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Molecular-Guided Therapy for Childhood Cancer

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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02162732
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : June 13, 2014
Last Update Posted : January 25, 2023
Sponsor:
Collaborators:
Translational Genomics Research Institute
Dell, Inc.
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Wake Forest University Health Sciences

Study Description
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Brief Summary:
The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility (ability to be done) of experimental technologies to determine a tumor's molecular makeup. This technology includes a genomic report based on DNA exomes and RNA sequencing that will be used to discover new ways to understand cancers and potentially predict the best treatments for patients with cancer in the future.

Condition or disease Intervention/treatment Phase
Neuroblastoma Medulloblastoma Glioma Ependymoma Choroid Plexus Neoplasms Craniopharyngioma Dysembryoplastic Neuroepithelial Tumor Meningioma Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors (PNETs) Germ Cell Tumors Rhabdomyosarcoma Non-rhabdomyosarcoma Ewings Sarcoma Osteosarcoma Wilms Tumor Renal Cell Carcinoma Malignant Rhabdoid Tumor Clear Cell Sarcoma Liver Tumors Device: Guided Therapy Not Applicable

Study Design
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Study Type : Interventional  (Clinical Trial)
Actual Enrollment : 184 participants
Allocation: N/A
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: Molecular-guided Therapy for the Treatment of Patients With Relapsed and Refractory Childhood Cancers
Actual Study Start Date : June 2014
Estimated Primary Completion Date : June 2025
Estimated Study Completion Date : June 2026

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Arms and Interventions
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Arm Intervention/treatment
Experimental: Guided Therapy
A total of 200 neuroblastoma, brain tumor, and rare tumor patients will be treated. Guided therapy will allow the use of any therapeutic combination (up to 4 agents) provided it includes medications contained in the study report. All patients will be followed for survival, disease response, progression and safety. All patients will be treated according to the discretion of the treating oncologist and study committee (minimum 3 oncologists and one pharmacist). Extent of disease will be measured and assessed for changes throughout the course of the study and at 6-8 week intervals (every 2 cycles).
 Device: Guided Therapy
A total of 200 neuroblastoma, brain tumor, and rare tumor patients will be treated. Guided therapy will allow the use of any therapeutic combination (up to 4 agents) provided it includes medications contained in the study report. All patients will be followed for survival, disease response, progression and safety. All patients will be treated according to the discretion of the treating oncologist and study committee (minimum 3 oncologists and one pharmacist). Extent of disease will be measured and assessed for changes throughout the course of the study and at 6-8 week intervals (every 2 cycles).


Outcome Measures
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Primary Outcome Measures :
  1. Days to treatment will be used in order to determine feasibility of using tumor samples to assess genomic sequencing using predictive modeling to make real-time treatment decisions for children with relapsed/refractory cancers. [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
    The definition of feasibility is: Enrollment onto study, genomic profile, analysis and report generation completed, tumor board held with treatment decision, treatment review completed, start of treatment, and completion of 1 cycle of therapy.


Secondary Outcome Measures :
  1. Number of Participants with Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
    To determine the safety of allowing a molecular tumor board to determine individualized treatment plans

  2. Overall Response Rate (ORR) of Participants by the presence of radiologically assessable disease by cross-sectional CT or MRI imaging and/or by MIBG or PET scans. [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
    To determine the activity of treatments chosen based on Overall response rate (ORR) using RESIST criteria. The assessment of response will include the initial measurable targets and will be performed after cycle 2, then after every other cycle.

  3. Duration of response will be objectively documented [ Time Frame: 5 years ]
    Duration of response, defined as the period of time from when measurement criteria are met for complete response (CR) or partial response (PR), whichever is first recorded, until the first date that recurrent or progressive disease (PD) is objectively documented (taking as reference for PD the smallest measurements recorded since the treatment started)

  4. Biology studies to include: genomic analysis of cells pre- and post- treatment, correlation of in vitro response to in vivo response, sub analysis examination of disease types, and biomarker development. [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
    To explore the relationship between tumor phenotype and response by permitting use of tumor tissue in a correlative biologic study

  5. Progression Free Survival (PFS) interval will be measured by days and compared to the PFS of previous chemotherapy regimens since relapse for each patient. [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
    Time to progression (PFS), defined as the period from the start of the treatment until the criteria for progression are met taking as reference the screening measurements


Eligibility Criteria
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Ages Eligible for Study:   13 Months to 21 Years   (Child, Adult)
Sexes Eligible for Study:   All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Subjects must have proven pediatric cancer with confirmation at diagnosis or at the time of recurrence/progression and clinical determination of disease for which there is no known effective curative therapy or disease that is refractory to established proven therapies fitting into one of the following categories:

