Vorinostat With or Without Isotretinoin in Treating Young Patients With Recurrent or Refractory Solid Tumors, Lymphoma, or Leukemia
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00217412 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : September 22, 2005
Last Update Posted : June 17, 2014
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Childhood Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (M3) Childhood Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor Childhood Burkitt Lymphoma Childhood Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Childhood Diffuse Large Cell Lymphoma Childhood Immunoblastic Large Cell Lymphoma Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia Recurrent Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Recurrent Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia Recurrent Childhood Grade III Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis Recurrent Childhood Large Cell Lymphoma Recurrent Childhood Lymphoblastic Lymphoma Recurrent Childhood Medulloblastoma Recurrent Childhood Small Noncleaved Cell Lymphoma Recurrent Childhood Supratentorial Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor Recurrent Neuroblastoma Recurrent/Refractory Childhood Hodgkin Lymphoma Relapsing Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Unspecified Childhood Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific | Drug: vorinostat Drug: isotretinoin | Phase 1 |
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
I. Determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of vorinostat (SAHA) in young patients with recurrent or refractory solid tumors or lymphomas.
II. Determine the MTD of SAHA administered in combination with isotretinoin in young patients with recurrent or refractory neuroblastoma, medulloblastoma/CNS primitive neuroectodermal tumor, or atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor.
III. Determine the tolerability of the solid tumor MTD of SAHA in young patients with recurrent or refractory leukemia.
IV. Determine the toxic effects of SAHA administered with or without isotretinoin in these patients.
V. Determine the pharmacokinetics of this drug in these patients.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. Determine, preliminarily, the antitumor activity of SAHA administered with or without isotretinoin in these patients.
II. Correlate the pharmacokinetics of this drug with genetic polymorphisms (e.g., UGT1A1) in these patients.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter, dose-escalation study of vorinostat (SAHA).
Group 1 (solid tumor or lymphoma patients): Patients receive oral SAHA once daily on days 1-28. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 12 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses of SAHA until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which 2 of 3 or 2 of 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity. An additional 6 patients may be treated at the MTD.
Group 2 (leukemia patients): Patients receive SAHA as in group 1 at the MTD.
Group 3 (select solid tumor patients): Patients receive oral isotretinoin twice daily on days 1-14. Patients also receive SAHA once daily on days 1-28 OR once on days 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19, 22, 24, and 26. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 12 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.The MTD of SAHA is determined as in group 1. An additional 6 patients may be treated at the MTD.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed periodically.
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 60 participants |
Allocation: | Non-Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | A Phase 1 Study of SAHA (NSC# 701852) in Pediatric Patients With Recurrent or Refractory Solid Tumors (Including Lymphomas) and Leukemia Followed by a Phase I Study of SAHA in Combination With 13-Cis-Retinoic Acid for Patients With Selected Recurrent/Refractory Solid Tumors |
Study Start Date : | August 2005 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | September 2009 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | September 2009 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Arm I
Group 1 (solid tumor or lymphoma patients): Patients receive oral SAHA once daily on days 1-28. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 12 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses of SAHA until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which 2 of 3 or 2 of 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity. An additional 6 patients may be treated at the MTD.
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Drug: vorinostat
Given orally
Other Names:
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Experimental: Arm II
Group 2 (leukemia patients): Patients receive SAHA as in group 1 at the MTD.
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Drug: vorinostat
Given orally
Other Names:
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Experimental: Arm III
Group 3 (select solid tumor patients): Patients receive oral isotretinoin twice daily on days 1-14. Patients also receive SAHA once daily on days 1-28 OR once on days 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19, 22, 24, and 26. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 12 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.The MTD of SAHA is determined as in group 1. An additional 6 patients may be treated at the MTD.
