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Quality of survival and growth in children and young adults in the PNET4 European controlled trial of hyperfractionated versus conventional radiation therapy for standard-risk medulloblastoma

Quality of survival and growth in children and young adults in the PNET4 European controlled trial of hyperfractionated versus conventional radiation therapy for standard-risk medulloblastoma
Quality of survival and growth in children and young adults in the PNET4 European controlled trial of hyperfractionated versus conventional radiation therapy for standard-risk medulloblastoma
Purpose
To compare quality of survival in “standard-risk” medulloblastoma after hyperfractionated radiation therapy of the central nervous system with that after standard radiation therapy, combined with a chemotherapy regimen common to both treatment arms, in the PNET4 randomised controlled trial.

Methods and Materials
Participants in the PNET4 trial and their parents/caregivers in 7 participating anonymized countries completed standardized questionnaires in their own language on executive function, health status, behavior, health-related quality of life, and medical, educational, employment, and social information. Pre- and postoperative neurologic status and serial heights and weights were also recorded.

Results
Data were provided by 151 of 244 eligible survivors (62%) at a median age at assessment of 15.2 years and median interval from diagnosis of 5.8 years. Compared with standard radiation therapy, hyperfractionated radiation therapy was associated with lower (ie, better) z-scores for executive function in all participants (mean intergroup difference 0.48 SDs, 95% confidence interval 0.16-0.81, P=.004), but health status, behavioral difficulties, and health-related quality of life z-scores were similar in the 2 treatment arms. Data on hearing impairment were equivocal. Hyperfractionated radiation therapy was also associated with greater decrement in height z-scores (mean intergroup difference 0.43 SDs, 95% confidence interval 0.10-0.76, P=.011).

Conclusions
Hyperfractionated radiation therapy was associated with better executive function and worse growth but without accompanying change in health status, behavior, or quality of life.
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Kennedy, C.
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Bull, K.
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Massimino, M.
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Gutierrez, A.N.
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Spoudeas, Helen A.
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on behalf of the PNET4 study group of the Brain Tumour Group of The European branch of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP-E)
Kennedy, C.
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Dörr, H.G.
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Doz, F.
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Kennedy, C., Bull, K., Chevignard, M., Culliford, D., Dörr, H.G., Doz, F., Kortmann, R., Lannering, B., Massimino, M., Gutierrez, A.N., Rutkowski, S., Spoudeas, Helen A. and Calaminus, G. , on behalf of the PNET4 study group of the Brain Tumour Group of The European branch of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP-E) (2014) Quality of survival and growth in children and young adults in the PNET4 European controlled trial of hyperfractionated versus conventional radiation therapy for standard-risk medulloblastoma. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, 88 (2), 292-300. (doi:10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.09.046).

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Abstract

Purpose
To compare quality of survival in “standard-risk” medulloblastoma after hyperfractionated radiation therapy of the central nervous system with that after standard radiation therapy, combined with a chemotherapy regimen common to both treatment arms, in the PNET4 randomised controlled trial.

Methods and Materials
Participants in the PNET4 trial and their parents/caregivers in 7 participating anonymized countries completed standardized questionnaires in their own language on executive function, health status, behavior, health-related quality of life, and medical, educational, employment, and social information. Pre- and postoperative neurologic status and serial heights and weights were also recorded.

Results
Data were provided by 151 of 244 eligible survivors (62%) at a median age at assessment of 15.2 years and median interval from diagnosis of 5.8 years. Compared with standard radiation therapy, hyperfractionated radiation therapy was associated with lower (ie, better) z-scores for executive function in all participants (mean intergroup difference 0.48 SDs, 95% confidence interval 0.16-0.81, P=.004), but health status, behavioral difficulties, and health-related quality of life z-scores were similar in the 2 treatment arms. Data on hearing impairment were equivocal. Hyperfractionated radiation therapy was also associated with greater decrement in height z-scores (mean intergroup difference 0.43 SDs, 95% confidence interval 0.10-0.76, P=.011).

Conclusions
Hyperfractionated radiation therapy was associated with better executive function and worse growth but without accompanying change in health status, behavior, or quality of life.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 13 November 2013
Published date: 1 February 2014
Organisations: Primary Care & Population Sciences, Clinical & Experimental Sciences

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Local EPrints ID: 359581
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/359581
ISSN: 0360-3016
PURE UUID: 2fb6e637-2f63-485c-bf79-bd316c5ef1dd
ORCID for K. Bull: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5541-4556
ORCID for D. Culliford: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1663-0253

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Date deposited: 05 Nov 2013 10:16
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:19

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Author: C. Kennedy
Author: K. Bull ORCID iD
Author: M. Chevignard
Author: D. Culliford ORCID iD
Author: H.G. Dörr
Author: F. Doz
Author: R. Kortmann
Author: B. Lannering
Author: M. Massimino
Author: A.N. Gutierrez
Author: S. Rutkowski
Author: Helen A. Spoudeas
Author: G. Calaminus
Corporate Author: on behalf of the PNET4 study group of the Brain Tumour Group of The European branch of the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP-E)

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