New hope for kids with eye cancer: extra chemo may stop spread
NCT ID NCT02870907
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looks at whether giving chemotherapy (and sometimes radiation) after removing the eye can prevent retinoblastoma from coming back in children. About 195 children with advanced retinoblastoma in one eye took part. The goal is to see if this extra treatment reduces the chance of cancer spreading outside the eye.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Phase 2
Tests whether the treatment actually works, and watches for side effects, in a larger group.
- Participants
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About 195 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Mar 2010
- Expected to finish
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Mar 2031
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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2 months to 10 years
- 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: 1. Written informed consent - a signed informed consent and/or assent (as age appropriate) will be obtained according to institutional guidelines; 2. Male or female ≥2 months and \<10 years of age at the time of signing the informed consent form; 3. Diagnosis of non familial extensive unilateral retinoblastoma treated by primary enucleation 4. In case of post operative chemotherapy, patients must have adequate organ function: * Adequate hematopoietic function Neutrophils\>1.0x109/l, Platelets \>100 x 109/l. * Adequate hepatic function: grade II NCI CTC * Adequate renal function: serum creatinemia \<1.5 x ULN for age with normal creatinine clearance estimated by SCHWARTZ formula * Audiometry \< Grade II de Brock. * Echocardiography normal in case of high dose cyclophosphamide chemotherapy (3 g/m²). 5. Patients affiliated to a Social Security Regimen or beneficiary of the same 6. No chemotherapy or radiotherapy prior to administration of the first dose of study treatment for retinoblastoma or other tumor types 7. Without medical cons-indication to study drugs. Exclusion Criteria: * Bilateral and/or familial or trilateral retinoblastoma. * Unilateral retinoblastoma with indication of primary chemotherapy before enucleation: * One or several surgical risk factors * Buphthalmia Exophthalmia. * Peri ocular inflammatory signs. * Extraocular extension : * Radiological retrolaminar extension (more than 3 mm behind the lamina cribrosa) and or meningeal sheat optic nerve extension. * Extrascleral extension * Lymp nodes extension * Unilateral retinoblastoma with possibility of conservative treatment: * Metastatic extension at diagnosis * One inclusion criteria non observed * Uncontrolled medical conditions, psychological, familial, sociological, or geographical conditions that do not permit compliance with the protocol
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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.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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CHU CAEN
Caen, 14033, France
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Centre Leon Berard
Lyon, 69373, France
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Centre Oscar Lambret
Lille, 59020, France
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Chr Felix Guyon
Saint-Denis, La Réunion, 97405, France
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Chu Angers
Angers, 49033, France
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Chu Bocage
Dijon, 21079, France
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Chu Estaing
Clermont-Ferrand, 63003, France
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Chu Limoges
Limoges, 87042, France
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Chu Morvan
Brest, 29609, France
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Chu Nancy
Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, 54500, France
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Chu Nantes
Nantes, 44093, France
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Chu R; Pellegrin
Bordeaux, 33076, France
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Chu Saint Etienne
Saint-Etienne, 420555, France
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Chu Toulouse
Toulouse, 31026, France
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Chu Tours
Tours, 37044, France
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Chu de Grenoble
Grenoble, 38043, France
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Chu de Nice
Nice, 06202, France
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Chu de Poitiers
Poitiers, 86021, France
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Chu de Rennes
Rennes, 35056, France
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Chu de Rouen
Rouen, 76031, France
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Chur de Reims
Reims, 51100, France
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Hopital Arnaud de Villeneuve
Montpellier, 34295, France
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Hopital D'Enfants La Timone
Marseille, 13385, France
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Hopital Jean Minioz
Besançon, 25030, France
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Hopital Nord Chu Amiens
Amiens, 80054, France
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Hoptial Hautepierre
Strasbourg, 67098, France
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Institut Curie
Paris, 75005, France
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