New study tracks memory loss in kids after brain radiation
NCT ID NCT06599879
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at how radiation to the brain affects memory in children who had a brain tumor. Researchers will test memory and thinking skills in 130 children ages 4 to 12, starting 2 years after radiation and again 2 years later. The goal is to learn which parts of the brain are most affected, not to test a new treatment.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 130 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2025
- Expected to finish
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Oct 2030
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
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6 to 14 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patient who has received localised brain irradiation or craniospinal irradiation for a brain tumour whose treatment includes first-line radiotherapy. 2. Patient with one of the following tumour types: ependymomas, medulloblastomas, malignant germ cell tumours, craniopharyngioma, pinealoblastoma. 3. Patient aged between 4 and 12 years at the time of radiotherapy treatment. 4. End of irradiation within 2 years (+/-3 months) prior to inclusion. 5. Patient having been treated by photontherapy or proton therapy. 6. Sufficient visual, auditory (with authorised hearing aid) and oral or written expression capacity to carry out the neuropsychological tests properly. 7. Proficiency in the French language by the patient and parent(s). 8. Patient affiliated to a Social Security scheme in France. 9. Informed consent signed by the patient/legal parent(s)/guardian(s) in accordance with French law and Good Clinical Practice. Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patient presenting with severe ataxia. 2. Patient with a recurrence of the disease. 3. Not applicable since protocol version 2. Metastatic patient. 4. Any contraindication to MRI for patients included in Toulouse (i.e. in particular patients with a pacemaker or cardiac defibrillator, implanted equipment activated by an electrical, magnetic or mechanical system, patients with haemostatic clips on intracerebral aneurysms, patients with orthopaedic implants, claustrophobic patients). 5. Patients undergoing psychostimulant or psychotropic treatment (in particular methylphenidate, antidepressants). 6. Any psychological, family, geographical or sociological condition that prevents compliance with medical monitoring and/or the procedures set out in the study protocol. 7. Patients deprived of their liberty or under legal protection. 8. Severe posterior fossa syndrome with akinetic mutism.
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Conditions
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How to take part
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The places running it
15 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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APHM - Hôpital la Timone
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGMarseille, France
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CHU Angers
RECRUITINGAngers, France
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CHU de Bordeaux
RECRUITINGBordeaux, France
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Centre Eugène Marquis
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGRennes, France
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Centre François Baclesse
RECRUITINGCaen, France
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Centre Georges François Leclerc
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGDijon, France
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Centre Léon Bérard
RECRUITINGLyon, France
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Centre Oscar Lambret
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGLille, France
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Centre Paul Strauss
RECRUITINGStrasbourg, France
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IUCT-O
RECRUITINGToulouse, France
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Institut Curie
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGParis, France
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Institut Gustave Roussy
RECRUITINGVillejuif, France
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Institut de Cancérologie de Lorraine
RECRUITINGVandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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Institut de Cancérologie de l'Ouest
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGSaint-Herblain, France
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Institut du Cancer de Montpellier
NOT_YET_RECRUITINGMontpellier, France
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