Please note
This trial is no longer recruiting patients. We hope to add results when they are available.
Brain (and spinal cord) tumours
Closed
Phase 2
This trial is looking at whole brain radiotherapy that avoids the hippocampus for people with cancer that has spread to the brain. The hippocampus is the area of the brain which is mainly to do with memory, particularly short term memory. You have 2 hippocampi, 1 on the left and 1 on the right side of your brain.
It is for people with any type of cancer apart from:
small cell cancers (such )
cancer that started in the brain (primary brain tumours) or the (central nervous system)
Cancer Research UK supports this trial.
Recruitment start: 12 April 2016
Recruitment end: 24 January 2018
Please note: In order to join a trial you will need to discuss it with your doctor, unless otherwise specified.
Dr Gillian Whitfield
Cancer Research UK
Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre (ECMC)
Manchester Academic Heath Science Centre
National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI)
The Brain Tumour Charity
University College London (UCL)
This is Cancer Research UK trial number CRUK/13/017.
Last reviewed: 24 January 2018
CRUK internal database number: 11735
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