Treatment Options for Other Newly Diagnosed CNS Embryonal Tumors

Current Clinical Trials

There are few data on which to base treatment of medulloepithelioma and ependymoblastoma tumors. Treatment considerations are usually the same as those for children with poor-risk medulloblastoma and for children 3 years and younger at diagnosis with other embryonal tumors. Prognosis is poor, with 5-year survival rates ranging between 0% and 30%.[1-4]

Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's list of cancer clinical trials that are now accepting patients with childhood ependymoblastoma ¹ and childhood medulloepithelioma ². The list of clinical trials can be further narrowed by location, drug, intervention, and other criteria.

General information about clinical trials is also available from the NCI Web site ³.

References

1. Louis DN, Ohgaki H, Wiestler OD, et al.: The 2007 WHO classification of tumours of the central nervous system. Acta Neuropathol 114 (2): 97-109, 2007.  [PUBMED Abstract]
   
   
2. Sharma MC, Mahapatra AK, Gaikwad S, et al.: Pigmented medulloepithelioma: report of a case and review of the literature. Childs Nerv Syst 14 (1-2): 74-8, 1998 Jan-Feb.  [PUBMED Abstract]
   
   
3. Gerber NU, von Hoff K, von Bueren AO, et al.: Outcome of 11 children with ependymoblastoma treated within the prospective HIT-trials between 1991 and 2006. J Neurooncol 102 (3): 459-69, 2011.  [PUBMED Abstract]
   
   
4. Müller K, Zwiener I, Welker H, et al.: Curative treatment for central nervous system medulloepithelioma despite residual disease after resection. Report of two cases treated according to the GPHO Protocol HIT 2000 and review of the literature. Strahlenther Onkol 187 (11): 757-62, 2011.  [PUBMED Abstract]