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NeuroblastomaPhase 1NCT00070200

Induction Chemotherapy Using Cyclophosphamide and Topotecan in Treating Patients Who Are Undergoing Autologous Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation for Newly Diagnosed or Progressive Neuroblastoma

A Phase 1 study testing filgrastim, cisplatin and cyclophosphamide in people with Neuroblastoma, run by Children's Oncology Group at 6 sites in 2 countries.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as topotecan and cyclophosphamide, use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining chemotherapy with autologous stem cell transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more tumor cells. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages Up to 30 years
Conditions the study is for
Neuroblastoma
What is being tested?
filgrastim, cisplatin and cyclophosphamide
Type of treatment
Surgery or procedure
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
31 participants
Where
6 sitesin 2 countries
Study dates
Mar 2004to Dec 2013
Phase
Phase 1
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages Up to 30 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically or cytologically confirmed neuroblastoma or ganglioneuroblastoma meeting 1 of the following staging criteria:
  • Newly diagnosed disease, at least 1 year of age, and meets criteria for 1 of the following:
  • International Neuroblastoma Staging System (INSS) stage 2a/2b with MYCN amplification (greater than 10) AND unfavorable pathology
  • INSS stage 3 with MYCN amplification OR unfavorable pathology
  • Newly diagnosed INSS stage 4 disease meeting criteria for 1 of the following:
  • Over 18 months of age
  • Age 12 to 18 months with any unfavorable biologic feature (MYCN amplification, unfavorable pathology, and/or DNA index=1) or any biologic feature that is indeterminant, unsatisfactory, or unknown
  • No INSS stage 4 disease and age 12 to 18 months with all 3 favorable biologic features (i.e., nonamplified MYCN, favorable pathology, and DNA index greater than 1)
  • Newly diagnosed INSS stage 3, 4, or 4S disease AND under 1 year of age with MYCN amplification
  • At least 1 year of age and initially diagnosed with INSS stage 1, 2, or 4S disease that progressed to stage 4 without interval chemotherapy
  • Must have been enrolled on COG-ANBL00B1 at initial diagnosis

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

  • 30 and under at initial diagnosis

Performance status

  • Not specified

Life expectancy

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic

  • Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,000/mm^3*
  • Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3* (transfusion independent)
  • Hemoglobin at least 10.0 g/dL* (red blood cell transfusions allowed) NOTE: *Granulocytopenia, anemia, and/or thrombocytopenia allowed for patients with tumor metastatic to the bone marrow

Hepatic

  • Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 mg/dL
  • ALT less than 300 IU/L

Renal

  • Creatinine no greater than 1.5 mg/dL
  • Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate at least 60 mL/min

Cardiovascular

  • ECG normal
  • Shortening fraction at least 27% by echocardiogram OR
  • Ejection fraction at least 50% by MUGA

Other

  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception
  • HIV negative

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

  • Not specified

Chemotherapy

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • No more than 1 prior chemotherapy course on the low- or intermediate-risk neuroblastoma studies (COG-P9641, COG-A3961) prior to determination of MYCN amplification and Shimada histology

Endocrine therapy

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy

  • Prior localized emergency radiotherapy to sites of life-threatening or function-threatening disease allowed

Surgery

  • Not specified

Other

  • No other prior systemic therapy

Trial locations and contacts

6 sites in 2 countries.

6 sites in 2 countries

United States5 sites
  • Children's Memorial Hospital - Chicago

    Chicago, Illinois, 60614

  • St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

    Memphis, Tennessee, 38105

  • UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center

    San Francisco, California, 94143-0106

  • Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center - Seattle

    Seattle, Washington, 98105

  • Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Center - Tacoma

    Tacoma, Washington, 98405

Other trials in United States

Australia1 site
  • Westmead Hospital

    Westmead, New South Wales, 2145

Other trials in Australia

About this study

Official title: A Pilot Induction Regimen Incorporating Topotecan for Treatment of Newly Diagnosed High Risk Neuroblastoma

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as topotecan and cyclophosphamide, use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining chemotherapy with autologous stem cell transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects of induction chemotherapy using cyclophosphamide and topotecan in treating patients who are undergoing surgery and autologous stem cell transplantation followed by radiation therapy for newly diagnosed or progressive neuroblastoma.

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OBJECTIVES:

Primary

  • Determine the toxicity and feasibility of adding cyclophosphamide and topotecan to induction therapy in patients with newly diagnosed or progressive high-risk neuroblastoma undergoing autologous peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) transplantation.
  • Determine the feasibility of PBSC mobilization and in vivo PBSC tumor purging in these patients after treatment with this regimen.

Secondary

  • Determine tumor response rate in patients treated with this regimen.
  • Determine the pharmacokinetics of this regimen in these patients.
  • Determine whether topotecan affects cyclophosphamide pharmacokinetics in these patients.
  • Correlate host DNA with toxicity and cyclophosphamide and topotecan pharmacokinetics in patients treated with this regimen.
  • Determine toxicity in patients treated with this regimen.

OUTLINE: This is a pilot, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to diagnosis (newly diagnosed vs initially stage 1, 2, or 4S that progressed to stage 4 without interval chemotherapy).

