Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy After Surgery in Treating Children With Newly Diagnosed Astrocytoma, Glioblastoma Multiforme, Gliosarcoma, or Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma
Completed · Phase 2
Conditions studied: Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors
In brief
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage tumor cells. Giving chemotherapy together with radiation therapy may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving chemotherapy together with radiation therapy after surgery followed by chemotherapy alone works in children with newly diagnosed astrocytoma, glioblastoma multiforme, gliosarcoma, or diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00028795
- Run by
- Children's Oncology Group
- People needed
- 170
- Starts
- 2002-12-01
- Expected to finish
- 2012-03-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2014-02-21
Who can join
Age: 3 and older, up to 21. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
Where it is running
- University of South Alabama Cancer Research Institute — Mobile, Alabama, United States
- Phoenix Children's Hospital — Phoenix, Arizona, United States
- Arizona Cancer Center at University of Arizona Health Sciences Center — Tucson, Arizona, United States
- Arkansas Cancer Research Center at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences — Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
- Southern California Permanente Medical Group — Downey, California, United States
- City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center — Duarte, California, United States
- Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center — La Jolla, California, United States
- Loma Linda University Cancer Institute at Loma Linda University Medical Center — Loma Linda, California, United States
- Jonathan Jaques Children's Cancer Center at Miller Children's Hospital — Long Beach, California, United States
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles — Los Angeles, California, United States
- Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center — Los Angeles, California, United States
- Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA — Los Angeles, California, United States
- Children's Hospital Central California — Madera, California, United States
- Children's Hospital and Research Center at Oakland — Oakland, California, United States
- Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of California Irvine Medical Center — Orange, California, United States
- Children's Hospital of Orange County — Orange, California, United States
- Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University Medical Center — Palo Alto, California, United States
- Sutter Cancer Center — Sacramento, California, United States
- University of California Davis Cancer Center — Sacramento, California, United States
- Kaiser Permanente Medical Center - Sacramento — Sacramento, California, United States
- Kaiser Permanente Medical Center/Kaiser Foundation Hospital - San Diego — San Diego, California, United States
- Children's Hospital and Health Center - San Diego — San Diego, California, United States
- UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center — San Francisco, California, United States
- Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital — Santa Barbara, California, United States
- Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Alabama at Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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