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Source: Childhood Ependymoma Treatment (PDQ®)–Health Professional Version, National Cancer Institute.
Source updated: January 6, 2025 · Captured 2026-09-09.
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Current treatment approaches do not include chemotherapy as a standard component of primary therapy for children with newly diagnosed ependymomas that are completely resected. The utility of adjuvant chemotherapy was studied in the completed COG ACNS0831 (NCT01096368) trial. Published results of this trial are forthcoming. There is no evidence that myeloablative chemotherapy [25] improves the outcome for patients with totally resected, nondisseminated ependymomas.
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