Definitive Radiation for High-Risk Spine Metastases
A Phase II Study Evaluating Definitive Radiosurgical Decompression in Patients With High-Risk Spinal Metastases
Who can join
As published by the study on ClinicalTrials.gov. "Not stated" means the study hasn't said — ask the study team.
- Age
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Compensation
- Not stated
Other requirements are listed under Eligibility below. Only the study team can confirm whether you can join.
What to expect
No one can promise a trial will help you personally — that is what the research is trying to find out.
What participation involves
Not stated in the study description — ask the study team about visits and procedures.
- Compensation
- Not stated
- Study-related exams and procedures are typically provided at no cost. This is how many trials work in general — confirm the details for this study with the study team.
- Participants are monitored closely by the research team throughout the study.
- Some participants may receive access to an investigational treatment, which is still being studied.
- Your participation helps researchers learn whether this approach could help future patients.
About this study
This study is looking at whether patients with cancer that has aggressively spread to the spine can be treated with stereotactic body radiation therapy only and avoid a large spine surgery
Compensation is read from the study's own description and may be missing — always confirm with the study team.
Eligibility
Official eligibility criteria
Eligible patients must have: * Any pathologically proven solid tumor diagnosis not of central nervous system origin with radiographic or pathologic evidence of metastatic disease * Metastatic spine involvement documented by imaging * Involvement of maximum 3 contiguous vertebral bodies at the index site * Intact neurologic function, or only minor neurologic deficits with muscle strength greater or equal to 4 out of 5 with or without steroids * An evaluation by an radiation oncology and orthopedic spine/neurosurgery attending * ECOG Performance Status of 0-3 Patients are ineligible if they have: * An unstable spine defined as a Spinal Instability Neoplastic Score (SINS) greater than 12 * Had previous surgery or radiation to address the target spinal metastases * Radiosensitive tumors (e.g. small cell lung cancer, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and germ-cell tumors)
Study sites (1)
NY
- Stony Brook University Hospital · Stony Brook, NY 11794Caterina Vacchi-Suzzi, PhD · Study contact · 631-216-2993 · caterina.vacchi-suzzi@stonybrookmedicine.eduMore trials in Stony Brook