospital

    Providence, Rhode Island, 02903, United States

  • Shandong Cancer Hospital

    Jinan, Shandong, China

  • Sharp HealthCare

    San Diego, California, 92123, United States

  • Sheba Medical Center

    Ramat Gan, Israel

  • Sourasky Medical Center

    Tel Aviv, Israel

  • St. Mary's Medical Center - Grand Junction

    Grand Junction, Colorado, 81501, United States

  • Szpital Kliniczny Przemienienia Pańskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu

    Poznan, Poland

  • Taizhou Hospital, Zhejiang Province

    Zhejiang, Zhejiang, China

  • Texas Oncology

    McKinney, Texas, 75701, United States

  • Texas Oncology

    Plano, Texas, 75093, United States

  • The Center for Cancer Prevention and Treatment at St. Joseph Hospital of Orange

    Orange, California, 92868, United States

  • The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Pharmaceutical University

    Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

  • The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University

    Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

  • The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University

    Xiamen, China

  • The First Hospital of China Medical University

    Shenyang, China

  • The First Hospital of Jilin University

    Changchun, China

  • The IRCCS Carlo Besta Neurological Institute Foundation

    Milan, 20133, Italy

  • The Second Affiliated Hospital Of Xingtai Medical College

    Hebei, China

  • The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital

    Shenzhen, China

  • Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital

    Tianjin, Tianjin Municipality, 300060, China

  • Tufts Medical Center

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02111, United States

  • UF Health Cancer Center

    Orlando, Florida, 32806, United States

  • UF Health Jacksonville

    Jacksonville, Florida, 32209, United States

  • UMHAT Sv. Ivan Rilski EAD, Department of Medical Oncology

    Sofia, 1431, Bulgaria

  • UNC - Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599, United States

  • University Clinical Center

    Gdansk, Poland

  • University Hospital Lille

    Lille, 59037, France

  • University Hospital of Messina AOU Policlinico "G. Martino"

    Messina, 98125, Italy

  • University Multiprofile Hospital for Active Treatment Sofiamed, Department of Medical Oncology

    Sofia, 1797, Bulgaria

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Birmingham, Alabama, 35233, United States

  • University of California

    San Francisco, California, 94117, United States

  • University of Kansas Cancer Center and Medical Pavilion

    Kansas City, Kansas, 66160, United States

  • University of Kentucky HealthCare

    Lexington, Kentucky, 40536, United States

  • University of Louisville-James Graham Brown Cancer Center

    Louisville, Kentucky, 40202-5700, United States

  • University of Maryland

    Baltimore, Maryland, 21201, United States

  • University of Minnesota Medical Center (UMMC) - Fairview - Masonic Cancer Clinic

    Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455-0341, United States

  • University of Mississippi Medical Center

    Jackson, Mississippi, 39216, United States

  • University of Washington Medical Center

    Seattle, Washington, 98195, United States

  • Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf

    Düsseldorf, 40225, Germany

  • Universitätsklinikum Halle (Saale), Klinik für Innere Medizin IV, Hämatologie / Onkologie

    Halle, 06120, Germany

  • Vidant Medical Center

    Greenville, North Carolina, 27834, United States

  • Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC) - Comprehensive Cancer Center

    Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27157-0001, United States

  • Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

    Bethesda, Maryland, 20814, United States

  • West Cancer Center

    Germantown, Tennessee, 38138, United States

  • Willis-Knighton Cancer Center

    Shreveport, Louisiana, 71103, United States

  • Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University

    Wuhan, Hubei, China

  • Zigong Fourth People's Hospital

    Zigong, Sichuan, China

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