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PIRATES: Image-guided Hyper-fractioned Dose-escalation With Proton Therapy for Head and Neck Cancer

Is NCT06446713 recruiting? Yes, currently enrolling (May 2026). This Phase 1 trial studies non-drug interventions for head and neck cancer.

Phase 1RecruitingUniversity Medical Center GroningenNCT06446713Data as of May 2026

In this study the safety \& feasibility of image-guided mid-treatment hyper-fractioned dose-escalation with proton therapy will be assessed for the treatment of locally advanced HPV-negative squamous cell oropharyngeal cancer

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Extracted eligibility criteria

Cancer type

Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Biomarker criteria

Required: CDKN2A wild-type

Negative for p16

Disease stage

Required: Stage III, IV

Prior therapy

Cannot have received: definitive resection

Exception: incisional or excisional biopsies

underwent definitive resection of their primary tumor or nodal disease, except for incisional or excisional biopsies

Cannot have received: radiation therapy

received radiation therapy in the head and neck area in the past

Lab requirements

Kidney function

estimated gfr < 60 ml/min/1.73 m2 or any contraindications to gadolinium-based contrast agents

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