Expert team aims to outsmart tough childhood cancers
NCT ID NCT06423950
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Sep 04, 2026 · Updated 4 times
Summary
This study is testing whether a special team of experts, including biologists, mathematicians, and doctors, can come up with new treatment ideas for children and young adults with cancer that is unlikely to be cured by standard treatments. The team will review each patient's case and try to create a personalized strategy based on how cancers evolve. The goal is to see if this approach can offer new options for 35 participants who have few choices left.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that a team of experts can generate new, personalized treatment strategies for children with cancer who have run out of standard options.
- What could go wrong
- This is a very early feasibility study with only 35 participants. It does not directly test a treatment, so even if new strategies are developed, they may not work or be safe.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Participants
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About 35 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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May 2024
- Expected to finish
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Apr 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.
Who is studied
Participants who are patients at participating pedsETB sites.
- Ages
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Children (under 18), adults (18 to 64) and older adults (65 and over)
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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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: * Participant must be considered likely incurable given the standard of care. This is inclusive of patients newly diagnosed, relapsed or in remission but at high risk of recurrence, with suboptimal responses to previous therapy, or with many potentially beneficial, but unlikely curative options for care. The site investigator will make this determination based on their experience. * Participant must have an age-appropriate performance status: Karnofsky 50 or more for patients 16 years of age or older OR Lansky score of 50 or more for patients less than16 years of age. * Participant and/or parents or legal guardian and primary oncologist must be willing to consider the therapeutic strategies recommended by the pedsETB. * Participant must be willing to be followed over time and allow collection of clinical data including scans, available blood and lab samples, and optional pedsETB serial blood sampling. * All Participants and/or their parents or legal guardians must have the ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent or assent document. Exclusion Criteria: * Participants without known therapies to reliably induce a response are excluded from pedsETB and should seek clinical trials.
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
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The places running it
3 sites. The list below names each one and where it is.
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The official record
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A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Connecticut Children's Medical Center
RECRUITINGHartford, Connecticut, 06106, United States
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Moffitt Cancer Center
RECRUITINGTampa, Florida, 33612, United States
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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
RECRUITINGBuffalo, New York, 14203, United States
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