Lenalidomide in Treating Young Patients With Recurrent, Progressive, or Refractory CNS Tumors

Completed · Phase 1

Conditions studied: Childhood Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor, Childhood Central Nervous System Germ Cell Tumor, Childhood Choroid Plexus Tumor, Childhood Craniopharyngioma, Childhood Ependymoblastoma, Childhood Grade I Meningioma, Childhood Grade II Meningioma, Childhood Grade III Meningioma, Childhood High-grade Cerebellar Astrocytoma, Childhood High-grade Cerebral Astrocytoma, Childhood Infratentorial Ependymoma, Childhood Low-grade Cerebellar Astrocytoma, Childhood Low-grade Cerebral Astrocytoma, Childhood Medulloepithelioma, Childhood Mixed Glioma, Childhood Oligodendroglioma, Childhood Supratentorial Ependymoma, Recurrent Childhood Brain Tumor, Recurrent Childhood Cerebellar Astrocytoma, Recurrent Childhood Cerebral Astrocytoma, Recurrent Childhood Ependymoma, Recurrent Childhood Medulloblastoma, Recurrent Childhood Pineoblastoma, Recurrent Childhood Subependymal Giant Cell Astrocytoma, Recurrent Childhood Supratentorial Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor, Recurrent Childhood Visual Pathway and Hypothalamic Glioma

In brief

This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of lenalidomide in treating young patients with recurrent, progressive, or refractory CNS tumors. Lenalidomide may stop the growth of CNS tumors by blocking blood flow to the tumor. It may also stimulate the immune system in different ways and stop tumor cells from growing.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT00100880
Run by: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
People needed: 45
Starts: 2004-11-01
Last updated by the study team: 2013-09-30

Who can join

Age: any, up to 21. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Patients with a histological diagnosis of a primary CNS tumor (including histologically benign brain tumors (e.g. low-grade glioma) that is recurrent, progressive, or refractory to standard therapy; patients with intrinsic brain stem or diffuse optic pathway tumors do not require histological confirmation of disease but should have clinical and/or radiographic evidence of progression
Karnofsky Performance Scale (KPS for >= 16 yrs of age) or Lansky Performance Score (LPS for ≤ 16 years of age) ≥ 60 assessed within two weeks prior to registration
Patient must be able to swallow capsules
Patients must have recovered from any significant acute toxicity associated with prior therapy; patients must have no known curative therapy available; patients will be eligible regardless of the number of prior therapies, as long as other eligibility criteria are met
Chemo: Prior use of thalidomide is acceptable; patients must have:
Received their last dose of known myelosuppressive anticancer chemotherapy or biological therapy at least three (3) weeks prior to study registration
Received their last dose of nitrosourea or mitomycin-C at least six (6) weeks prior to study registration
Received their last dose of other investigational agent or an anticancer drug known to not be myelosuppressive at least seven (7) days prior to study registration
XRT: Patients must have had their last fraction of craniospinal irradiation ≥ 3 months prior to registration and their last fraction of local irradiation to primary tumor ≥ 4 weeks prior to registration
Bone Marrow Transplant: ≥ 6 months since allogeneic bone marrow transplant and ≥ 3 months since autologous bone marrow/stem cell prior to registration
Growth factors: Off all colony forming growth factor(s) > 2 weeks prior to registration (filgrastim, sargramostim, erythropoietin)
The following laboratory values must be assessed within two (2) weeks prior to registration and again within seven (7) days prior to the start of therapy; laboratory tests should be repeated within 48 hours of beginning therapy if there has been a significant clinical change
Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1000/μl (unsupported)
Platelets ≥ 100,000/μl (unsupported)
Hemoglobin ≥ 8.0 g/dL (may be supported)
Serum creatinine within upper limit of institutional normal for age
Or GFR ≥ 70 ml/min/1.73m\^2
Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times upper limit of normal for age
SGPT (ALT) ≤ 2.5x institutional upper limit of normal for age
Albumin ≥ 2 g/dL
No overt renal, hepatic, cardiac or pulmonary disease
Female patients of childbearing potential must have negative serum or urine pregnancy test (sensitivity of at least 50mIU/ml); patients must not be pregnant or breast-feeding
All sexually active females must begin 2 methods of birth control, including 1 highly effective method, and 1 additional method (at the same time) at least 4 weeks prior to the first dose of CC-5013; this applies to all sexually active females of childbearing potential unless they have not had a menstrual period in 2 years or have undergone a hysterectomy
Patients of child fathering potential must agree to use latex condoms during intercourse with a woman while taking CC-5013 and for 4 weeks thereafter
Signed informed consent according to institutional guidelines must be obtained

You may not qualify if…

Patients with a body surface area (BSA) ≤ 0.4 m\^2 are excluded
Patients with a first-degree relative with a history of venous thrombosis before age 50 yrs or an arterial thrombosis before age 40 yrs are excluded
Patients who have had a thromboembolic event that is not line-related are excluded
Patients with any significant medical illnesses that, in the investigator's opinion, cannot be adequately controlled with appropriate therapy or would compromise a patient's ability to tolerate this therapy
Patients with any disease that would obscure toxicity or dangerously alter drug metabolism
Patients receiving any other chemotherapeutics or investigational agents
Patients with uncontrolled infection
Patients unable to swallow capsules
Patients with known hypersensitivity to anhydrous lactose, microcrystalline cellulose, croscarmellose sodium, and magnesium stearate

Where it is running

Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium — Memphis, Tennessee, United States

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