View clinical trials related to Medulloblastoma, Childhood.
Filter by:Recently, diagnosis and treatments for medulloblastoma becomes more complicated than before since the new World Health Organization (WHO) diagnosis criteria has put molecular marker onto an ever important position. Reports and studies revealed highly correlated connection between subgroups of medulloblastoma and patient outcomes. Children's Oncology Group (COG) has launched many new studies on molecular subgroups-based specific treatment trails. In China, children and adolescents with brain tumor have been treated variously for a long time in lack of standardized comprehensive treatments. Same poor situation in basic research and clinical studies makes the Chinese children with brain tumor hardly catch up with international level in molecular diagnosis and specific treatments. There are limited studies, which were conducted by immunohistochemistry for identifying medulloblastoma molecular subgroups, indicating the similar correlation of the subgroups and outcomes to world-wide reports. As the Children's Neuro-Oncology Group (CNOG) was established in China in May 2017, it makes studies from multiple centers in children's brain tumors become practical. And the availability of DNA methylation array, NanoString and other methods in medulloblastoma subgroup identification assures the quality of the method for this study.
Toxicities related to pediatric cancer treatment can lead to significant illness, organ damage, treatment delays, increased health care cost, and decrease in quality of life. Such toxicities are largely due to tissue damage sustained by chemotherapy, and strategies designed to limit such cellular damage to normal tissues may reduce therapy-related morbidity and mortality. In addition to their in vitro and in vivo anti-cancer effects, naturally occurring soy isoflavones have anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties, and have been shown to reduce side effects of therapy in adult oncology clinical trials. This study will examine the effect of genistein, the major isoflavone component in soybeans and the most extensively studied of the soy isoflavones, on short-term side effects of myelosuppressive chemotherapy in pediatric cancer patients. Subjects will be randomized to receive either: a) 30 mg genistein daily throughout chemotherapy Cycles 1 and 2 and placebo during chemotherapy Cycles 3 and 4; or b) placebo daily during chemotherapy Cycles 1 and 2 and 30 mg genistein daily during chemotherapy Cycles 3 and 4. Investigators hypothesize that subjects will have fewer short-term therapy-related side effects during cycles of chemotherapy given in conjunction with genistein supplementation than cycles given with placebo.
The Register is based on the study HIT 2000 that recruited patients until 31.12.2011. All german patients with intracranial medulloblastoma, CNS-PNET, ependymoma can be included in the register. Object of the register is to maintain the quality of diagnostic standard by using of central review (Neuroradiology, Pathology, and cranio spinal fluid (CSF) cytology). Furthermore, the register should enable to continue the collection of epidemiologic data and biological material (tumor material, CSF, and blood) for associated studies.
The purpose of this study is to find a recommended dose level of LY2940680 that can be safely given to children with medulloblastoma or rhabdomyosarcoma that has returned or doesn't respond to initial treatment. The study will also explore the changes in a cancer marker levels. Finally, the study will help document any antitumor activity.