Status:

RECRUITING

Irradiation in Paediatrics: Neurocognition, Neuroimaging and Evaluation of Memory and Attention

Lead Sponsor:

Institut Claudius Regaud

Conditions:

Brain Tumor, Pediatric

Eligibility:

All Genders

6-14 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

This is a prospective, open-label, multicentric study designed to correlate the dose delivered to the hippocampus with declarative memory deficits 2 years after radiotherapy treatment in a paediatric ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patient who has received localised brain irradiation or craniospinal irradiation for a brain tumour whose treatment includes first-line radiotherapy.
  • Patient with one of the following tumour types: ependymomas, medulloblastomas, malignant germ cell tumours, craniopharyngioma, pinealoblastoma.
  • Patient aged between 4 and 12 years at the time of radiotherapy treatment.
  • End of irradiation within 2 years (+/-3 months) prior to inclusion.
  • Patient having been treated by photontherapy or proton therapy.
  • Sufficient visual, auditory (with authorised hearing aid) and oral or written expression capacity to carry out the neuropsychological tests properly.
  • Proficiency in the French language by the patient and parent(s).
  • Patient affiliated to a Social Security scheme in France.
  • Informed consent signed by the patient/legal parent(s)/guardian(s) in accordance with French law and Good Clinical Practice.

Exclusion

  • Patient presenting with severe ataxia.
  • Patient with a recurrence of the disease.
  • Not applicable since protocol version 2. Metastatic patient.
  • Any contraindication to MRI for patients included in Toulouse (i.e. in particular patients with a pacemaker or cardiac defibrillator, implanted equipment activated by an electrical, magnetic or mechanical system, patients with haemostatic clips on intracerebral aneurysms, patients with orthopaedic implants, claustrophobic patients).
  • Patients undergoing psychostimulant or psychotropic treatment (in particular methylphenidate, antidepressants).
  • Any psychological, family, geographical or sociological condition that prevents compliance with medical monitoring and/or the procedures set out in the study protocol.
  • Patients deprived of their liberty or under legal protection.
  • Severe posterior fossa syndrome with akinetic mutism.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

October 21 2025

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

October 1 2030

Estimated Enrollment :

130 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT06599879

Start Date

October 21 2025

End Date

October 1 2030

Last Update

November 18 2025

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CHU Angers

Angers, France

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CHU de Bordeaux

Bordeaux, France

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Centre François Baclesse

Caen, France

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Centre Georges François Leclerc

Dijon, France