    • Neuroblastoma- Patients that have relapsed following standard of care therapy (such as high risk patients, patient presenting after age 15 months or MYCN amplified, and only following (for eligible patients) high-dose chemotherapy followed by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and maintenance therapy with retinoic acid and antibody therapy) or having progressed during standard of care therapy and non-responsive/progressive to accepted curative chemotherapy.
    • Brain Tumors
    • Medulloblastomas (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation] and/or non-responsive/progressive on accepted curative therapy)
    • Gliomas (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery and/or radiation and/or chemotherapy] and/or non-responsive/progressive on accepted curative therapy)
    • Ependymomas (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery with or without radiation] and/or non-responsive/progressive on accepted curative therapy)
    • Choroid plexus tumors (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery] and/or non-responsive/progressive on accepted curative therapy)
    • Craniopharyngiomas (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery or suppressive therapy] and/or non-responsive/progressive on accepted curative therapy)
    • Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors (DNETs) (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery] and/or non-responsive/progressive on accepted curative therapy)
    • Meningiomas (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery] and/or non-responsive/progressive on accepted curative therapy)
    • Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors (PNETs) (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, chemotherapy, and/or radiation] and/or non-responsive/progressive on accepted curative therapy)
    • Germ cell tumors (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, and/or radiation and/or chemotherapy] and/or non-responsive/progressive on accepted curative therapy)
    • Rare Tumors:
    • Soft tissue sarcoma Rhabdomyosarcoma (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, and/or radiation, chemotherapy] and/or non-responsive/progressive to accepted curative chemotherapy) Non-rhabdomyosarcoma (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, and/or radiation, chemotherapy] and/or non-responsive/progressive to accepted curative chemotherapy)
    • Bone Ewings sarcoma (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, and/or radiation, chemotherapy] and/or non- responsive/progressive to accepted curative chemotherapy) Osteosarcoma (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, chemotherapy] and/or non- responsive/progressive to accepted curative chemotherapy)
    • Renal Wilms tumor (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, and/or radiation, chemotherapy] and/or non- responsive/progressive to accepted chemotherapy) Renal cell carcinoma (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, chemotherapy] and/or non- responsive/progressive to accepted curative chemotherapy) Malignant rhabdoid tumor (At diagnosis, as there is no known curative therapy) Clear Cell Sarcoma- (At relapse after standard of care therapy [radiation, chemotherapy] and/or non- responsive/progressive to accepted curative chemotherapy) Germ Cell tumors (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, chemotherapy] and/or non-responsive/progressive to accepted curative chemotherapy)
    • Liver Tumors (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, chemotherapy] and/or non- responsive/progressive to accepted curative chemotherapy)
  2. Subjects must be age >12 months at enrollment
  3. Subjects must be age ≤ 21 years at initial diagnosis
  4. Subjects must have measurable disease as demonstrated by residual abnormal tissue at a primary or metastatic site (measurable on CT or MRI) at the time of biopsy; tumor must be accessible for biopsy. In addition, subjects with bone or bone marrow only disease expected to be >75% tumor are eligible to enroll.
  5. Current disease state must be one for which there is currently no known effective therapy
  6. Specimens will be obtained only in a non-significant risk manner and not solely for the purpose of investigational testing.
  7. Lansky or Karnofsky Score must be ≥ 50
  8. Subjects without bone marrow metastases must have an ANC > 750/μl to begin treatment.
  9. Subjects with CNS disease must have been on a stable dose of steroids for 2 weeks prior to their biopsy and must not have progressive hydrocephalus at enrollment.

  10. Adequate liver function must be demonstrated, defined as:

    • Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) for age AND
    • ALT (SGPT) < 10 x upper limit of normal (ULN) for age
  11. A negative serum pregnancy test is required for female participants of child bearing potential (≥13 years of age or after onset of menses)
  12. Both male and female post-pubertal study subjects need to agree to use one of the more effective birth control methods during treatment and for six months after treatment is stopped. These methods include total abstinence (no sex), oral contraceptives ("the pill"), an intrauterine device (IUD), levonorgestrol implants (Norplant), or medroxyprogesterone acetate injections (Depo-provera shots). If one of these cannot be used, contraceptive foam with a condom is recommended.
  13. Informed Consent: All subjects and/or legal guardians must sign informed written consent. Assent, when appropriate, will be obtained according to institutional guidelines

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Subjects who have received any cytotoxic chemotherapy within the last 7 days prior to biopsy
  2. Subjects who have received any radiotherapy to the primary sample site within the last 14 days (radiation may be included in treatment decision after biopsy).
  3. Subjects receiving any investigational drug concurrently.
  4. Subjects with uncontrolled serious infections or a life-threatening illness (unrelated to tumor)
  5. Subjects with any other medical condition, including malabsorption syndromes, mental illness or substance abuse, deemed by the Investigator to be likely to interfere with the interpretation of the results or which would interfere with a subject's ability to sign or the legal guardian's ability to sign the informed consent, and subject's ability to cooperate and participate in the study
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02162732


Locations
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Sponsors and Collaborators
Wake Forest University Health Sciences
Translational Genomics Research Institute
Dell, Inc.
Investigators
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Study Chair: Giselle Sholler, MD Beat Childhood Cancer at Atrium Health
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Additional Information:

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Responsible Party: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02162732    
Other Study ID Numbers: NMTRC009
First Posted: June 13, 2014    Key Record Dates
Last Update Posted: January 25, 2023
Last Verified: January 2023
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
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Sarcoma
Neuroblastoma
Osteosarcoma
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Meningioma
Ependymoma
Sarcoma, Ewing
Medulloblastoma
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive
Wilms Tumor
Rhabdoid Tumor
Craniopharyngioma
Adamantinoma
Sarcoma, Clear Cell
 Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive, Peripheral
Neoplasms, Neuroepithelial
Choroid Plexus Neoplasms
Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Kidney Neoplasms
Urologic Neoplasms
Urogenital Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Female Urogenital Diseases
Female Urogenital Diseases and Pregnancy Complications
Urogenital Diseases
Kidney Diseases