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Childhood Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors Treatment (PDQ®)     
Last Modified: 04/03/2008
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General Information

Current Clinical Trials

Note: Separate PDQ summaries on Childhood Brain Stem Glioma Treatment 1, Childhood Central Nervous System Embryonal Tumors, Treatment 2, Childhood Cerebellar Astrocytoma Treatment 3, Childhood Cerebral Astrocytoma/Malignant Glioma Treatment 4, Childhood Ependymoma Treatment 5, Childhood Medulloblastoma Treatment 6, Childhood Supratentorial Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors and Pineoblastoma Treatment 7 and Childhood Visual Pathway and Hypothalamic Glioma Treatment 8 are also available.

The National Cancer Institute provides the PDQ pediatric cancer information treatment summaries as a public service to increase the availability of evidence-based cancer information to health professionals, patients, and the public.

Information about ongoing clinical trials is available from the NCI Web site 9.

Current Clinical Trials

Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's PDQ Cancer Clinical Trials Registry that are now accepting patients with childhood brain tumor 10. 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 9.



Table of Links

1http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/child-brain-stem-glioma/HealthProf
essional
2http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/childCNSembryonal/healthprofession
al
3http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/child-cerebellar-astrocytoma/Healt
hProfessional
4http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/child-cerebral-astrocytoma/HealthP
rofessional
5http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/childependymoma/HealthProfessional
6http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/childmedulloblastoma/HealthProfess
ional
7http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/childSPNET/HealthProfessional
8http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/child-visual-pathway/HealthProfess
ional
9http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials
10http://www.cancer.gov/Search/ClinicalTrialsLink.aspx?diagnosis=41539&tt=1&a
mp;format=2&cn=1