New hope for teens battling rare chest cancer

NCT ID NCT01516567

Summary

This trial tested whether adding the drug rituximab to standard chemotherapy could help children and teenagers with a rare type of chest lymphoma. It involved 47 young patients aged 6 months to 18 years who had not yet received treatment. The main goal was to see if this combination improved survival without the cancer returning.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • 2nd Dept. of Pediatrics Semmelweis Univ.

    Budapest, 1094, Hungary

  • Associazione Italiana di Ematologia ed Oncologia Pediatrica

    Padua, 35128, Italy

  • Children Oncology Group Operations centres

    Monrovia, Canada

  • Emma Children's Hospital

    Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Netherlands

  • Gustave Roussy

    Villejuif, 94805, France

  • Rectorat of Medical University

    Wroclaw, Poland

  • Sociedad Española de Hematología y Oncología Pediátricas

    Valencia, 46010, Spain

  • University Hospitals Leuven

    Leuven, 3000, Belgium

  • University of Birmingham

    Birmingham, United Kingdom

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