The HIT Network for Children and Adolescents With CNS Tumors Facilitates Improvements of Diagnostic Assessments, Multimodal Treatments, Individual Counseling, and Research in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
The HIT network provides a unique structure for population-based state-of-the-art diagnostic assessments, treatment recommendations and counseling. It increases the "a priori" accuracy of stratification parameters, and the timely inclusion into clinical trials and tumor-specific registries. Favorable outcomes are achieved within the trials and registry landscape, for example, through consistent reference assessments, reducing the gap to real world data. Resulting data facilitate representative, unbiased high-quality research projects across all CNS tumor entities. Interdisciplinary cooperation and competitive scientific output are enhanced.
Authors
- Ahmed El Damaty (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0146-8943)
- K. Scheinemann
- Martin U. Schuhmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9843-7486)
- Petra Ketteler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8138-0441)
- Martin Benesch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7827-4130)
- Christof M. Kramm (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5017-926X)
- Andreas Faldum (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2674-8098)
- Hermann L. Müller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4929-9966)
- Irene Slavc (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9419-6790)
- Matthias Eyrich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8099-5903)
- Gudrun Fleischhack (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5714-007X)
- Lisa Bußenius (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3888-1360)
- Johannes Gojo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8113-3416)
- Pedram Emami (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7211-7246)
- Monika Warmuth‐Metz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3544-319X)
- Astrid Gnekow (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7356-6887)
- Till Milde
- Barbara von Zezschwitz
- Thomas Perwein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6952-1339)
- Karin Dieckmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5311-2976)
- Uwe Kordes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6375-2320)
- O. Witt
- Cécile M. Ronckers (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3524-4657)
- Katja Baust (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4980-1138)
- Holger Ottensmeier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4010-8724)
- Jürgen Debus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6411-4811)
- Martin Mynarek (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3302-2719)
- Stephan Tippelt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8791-9914)
- D Sturm
- Rolf D. Kortmann
- Fabian Pöhl
- Rudolf Schwarz
- Carsten Friedrich
- Beate Timmermann
- Ulrich Schüller
- Torsten Pietsch
- Johannes E. A. Wolf
- Pablo Hernáiz‐Driever
- Ulrich‐Wilhelm Thomale
- Arend Koch
- Mechthild Krause
- Nicolas U. Gerber
- Pascal Johann
- Martin Hasselblatt
- Stefan M. Pfister
- Gabriele Calaminus
- David Capper
- Stefan Schönberger
- Christian Hagel
- Christian Thomas
- Desiree Grabow
- David T. W. Jones
- Stefan Rutkowski
- André O. von Bueren
- Michael C. Frühwald
- Denise Obrecht‐Sturm
- Brigitte Bison
- Karoline Nemes
- Jürgen Krauss
- Felix Sahm
Institutions
- University of Geneva (CH)
- University of Bonn (DE)
- Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (DE)
- Universität Hamburg (DE)
- University of Lucerne (CH)
- German Cancer Research Center (DE)
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- Medical University of Graz (AT)
- Heidelberg University (DE)
- University of Münster (DE)
- University of Würzburg (DE)
- University Hospital Bonn (DE)
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (DE)
- University Hospital Augsburg (DE)
- University Hospital Heidelberg (DE)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
- Dr. August Wolff (Germany) (DE)
- Comprehensive Cancer Center Vienna (AT)
- University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (DE)
- Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken (DE)
- University Hospital Münster (DE)
- University Hospital of Geneva (CH)
- West Cancer Center (US)
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (DE)
- Kinderkrebs-Zentrum Hamburg (DE)
- Klinikum Oldenburg (DE)
- National Center for Tumor Diseases (DE)
- Hopp Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (DE)
- Nephrologisches Zentrum Goettingen (DE)
- Essen University Hospital (DE)
- University Hospital Leipzig (DE)
- Universitätsklinikum Würzburg (DE)
- Heidelberg Engineering (Germany) (DE)
- University Children's Hospital Zurich (CH)
- Jena University Hospital (DE)
- STZ eyetrial (DE)
- University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus (DE)
- Ostschweizer Kinderspital (CH)
- University of Regensburg (DE)
- Medical University of Vienna (AT)
- University of Tübingen (DE)
- Heidelberg University (US)
- Leipzig University (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Pediatric Blood & Cancer
- Published
- 2026-03-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/1545-5017.70165
- Primary Topic
- Glioma Diagnosis and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00