Status:

UNKNOWN

Combination Chemotherapy With or Without Radiation Therapy in Treating Children With Brain Tumors

Lead Sponsor:

Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group

Conditions:

Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors

Neuroblastoma

Eligibility:

All Genders

Up to 3 years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving more than one drug (combination ch...

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES: * Determine the response rate in children under 36 months of age with primary brain or brain stem tumors treated with vincristine, methotrexate, carboplatin, cyclophosphamide, and cisplat...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
  • Diagnosis of 1 of the following:
  • Brain stem tumor (histological confirmation not required)
  • Histologically confirmed primary intracranial brain tumor of 1 of the following histologies:
  • Anaplastic (malignant) astrocytoma
  • Glioblastoma
  • Anaplastic (malignant) oligodendroglioma
  • Ependymoma
  • Anaplastic (malignant) ependymoma
  • Anaplastic (malignant) oligoastrocytoma
  • Choroid plexus carcinoma
  • Astroblastoma
  • Polar spongioblastoma
  • Gliomatosis cerebri
  • Anaplastic (malignant) ganglioglioma
  • Pineoblastoma
  • Mixed pineocytoma or pineoblastoma
  • Medulloepithelioma
  • Neuroblastoma
  • Ependymoblastoma
  • Primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNETs), including medulloblastoma or cerebral or spinal PNETs
  • Has undergone surgery or biopsy of the tumor within the past 2-4 weeks
  • PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
  • No concurrent unrelated disease, including hematological or renal disease, that would preclude study treatment
  • PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
  • No prior chemotherapy or radiotherapy
  • Prior steroids allowed
  • No concurrent steroids as anti-emetics
  • Concurrent steroids allowed for control of tumor-related symptoms

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    June 1 1992

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ESTIMATED

    End Date :

    Estimated Enrollment :

    50 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT00281905

    Start Date

    June 1 1992

    Last Update

    September 20 2013

    Active Locations (21)

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    1

    Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children

    Dublin, Ireland, 12

    2

    Birmingham Children's Hospital

    Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, B4 6NH

    3

    Institute of Child Health at University of Bristol

    Bristol, England, United Kingdom, BS2 8AE

    4

    Addenbrooke's Hospital at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    Cambridge, England, United Kingdom, CB2 2QQ

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