Grant received in 2021

DCCC has funded 196.480 DKK to the project.

Proton therapy (PT) is a radiation technique with possibility to spare normal organs (primarily bladder and bowel for prostate cancer (PC)) better because the energy deposit from the proton beam is primarily in the tumour. With PT, we anticipate PC patients will experience less late side effects with PT compared to photon treatment. The project propose a national phase III randomised controlled trial (RCT) of PT versus radiation therapy (RT) of the prostate and the regional lymph nodes (LN) for localised/locally advanced PC patients combined with hormonal therapy. Data on morbidity, and survival will be collected.

When initiating such a trial, it is mandatory that all radiotherapy departments in Denmark will use same dose and constraints thereby ensure that the comparison between the treatments will be as uniform as possible. In the project, translational studies are planned and the project will depend on cooperation from all Danish Radiotherapy Clinics, both physicians and medical physicists.

Multidisciplinary organisation
Danish Multidisciplinary Cancer Groups (DMCG), Danish Prostate Cancer  Group (DaProCa)

Project stakeholders

Aarhus:

  • Lise Nørgaard Bentzen, Clinical Associate Professor, primary contact, Mail: lise.b@auh.rm.dk 
  • Simon Buus, MD
  • Michael Borre, MD
  • Steffen Hokland, MSc
  • Jørgen B. B. Petersen, MSc

Aalborg:

  • Jimmi Søndergaard, MD
  • Mette Moe Kempel, MD
  • Kasper Lind Laursen, MSc

Vejle:

  • Christine Vestergård Madsen, MD
  • Terje Andersen, MSc
  • Bjarke Mortensen, MSc

Odense:

  • Steinbjørn Hansen, MD
  • Christina Junker Nyborg, MD
  • Rikke Hedegaard Dahlrot, MD
  • Søren Nielsen Agergaard, MSc
  • Christian Rønn Hansen, MSc
  • Henrik Robenhagen Jensen, MSc
  • Uffe Bernchou, MSc
  • Rasmus Lübeck Christiansen, MSc

Næstved:

  • Redas Trepiakas, MD
  • Carl Magnus Nilsson, MSc
  • Thomas Hinz-Berg Johansen, MSc
  • Eva Samsøe, MSc

Herlev:

  • Henriette Lindberg, MD
  • Susan Blak Nyrup Biancardo, MSc

Rigshospitalet:

  • Peter Meidahl Petersen, MD
  • Malene Eppler Bak, MSc
  • Daniel Adam Peter Gram, MSc

DCPT:

  • Stine Elleberg Petersen, MD
  • Morten Høyer, MD
  • Ole Nørrevang, MSc
  • Heidi Rønde, MSc
  • Liliana Stolarczyk, MSc

DCPT Research:

  • Ludvig Muren, MSc
  • Sofie Tilbæk, MSc
  • Rasmus Klitgaard, MSc