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CancerEarly Phase 1NCT02852473

Impact of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure on Breathing Motion Amplitude

A Early Phase 1 study testing Continuous Positive Airway Pressure in people with Cancer, run by Mayo Clinic at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

This study involves a breathing motion assessment in healthy subjects before and after continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) administration using MRI images. The hypothesis for this study is that CPAP administration will significantly reduce breathing motion. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
Conditions the study is for
Cancer
What is being tested?
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
10 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Jul 2016to Sep 2016
Phase
Early Phase 1
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • Healthy volunteers accepted
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Healthy adult female and males
  • Subject meets routine MRI safety criteria

Who cannot join

  • Age <18
  • Known history of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, or other chronic pulmonary illness
  • Pregnancy
  • Any safety risk identified via MRI safety screening

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • Mayo Clinic in Rochester

    Rochester, Minnesota, 55905

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About this study

This study involves a breathing motion assessment in healthy subjects before and after continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) administration using MRI images.

The hypothesis for this study is that CPAP administration will significantly reduce breathing motion. This may help cancer patients who are undergoing proton radiotherapy, so they possibly will not have to hold their breath during the procedure.

Read the detailed description

Minimally invasive techniques for tumor motion reduction that involve free-breathing patients have significant relevance in the context of radiation therapy, in particular proton radiotherapy. Tumor motion reduction has favorable implications for reduction of radiation doses to adjacent healthy organs, radiation plan robustness (accuracy/quality) and for treatment efficiency (reduction of treatment times). Using non-ionizing MRI with volunteers, the investigators will determine the extent to which continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) reduces breathing motion (diaphragmatic excursion). The researchers will also investigate the parameter space associated with breathing motion reduction versus the amount of pressure applied, as well as timing of initiation of CPAP in relation to the imaging time point (to address whether an initial transient breathing state exists).

Conditions
Cancer
Being tested
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure
Keywords
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, Radiotherapy, Proton Therapy
Medical subject headings
Neoplasms

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Continuous Positive Airway PressureOther

    CPAP requires subjects to wear a plastic pressurized mask/apparatus, which is connected via a filter and hose to a pump capable of supplying variable pressure (typically on the range of 4-20 cm H2O). The investigators plan to use a full-face mask to prevent subjects from reducing pressure by opening their mouths. If this cannot be tolerated or properly fitted, or is not compatible with the CPAP ventilator, subjects would use a nasal mask only and be asked to keep their mouths closed.

Study groups in NCT02852473
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Continuous Positive Airway PressureExperimentalContinuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) will be administered using FDA-approved equipment.
Receives: Other: Continuous Positive Airway Pressure

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Change in Breathing Motion Characteristics at High CPAP Setting

    Breathing motion at baseline and at initial (higher but tolerable) CPAP settings will be characterized using fast multi-slice, multi-phase 2D gradient-echo or spin-echo MRI sequences in the sagittal or coronal imaging planes over a large field of view covering the thoracic and upper-abdominal region. Specifically "4D-MRI" (or time-resolved MRI) will be generated from retrospective sorting of multi-slice 2D MRI. For these analyses, anatomic reference points (e.g., bright vessels) in multiple organ systems will be identified on the images, contoured or segmented; subsequently 3D motion patterns will be extracted for all anatomical references/features. Numerical simulations will be performed to determine hypothetical radiation target volume changes (cm^3) at these anatomic locations assuming spherical tumors with a given set of tumor diameters (cm).

    Measured: Data acquisition for this portion of the study will require approximately 30 minutes.

Secondary outcomes (1)
  1. Change in Breathing Motion Characteristics at Lower CPAP Setting

    Time permitting, the CPAP setting will be reduced to approximately half of the nominal/tolerable/high CPAP setting. Using the same MRI sequences and retrospective sorting technique, 4D-MRI will be generated for this lower CPAP setting. Analogous motion characterization analyses (to outcome measure 1) will be carried out for the lower CPAP setting (relative to baseline 4D-MRI).

    Measured: Approximately 45 minutes into visit.

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted2 Aug 2016 (estimated)
  2. Study startJul 2016
  3. Primary completionSep 2016
  4. Study completionSep 2016

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Early Phase 1
Primary purpose
Basic science
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
10 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02852473
Sponsor's protocol ID
16-001685
Status last verified
Oct 2016
First submitted
3 Jun 2016
Last updated
14 Oct 2016
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
Individual data sharing
Undecided

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Early Phase 1 study testing Continuous Positive Airway Pressure in people with Cancer, run by Mayo Clinic at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 2 inclusion and 4 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 14 Oct 2016. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Early Phase 1 (sometimes called Phase 0) studies give a very small amount of a treatment to a few people, mainly to see how the body handles it.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Change in Breathing Motion Characteristics at High CPAP Setting (time frame: Data acquisition for this portion of the study will require approximately 30 minutes.). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 14 Oct 2016.

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