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Drug: vorinostat
Given orally
Other Names:
Drug: isotretinoin Given orally
Other Names:
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- Maximum tolerated dose (MTD) defined as the maximum dose at which fewer than one-third of patients experience dose-limiting toxicities DLT graded according to Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 3.0 [ Time Frame: 28 days ]
- The proportion of patients who demonstrate each polymorphism [ Time Frame: Up to 4 years ]

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 1 Year to 21 Years (Child, Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
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Histologically confirmed* diagnosis of 1 of the following:
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Recurrent or refractory solid tumor or lymphoma (for patients in group 1)
- Measurable or evaluable disease
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Recurrent or refractory leukemia (for patients in group 2)
- Greater than 25% blasts in the bone marrow (i.e., M3 bone marrow)
- Active extramedullary disease allowed except leptomeningeal disease
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Recurrent or refractory CNS tumor of 1 of the following types (for patients in group 3):
- Neuroblastoma
- Medulloblastoma/CNS primitive neuroectodermal tumor
- Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor
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- No known curative therapy or therapy proven to prolong survival with an acceptable quality of life exists
- No bone marrow involvement by disease (for patients in groups 1 and 3)
- No active CNS leukemia
- Performance status - Lansky 50-100% (for patients ≤ 10 years of age)
- Performance status - Karnofsky 60-100% (for patients > 10 years of age)
- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,000/mm^3 (for solid tumor patients)
- Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm^3* (for solid tumor patients) (20,000/mm^3** for leukemia patients)
- Hemoglobin ≥ 8.0 g/dL (RBC transfusion allowed) (for solid tumor and leukemia patients)
- Triglycerides < 300 mg/dL (for patients in group 3)
- Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- ALT ≤ 5 times ULN
- Albumin ≥ 2 g/dL
- Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate ≥ 70 mL/min
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Creatinine based on age as follows:
- No greater than 0.8 mg/dL (for patients ≤ 5 years of age)
- No greater than 1.0 mg/dL (for patients 6 to 10 years of age)
- No greater than 1.2 mg/dL (for patients 11 to 15 years of age)
- No greater than 1.5 mg/dL (for patients over 15 years of age)
- Negative dipstick for protein OR < 1,000 mg protein/24 hour urine collection (for patients in group 3)
- No evidence of gross hematuria (for patients in group 3)
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- Body surface area ≥ 0.5 m^2
- Neurologic deficits in patients with CNS tumors must be stable for ≥ 1 week before study entry
- Able to swallow whole capsules
- No uncontrolled infection
- Skin toxicity < grade 1 (for patients in group 3)
- Recovered from prior immunotherapy
- At least 7 days since prior hematopoietic growth factors
- At least 7 days since prior antineoplastic biologic agents
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At least 2 months since prior stem cell transplantation or rescue
- No evidence of active graft-versus-host disease
- No other concurrent biologic therapy or immunotherapy
- More than 3 weeks since prior myelosuppressive chemotherapy (6 weeks for nitrosoureas) and recovered
- No concurrent chemotherapy
- Patients with CNS tumors must be on a stable or decreasing dose of dexamethasone for ≥ 7 days prior to study entry
- No concurrent dexamethasone for antinausea or antiemetic therapy
- Recovered from prior radiotherapy
- At least 2 weeks since prior local, palliative, small-port radiotherapy
- At least 3 months since prior total-body irradiation, radiotherapy to the craniospinal area, or radiotherapy to ≥ 50% of the pelvis
- At least 6 weeks since other prior substantial radiotherapy to the bone marrow
- No concurrent radiotherapy
- At least 2 weeks since prior valproic acid
- No other concurrent investigational agents
- No other concurrent anticancer therapy
- No concurrent enzyme-inducing anticonvulsants

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00217412
United States, Pennsylvania | |
Children's Oncology Group | |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104 |
Principal Investigator: | Maryam Fouladi | Children's Oncology Group |
Responsible Party: | National Cancer Institute (NCI) |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00217412 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
NCI-2012-01821 NCI-2012-01821 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) ) CDR0000440999 COG-ADVL0416 NCI-06-C-0254 ADVL0416 ( Other Identifier: Children's Oncology Group ) ADVL0416 ( Other Identifier: CTEP ) |
First Posted: | September 22, 2005 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | June 17, 2014 |
Last Verified: | April 2013 |
Burkitt Lymphoma Lymphoma Neoplasms Leukemia Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin Leukemia, Myeloid Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse Neuroblastoma Lymphoma, Large-Cell, Immunoblastic Plasmablastic Lymphoma Medulloblastoma Neuroectodermal Tumors Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive |
Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute Rhabdoid Tumor Leukemia, Myelomonocytic, Juvenile Recurrence Neoplasms by Histologic Type Lymphoproliferative Disorders Lymphatic Diseases Immunoproliferative Disorders Immune System Diseases Disease Attributes Pathologic Processes Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute Leukemia, Lymphoid Myeloproliferative Disorders |