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Clinical trialNCT00003241CompletedPhase 2Interventional

Phenylacetate in Treating Children With Recurrent or Progressive Brain Tumors

SponsorTexas Children's Cancer CenterBrain and Central Nervous System Tumors
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Summary

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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of phenylacetate in treating children with recurrent or progressive brain tumors.

Investigators

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Sites

6 registered facilities, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States
  • Children'S Hospital Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, California, United States

  • Ucsf Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute

    San Francisco, California, United States

  • Children'S National Medical Center

    Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States

  • Pediatric Oncology Branch

    Bethesda, Maryland, United States

  • Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center

    Cleveland, Ohio, United States

  • Texas Children'S Cancer Center

    Houston, Texas, United States

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Drugs studied

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Phenylacetate
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Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
31 May 1998
Primary completion
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Completion
30 Sept 2004
Last update posted
26 Jun 2013
Registered enrollment
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Registry id
NCT00003241

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.