Proton versus Photon Therapy for Esophageal Cancer - a Trimodality Strategy

Project Information

PROTECT-trial

Grant agreement ID: 101008134

DOI 10.3030/101008134

EC signature date 7 July 2021

Start date 1 July 2021

End date 30 June 2027

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Health, demographic change and well-being

Total cost € 4 763 733,75

EU contribution € 1 500 000,00

Coordinated by

AARHUS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

Deliverables

Documents, reports (10)

A study protocol for a non-blinded multi-center RCT

A study protocol for a nonblinded multicenter RCT

Dissemination and Exploitation Plan
Patient information materials
First general Assembly

Minutes of General Assembly M18

Annual meeting with EPTN and other networks, societies, and industry M17

Report from annual meeting with EPTN and other networks societies and industry M17

Protocol for radiation therapy QA
Annual meeting with EPTN and other networks, societies, and industry M5

Report from annual meeting with EPTN and other networks societies and industry M5

Registration of study in an approved registry
Protocol for surgery QA
Project handbook, including timeline for meetings, reporting and related activities

Project handbook including timeline for meetings reporting and related activities

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (2)

During trial patient information materials
External project webpage

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Dissemination toolkit

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (2)

Treatment planning comparison in the PROTECT-trial randomising proton versus photon beam therapy in oesophageal cancer: Results from eight European centres

Author(s): Lone Hoffmann, Hanna Mortensen, Muhammad Shamshad, Maaike Berbee, Nicola Bizzocchi, Rebecca Bütof, Richard Canters, Gilles Defraene, Mai Lykkegaard Ehmsen, Francesca Fiorini, Karin Haustermans, Ryan Hulley, Erik W. Korevaar, Matthew Clarke, Sebastian Makocki, Christina T. Muijs, Luke Murray, Owen Nicholas, Marianne Nordsmark, Ganesh Radhakrishna, Ditte Sloth Møller.
Published in: Radiotherapy and Oncology, Issue Volume 172, 2022, Page(s) Pages 32-41, ISSN 0167-8140
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2022.04.029

Bone versus soft-tissue setup in proton therapy for patients with oesophageal cancer

Author(s): Muhammad Shamshad, Ditte Sloth Møller, Hanna Rahbek Mortensen, Mai Lykkegaard Ehmsen, Maria Fuglsang Jensen, Lone Hoffmann.
Published in: Acta Oncologica, Issue Volume 61, 2022 - Issue 8, 2022, Page(s) Pages 994-1003, ISSN 0284-186X
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/0284186x.2022.2091949