Your child’s treatment may be one of the following:

1. For patients without symptoms or progression, observation without treatment.
2. Surgery.
3. Radiation therapy.
4. Chemotherapy.
5. Clinical trials evaluating chemotherapy to shrink the tumor and delay radiation therapy.

Check for U.S. clinical trials from NCI's PDQ Cancer Clinical Trials Registry that are now accepting patients with untreated childhood visual pathway glioma.

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