Clinical trial · Observational
Collaborative Wilms Tumour Africa Project
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Significant progress has been made in the treatment of Wilms tumor in high income countries, where survival is now around 85% - 90%. Survival in low income countries is much lower; specific challenges include late presentation, malnutrition, less intense supportive care facilities and failure to complete treatment. A comprehensive treatment guideline was introduced in Malawi in 2006 which included nutritional support and social support to enable parents to complete treatment. Survival has increased to around 50%; 95% of children completed their treatment. A multi-disciplinary group of African clinicians and 'state of the art' experts produced a consensus treatment guideline for children with Wilms tumor in sub-Saharan Africa. This guideline will be implemented as a multi-center prospective clinical trial in 2014 in six - eight institutes, expecting about 200 new patients per year. The hypothesis is that 2 year event free survival will be 50%, with \<10% failure to complete treatment and \<10% treatment related mortality. Other research questions include efficacy and toxicity of preoperative chemotherapy and the comparison of surgical staging, local pathology and central review pathology in stratifying postoperative chemotherapy.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilms Tumour | Wilms Tumor | ONTOLOGY_EXACT | 0.90 |
Interventions
Interventions (0)
Data not yet available
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- label
- Wilms tumour
- description
- Children diagnosed with a Wilms tumour receive SIOP PODC Wilms tumour treatment; preoperative chemotherapy, surgery and postoperative chemotherapy (= standard care). One group of patients.
Primary outcomes (1)
- measure
- Event free survival
- timeFrame
- 2 years
- description
- Percentage of patients with no event after two years of follow up.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Maximum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Age \< 18 years * Diagnosis Wilms tumour Exclusion Criteria: \* None
References
Publications (3)
- RESULTIsraels T, Moreira C, Scanlan T, Molyneux L, Kampondeni S, Hesseling P, Heij H, Borgstein E, Vujanic G, Pritchard-Jones K, Hadley L. SIOP PODC: clinical guidelines for the management of children with Wilms tumour in a low income setting. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2013 Jan;60(1):5-11. doi: 10.1002/pbc.24321. Epub 2012 Sep 26. PMID 23015404
- RESULTIsraels T, Renner L, Hendricks M, Hesseling P, Howard S, Molyneux E; Paediatric Oncology in Developing Countries. SIOP PODC: recommendations for supportive care of children with cancer in a low-income setting. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2013 Jun;60(6):899-904. doi: 10.1002/pbc.24501. Epub 2013 Feb 25. PMID 23441092
- RESULTIsraels T, Kambugu J, Kouya F, El-Mallawany NK, Hesseling PB, Kaspers GJ, Eden T, Renner L, Molyneux EM. Clinical trials to improve childhood cancer care and survival in sub-Saharan Africa. Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2013 Oct;10(10):599-604. doi: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2013.137. Epub 2013 Jul 30. PMID 23897077