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Wilms Tumor and Other Childhood Kidney Tumors Treatment (PDQ®)     
Last Modified: 10/02/2008
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Neuroepithelial Tumor of the Kidney

Current Clinical Trials

Optimal treatment has not been established for these tumors. Treatment according to Ewings/ PNET protocols should be considered.[1]

Current Clinical Trials

Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's PDQ Cancer Clinical Trials Registry that are now accepting patients with peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the kidney 1. The list of clinical trials can be further narrowed by location, drug, intervention, and other criteria.

General information about clinical trials is also available from the NCI Web site 2.

References

  1. Parham DM, Roloson GJ, Feely M, et al.: Primary malignant neuroepithelial tumors of the kidney: a clinicopathologic analysis of 146 adult and pediatric cases from the National Wilms' Tumor Study Group Pathology Center. Am J Surg Pathol 25 (2): 133-46, 2001.  [PUBMED Abstract]


Table of Links

1http://www.cancer.gov/Search/ClinicalTrialsLink.aspx?diagnosis=38476&tt=1&a
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2http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials