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.