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ReviewCancers2021

Development of Randomized Trials in Adults with Medulloblastoma-The Example of EORTC 1634-BTG/NOA-23.

Peter Hau, Didier Frappaz, Elizabeth Hovey, Martin G McCabe, Kristian W Pajtler, Benedikt Wiestler, Clemens Seidel, Stephanie E Combs, Linda Dirven, Martin Klein and 25 more

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In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

35 authors.

Peter HauWilhelm Sander-NeuroOncology Unit, Regensburg University Hospital, 93053 Regensburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3894-5053
Didier FrappazNeuro-Oncology Unit, Centre Léon Bérard, 69008 Lyon, France.
Elizabeth HoveyDepartment of Medical Oncology, Sydney 2052, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9973-9360
Martin G McCabeFaculty of Medicine, Biology and Health, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester M20 4GJ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5138-0707
Kristian W PajtlerHopp-Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Benedikt WiestlerDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Klinikum Rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München, TUM School of Medicine, 81675 Munich, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2963-7772
Clemens SeidelDepartment of Radiation-Oncology, University Hospital Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Stephanie E CombsDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Klinikum Rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München, TUM School of Medicine, 81675 Munich, Germany.
Linda DirvenDepartment of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Center, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands.
Martin KleinDepartment of Medical Psychology, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Antoinette AnazodoNelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Prince of Wales Cancer Centre, Sydney 2031, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-5495-6062
Elke HattingenDepartment of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe University, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8392-9004
Silvia HoferDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland.
Stefan M PfisterHopp-Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Claus ZimmerDepartment of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Klinikum Rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München, TUM School of Medicine, 81675 Munich, Germany.
Rolf-Dieter KortmannDepartment of Radiation-Oncology, University Hospital Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Marie-Pierre SunyachDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Centre Leon Berard, 69008 Lyon, France.
Ronan TanguyDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Centre Leon Berard, 69008 Lyon, France.
Rachel EffeneyDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane 4029, Australia.
Andreas von DeimlingDepartment of Neuropathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Felix SahmDepartment of Neuropathology, University Hospital Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Stefan RutkowskiDepartment of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.
Anna S BerghoffDivision of Oncology, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Enrico FranceschiMedical Oncology Department, Azienda USL/IRCCS Institute of Neurological Sciences, 40139 Bologna, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9332-4677
Estela PinedaBarcelona Translational Genomics and Targeted Therapeutics in Solid Tumors Group, Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Clinic Barcelona, 08036 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-2128-747X
Dagmar BeierDepartment of Neurology, Odense University Hospital, DK-5000 Odense, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-3336-157X
Ellen PeetersEORTC Headquarters, 1200 Brussels, Belgium.
Thierry GorliaEORTC Headquarters, 1200 Brussels, Belgium.
Maureen VanlanckerEORTC Headquarters, 1200 Brussels, Belgium.
Jacoline E C BrombergErasmus Medical Center Cancer Institute, Department of Neuro-Oncology, 3015 GD Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Julien GautierClinical Research Department, Centre Léon Bérard, 69008 Lyon, France.
David S ZieglerKids Cancer Centre, Sydney Children's Hospital, Sydney 2031, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-7451-7916
Matthias PreusserDivision of Oncology, Department of Medicine I, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Wolfgang WickDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Heidelberg, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Michael WellerDepartment of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, 8091 Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-1748-174X

Funding

Cancer Australia 1165910CanTeen noneDeutsche Krebshilfe 70113453EORTC Brain Tumor Group noneKWF Kankerbestrijding 2021-1/13555Ministère des Affaires Sociales et de la Santé PHRC-K20-179Sun Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. noneSwiss Brain Tumor Foundation none
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medulloblastoma is a rare brain malignancy. Patients after puberty are rare and bear an intermediate prognosis. Standard treatment consists of maximal resection plus radio-chemotherapy. Treatment toxicity is high and produces disabling long-term side effects. The sonic hedgehog (SHH) subgroup is highly overrepresented in the post-pubertal and adult population and can be targeted by smoothened (SMO) inhibitors. No practice-changing prospective randomized data have been generated in adults. The EORTC 1634-BTG/NOA-23 trial will randomize patients between standard-dose vs. reduced-dosed craniospinal radiotherapy and SHH-subgroup patients between the SMO inhibitor sonidegib (Odomzo

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adultcerebrospinal fluidchemotherapyclinical trialmagnetic resonance imagingmedulloblastomaradiotherapyrandomizedsubgroupingtargeted therapy

Identifiers

PMID34298664
PMCPMC8303185

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