The goal of this project is to develop and validate a reproducible scorecard for the neurological assessment of patients with leptomeningeal metastases that can be used in clinical trials including such patients, as well as in clinical practice.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
200
Clinical neurological assessment performed by 2 raters
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States
RECRUITINGNetherlands Cancer Institute
Amsterdam, Netherlands
RECRUITINGUniversity Hospital Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
RECRUITINGinter-observer agreement of response assessment of the overall clinical assessment - per center and among all raters
Time frame: December 2026
inter-observer reproducibility (agreement) for each item - per center and among all raters
Time frame: December 2026
association between items
Time frame: December 2026
variability of the interobserver agreement
Time frame: December 2026
description of clinical neurological symptoms and signs
Time frame: December 2026
association of clinical response with imaging and CSF cytology response and the overall global clinical/MRI/CSF response
Time frame: December 2026
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