Brown et al. (2013)2626. Brown PD, Pugh S, Laack NN, Wefel JS, Khuntia D, Meyers C, et al. Memantine for the prevention of cognitive dysfunction in patients receiving whole-brain radiotherapy: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Neuro Oncol. 2013;15(10):1429-37. https://doi.org/10.1093/neuonc/not114 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/...
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Randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial |
1 |
554 |
Adult patients with brain metastases receiving WBRT2
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WBRT+memantine WBRT+placebo |
HVLT-R for Delayed Recall at 24 weeks |
No significant difference in delayed recall (primary outcome) between the two arms p=0.059) |
Brown et al. (2020)2828. Brown PD, Gondi V, Pugh S, Tome WA, Wefel JS, Armstrong TS, et al. Hippocampal avoidance during whole-brain radiotherapy plus memantine for patients with brain metastases: phase III trial NRG oncology CC001. J Clin Oncol. 2020;38(10):1019-29. https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.19 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1200/...
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Randomized parallel, open-label controlled trial |
1 |
518 |
Adult patients with brain metastases outside a 5-mm margin around either hippocampus receiving WBRT |
WBRT+memantine HA-WBRT4+memantine |
Time to cognitive function failure |
Significant reduction in cognitive failure in patients under HA-WBRT plus memantine (adjusted hazard ratio, 0.74; 95%CI 0.58-0.95; p=0.02). |
Wong et al. (2016)2727. Wong P, Leppert IR, Roberge D, Boudam K, Brown PD, Muanza T, et al. A pilot study using dynamic contrast enhanced-MRI as a response biomarker of the radioprotective effect of memantine in patients receiving whole brain radiotherapy. Oncotarget. 2016;7(32):50986-96. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.9653 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.18632...
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Randomized parallel, open-label placebo-controlled trial |
1 |
14 |
Adult patients with brain metastases receiving WBRT (12 from RTOG 0614) |
WBRT+placebo WBRT+Memantine* |
DCE-MRI measures of tumor tissue and normal-appearing white matter (NAWM) vascular permeability |
significantly (p=0.01) reduced normal-appearing vascular permeability changes following radiotherapy |
Laack et al. (2018)2525. Laack NN, Pugh SL, Brown PD, Fox S, Wefel JS, Meyers C, et al. The association of health-related quality of life and cognitive function in patients receiving memantine for the prevention of cognitive dysfunction during whole-brain radiotherapy. Neurooncol Pract. 2019;6(4):274-82. https://doi.org/10.1093/nop/npy038 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1093/...
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Randomized parallel, open-label controlled trial |
1 |
442 |
Adult patients with brain metastases receiving WBRT (from RTOG 0614) |
WBRT+memantine WBRT+placebo |
Association of health-related quality of life and cognitive function |
Baseline cognitive function correlated significantly with Medical Outcomes Scale-Cognitive Functioning Scale (MOS-C). |