Patients in good general condition with resectable brain metastases, looks better with more intense treatment of metastases. This local treatment has been accomplished with surgery or radiosurgery. However, there are no randomized studies comparing these two types of treatment. The purpose of this study is to make this.
Patients in good general condition with resectable 1-3 brain metastases will be randomized to surgery and whole brain radiotherapy and whole brain radiotherapy and radiosurgery. Initially we will evaluate the feasibility of carrying out the study with 15 patients in each arm, and after, we will follow with the primary end-point of comparing the toxicity of the exclusively radiotherapy arm with complications of the surgical arm. As a secondary end-point, we will evaluate local recurrence-free survival, overall survival, distance cerebral relapse-free survival (metachronous brain metastasis), free of neurological progression survival, free of neurological death survival, free of dependent life (another person)survival , steroid-free survival and quality of life.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
resection of brain metastases
radiosurgery to brain metastases
Barretos Cancer Hospital
Barretos, São Paulo, Brazil
feasibility
One year after the start of patient recruitment, the study will be analyzed for feasibility and, if feasible, we will pursue the study with primary end-point of comparing the toxicity of exclusive radiation therapy arm with the surgical arm.
Time frame: 1 year
complications and toxicity
One year after the start of patient recruitment, the study will be analyzed for toxicity of the radiotherapy arm versus the arm surgical complications, and if compatible, will continue the study until 70 patients in each arm.
Time frame: 1 year
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