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ReviewCancers2021

SIOP PNET5 MB Trial: History and Concept of a Molecularly Stratified Clinical Trial of Risk-Adapted Therapies for Standard-Risk Medulloblastoma.

Martin Mynarek, Till Milde, Laetitia Padovani, Geert O Janssens, Robert Kwiecien, Veronique Mosseri, Steven C Clifford, François Doz, Stefan Rutkowski

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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 34 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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34citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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

34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Surgical resection in medulloblastoma: a crossroads in the molecular era.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2026
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  4. Pediatric medulloblastoma.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2026
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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

9 authors at 8 institutions in 4 countries.

Martin MynarekDepartment of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3302-2719
Till MildeHopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ), 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7267-1052
Laetitia PadovaniOncology Radiotherapy Department, CRCM Inserm, Aix-Marseille University, UMR1068, CNRS UMR7258, AMU UM105, Genome Instability and Carcinogenesis, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille, 13284 Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0003-3054-6218
Geert O JanssensDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Utrecht, 3508 GA Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Robert KwiecienInstitute of Biostatistics and Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany.
Veronique MosseriDepartment of Biostatistics, Institut Curie, 75248 Paris, France.
Steven C CliffordNewcastle University Centre for Cancer, Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK.
François DozSIREDO Center (Care, Innovation and Research for Children, Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer), Institut Curie, Paris and Université de Paris, 75248 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0001-9286-4831
Stefan RutkowskiDepartment of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.
Universität Hamburg · DECentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRGerman Cancer Research Center · DEInstitut Curie · FRNewcastle University · GBUniversité Paris Cité · FRUniversity Medical Center Utrecht · NLUniversity of Münster · DE

Funding

BMBF ADDRess 01GM1909ECancer Research UK 13457French Ministry of Health and Institut National du Cancer, and by Société Française de lutte con-tre les Cancers et leucémies de l'Enfant (SFCE)/ Enfants et santé and from Association de Recher-che sur les Tumeurs Cérébrales (ARTC) PHRC-K 2011-250
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSIOP PNET5 MB was initiated in 2014 as the first European trial using clinical, histological, and molecular parameters to stratify treatments for children and adolescents with standard-risk medulloblastoma.

methodsStratification by upfront assessment of molecular parameters requires the timely submission of adequate tumour tissue. In the standard-risk phase-III cohort, defined by the absence of high-risk criteria (M0, R0), pathological (non-LCA), and molecular biomarkers (

resultsSIOP PNET5 MB is actively recruiting. The availability of adequate tumour tissue for upfront real-time biological assessments to assess inclusion criteria has proven feasible.

conclusionSIOP PNET5 MB has demonstrated that implementation of biological parameters for stratification is feasible in a prospective multicentre setting, and may improve risk-adapted treatment. Comprehensive research studies may allow assessment of additional parameters, e.g., novel medulloblastoma subtypes, and identification and validation of biomarkers for the further refinement of risk-adapted treatment in the future.

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brain tumourchildrenCNSmedulloblastomatrial

Identifiers

PMID34885186
PMCPMC8657236
OpenAlexW3217189940

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