Current Research

Research for retinoblastoma is ongoing. The following advances may still be under investigation in clinical trials and may not be approved or available at this time. The Children’s Oncology Group has recently opened clinical trials to seek answers to the questions listed below and for which some children with retinoblastoma may be eligible. Always discuss all diagnostic and treatment options with your child’s doctor.

• More intensive treatment with chemotherapy and radiation treatment to preserve vision in children with advanced disease in both eyes
  
  
• Ways to deliver chemotherapy to avoid radiation therapy and preserve vision
  
  
• Less intensive treatment with chemotherapy for small tumors
  
  
• Better ways of determining which children who have had enucleation require chemotherapy, and whether chemotherapy can prevent the spread of a tumor
  
  
• Aggressive treatment to cure children who have had a recurrence of retinoblastoma or when cancer has spread outside the eye