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Brief Title: Short Course Radiation Therapy in Palliative Treatment of Esophageal Cancer
Official Title: SHort Course Accelerated RadiatiON Therapy (SHARON) in Palliative Treatment of Esophageal Cancer: an Interventional, Randomized, Multicentric Study
Study ID: NCT03804203
Brief Summary: Aim of the study is to assess efficacy of a short course radiation treatment in patients with symptomatic esophageal malignant lesions
Detailed Description: Standard treatment for esophageal lesions (3000 cGy in 10 daily fractions of 300 cGy each) is compared with experimental treatment (2000 cGy in 4 fractions of 500 cGy twice a day) to demonstrate non-inferiority of this scheme
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No
Radiation Oncology Center, Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Speciality Medicine- DIMES, University of Bologna, S.Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, BO, Italy
Name: Alessio G Morganti, MD
Affiliation: Radiation Oncology Center, Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Speciality Medicine-DIMES, Unversity of Bologna, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR