Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy in Treating Young Patients With Newly Diagnosed, Previously Untreated, High-Risk Medulloblastoma/PNET
Anaplastic Medulloblastoma, Medulloblastoma
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Anaplastic Medulloblastoma
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
Newly diagnosed, previously untreated: (1) M0 medulloblastoma with > 1.5 cm^2 residual; (2) M+ medulloblastoma; patients with diffusely anaplastic medulloblastoma are eligible regardless of M-stage or residual tumor
- As of amendment # 2, enrollment of patients with supratentorial PNET has been discontinued
- All patients with M4 disease are not eligible
A pre-operative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan of the brain with and without contrast is required; NOTE: computed tomography (CT) scans are NOT sufficient for study eligibility
- Post-operative head MRI scan with and without contrast (preferably within 72 hours post-surgery); for patients who undergo stereotactic biopsy only, either a pre or post-operative MRI is sufficient; for patients with M2 and M3 disease, a post-op MRI is strongly encouraged, but not mandatory
- Spinal MRI imaging with and without gadolinium is required within 10 days of surgery if done pre-operatively or within 28 days of surgery if done post-operatively; for posterior fossa tumors, pre-operative MRI scans are preferred
- Lumbar cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cytology examination must be obtained pre-operatively or within 31 days following surgery; the optimal time for obtaining CSF is prior to surgery or 1-3 weeks following surgery; ventricular CSF (either pre- or post-op) may be used only if a post-operative spinal tap is contraindicated; if a spinal tap is contraindicated and there is no ventricular CSF available, then CSF cytology can be waived for patients with supratentorial tumors or if there is documentation of spinal subarachnoid metastases (M3); patients who are categorized as M1 must have either an intra-operative positive CSF (via lumbar puncture at the end of the procedure) or a positive lumbar CSF obtained > 7 days post-operatively
- Patients must have a Karnofsky performance level of >= 30 for patients > 16 years of age or a Lansky performance scale of >= 30 for patients =< 16 years of age and life expectancy > 8 weeks
- No previous chemotherapy or radiation therapy
- Corticosteroids should not be used during chemotherapy administration as an antiemetic
- Selected strong inhibitors of cytochrome P450, family 3, subfamily A, polypeptide 4 (cytochrome P450 3A4) include azole antifungals, such as fluconazole, voriconazole, itraconazole, ketoconazole, and strong inducers include drugs such as rifampin, phenytoin, phenobarbitol, carbamazepine, and St. John's wort; the use of these drugs should be avoided with vincristine (vincristine sulfate)
- CYP450 3A4 stimulators or inhibitors should be avoided or used with great caution when taking cyclophosphamide; aprepitant should also be used with caution with etoposide or vincristine chemotherapy
Cisplatin should be used with caution with nephrotoxic drug; aminoglycoside should be avoided or used with caution during or shortly after cisplatin administration and concomitant use with amphotericin B should probably also be avoided; patients receiving cisplatin and other potentially ototoxic drugs such as aminoglycoside or loop diuretics concomitantly should be closely monitored for signs of ototoxicity
- Plasma levels of anticonvulsant agents should be monitored and doses adjusted during therapy with cisplatin
- No other experimental therapy is permitted while on study
Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate (GFR) >= 70 mL/min/1.73 m^2 OR a serum creatinine based on age/gender as follows:
- 0.8 mg/dL (2 to < 6 years of age)
- 1.0 mg/dL (6 to < 10 years of age)
- 1.2 mg/dL (10 to < 13 years of age)
- 1.5 mg/dL (male) or 1.4 mg/dL (female) (13 to < 16 years of age)
- 1.7 mg/dL (male) or 1.4 mg/dL (female) (>= 16 years of age)
- Total bilirubin < 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) for age
- Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) (aspartate aminotransferase [AST]) or serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT) (alanine aminotransferase [ALT]) < 2.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) for age; for patients on anti-seizure medications, SGOT (AST) or SGPT (ALT) must be < 5 x ULN
- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1,000/uL
- Platelets >= 100,000/uL (untransfused)
- Hemoglobin >= 8 g/dl (may be transfused)
- Female patients who are post-menarchal must have a negative pregnancy test; lactating female patients must agree not to breast-feed while on this trial; males or females of reproductive potential may not participate unless they have agreed to use an effective contraceptive method
- All patients and/or their parents or legal guardians must sign a written informed consent
- All institutional, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and National Cancer Institute (NCI) requirements for human studies must be met
Sites / Locations
- Children's Hospital of Alabama
