A Phase II Study of Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) in High Risk Abdominal Neuroblastoma

Stopped early · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Abdominal Neuroblastoma

In brief

High risk neuroblastoma (NB) is an aggressive, prevalent non-brain cancer derived from nerve cells of the body. It mostly affects infants, and more children die from this tumor each year than are cured. Standard therapy includes a combination of chemotherapy, surgery, bone marrow transplant, radiation and immunotherapy. NB is very sensitive to radiation, but due to it's aggressive spread pattern, radiation use is currently limited by toxicity. This study seeks to improve delivery of radiation to reduce toxicity by quantifying outcomes, and measuring differences in renal toxicity and organ motion so that radiation can be focused more effectively against tumor while sparing normal tissues and reducing side-effects.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01440283

Run by

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

People needed

14

Starts

2011-09-01

Expected to finish

2015-03-01

Last updated by the study team

2016-03-03

Who can join

Age: 1 and older, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Mucositis ≤ Grade 2
• Patient stable on room air
• Albumin > 3 g/dL without albumin infusions for 1 week
• Serum creatinine should be < 1.5 x normal for age
• Lansky score >60
• Risk Strata Eligibility: Patients between 6 months and 18 years of age with newly diagnosed abdominal primary, high-risk neuroblastoma defined as one of the following:
• International agreement on staging (INSS) stage 2a or 2b with N-myc (MYCN) amplification (greater than four-fold increase in (MYCN) signals as compared to reference signals), regardless of age or additional biologic features
• INSS stage 3 with either MYCN amplification (greater than four-fold increase in MYCN signals as compared to reference signals), regardless of age or additional biologic features, or for age > 18 months with unfavorable pathology, regardless of MYCN status
• INSS stage 4 with MYCN amplification (greater than four-fold increase in MYCN signals as compared to reference signals), regardless of age or additional biologic features, or for age >18 months with unfavorable pathology, regardless of MYCN status
• INSS stage 4S with MYCN amplification (greater than four-fold increase in MYCN signals as compared to reference signals), regardless of additional biologic features
• Exceptional Cases Still Considered Eligible:
• Prior palliative radiotherapy if not related to the primary site, however, children receiving definitive radiotherapy as a part of the pre-enrollment regimen are ineligible. Prior treatment regimen must follow the guidelines of an applicable high-risk neuroblastoma regimen. Slight variations from this timeframe are acceptable based on recovery of blood counts or other concerns left to the discretion of the treating radiation oncologist.
• Patients receiving surgical management elsewhere are still considered eligible to enroll on protocol therapy for assessment of the primary local control objective, renal motion and toxicity assessment. Target motion objectives may be excluded from the analysis of these patients.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients who have received prior definitive radiotherapy at or adjacent to the primary abdominal tumor bed.
• Patients who are unable to cooperate with acquisition of 4-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT), computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging- (MRI)-based imaging procedures.
• Patients with known brain metastases.
• Any evidence of severe or uncontrolled systemic disease (e.g., unstable or uncompensated respiratory, cardiac, hepatic, or renal disease).
• Pregnant women.
• Mediastinal primary tumors.
• Patients receiving surgery elsewhere, or at St. Jude within 3 months prior to study activation, are excluded from assessment of target and motion objectives. However they are still eligible to enroll for assessment of the primary objective, renal motion and toxicity.

Where it is running

• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital — Memphis, Tennessee, United States

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