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Long Term Follow up of Patients Under 5 Years of Age With High Grade Glioma Diagnosed in France Between 1990 and 2015

Conditions
Glioma
Registration Number
NCT03690570
Lead Sponsor
University Hospital, Strasbourg, France
Brief Summary

High grade glioma is a rare disorder affecting children at all ages with a high mortality rate. Overall survival is estimated at 40%, depending on the type of treatment administered. Major late sequelaes are experienced with the irradiation in this population under 5 years. Therefore, the current recommendations by The French Society for Childhood Cancers are based on a treatment including surgery followed by chemotherapy and avoiding radiotherapy as long as patients present no sign of treatment failure. The results published in 2006, underlying the fact that some patients treated exclusively with surgical resection and chemotherapy can achieve long term survival, are showing evidence of an acceptable long-term strategy. Few studies concerning evaluation of treatment toxicity and long term outcomes are available. Therefore, it is important to collect retrospective data concerning those small patients with high grade glioma in order to understand the reasons of treatment success or failure and treatment toxicities. This retrospective study will evaluate long term survivals comparatively to clinical, radiological and histological features at diagnosis and the treatment toxicities including neurological, endocrine and hearing impairment to go further and propose new potential guidelines and chemotherapy schedules

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
50
Inclusion Criteria
  • Children under 5 years old
  • High grade glioma (WHO status III or IV)
  • No previous treatment with chemotherapy or radiotherapy
  • No contraindication to chemotherapy
  • Consent of legal representative for participation in the study
Exclusion Criteria
  • Low grade glioma
  • Any other histological pattern
  • Parent's denial to access data concerning their child in the frame of medical research

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Assessment of patient survival associated with relapse rate after surgery10 years
Assessment of patient survival associated with relapse rate after chemotherapy10 years
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Service de Pédiatrie 3

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Strasbourg, France

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