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External Beam Radiation Therapy and Cetuximab Followed by Irinotecan and Cetuximab for Children and Young Adults With Newly Diagnosed Diffuse Pontine Tumors and High-Grade Astrocytomas

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT01012609

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Official title

A Phase II Trial of External Beam Radiation Therapy and Cetuximab Followed by Irinotecan and Cetuximab for Children and Young Adults With Newly Diagnosed Diffuse Pontine Tumors and High-Grade Astrocytomas (POE08-01)

Brief summary

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Standard treatment for patients with diffuse pontine tumors is radiation therapy, but less than 10% of patients are cured. Adding standard chemotherapy has not improved the cure rate. Standard treatment for high-grade astrocytomas is surgery and radiation. The surgeon removes as much of the tumor as she or he can. Radiation after that tries to kill any cancer cells that are left. Some patients also get chemotherapy. These are anti-cancer drugs. They can be given during or after radiation. Current standard treatments do not cure many patients. In this study the doctors are adding a new medication called cetuximab to the treatment and will also use a chemotherapy medication (irinotecan) that has been promising for patients treated for recurrent disease.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT01012609
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 2
Enrollment
47 participants

Conditions and interventions

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
3 Years to 21 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.

Study timeline

Start date
Oct 30, 2009 (Actual)
Primary completion
Jan 15, 2018 (Actual)
Completion
Jan 15, 2018 (Actual)
Last update posted
Mar 14, 2022

2009 – 2018

United States locations

U.S. sites
11
U.S. states
10
U.S. cities
11
Facility City State ZIP Site status
Phoenix Children'S Hospital Phoenix Arizona 85016 —
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Denver Colorado — —
University of Florida Gainesville Florida — —
MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children Orlando Florida 32806 —
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston Atlanta Georgia 30322 —
John Hopkins Medical Center Baltimore Maryland 21287 —
Dana Farber Cancer Institute Boston Massachusetts 02115 —
Children's Mercy Hospital & Clinics Kansas City Missouri 64108 —
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center New York New York 10065 —
Md Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas 77030 —
Seattle Children'S Hospital Seattle Washington — —

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Non-U.S. locations

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