Evolutionary Therapy for Rhabdomyosarcoma
Rhabdomyosarcoma

About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Rhabdomyosarcoma focused on measuring Soft Tissue Cancer, Skeletal Muscle Tissue Cancer, Sarcoma
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Participants must have a new histologic diagnosis of rhabdomyosarcoma
- Participants must have FISH, PCR or other molecular confirmation of PAX/FOXO1 fusion per institutional standards
- Participants must have sufficient tissue (up to 10 unstained FFPE) for correlative testing
- All participants must have distant metastatic disease; either biopsy positive or PET avid extranodal or distant nodal lesions determined by the investigator to be metastatic disease. Patients with a single distant metastatic site that has been excised prior to study entry are eligible
- No prior systemic chemotherapy
- Participants enrolled to Arm B, maintenance, must be able to take oral cyclophosphamide. Note: enteral administration of cyclophosphamide is allowable.
- Males and females of reproductive potential may not participate unless they have agreed to the use of, at minimum, two methods of contraception during and after treatment or abstinence.
- Women of childbearing potential should adhere to contraception for a period of 4 months after completion of systematic chemotherapy administration
- Men who are sexually active with women of child bearing potential should adhere to contraception for a period of 4 months after completion of systematic chemotherapy administration
- All patients and/or their parents or legal guardians must have the ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent or assent document.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Participants with regional lymph nodes as the only site of disease are not eligible. Distant nodal sites alone are eligible
- Participants who are receiving any other investigational agents for rhabdomyosarcoma are ineligible
- Participants must not be receiving any additional medicines being given for the specific purpose of treating cancer. Alternative medications including, but not limited to cannabis based products would not be a reason for exclusion
Participants are ineligible if they have uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to:
- ongoing or active infection not expected to resolve with current antibiotic plan
- cardiac arrhythmia
- psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
- Patients who are pregnant or breastfeeding are not eligible because there is no available information regarding human fetal or teratogenic toxicities. Females of childbearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 24 hours of starting protocol therapy.
- Participants who are considered unable to comply with the safety monitoring requirements of the study are not eligible
Sites / Locations
- University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer CenterRecruiting
- Children's Hospital of ColoradoRecruiting
- Connecticut Children's Medical CenterRecruiting
- University of FloridaRecruiting
- University of Miami - Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer CenterRecruiting
- Johns Hopkins All Children's HospitalRecruiting
- Moffitt Cancer CenterRecruiting
- Montefiore Medical Cancer CenterRecruiting
- Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer CenterRecruiting
- University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer CenterRecruiting
- Carolinas Medical Center, Levine Cancer InstituteRecruiting
- Duke Children's HospitalRecruiting
- Cleveland ClinicRecruiting
- Nationwide Children's HospitalRecruiting
- Vanderbilt - Ingram Cancer CenterRecruiting
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterRecruiting
- MD AndersonRecruiting
- Primary Children's Medical Center/UtahRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Arm 4
Experimental
Experimental
Experimental
Active Comparator
Arm A - First Strike
Arm B - Second Strike - Maintenance
Arm C - Adaptive Therapy
Arm - D Conventional Therapy
Participants will receive 42 weeks of conventional doses of vinorelbine, actinomycin D and cyclophosphamide
Participants will receive conventional doses of Vincristine/Actinomycin D/Cyclophosphamide (VAC) until complete response (CR) for 12-42 weeks and then switch to up to 2 years of vinorelbine/oral cyclophoshamide
Therapy with VAC that starts and stops based on response, adaptive timing of therapy, with a prolonged time to progression rather than complete remission goal
Participants will receive a chemotherapy combination based on published trials. An example would be 42 weeks of VAC but may also include irinotecan, doxorubicin, ifosfamide, etoposide.