Expedited Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy + Chemoradiation For Newly Diagnosed High Grade Gliomas
Status:
Recruiting
Trial end date:
2021-12-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The investigators of this study want to see if shortening the total treatment time for brain
tumors is safe.The treatment for participant's brain tumors is laser surgery (Laser
Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT)) followed by radiation with chemotherapy. For
participants, the total time of treatment from surgery to the end of radiation and
chemotherapy is about l 0 weeks long. This study asks whether it is safe to shorten the total
treatment to 7 weeks.
To shorten the total treatment time, investigators want to see if it is safe to start
radiation with chemotherapy within 5 days after surgery. Usually patients start their
radiation with chemotherapy about 21-28 days after the surgery.
Shortening the total time of treatment may allow investigators to kill the cancer cells more
effectively.