Observational Study
Conditions
Brief summary
At Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, a comprehensive approach to help children stay still during radiation treatment (RT) such as audio-visual distraction (television) is routinely used. These techniques help reduce the need for sedation or general anaesthesia to keep children still to avoid the chance of missing the tumour during RT. This approach has not been systematically evaluated to determine its effectiveness at reducing movement of children receiving RT. The purpose of the study is to measure the movement of children between the beginning and the end of RT to see how much they moved during treatment.
Detailed description
Cone beam CT (CBCT) is a low-dose imaging technique routinely used at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre to check the position of patients before RT. Using CBCT, the doctor is able to reduce the amount of tissues that receive RT because patients can be set-up with greater accuracy to only target the tumour and not harm the surrounding healthy tissue. In this study, children will receive one CBCT scan before starting RT as part of standard approach. Then after RT, another CBCT scan will be used to measure movement between the beginning and end of RT. The information gathered from this study will benefit other patients and cancer centres in the future, who can learn from these methods of using audio-visual distraction so that children have minimal or no motion for a more precise delivery of radiation during cancer treatment.
Interventions
DIAGNOSTIC_TESTCone Beam CT Scan
In this study, children will receive one CBCT scan before starting RT as part of standard approach. Then after RT, another CBCT scan will be used to measure movement between the beginning and end of RT.
Sponsors
University Health Network, Toronto
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
No minimum to 18 Years
Inclusion criteria
* Patient (paediatric or adolescent) age 18 or under receiving RT without anaesthetic or procedural sedation (anaesthetic gas or intravenous sedative medication)
Exclusion criteria
* Patients receiving oral midazolam or ketamine are ineligible * Patient is receiving total body irradiation without CBCT
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The proportion of patients that move between pre- and post-RT CBCT acquisitions without anaesthesia. | 12 months | To determine the proportion of patients with adequate immobilization by measuring motion between pre- and post-RT CBCT acquisitions for patients treated without anaesthesia |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Quantitative intra-fraction motion of patients treated with RT without anaesthesia. | 12 months | To quantitatively determine intra-fraction motion of patients treated with RT without anaesthesia |
| Factors associated with intra-fraction patient motion. | 12 months | To evaluate factors associated with intra-fraction patient motion, thus facilitating creation of individualized, patient-specific planning target volumes (PTV) |
| Perturbations in delivered treatment dose. | 12 months | To calculate perturbations in delivered treatment dose using dose-accumulation upon on-treatment CBCT images |
Countries
Canada
Outcome results
None listed