Clinical trials: Pediatric Brain Tumors
Pediatric Cancer
Efficacy of Cognitive and Physical Trainings in Pediatric Cancer Survivors
Cancer survival comes at a price: pediatric cancer survivors have a high risk for a wide range of cognitive difficulties, particularly survivors of cancer involving the central nervous system (CNS, e.g., brain tumors [BT]) are…
- Trial name
- NCT02749877
- Testing
- Working Memory Training, Physical Training
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 81 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Insel Gruppe AG, University Hospital Bern
Cancer Brain, Pediatric Cancer
Memory Neuroimaging in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults Following Pediatric Cancer
Brain tumours are the leading cause of cancer-related death and morbidity in children, adolescents and young adults. The brain is also one of the most sensitive organs to treatments used in pediatric oncology, even for cancers…
- Trial name
- IMPALA (NCT04324450)
- Testing
- MRI, Cognitive assessment
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France
Brain Tumor, Head and Neck Cancer
Cognitive Outcomes After Brain Substructure-informed Radiation Planning in Pediatric Patients
The goal of this trial is to determine whether it is possible to minimize radiation dose to parts of the brain that are important for thinking and learning in children who require radiation to treat their tumor, and if this will…
- Trial name
- CogRT (NCT05658731)
- Testing
- substructure informed planning, Neurocognitive Testing, MRI
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 338 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins