Spinal cord cancer
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Also known as cancer of spinal cordintraspinal tumorintraspinal tumourmalignant neoplasm of spinal cordmalignant neoplasm of the spinal cordmalignant spinal cord neoplasmmalignant spinal cord tumormalignant spinal cord tumourmalignant tumor of spinal cordmalignant tumor of the spinal cordmalignant tumour of spinal cordmalignant tumour of the spinal cordspinal cord neoplasmspine cancertumor of the spinal cordtumour of the spinal cord
Summary
Spinal cord cancer (MONDO:0003544) is a cancer (an umbrella term covering 8 Mondo subtypes) and 20 clinical trials. Top therapeutic interventions include esketamine, lomustine, and pregabalin. A subtype of central nervous system cancer — broader associated-gene and molecular evidence is on the parent page (see Disease family below).
At a glance
- Classification: Cancer
- Umbrella term: 8 Mondo subtypes
- Clinical trials: 20
Clinical features
No curated clinical features (Orphanet) for this disease.
Identifiers
Disease identifiers
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Canonical name | spinal cord cancer |
| Mondo ID | MONDO:0003544 |
| DOID | DOID:5612 |
| ICD-10-CM | C72.0 |
| ICD-11 | 492029077 |
| NCIT | C3572 |
| SNOMED CT | 363475005 |
| UMLS | C0153646 |
| MedGen | 56317 |
| GARD | 0027641 |
| Anatomy (UBERON) | UBERON:0002240 |
| Is cancer (heuristic) | yes |
Also known as: cancer of spinal cord · intraspinal tumor · intraspinal tumour · malignant neoplasm of spinal cord · malignant neoplasm of the spinal cord · malignant spinal cord neoplasm · malignant spinal cord tumor · malignant spinal cord tumour · malignant tumor of spinal cord · malignant tumor of the spinal cord · malignant tumour of spinal cord · malignant tumour of the spinal cord · spinal cord cancer · spinal cord neoplasm · spine cancer · tumor of the spinal cord · tumour of the spinal cord
Disease family
This is a subtype of central nervous system cancer. Genetic, therapeutic, and trial evidence is largely curated at the broader-term level — see the parent page for the associated-gene cohort and molecular evidence.
Classification path: disease › human disease › disease by etiologic mechanism › cancer or benign tumor › neoplastic disease or syndrome › neoplasm › cancer › nervous system cancer › central nervous system cancer › spinal cord cancer
Related subtypes (19): central nervous system primitive neuroectodermal neoplasm, brain cancer, central nervous system sarcoma, primary central nervous system lymphoma, central nervous system germinoma, central nervous system melanocytic neoplasm, central nervous system endodermal sinus tumor, malignant carotid body paraganglioma, malignant adrenal gland pheochromocytoma, malignant jugulotympanic paraganglioma, pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma syndrome 2, pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma syndrome 5, central nervous system Ewing sarcoma/peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor, choriocarcinoma of the central nervous system, mixed germ cell tumor of central nervous system, embryonal carcinoma of the central nervous system, malignant tumor of meninges, malignant central nervous system mesenchymal, non-meningothelial neoplasm, malignant glioma
Subtypes (8): spinal cord lymphoma, spinal cord melanoma, spinal cord sarcoma, spinal cord glioma, spinal cord neuroblastoma, spinal meninges cancer, spinal cord primitive neuroectodermal tumor, metastatic malignant neoplasm in the spinal cord
Genetics & variants
GWAS landscape
No GWAS associations recorded — common-variant (GWAS) studies don’t cover this disease (typical for Mendelian / rare diseases). See the curated gene cohort and Mendelian overlap below.
Variant details and genetic-evidence tiers
No tiered GWAS variants or ClinVar records for this disease.
Genes & proteins
No associated-gene cohort resolved for this disease. Atlas builds the molecular and therapeutic sections — associated genes, protein families, druggability, pathways, interactions, and drug associations — by aggregating over a disease’s associated genes (resolved via GWAS / GenCC / ClinVar / CIViC), and none resolved here. This is expected for antibody-mediated, autoimmune, or otherwise non-gene-defined conditions; the curated evidence for this disease is its clinical features, GWAS susceptibility, and clinical trials (above).
Function
No pathway enrichment — requires an associated-gene cohort.
Therapeutics
No druggable-target or therapeutic data for this disease’s cohort.
Clinical trials & evidence
Clinical trials
Clinical trials: 20.
Phase distribution (across all retrieved trials)
| Phase | Trials |
|---|---|
| Not specified | 16 |
| PHASE2/PHASE3 | 1 |
| PHASE3 | 1 |
| PHASE2 | 1 |
| PHASE1/PHASE2 | 1 |
Top trials by phase / activity
| NCT | Phase | Status | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| NCT05096468 | PHASE2/PHASE3 | COMPLETED | Esketamine Combined With Pregabalin on Acute Postoperative Pain in Patients Undergoing Resection of Spinal Neoplasms. |
| NCT05493228 | PHASE3 | UNKNOWN | Dexmedetomidine Infusion on Intraoperative Propofol,Fentanyl Requirements in Spine Surgery for Pediatric Cancer Patients |
| NCT00100802 | PHASE2 | COMPLETED | Radiation Therapy, Temozolomide, and Lomustine in Treating Young Patients With Newly Diagnosed Gliomas |
| NCT00185666 | PHASE1/PHASE2 | COMPLETED | Cyberknife Precision Radiation Delivery System for Tumors of the Spine |
| NCT05179824 | Not specified | ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING | Tempus Priority Study: A Pan-tumor Observational Study |
| NCT06042946 | Not specified | RECRUITING | Microsurgical Resection of Intramedullary Spinal Cord Metastases |
| NCT07056023 | Not specified | RECRUITING | Multicenter Trial on Surgical Outcome and Quality of Life in Juxta-medullary Tumors |
| NCT07066475 | Not specified | RECRUITING | A Registry-Based Cohort Study on the Clinical Outcomes of Spinal Cord Glioma Resection Via the Dorsolateral Sulcus Approach |
| NCT07225491 | Not specified | RECRUITING | Spine Oncology Registry |
| NCT07488702 | Not specified | ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING | Intradurale Spinal Tumors: Management and Treatment |
| NCT00974623 | Not specified | TERMINATED | Bone Graft Materials Observational Registry |
| NCT02494622 | Not specified | COMPLETED | Alternative Treatment of Giant Spinal Schwannomas |
| NCT02603874 | Not specified | UNKNOWN | The Development of a Vertebra Localizing Aid Medical Device |
| NCT02851706 | Not specified | COMPLETED | Natural History of and Specimen Banking for People With Tumors of the Central Nervous System |
| NCT03050203 | Not specified | COMPLETED | Custom Pack in Spine Surgery |
| NCT03593330 | Not specified | TERMINATED | Neurosurgical Transitional Care Programme |
| NCT04219969 | Not specified | COMPLETED | FDG PET-MRI for the Diagnosis of Spinal Cord Lesions |
| NCT04227717 | Not specified | COMPLETED | Studying a New Piece of Equipment That Can Help Plan Radiation Therapy of the Spine |
| NCT04533919 | Not specified | WITHDRAWN | Validation of Pre-clinical Nano-Based Analgesics in Cells From Human Dorsal Root Ganglia |
| NCT04957056 | Not specified | UNKNOWN | Finite Element Study of Biomechanical Changes After Unilateral Hemilamina and Facet Joint Resection of Cervical Spine |
Drugs tested across these trials (top 30)
| Molecule | Max phase | Trials referencing |
|---|---|---|
| ESKETAMINE | 4 | 1 |
| LOMUSTINE | 4 | 1 |
| PREGABALIN | 4 | 1 |
Related Atlas pages
- Drugs: Esketamine, Lomustine, Pregabalin