Amplitude Modulated Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Field Treatment Combined With Radiochemotherapy and Maintenance Chemotherapy in Patients With Glioblastoma (Brain-RF)

Study Purpose

Combined chemoradiation and radiofrequency electromagnetic field treatment for patients with glioblastoma

Recruitment Criteria

Accepts Healthy Volunteers Healthy volunteers are participants who do not have a disease or condition, or related conditions or symptoms	No
Study Type An interventional clinical study is where participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions (or no intervention) so that researchers can evaluate the effects of the interventions on biomedical or health-related outcomes. An observational clinical study is where participants identified as belonging to study groups are assessed for biomedical or health outcomes. Searching Both is inclusive of interventional and observational studies.	Interventional
Eligible Ages	18 Years - 70 Years
Gender	All

More Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Pathological evidence of newly diagnosed glioblastoma according to WHO classification criteria.

- Patients 18 to 70 years of age with a WHO performance status of 2 or less.

- All patients must sign written informed consent.

- Adequate hematologic, renal, and hepatic function (absolute neutrophil count, ≥1,5 x 103/μL; platelet count, ≥100 x 103/μL; serum creatinine ≤1.7 mg/dL; total bilirubin > upper limit of normal; AST or ALT ≤3 times the upper limit of normal) - Patient must have received subtotal or gross total resection of the tumor.

- MGMT-promotor methylated patients must have refused therapy according to the CeTeG/NOA-09 protocol (+ Lomustin) - Patient must be planned for concomitant RCT with a total RT dose of 60 Gy over six weeks and temozolomide followed by six cycles of maintenance CT using temozolomide.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Previous cranial RT.

- Cytostatic therapy / anti-angiogenic substances / CT or radiation therapy for cancer within the past 5 years.

- History of cancers or other comorbidities that limit life expectancy to less than five years.

- Postoperative evidence of increased intracranial pressure (midline shift > 5mm, clinically significant papilledema, vomiting and nausea or reduced level of consciousness) - Technical impossibility to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or known allergies against MRI and/or computed tomography (CT) contrast agents.

- Technical impossibility to use AM-RF-EMF (pacemaker, defibrillator or deep brain stimulator, metal implants) - Participants of childbearing age unwilling to use or not capable of using effective contraception.

- Pregnant patients

Trial Details

Trial ID: This trial id was obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, providing information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants with locations in all 50 States and in 196 countries.	NCT06140875
Phase Phase 1: Studies that emphasize safety and how the drug is metabolized and excreted in humans. Phase 2: Studies that gather preliminary data on effectiveness (whether the drug works in people who have a certain disease or condition) and additional safety data. Phase 3: Studies that gather more information about safety and effectiveness by studying different populations and different dosages and by using the drug in combination with other drugs. Phase 4: Studies occurring after FDA has approved a drug for marketing, efficacy, or optimal use.	N/A
Lead Sponsor The sponsor is the organization or person who oversees the clinical study and is responsible for analyzing the study data.	Charite University, Berlin, Germany
Principal Investigator The person who is responsible for the scientific and technical direction of the entire clinical study.	N/A
Principal Investigator Affiliation	N/A
Agency Class Category of organization(s) involved as sponsor (and collaborator) supporting the trial.	Other
Overall Status	Recruiting
Countries	Germany
Conditions The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied.	Glioblastoma

Additional Details

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin is currently the only German University Hospital with an available capacitive radiofrequency electromagnetic field treatment device. While there is retrospective data available regarding the assumed effectiveness and low toxicity profile of radiofrequency electromagnetic field treatment for glioblastoma in the palliative setting, there is only few prospective data available on the combined effect first-line chemoradiation and radiofrequency electromagnetic field treatment. The investigators aim to conduct a feasibility trial and plan to compare the results with data of a prospective trial with a comparable patient population.

Arms & Interventions

Arms

Experimental: Experimental

Radiochemotherapy (RCT) and maintenance chemotherapy (CT) according to Stupp et al. 2005 combined with radiofrequency electromagnetic field treatment. The standard therapy involves gross- or subtotal tumor resection if feasible (alternatively biopsy only) followed by RCT (60 Gy over six weeks) with concomitant CT (temozolomide 75mg/m2) on all days, followed by maintenance CT (temozolomide150-200 mg/m2) on d1-5 for six cycles every 28 days. The trial intervention includes radiofrequency electromagnetic field treatment for 60 minutes three times a week during RCT and twice a week during d1-5 of maintenance CT, resulting in a total number of 30 radiofrequency electromagnetic field treatment therapy sessions.

Interventions

Device: - Radiofrequency electromagnetic field treatment

Radiofrequency electromagnetic field treatment using a carrier frequency of 13.56 MHz

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International Sites

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Status

Recruiting

Address

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Berlin, , 13353

Site Contact

Yvonne Saewe

yvonne.saewe@charite.de

+49 30 450 527318

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