Inclusion criteria, exclusion criteria and study summary
This project aims to improve short and long term outcomes for children and young people with Wilms (WT) and other childhood renal tumours through the introduction of a more ‘personalised’ approach to risk stratification. This will include biological characterisation of tumour, blood and urine samples to better define the molecular pathways involved, particularly in high risk, ‘blastemal type’ Wilms tumour. There will be central review of tumour pathology and of any imaging studies (scans) performed in ‘real time’, to test the feasibility of integrating all of these complex datasets within a newly developed e-health tool project known as “P-medicine”, that will be used to improve clinical decision making in a future clinical trial. Each patient’s treatment will be according to the currently accepted best practice, that is based on the recently closed phase III clinical trial run by the International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) Renal Tumours Study Group, in which the UK was a major participant.
