Assessment of the use of oxygen enhanced MRI scanning in a cohort of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinomas to identify areas of hypoxia with tumours and relate this to treatment outcomes.
Oxygen-enhanced MRI (OE-MRI) is a technique being actively investigated for imaging hypoxia within cancer tissues. Preliminary clinical data demonstrates the feasibility of using this methodology to study patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). The investigators wish to investigate using this methodology to identify hypoxic subvolumes within HNSCC that may have greater resistance to standard radiotherapy treatment and investigate the association of such hypoxic regions with treatment outcomes.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
25
Dynamic MRI scanning switching from breathing room air to high concentration oxygen part way through the scan.
Queens Medical Centre
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom
Number of patients with areas detected within tumours of the head and neck area that have measurable hypoxia using OE-MRI technique.
Feasibility of OE-MRI scans to detect hypoxic areas within tumours in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinomas
Time frame: 2 years
Association with treatment failure
Test predictive value of OE-MRI to identify patients with the highest risk of treatment failure and provide data to allow a power calculation for a larger future trial of the predictive power of OE-MRI for treatment outcomes in head and neck cancer treated with radiotherapy.
Time frame: 2 years
Tumour perfusion
Assessment of routinely used diagnostic MRI images to identify non-perfused parts of tumours in combination with oxygen maps
Time frame: 2 years
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