Can a smartphone app boost brain power in kids with cancer?
NCT ID NCT06464237
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests a mobile app called Mio-App designed to help children and teenagers with cancer improve their thinking, memory, and motor skills. The app includes cognitive and physical exercises along with questions to boost self-awareness. Researchers will enroll 40 participants aged 8-16 to see if the app reduces long-term problems after cancer treatment.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Mio-App (behavioral training app)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could provide a simple, non-drug tool to help young cancer survivors think more clearly and move better.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage study with only 40 participants. The app may not show clear benefits, and results may not apply to everyone.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- 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 40 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Aug 2025
- Expected to finish
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May 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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8 to 16 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Accepted
You do not need to have the condition being studied to take part.
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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: * Informed consent as documented by signature (see Informed Consent Form) of participants and / or parents / legal guardians * Age 8-16 years * A diagnosis of cancer either with or without CNS involvement. The participant will be included between 3 months before to 10 years after termination of treatment. * Treatment of cancer including either radiation, chemotherapy and/ or surgical tumor removal * German or French speaking Exclusion Criteria: * Any other instable neurological condition (e.g. epilepsy) * A severe psychiatric disease (e.g., eating disorder) or severe learning disability * Known or suspected non-compliance * Drug or alcohol abuse * Inability to follow the procedures of the study, e.g. due to language problems * Enrolment of the investigator, his/her family members, employees and other dependent persons
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Insespital, University Hospital Bern
RECRUITINGBern, 3010, Switzerland
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