Chemotherapy Followed by Radiation Therapy in Treating Younger Patients With Newly Diagnosed Localized Central Nervous System Germ Cell Tumors
Central Nervous System Nongerminomatous Germ Cell Tumor, Childhood Central Nervous System Germinoma
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Central Nervous System Nongerminomatous Germ Cell Tumor
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
Patients must be newly diagnosed with localized primary CNS NGGCT (Stratum 1) or localized primary CNS germinoma (Stratum 2); germ cell tumors located in the suprasellar, pineal, bifocal (pineal + suprasellar) and ventricles are eligible; tumors present in the above mentioned locations and with unifocal parenchymal extension are eligible
Stratum 1(NGGCT): Patients must have one of the following criteria:
- Patients with serum and/or CSF hCGbeta > 100 mIU/mL or any elevation of serum and/or CSF alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) > 10 ng/mL or greater than the institutional normal are eligible, irrespective of biopsy results
- Patients with any of the following elements on biopsy/resection are eligible, irrespective of serum and/or CSF hCGbeta and AFP levels: endodermal sinus tumor (yolk sac), embryonal carcinoma, choriocarcinoma, malignant/immature teratoma, and mixed GCT with malignant GCT elements
Stratum 2 (Germinoma): Patients must have both serum and CSF markers obtained (unless obtaining CSF is medically contraindicated) and must have one of the following criteria to be eligible:
- Patients with institutional normal AFP (or =< 10 ng/mL if no institutional normal exists) in both serum and CSF (unless medically contraindicated) AND hCGbeta 5 to =< 50 mIU/mL in serum and/or CSF (unless medically contraindicated) (only 1 is required to be elevated) are eligible; no histologic confirmation required
- Patients with bifocal (pineal + suprasellar) involvement or pineal lesion with diabetes insipidus (D1) AND hCGbeta =< 100 mIU/mL in serum and/or CSF AND institutional normal AFP (or =< 10 ng/mL if no institutional normal exists) in both serum and CSF (unless medically contraindicated) are eligible; no histologic confirmation required
- Patients with histologically confirmed germinoma or germinoma mixed with mature teratoma and hCGbeta =< 100 mIU/mL in serum and/or CSF and institutional normal AFP (or =< 10 ng/mL if no institutional normal exists) in both serum and CSF (unless medically contraindicated) are eligible
- All patients must have a cranial MRI with and without gadolinium at diagnosis/prior to enrollment; if surgical resection is performed, patients must have pre-operative and post-operative cranial MRI with and without gadolinium; the post-operative brain MRI should be obtained within 72 hours of surgery; if patient has a biopsy only, post-operative cranial MRI is recommended but not required; all patients must have a spine MRI with gadolinium obtained at diagnosis/prior to enrollment; Note: if the spine study is performed for the first time after surgical resection or biopsy, it is recommended to be obtained with and without gadolinium
- Lumbar CSF must be obtained prior to study enrollment unless medically contraindicated; if a patient undergoes surgery and lumbar CSF cannot be obtained at this time, then it should be performed at least 10 days following surgery before study enrollment; false positive cytology can occur within 10 days of surgery; Note: patients with positive CSF cytology obtained prior to 10 days after surgery may have cytology repeated to determine eligibility
- Patients must have CSF tumor markers obtained prior to enrollment unless medically contraindicated; ventricular CSF obtained at the time of CSF diversion procedure (if performed) is acceptable for tumor markers but lumbar CSF is preferred; in case CSF diversion and biopsy/surgery are combined, CSF tumor markers should be collected first
- Patients must be enrolled on ALTE07C1 prior to enrollment on ACNS1123; patients must be enrolled within 31 days of definitive diagnostic surgery (day 0) or clinical diagnosis
- Peripheral absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1,000/uL
- Platelet count >= 100,000/uL (transfusion independent)
- Hemoglobin >= 8.0 g/dL (may receive red blood cell [RBC] transfusions)
Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomular filtration rate (GFR) >= 70 mL/min/1.73 m^2 OR 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) and 1.4 mg/dL (female) (13 to < 16 years of age)
- 1.7 mg/dL (male) and 1.4 mg/dL (female) (>= 16 years of age)
- Total bilirubin =< 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) for age
- Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) (aspartate aminotransferase [AST]) and serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT) (alanine aminotransferase [ALT]) < 2.5 times ULN
- Patients with seizure disorder may be enrolled if well controlled
- Patients must not be in status, coma, or assisted ventilation prior to study enrollment
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with mature teratoma or completely resected immature teratoma with normal tumor markers are not eligible
- Patients with tumors located outside the ventricles (basal ganglia, thalamus) are not eligible
- Patients with metastatic disease by cranial or spinal MRI evaluation or CSF cytology (unless medically contraindicated) are not eligible
- Patients must not have received any prior tumor-directed therapy other than surgical intervention and corticosteroids
- Female patients who are pregnant are ineligible
- Lactating females are not eligible unless they have agreed not to breastfeed their infants
- Female patients of childbearing potential are not eligible unless a negative pregnancy test result has been obtained
- Sexually active patients of reproductive potential are not eligible unless they have agreed to use an effective contraceptive method for the duration of their study participation
- 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
- Phoenix Childrens Hospital
- Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center
- Miller Children's and Women's Hospital Long Beach
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- Cedars Sinai Medical Center
- Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA
- 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
- 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
- University of Florida Health Science Center - Gainesville
- 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 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
- Saint Jude Midwest Affiliate
- 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
- Children's Hospital New Orleans
- University of Maryland/Greenebaum Cancer Center
- Johns Hopkins University/Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
- Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
- Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Wayne State University/Karmanos Cancer Institute
- Michigan State University Clinical Center
- Helen DeVos Children's Hospital at Spectrum Health
- Bronson Methodist Hospital
- Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota - Minneapolis
- Mayo Clinic in Rochester
- University of Mississippi Medical Center
- Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
- Washington University School of Medicine
- Mercy Hospital Saint Louis
- University Medical Center of Southern Nevada
- Alliance for Childhood Diseases/Cure 4 the Kids Foundation
- Summerlin Hospital Medical Center
- Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
- Hackensack University Medical Center
- Saint Barnabas Medical Center
- Morristown Medical Center
- Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
- Newark Beth Israel 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
- NYP/Columbia University Medical Center/Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- University of Rochester
- State University of New York Upstate Medical University
- New York Medical College
- Mission Hospital
- 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
- University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
- Legacy Emanuel Children's Hospital
- Oregon Health and Science University
- Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest
- Lehigh Valley Hospital - Muhlenberg
- Penn State Children's Hospital
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
- 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
- Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Vanderbilt University/Ingram Cancer Center
- 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
- 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
- Primary Children's Hospital
- University of Virginia Cancer Center
- 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
- Madigan Army Medical Center
- Saint Vincent Hospital Cancer Center Green Bay
- University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center
- Marshfield Medical Center-Marshfield
- Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
- John Hunter Children's Hospital
- Sydney Children's Hospital
- The Children's Hospital at Westmead
- Royal Children's Hospital-Brisbane
- Queensland Children's Hospital
- Women's and Children's Hospital-Adelaide
- Royal Children's Hospital
- Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
- Perth Children's Hospital
- British Columbia Children's Hospital
- CancerCare Manitoba
- IWK Health Centre
- McMaster Children's Hospital at Hamilton Health Sciences
- Hospital for Sick Children
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine
- Starship Children's Hospital
- Christchurch Hospital
- University Pediatric Hospital
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Experimental
Treatment (combination chemotherapy, radiation therapy)
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