Radiation Therapy With Protons or Photons in Treating Patients With Liver Cancer
Public ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03186898. Field values are reproduced from the official study page; the official ClinicalTrials.gov record remains the source of truth for eligibility, enrollment, and contact information.
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Official title
A Phase III Randomized Trial of Protons Versus Photons for Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Brief summary
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This phase III trial studies how well radiation therapy with protons works compared with photons in treating patients with liver cancer. Radiation therapy, such as photon therapy, uses high energy x-rays to send the radiation inside the body to the tumor while proton therapy uses a beam of proton particles. Proton therapy can stop shortly after penetrating through the tumor and may cause less damage to the surrounding healthy organs and result in better survival in patients with liver cancer.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT03186898
- Recruitment status
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Enrollment
- 116 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jan 26, 2018 (Actual)
- Primary completion
- Jan 20, 2026 (Actual)
- Completion
- Jan 20, 2031 (Estimated)
- Last update posted
- Nov 3, 2026
2018 – 2031
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 27
- U.S. states
- 11
- U.S. cities
- 21
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emory Proton Therapy Center | Atlanta | Georgia | 30308 | — |
| Emory University Hospital Midtown | Atlanta | Georgia | 30308 | — |
| Emory University Hospital/Winship Cancer Institute | Atlanta | Georgia | 30322 | — |
| Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital | Atlanta | Georgia | 30342 | — |
| Northwestern Medicine Cancer Center Warrenville | Warrenville | Illinois | 60555 | — |
| Maryland Proton Treatment Center | Baltimore | Maryland | 21201 | — |
| University of Maryland/Greenebaum Cancer Center | Baltimore | Maryland | 21201 | — |
| Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center | Boston | Massachusetts | 02114 | — |
| Corewell Health Dearborn Hospital | Dearborn | Michigan | 48124 | — |
| Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital | Royal Oak | Michigan | 48073 | — |
| Corewell Health Beaumont Troy Hospital | Troy | Michigan | 48085 | — |
| Washington University School of Medicine | St Louis | Missouri | 63110 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge | Basking Ridge | New Jersey | 07920 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth | Middletown | New Jersey | 07748 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen | Montvale | New Jersey | 07645 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Commack | Commack | New York | 11725 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester | East White Plains | New York | 10604 | — |
| New York Proton Center | New York | New York | 10035 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | New York | New York | 10065 | — |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau | Uniondale | New York | 11553 | — |
| University of Cincinnati Cancer Center-UC Medical Center | Cincinnati | Ohio | 45219 | — |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland | Ohio | 44106 | — |
| Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center | Columbus | Ohio | 43210 | — |
| University of Cincinnati Cancer Center-West Chester | West Chester | Ohio | 45069 | — |
| UT MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston | Texas | 77030 | — |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Seattle | Washington | 98109 | — |
| University of Washington Medical Center - Montlake | Seattle | Washington | 98195 | — |
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About this trial record page
- What this page shows
- Public field values for ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03186898, including study identification, conditions, interventions, eligibility (age, sex, healthy volunteer), timeline, and U.S. site list.
- What this page does not do
- No medical advice, eligibility judgments, treatment recommendations, study quality scoring, or AI-generated medical summaries. No site contact phone numbers, emails, or investigator names.
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- Last refresh
- Last update posted Nov 3, 2026 · Synced Nov 3, 2026
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