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LymphomaNCT00072488

Whole-Body MRI and Conventional Imaging in Detecting Distant Metastases in Young Patients With Solid Tumors or Lymphoma

A study testing computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography in people with Lymphoma and Neuroblastoma, run by American College of Radiology Imaging Network at 21 sites in 2 countries.

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Trial summary

RATIONALE: New imaging procedures, such as whole-body MRI, may improve the ability to detect metastatic cancer and determine the extent of disease. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying whole-body MRI to see how well it works compared to standard imaging procedures in detecting distant metastases in patients with… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages Up to 21 years
Conditions the study is for
Lymphoma, Neuroblastoma, Sarcoma
What is being tested?
computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography
Type of treatment
Surgery or procedure
How many people
226 participants
Where
21 sitesin 2 countries
Study dates
Oct 2004to Dec 2005
Phase
Interventional
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 21 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Confirmed diagnosis OR newly diagnosed mass strongly suspected to represent 1 of the following:
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma
  • Ewing's sarcoma family of tumors
  • Neuroblastoma
  • Hodgkin's lymphoma
  • Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
  • All imaging examinations (e.g., CT scan, MRI, or scintigraphy) must be performed within 14 days of each other and within 2 months of any diagnostic or operative procedure
  • Whole body MRI and positron emission tomography (PET) scanning (if PET scan is being done) must be done before treatment
  • Prior CT scan, conventional MRI, bone scintigraphy, gallium scintigraphy, or meta-iodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) scintigraphy performed at outside institutions allowed provided the same technical standards specified in this study were practiced
  • Bone scintigraphy required for patients with neuroblastoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, or other sarcomas
  • Gallium scintigraphy not required in lymphoma patients if PET scan is performed
  • No CNS primary tumor

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

  • 21 and under

Performance status

  • Not specified

Life expectancy

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic

  • Not specified

Hepatic

  • Not specified

Renal

  • Not specified

Cardiovascular

  • No active cardiac pacemakers

Other

  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • No prior malignancy
  • No uncontrolled diabetes mellitus (for patients undergoing optional PET)
  • Patients with controlled diabetes mellitus must have a fasting blood glucose no greater than 200 mg/dL
  • No contraindications to MRI or CT scan (e.g., intracranial vascular clips)

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

  • Not specified

Chemotherapy

  • Not specified

Endocrine therapy

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy

  • Not specified

Surgery

  • Prior biopsy or surgery allowed provided no more than 2 months has passed since the procedure

Trial locations and contacts

21 sites in 2 countries.

21 sites in 2 countries

United States17 sites
  • AFLAC Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - Egleston Campus

    Atlanta, Georgia, 30322

  • Children's Hospital Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders

    Aurora, Colorado, 80045

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    Boston, Massachusetts, 02114

  • Hollings Cancer Center at Medical University of South Carolina

    Charleston, South Carolina, 29425

  • Children's Memorial Hospital - Chicago

    Chicago, Illinois, 60614

  • Riley's Children Cancer Center at Riley Hospital for Children

    Indianapolis, Indiana, 46202-5225

  • Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Iowa

    Iowa City, Iowa, 52242-1002

  • Nemours Children's Clinic

    Jacksonville, Florida, 32207-8482

  • St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

    Memphis, Tennessee, 38105

  • University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center - Miami

    Miami, Florida, 33136

  • Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

    Nashville, Tennessee, 37232-6838

  • Cancer Institute of New Jersey at UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

    New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08903

  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

    New York, New York, 10065

  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104

  • Hasbro Children's Hospital

    Providence, Rhode Island, 02903

  • UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

    San Francisco, California, 94115

  • Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University Medical Center

    St Louis, Missouri, 63110

Other trials in United States

Canada4 sites
  • IWK Health Centre

    Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3K 6R8

  • McMaster Children's Hospital at Hamilton Health Sciences

    Hamilton, Ontario, L8N 3Z5

  • Hospital for Sick Children

    Toronto, Ontario, M5G 1X8

  • Children's & Women's Hospital of British Columbia

    Vancouver, British Columbia, V6H 3V4

Other trials in Canada

About this study

Official title: Whole-Body MRI in the Evaluation of Pediatric Malignancies

RATIONALE: New imaging procedures, such as whole-body MRI, may improve the ability to detect metastatic cancer and determine the extent of disease.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying whole-body MRI to see how well it works compared to standard imaging procedures in detecting distant metastases in patients with solid tumors or lymphoma.

