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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of the ketogenic diet on tumor size and quality of life in pediatric patients with malignant or recurrent/refractory brain tumors.


Clinical Trial Description

Brain tumors account for nearly 20% of all childhood malignancies. Of these, gliomas represent 50% of all brain tumors in children and young adults. Gliomas are classically divided into two subtypes - low-grade and high-grade. Low-grade gliomas (LGG) include pilocytic astrocytomas and diffuse astrocytomas, and high-grade gliomas (HGG) include anaplastic astrocytoma and glioblastoma multiforme. Although patients with grade I and II tumors have a good prognosis with 5-year overall survival rates of 80-90%, those cases that are recurrent, refractory, and/or unresectable remain a challenge. The prognosis of children and young adults with recurrent or refractory malignant brain tumors remains poor despite dramatic improvements in treatment over the past few decades, with only a minority achieving long-term survival if recurrence occurs following initial surgical resection and adjuvant chemotherapy.

For patients with HGG prognosis remains dismal despite aggressive treatment. In this subset of patients, the 5-year overall survival for anaplastic astrocytoma ranges from 20-40% and for glioblastoma 15-20%. Diffuse intrinsic brain stem gliomas (DIPG) have the worst overall prognosis with a nine-month mean overall survival and with most patients dying from the disease within 2 years. Thus, the development of new treatment protocols for children and young adults with both high grade gliomas and with recurrent or refractory low grade gliomas is crucial to improving the survival rates of these patients.

The Ketogenic Diet (KD) has been in clinical use for nearly a century, initially designed to mimic the effects of starvation. Over the last two decades metabolic studies have been gaining momentum as increasingly promising in disease modification of central nervous system disorders and tumors.

Tests in animals and studies in adult patients with brain tumors have shown that there are advantages to using the ketogenic diet. These include: improved response of the tumor to standard treatment (chemotherapy/radiation) and improvement in quality of life measures (alertness). ;


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NCT number NCT03328858
Study type Interventional
Source Nicklaus Children's Hospital f/k/a Miami Children's Hospital
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Status Terminated
Phase N/A
Start date November 1, 2017
Completion date January 31, 2020

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