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N/A Completed N=59 Treatment

Proton Beam Radiation Therapy in Treating Young Patients Who Have Undergone Biopsy or Surgery for Medulloblastoma or Pineoblastoma

Brain Cancer · Long-term Effects Secondary to Cancer Therapy in Children
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00105560 ↗
Enrolled (actual)
59
Serious AEs
22.0%
Results posted
Aug 2017
Primary outcomePrimary: Cumulative Incidence of Ototoxicity — 12; 16; 16; 15 percentage of participants

Summary

RATIONALE: Specialized radiation therapy that delivers radiation directly to the area where a tumor was surgically removed may kill any remaining tumor cells and cause less damage to normal tissue. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well proton beam radiation therapy works in treating young patients who have undergone biopsy or surgery for medulloblastoma or pineoblastoma.

Outcome Measures

OutcomeResultp-value
PRIMARY
Cumulative Incidence of Ototoxicity
12; 16; 16; 15; 20; 20
SECONDARY
Cumulative Incidence of Endocrine Dysfunction (Neuroendocrine and End Organ Defects) at 3 Years
27; 28; 25; 22; 23; 20
SECONDARY
Cumulative Incidence of Endocrine Dysfunction (Neuroendocrine and End Organ Defects) at 5 Years
55; 58; 50; 46; 50; 40
SECONDARY
Cumulative Incidence of Endocrine Dysfunction (Neuroendocrine and End Organ Defects) at 7 Years
27; 55; 63; 22; 46; 55
SECONDARY
Mean Change Per-Year in Neurocognitive Outcomes
-1.5; -1.3; -.4; -0.8; -2.4
SECONDARY
Progression Free Survival
80; 75; 85; 81; 70; 63
SECONDARY
Overall Survival
83; 81; 86; 86; 75; 68

Eligibility Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically confirmed medulloblastoma or pineoblastoma
  • Standard-risk or high-risk disease
  • Must have undergone biopsy or attempted surgical resection of the tumor within the past 35 days
  • Requires craniospinal irradiation

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

  • 3 to 21

Performance status

  • Not specified

Life expectancy

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic

  • Not specified

Hepatic

  • Not specified

Renal

  • Not specified

Other

  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

  • Not specified

Chemotherapy

  • No more than 1 prior chemotherapy regimen
  • No prior IV or intrathecal methotrexate
  • No prior intrathecal thiotepa
  • Concurrent cisplatin-based chemotherapy, including chemotherapy administered on another study, allowed

Endocrine therapy

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy

  • No prior radiotherapy

Surgery

  • See Disease Characteristics
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Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT00105560). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication. Informational only — not medical advice.

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