  • Induction therapy: Patients receive 6 courses of induction therapy.
  • Courses 1 and 2: Patients receive cyclophosphamide IV over 30 minutes and topotecan IV over 30 minutes on days 1-5 and filgrastim (G-CSF) subcutaneously (SC) or IV beginning on day 6 and continuing until blood counts recover.
  • Course 3: Patients receive etoposide IV over 2 hours on days 1-3, cisplatin IV over 1 hour on days 1-4, and G-CSF SC or IV beginning on day 5 and continuing until blood counts recover.
  • Course 4: Patients receive cyclophosphamide IV over 6 hours on day 1 and doxorubicin IV and vincristine IV continuously over 24 hours on days 1-3. Patients also receive G-CSF SC or IV beginning on day 4 and continuing until blood counts recover.
  • Course 5: Patients receive etoposide, cisplatin, and G-CSF as in course 3.
  • Course 6: Patients receive cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and G-CSF as in course 4.

Treatment repeats every 21 days for a total of 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

  • Consolidation therapy: Within 4-6 weeks after completing induction therapy, patients receive melphalan IV on days -7 to -5 and etoposide IV and carboplatin IV continuously over 24 hours on days -7 to -4.
  • Stem cell transplantation: Peripheral blood stem cells are collected after course 2 of induction therapy and infused on day 0. Patients receive G-CSF IV beginning on day 0 and continuing until blood counts recover.
  • Surgery: After course 5 of induction therapy, patients undergo surgery.
  • Radiotherapy: Beginning 28-42 days after transplantation, patients receive 12 fractions of local radiotherapy to all areas of residual soft tissue disease and the primary tumor site, even if completely resected.
  • Maintenance therapy: Beginning 66 days after transplantation, patients receive oral isotretinoin twice daily on days 1-14. Treatment repeats every 28 days for a total of 6 courses.

Patients are followed every 3 months for 1 year, every 6 months for 4 years, and then annually thereafter.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 10-29 patients will be accrued for this study within 2 years.

Conditions
Neuroblastoma
Keywords
recurrent neuroblastoma, stage 4S neuroblastoma, localized unresectable neuroblastoma, localized resectable neuroblastoma, regional neuroblastoma, disseminated neuroblastoma
Medical subject headings
Neuroblastoma

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

Study groups in NCT00070200
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
All patientsExperimentalInduction Cycles 1 and 2 (CT) (21 days each), Cyclophosphamide (Days 1 thru 5) weight based dosage (> 12 kg 400 mg/m2/day, < 12 kg 13.3 mg/kg/day, < 2 years old N/A. Topotecan (Days 1 thru 5) weight based dosage (> 12 kg 1.2 mg/m2/day, < 12 kg 0.04 mg/kg/day, < 2 years old 0.04 mg/kg/day). Filgrastim (Days 6 →) weight based dosage (> 12 kg 5 micrograms/kg, < 12 kg 5 micrograms /kg, < 2 years old 5 micrograms /kg.
Receives: Biological: filgrastim; Drug: cisplatin; Drug: cyclophosphamide; Drug: doxorubicin hydrochloride; Drug: etoposide; Drug: isotretinoin; Drug: melphalan; Drug: topotecan hydrochloride; Drug: vincristine sulfate; Procedure: conventional surgery; Procedure: peripheral blood stem cell transplantation; Radiation: radiation therapy

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Proportion of patients who are classified as a "success"

    Given that the documented delivered dose intensity of chemotherapy in current induction regimens is 75-85% of the intended dose intensity,5,78 we shall consider an individual patient as a "success" in terms of feasibility if the patient is able to receive 75% or more of the intended chemotherapy doses of known active agents.

    Measured: Length of study

Secondary outcomes (5)
  1. Number of toxic deaths

    Measured: Length of study

  2. Proportion of patients with dose limiting toxicities during induction cycle 1 and 2

    Dose limiting toxicities during induction cycle 1 and 2 will be used to modify the topotecan dosage if necessary and to address Primary Aim 1 in a descriptive fashion.

    Measured: Length of study

  3. Tumor contamination of PBSCs

    Tumor contamination of PBSCs as measured by immunohistochemical analysis following cycle 2 induction;

    Measured: Length of study

  4. Inability to adequately mobilize PBSCs

    Inability to adequately mobilize PBSCs, defined as a harvest of < 1.5 x 10 6 CD 34 cells/kg. A patient will be designated a PBSCs "failure" if either a) or b) is the case.

    Measured: Length of study

  5. Assessment of response

    After completion of induction therapy. Response will be determined using the International Response Criteria defined elsewhere in the protocol. The tumor response rate will be defined as the proportion of patients who achieve a CR, VGPR, or PR after completion of induction therapy.

    Measured: Length of study

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted7 Oct 2003 (estimated)
  2. Study startMar 2004
  3. Primary completionSep 2006
  4. Study completionDec 2013

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
31 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT00070200
Sponsor's protocol ID
ANBL02P1
Other IDs
CDR0000330140, COG-ANBL02P1
Status last verified
Feb 2014
First submitted
3 Oct 2003
Last updated
13 Feb 2014
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Publications

  • Park JR, Scott JR, Stewart CF, London WB, Naranjo A, Santana VM, Shaw PJ, Cohn SL, Matthay KK. Pilot induction regimen incorporating pharmacokinetically guided topotecan for treatment of newly diagnosed high-risk neuroblastoma: a Children's Oncology Group study. J Clin Oncol. 2011 Nov 20;29(33):4351-7. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2010.34.3293. Epub 2011 Oct 17.

    PubMed 22010014

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1 study testing filgrastim, cisplatin and cyclophosphamide in people with Neuroblastoma, run by Children's Oncology Group at 6 sites in 2 countries.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 13 Feb 2014. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 6 sites in United States, Australia. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 1 studies test a treatment in a small group of people for the first time or in a new way, mainly to check safety and find the right dose.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Proportion of patients who are classified as a "success" (time frame: Length of study). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT00070200, which also lists 1 linked publication.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 13 Feb 2014.

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