Colony-Stimulating Factors in Treating Children With Recurrent or Refractory Solid Tumors
Cancer

About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for Cancer focused on measuring recurrent childhood rhabdomyosarcoma, recurrent renal cell cancer, recurrent neuroblastoma, recurrent childhood liver cancer, recurrent Wilms tumor and other childhood kidney tumors, recurrent retinoblastoma, childhood central nervous system germ cell tumor, recurrent osteosarcoma, recurrent gestational trophoblastic tumor, recurrent malignant testicular germ cell tumor, recurrent intraocular melanoma, recurrent melanoma, unspecified childhood solid tumor, protocol specific, childhood germ cell tumor, recurrent childhood soft tissue sarcoma, recurrent ovarian germ cell tumor, extragonadal germ cell tumor, recurrent uterine sarcoma, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, recurrent childhood brain stem glioma, recurrent childhood supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor, recurrent childhood visual pathway glioma, recurrent childhood cerebellar astrocytoma, recurrent childhood cerebral astrocytoma, recurrent childhood medulloblastoma, recurrent Ewing sarcoma/peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor
Eligibility Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven (except for brain stem tumors) malignancy that has failed or relapsed after standard first-line antineoplastic therapy Sarcoma (soft tissue and bone) Kidney tumors Brain tumors Other solid tumors (gonadal and germ cell tumors, malignant melanoma, retinoblastoma, liver tumors, and miscellaneous tumors) Must have had recurrence within the past 4 weeks No bone marrow involvement No prior or concurrent myelogenous leukemia PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 1 to 21 Performance status: Lansky or Karnofsky 60-100% Life expectancy: At least 12 weeks Hematopoietic: Absolute neutrophil count greater than 1000/mm3 Platelet count greater than 100,000/mm3 No grade III or IV thrombosis Hepatic: Bilirubin less than 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) SGOT or SGPT less than 2.5 times ULN Renal: Creatinine clearance or glomerular filtration rate at least 70 mL/min Cardiovascular: Ejection fraction normal No evidence of arrhythmias requiring therapy Fractional shortening greater than 28% Other: Not pregnant or nursing PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: At least 10 days since prior colony-stimulating factor therapy and recovered At least 30 days since prior epoetin alfa No other concurrent cytokines, including epoetin alfa Chemotherapy: At least 3 weeks since prior chemotherapy (6 weeks for nitrosoureas) and recovered At least 3 months since therapy with etoposide, carboplatin, or ifosfamide that is identical to study treatment Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: Concurrent radiotherapy allowed after third course of therapy No prior cranial/spinal radiotherapy No prior radiotherapy to greater than 50% of bone marrow Surgery: Concurrent surgery allowed after the second course of therapy Other: No concurrent investigational agents No concurrent lithium, aspirin, coumadin, or heparin
Sites / Locations
- Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA
- Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope
- Children's Hospital of Orange County
- UCSF Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute
- Children's National Medical Center
- Indiana University Cancer Center
- University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of Minnesota Cancer Center
- Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
- Children's Mercy Hospital - Kansas City
- Kaplan Cancer Center
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Children's Hospital Medical Center - Cincinnati
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
- Vanderbilt Cancer Center
- University of Texas - MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Huntsman Cancer Institute
- Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center - Seattle
- University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Experimental
Cohort 1
Cohort 2
Chemotherapy days 0-4, G-CSF (5 μg/kg/d) as a daily subcutaneous injection beginning on Day 5. All patients receive recombinant human thrombopoietin (rhTPO). rhTPO began on the last day of ICE (Ifosfamide, Carboplatin and Etoposide) chemotherapy (Day 4) and subsequent doses will be administered on Days 6, 8, 10 and 12 (5 doses total). The initial dose of rhTPO was 1.2 μg/kg/dose and was subsequently escalated to 2.4 and 3.6 μg/kg/dose as tolerated. Therapy will continue for maximum six courses. Pharmacokinetic data will be obtained (during course one only).
Chemotherapy days 0-4, G-CSF (5 μg/kg/d) as a daily subcutaneous injection beginning on Day 5. All patients receive recombinant human thrombopoietin (rhTPO). The dose of rhTPO 1.2 μg/kg/dose and subsequently escalated to 2.4 and 3.6 μg/kg/dose as tolerated. Patients assigned to Cohort II will receive pre-chemotherapy rhTPO at 3.6 μg/kg/dose on Days -5, -3, -1, and post-chemotherapy rhTPO on Days +4, +6, and +8 (6 doses total. Subsequent courses of chemotherapy will begin as soon as the ANC recovers to ≥ 1,000/μL and the platelet count to ≥ 100,000/μL between days 21 and 35. Therapy will continue for maximum six courses. Pharmacokinetic data will be obtained (during course one nly). For the second cohort, full data collection will occur for cycles one and two and limited data collection for cycles 3, 4, 5, and 6.