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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Locations
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2nd Dept. of Pediatrics Semmelweis Univ.
Budapest, 1094, Hungary
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Associazione Italiana di Ematologia ed Oncologia Pediatrica
Padua, 35128, Italy
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Children Oncology Group Operations centres
Monrovia, Canada
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Emma Children's Hospital
Amsterdam, 1105 AZ, Netherlands
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Gustave Roussy
Villejuif, 94805, France
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Rectorat of Medical University
Wroclaw, Poland
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Sociedad Española de Hematología y Oncología Pediátricas
Valencia, 46010, Spain
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University Hospitals Leuven
Leuven, 3000, Belgium
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University of Birmingham
Birmingham, United Kingdom
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