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Does more frequent Check-Ups after head and neck cancer save lives?

NCT ID NCT03519048

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By invitation only
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Ongoing This study
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Stopped early
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Cancelled
Cancelled before anyone took part.

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First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026

Summary

This study looks at whether a more intensive follow-up schedule after treatment for head and neck cancer helps people live longer compared to a standard schedule. It involves 197 smokers or heavy drinkers over age 35 who are cancer-free 2-4 months after treatment. The goal is to find the best way to monitor for cancer return.

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Study facts

What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.

Phase

Phase 3

Large-scale testing in a bigger group. Usually the last step before a treatment can be approved.

Participants

197 people

The number who actually took part.

Started

Jan 2018

Expected to finish

Jan 2031

An estimate. End dates often move.

Lead sponsor

Other sponsor

The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.

Who can take part

This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.

Ages

35 years and older

Sex

Anyone

Healthy volunteers

Not accepted

This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.

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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Males or females aged superior to 35 years * Current or previous smokers (smoked more than 10 packs year) or alcohol drinkers (current or previous, more than 140 g alcohol per week) or both * Histologically proven invasive HNSCC stage 0 to IVa, excluding T4b and nasopharynx. Patients with in situ carcinoma are eligible. * Treated with curative intent * Free of cancer at the post-treatment clinical and radiological examination (negative PET-CT for N≥2) at least 2 months after the end of the last treatment and no later than 4 months after. If there is a strong doubt of lack of complete remission (for example if more exams or longer follow-up are needed to affirm or deny complete remission), the patient is not eligible for the trial. * Remark: Patients with several head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (concomitant or successive), all treated with curative intent and all in complete remission, are eligible. * Agree to have a long term follow-up * Signed informed consent * Patient affiliated to a social security system or beneficiary of the same Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnant or breastfeeding women * Severe psychiatric condition that may inhibit protocol participation and in the judgment of the investigator would make the patient inappropriate for entry into this study. * Impossibility to perform the planned exams of the intensive strategy * Nasopharyngeal carcinoma * Other malignancies within 5 years prior to randomization that needs followup by PET-scan or chest CT or head and neck CT/MRI * Any disease that needs follow-up by regular upper digestive endoscopy

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Conditions

The condition(s) this trial relates to.

head and neck squamous cell carcinoma Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Head and Neck

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Gustave Roussy

    Villejuif, Val de Marne, 94805, France

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