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- Active clinical trials for pediatric cancers
- CAR-20/19-T cells in pediatric and young adult patients with relapsed/refractory B Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (CAR-20/19-T) phase 1 clinical trial
- Unrelated and partially matched related donor peripheral stem cell transplantation for patients with hematologic malignancies clinical trial
- Early stage research
Active clinical trials
Cancer Clinical Trials - NEXT-HEADSTART4
Protocol Summary
- Protocol No
- NEXT-HEADSTART4
- Principal Investigator
- Ryuma Tanaka
- Phase
- IV
- Title
- Head Start 4: Newly Diagnosed Children (Less Than 10 Years Old) with Medulloblastoma and Other Central Nervous System Embryonal Tumors - Clinical and Molecular Risk-Tailored Intensive and Compressed Induction Chemotherapy Followed by Consolidation with Either Single-Cycle (Low Risk Patients) or Randomization (High Risk Patients) to either Single-Cycle or to Three Tandem Cycles of Marrow-Ablative Chemotherapy with Autologous Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Rescue
- Associated Disease(s)
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Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors
- Description (Summary)
- This trial seeks to determine whether dose-intensive tandem consolidation vs single cycle consolidation chemotherapy provides benefits for patients with medulloblastoma
- Participating Institutions
- Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin
- ClinicalTrials.gov
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Why participate in clinical trials?
"The steady improvement in survival for children with cancer is a direct result of their enrollment onto clinical trials; without which we would remain decades behind in terms of scientific advances in pediatric cancer." ~Michael J. Burke, MD