Read the detailed description

OBJECTIVES:

Primary

  • Compare non-inferior diagnostic performance of whole-body MRI (i.e., combination of turbo short-tau inversion-recovery (STIR) and out-of-phase imaging) vs conventional imaging (i.e., the combination of chest CT scan, scintigraphy [bone, gallium, meta-iodobenzylguanidine (MIBG), or optional fludeoxyglucose F 18 positron emission tomography (FDG-PET)] and abdominal/pelvic CT scan/MRI as indicated) for detecting distant metastases for use in staging common tumors in pediatric patients.

Secondary

  • Determine the incremental benefit of adding out-of-phase T1-weighted gradient-recalled echo imaging to turbo STIR for detecting distant disease in these patients.
  • Determine, preliminarily, the relative accuracies of FDG-PET, whole-body MRI, and a combination of FDG-PET and whole-body MRI in detecting stage IV disease in these patients.
  • Determine the effects of multiple factors, including cancer type, site of primary tumor, and patient age, on diagnostic accuracy of whole-body MRI in these patients.
  • Determine the interobserver variability associated with interpreting whole-body MRI exams for detecting distant metastases in these patients.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.

Patients undergo conventional MRI, CT scan, and/or scintigraphy (e.g., bone, meta-iodobenzylguanidine [MIBG], or gallium) and experimental whole-body MRI sequences. Patients may optionally undergo fludeoxyglucose F18 positron emission tomography (FDG-PET).

Patients with a lesion (or lesions) detected on whole-body MRI or FDG-PET at initial staging that are not confirmed by biopsy or other conventional imaging studies at staging repeat standard imaging at 3- to 6-month follow-up.

Patients with an abnormality that is considered highly suspicious for a metastasis or when biopsy proof of that metastasis is obtained receive treatment at the discretion of the treating physician.

Patients are followed annually for 3 years.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 226 patients (45 with neuroblastoma, 54 with rhabdomyosarcoma, 27 with other sarcoma, and 100 with lymphoma) will be accrued for this study within 1 year.

Being tested
computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography
Keywords
disseminated neuroblastoma, localized resectable neuroblastoma, localized unresectable neuroblastoma, regional neuroblastoma, stage 4S neuroblastoma, previously untreated childhood rhabdomyosarcoma, stage I childhood Hodgkin lymphoma, stage I childhood large cell lymphoma, stage I childhood lymphoblastic lymphoma, stage I childhood small noncleaved cell lymphoma, stage II childhood Hodgkin lymphoma, stage II childhood large cell lymphoma, stage II childhood lymphoblastic lymphoma, stage II childhood small noncleaved cell lymphoma, stage III childhood Hodgkin lymphoma, stage III childhood large cell lymphoma, stage III childhood lymphoblastic lymphoma, stage III childhood small noncleaved cell lymphoma, stage IV childhood Hodgkin lymphoma, stage IV childhood large cell lymphoma
Medical subject headings
Lymphoma, Neuroblastoma, Sarcoma, Dendritic Cell Sarcoma, Interdigitating, Burkitt Lymphoma, Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive, Peripheral

What participants receive

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

Timeline

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

  1. First posted6 Nov 2003 (estimated)
  2. Study startOct 2004
  3. Primary completionDec 2005 (estimated)

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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 N/A
Primary purpose
Diagnosis
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
226 participants (estimated)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT00072488
Sponsor's protocol ID
CDR0000339811
Other IDs
ACRIN-6660
Status last verified
Oct 2007
First submitted
4 Nov 2003
Last updated
8 Jun 2010
Results posted
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography in people with Lymphoma and Neuroblastoma, run by American College of Radiology Imaging Network at 21 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: status not confirmed, as of the sponsor's last update on 8 Jun 2010. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 21 sites in United States, Canada. 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.

Are results available for this study?

Results are not available in the source record.

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.

Where can I read the original study information?
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 8 Jun 2010.

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