- University of Alabama at Birmingham Cancer Center
- Providence Alaska Medical Center
- Banner Children's at Desert
- Arkansas Children's Hospital
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Loma Linda University Medical Center
- Miller Children's and Women's Hospital Long Beach
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- Cedars Sinai Medical Center
- Valley Children's Hospital
- UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
- Kaiser Permanente-Oakland
- Children's Hospital of Orange County
- Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford University
- Sutter Medical Center Sacramento
- University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego
- UCSF Medical Center-Parnassus
- UCSF Medical Center-Mission Bay
- Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
- Children's Hospital Colorado
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center
- Yale University
- Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children
- MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
- Children's National Medical Center
- Lee Memorial Health System
- Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida
- Memorial Regional Hospital/Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital
- Nemours Children's Clinic-Jacksonville
- University of Miami Miller School of Medicine-Sylvester Cancer Center
- Nicklaus Children's Hospital
- AdventHealth Orlando
- Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children
- Nemours Children's Clinic - Orlando
- Orlando Health Cancer Institute
- Nemours Children's Hospital
- Nemours Children's Clinic - Pensacola
- Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
- Tampa General Hospital
- Saint Joseph's Hospital/Children's Hospital-Tampa
- Saint Mary's Hospital
- Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - Egleston
- Memorial Health University Medical Center
- University of Hawaii Cancer Center
- Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children
- Saint Luke's Cancer Institute - Boise
- Lurie Children's Hospital-Chicago
- University of Illinois
- University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Loyola University Medical Center
- Advocate Children's Hospital-Oak Lawn
- Advocate Children's Hospital-Park Ridge
- Advocate Lutheran General Hospital
- Saint Jude Midwest Affiliate
- Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
- Riley Hospital for Children
- Ascension Saint Vincent Indianapolis Hospital
- Blank Children's Hospital
- University of Iowa/Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of Kentucky/Markey Cancer Center
- Norton Children's Hospital
- Tulane University Health Sciences Center
- Children's Hospital New Orleans
- Eastern Maine Medical Center
- University of Maryland/Greenebaum Cancer Center
- Johns Hopkins University/Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
- Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
- Tufts Children's Hospital
- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Baystate Medical Center
- C S Mott Children's Hospital
- Wayne State University/Karmanos Cancer Institute
- Ascension Saint John Hospital
- Michigan State University Clinical Center
- Helen DeVos Children's Hospital at Spectrum Health
- Bronson Methodist Hospital
- Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies
- Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota - Minneapolis
- University of Minnesota/Masonic Cancer Center
- Mayo Clinic in Rochester
- University of Mississippi Medical Center
- Columbia Regional
- Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
- Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center
- Washington University School of Medicine
- Mercy Hospital Saint Louis
- Children's Hospital and Medical Center of Omaha
- University Medical Center of Southern Nevada
- Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center
- Alliance for Childhood Diseases/Cure 4 the Kids Foundation
- Summerlin Hospital Medical Center
- Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center/Dartmouth Cancer Center
- Hackensack University Medical Center
- Saint Barnabas Medical Center
- Morristown Medical Center
- Saint Peter's University Hospital
- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
- Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
- Saint Joseph's Regional Medical Center
- Overlook Hospital
- University of New Mexico Cancer Center
- Albany Medical Center
- Montefiore Medical Center - Moses Campus
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute
- NYU Winthrop Hospital
- The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York
- Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone
- Mount Sinai Hospital
- NYP/Columbia University Medical Center/Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- University of Rochester
- Stony Brook University Medical Center
- State University of New York Upstate Medical University
- New York Medical College
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Carolinas Medical Center/Levine Cancer Institute
- Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center
- Duke University Medical Center
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
- Sanford Broadway Medical Center
- Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- Nationwide Children's Hospital
- Dayton Children's Hospital
- ProMedica Toledo Hospital/Russell J Ebeid Children's Hospital
- Mercy Children's Hospital
- University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
- Legacy Emanuel Children's Hospital
- Legacy Emanuel Hospital and Health Center
- Oregon Health and Science University
- Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest
- Lehigh Valley Hospital - Muhlenberg
- Geisinger Medical Center
- Penn State Children's Hospital
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Saint Christopher's Hospital for Children
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Prisma Health Richland Hospital
- BI-LO Charities Children's Cancer Center
- Greenville Cancer Treatment Center
- Sanford USD Medical Center - Sioux Falls
- T C Thompson Children's Hospital
- East Tennessee Childrens Hospital
- The Children's Hospital at TriStar Centennial
- Vanderbilt University/Ingram Cancer Center
- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center-Amarillo
- Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas
- Driscoll Children's Hospital
- Medical City Dallas Hospital
- UT Southwestern/Simmons Cancer Center-Dallas
- Cook Children's Medical Center
- Baylor College of Medicine/Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
- M D Anderson Cancer Center
- Covenant Children's Hospital
- UMC Cancer Center / UMC Health System
- Children's Hospital of San Antonio
- Methodist Children's Hospital of South Texas
- University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Scott and White Memorial Hospital
- Primary Children's Hospital
- University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
- Inova Fairfax Hospital
- Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters
- Virginia Commonwealth University/Massey Cancer Center
- Carilion Children's
- Seattle Children's Hospital
- Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital
- Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Center
- Madigan Army Medical Center
- West Virginia University Charleston Division
- West Virginia University Healthcare
- Saint Vincent Hospital Cancer Center Green Bay
- Marshfield Medical Center-Marshfield
- Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
- Women's and Children's Hospital-Adelaide
- Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
- University of Alberta Hospital
- British Columbia Children's Hospital
- CancerCare Manitoba
- IWK Health Centre
- McMaster Children's Hospital at Hamilton Health Sciences
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
- Hospital for Sick Children
- The Montreal Children's Hospital of the MUHC
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine
- Saskatoon Cancer Centre
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Quebec
- Dutch Childhood Oncology Group
- San Jorge Children's Hospital
- University Pediatric Hospital
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Arm 4
Active Comparator
Experimental
Experimental
Experimental
Arm A (chemoradiotherapy)
Arm B (chemoradiotherapy)
Arm C (chemoradiotherapy, isotretinoin-CLOSED TO ACCRUAL)
Arm D (chemoradiotherapy, isotretinoin-CLOSED TO ACCRUAL)
CHEMORADIOTHERAPY: Patients undergo radiation therapy QD five days a week for 6 weeks. Patients also receive vincristine sulfate IV over 1 minute once weekly for 6 weeks. Six weeks after completion of chemoradiotherapy, patients proceed to maintenance therapy. MAINTENANCE THERAPY: Patients receive cisplatin IV over 6 hours on day 1, vincristine sulfate IV over 1 minute on days 1 and 8, and cyclophosphamide IV over 1 hour on days 2 and 3. Patients also receive filgrastim SC or IV beginning on day 4 and continuing until blood counts recover (at least 10 days). Treatment repeats every 28 days for a total of 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
CHEMORADIOTHERAPY: Patients receive vincristine sulfate and undergo radiation therapy as in Arm A. Patients also receive carboplatin IV over 15 minutes on each day of radiation therapy. Six weeks after completion of chemoradiotherapy, patients proceed to maintenance therapy. MAINTENANCE THERAPY: Patients receive maintenance therapy as in Arm A.
CHEMORADIOTHERAPY: Patients undergo chemoradiotherapy as in Arm A. Six weeks after completion of chemoradiotherapy, patients proceed to maintenance therapy. MAINTENANCE THERAPY: Patients receive isotretinoin PO BID on day 1 and days 16-28 and cisplatin, vincristine sulfate, cyclophosphamide, and filgrastim as in Arm A maintenance therapy. Treatment repeats every 28 days for a total of 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients then proceed to continuation therapy. CONTINUATION THERAPY: Patients receive isotretinoin PO BID on days 15-28 every 28 days for up to 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
CHEMORADIOTHERAPY: Patients undergo chemoradiotherapy as in Arm B. Six weeks after completion of chemoradiotherapy, patients proceed to maintenance therapy. MAINTENANCE THERAPY: Patients receive maintenance therapy as in Arm C. Patients then proceed to continuation therapy. CONTINUATION THERAPY: Patients receive continuation therapy as in Arm C.