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Table 1 Trial design characteristics

From: Current status and perspectives of interventional clinical trials for brain metastases: analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov

 

n° trials

Trial start

2012–2017

32

2017–2022

136

Recruitment status

Recruiting

107

Not yet recruiting

26

Active, not recruiting

22

Completed

13

Study phase

Phase II

133

Phase III

35

Funding type

Industry

57

NIH

21

All others (university, individuals, organization)

93

Allocation

Randomized

74

Non-randomized

13

N/A

81

Primary purpose

Treatment

158

Diagnostic

5

Prevention

2

Supportive care

2

Other

1

Primary tumor

Lung cancer

67

(NSCLC)

53

(SCLC)

5

(Not-specified)

9

Breast cancer

41

(Her-2 positive)

20

Melanoma

28

(BRAF-mutated)

4

Kidney

2

Primary not-Specified

46

Interventions

Only sistemic treatments (single-associated)

72

Radiotherapy alone

44

Systemic treatment plus radiotherapy

40

Other treatments

1

Systemic treatments

Tyrosine kinase inhibitors

50

Other target therapies

4

Monoclonal antibodies (MABs)

50

MABs immunotherapies target

24

Chemotherapy

20

Other drugs

6

Radiotherapy

Stereotactic radiotherapy (SRS/SRT)

47

Whole-brain RT (WBRT)

27

Hippocampal avoidance WBRT (HA-WBRT)

10

IORT

1

Brachytherapy

1

Technique not specified

10