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Brief Title: Surgery and Whole Brain Radiotherapy (RT) Versus Whole Brain Radiotherapy (RT) and Radiosurgery for 1-3 Resectable Brain Metastases
Official Title: Surgery and Whole Brain Radiotherapy Versus Whole Brain Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery for 1-3 Resectable Brain Metastases: Phase III Prospective Pilot Study
Study ID: NCT01169129
Brief Summary: Patients in good general condition with resectable brain metastases, looks better with more intense treatment of metastases. This local treatment has been accomplished with surgery or radiosurgery. However, there are no randomized studies comparing these two types of treatment. The purpose of this study is to make this.
Detailed Description: Patients in good general condition with resectable 1-3 brain metastases will be randomized to surgery and whole brain radiotherapy and whole brain radiotherapy and radiosurgery. Initially we will evaluate the feasibility of carrying out the study with 15 patients in each arm, and after, we will follow with the primary end-point of comparing the toxicity of the exclusively radiotherapy arm with complications of the surgical arm. As a secondary end-point, we will evaluate local recurrence-free survival, overall survival, distance cerebral relapse-free survival (metachronous brain metastasis), free of neurological progression survival, free of neurological death survival, free of dependent life (another person)survival , steroid-free survival and quality of life.
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No
Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, São Paulo, Brazil
Name: Ricardo A Nakamura, MD
Affiliation: Barretos Cancer Hospital
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR