Combination Chemotherapy and Surgery With or Without Isotretinoin in Treating Young Patients With Neuroblastoma
Neuroblastoma

About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Neuroblastoma focused on measuring regional neuroblastoma, disseminated neuroblastoma, stage 4S neuroblastoma, localized unresectable neuroblastoma, localized resectable neuroblastoma
Eligibility Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
Histologically confirmed neuroblastoma, ganglioneuroblastoma, or ganglioneuroma/maturing subtype
- Newly diagnosed disease
- Intermediate-risk disease
- Needle biopsies or involved bone marrow are not sufficient for INPC histologic classification
Meets 1 of the following criteria:
Group 2
- International Neuroblastoma Staging System (INSS) stage 2A/2B; < 50% resected or biopsy only; ≤ 12 years of age; MYCN-not amplified (NA); any histology and ploidy; normal 1p and 11q
- INSS stage 3; age < 365 days; MYCN-NA; favorable histology (FH); hyperdiploid (DI) > 1; normal 1p and 11q
- INSS stage 3; 365 days to 12 years of age; MYCN-NA; FH; normal 1p and 11q
- INSS stage 4S; age < 365 days; MYCN-NA; FH; DI >1; normal 1p and 11q; clinically symptomatic
Group 3
- INSS stage 2A/2B; < 50% resected or biopsy only; ≤ 12 years of age; MYCN-NA; any histology and ploidy; 1p loss of heterozygosity (LOH) and/or unb11q LOH (or data missing for either)
- INSS stage 3; age < 365 days; MYCN-NA; FH; DI > 1; 1p LOH and/or unb11q LOH (or data missing for either)
- INSS stage 3; age < 365 days; MYCN-NA; DI = 1 and/or unfavorable histology (UH); normal 1p and 11q
- INSS stage 3; 365 days to 12 years of age; MYCN-NA; FH; 1p LOH and/or unb11q LOH (or data missing for either)
- INSS stage 4; age < 365 days; MYCN-NA; FH; DI > 1; normal 1p and 11q
- INSS stage 4S; age < 365 days; MYCN-NA; either UH and any ploidy or FH and DI = 1; normal 1p and 11q
- INSS stage 4S; age < 365 days; MYCN-NA; FH; DI > 1; 1p LOH and/or unb11q LOH (or data missing for either); clinically symptomatic
Group 4
- INSS stage 3; age < 365 days; MYCN-NA; DI = 1 and/or UH; 1p LOH and/or unb11q LOH (or data missing for either)
- INSS stage 3; age 365 to < 547 days; MYCN-NA; UH; any ploidy; any 1p and 11q
- INSS stage 4, age < 365 days; MYCN-NA; DI = 1 and/or UH; any 1p and 11q
- INSS stage 4; age < 365 days; MYCN-NA; FH; DI > 1; 1p LOH and/or unb11q LOH (or data missing for either)
- INSS stage 4; age 365 to < 547 days; MYCN-NA; FH; DI > 1; any 1p and 11q
- INSS stage 4S; age < 365 days; MYCN-NA; UH and any ploidy or FH and DI = 1; 1p LOH and/or unb11q LOH (or data missing for either)
INSS stage 4S; age < 365 days; unknown or incomplete biologic features
8 courses of initial chemo - carboplatin, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin hydrochloride, etoposide, filgrastim.
Patients < 12 months of age with stg 3, 4, or 4S disease who achieve a very good PR (VGPR) to chemo (with the exception of resolution of skin or liver metastases in stage 4S patients) proceed to observation. Patients 12-18 months of age with stg 3 or 4 who achieve VGPR proceed to isotretinoin therapy. No VGPR proceed to retrieval chemo - cyclophosphamide and topotecan hydrochloride. Some patients may also undergo surgery.
Must already be enrolled on protocol COG-ANBL00B1
Simultaneous enrollment on COG-ANBL00B1 and this study allowed for clinical situations in which emergent treatment may be indicated including, but not limited to, the following criteria:
- Epidural or intraspinal tumors with existing or impending neurologic impairment
- Periorbital or calvarial-based lesions with existing or impending cranial nerve impairment
- Anatomic or mechanical compromise of critical organ function by tumor (e.g., abdominal compartment syndrome, urinary obstruction)
- Asymptomatic but, in the opinion of the treating physician, it is in the patient's best interest to begin chemotherapy immediately due to impending risk of neurologic impairment or organ dysfunction
If patient receives study chemotherapy prior to undergoing diagnostic biopsy, the biopsy must be performed within 96 hours of beginning study therapy
The only exception to this requirement is for patients with stage 4S disease who are considered too ill to undergo a diagnostic procedure will be waived the requirement for diagnostic tissue submission but will still need to be enrolled on COG-ANBL00B1
- For patients with stage 4S disease who are very ill and in whom an open biopsy to obtain tissue for diagnosis and biologic studies is considered medically contraindicated, every effort should be made to obtain some tumor tissue by either fine-needle aspiration of a metastatic site of disease and/or sampling of involved bone marrow, so that this tumor sample can be submitted for MYCN determination
Patients who require emergent therapy, either prior to the diagnostic biopsy or before biology features are available, can be enrolled simultaneously on COG-ANBL00B1 and COG-ANBL0531 to receive emergent protocol therapy
- In emergent circumstances, COG-ANBL0531 protocol therapy may be initiated prior to enrollment on study as long as the patient has neuroblastoma by clinical diagnosis, all other COG-ANBL0531 eligibility criteria are met, and the COG-ANBL0531 Initial Therapy consent has been signed prior to starting protocol therapy; in this circumstance ANBL0531 enrollment must occur within 4 working days of starting protocol therapy
Clinical situations in which emergent enrollment and treatment may be indicated include, but are not limited to, the following circumstances:
- Epidural or intraspinal tumors with existing or impending neurologic impairment
- Periorbital or calvarial-based lesions with existing or impending cranial nerve impairment
- Anatomic or mechanical compromise of critical organ function by tumor (e.g., abdominal compartment syndrome, urinary obstruction)
- Evolving hepatomegaly in infants less than 2 months of age
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- See Disease Characteristics
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- See Disease Characteristics
- No other prior chemotherapy or radiotherapy with the exception of dexamethasone
- No participation in another COG study with tumor therapeutic intent
Sites / Locations
- UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of South Alabama Mitchell Cancer Institute
- Phoenix Children's Hospital
- Arizona Cancer Center at University of Arizona Health Sciences Center
- Arkansas Cancer Research Center at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Southern California Permanente Medical Group
- City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Loma Linda University Cancer Institute at Loma Linda University Medical Center
- Jonathan Jaques Children's Cancer Center at Miller Children's Hospital
- Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
- Children's Hospital Central California
- Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland
- Children's Hospital of Orange County
- Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University Medical Center
- Sutter Cancer Center
- University of California Davis Cancer Center
- Kaiser Permanente Medical Center - Oakland
- Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego
- UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Children's Hospital Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders
- Presbyterian - St. Luke's Medical Center
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center
- Yale Cancer Center
- Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
- Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center
- Children's National Medical Center
- Walter Reed Army Medical Center
- Broward General Medical Center Cancer Center
- Lee Cancer Care of Lee Memorial Health System
- University of Florida Shands Cancer Center
- Memorial Cancer Institute at Memorial Regional Hospital
- Nemours Children's Clinic
- University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center - Miami
- Baptist-South Miami Regional Cancer Program
- Florida Hospital Cancer Institute at Florida Hospital Orlando
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at Orlando
- Nemours Children's Clinic - Orlando
- Nemours Children's Clinic - Pensacola
- All Children's Hospital
- St. Joseph's Cancer Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital
- Kaplan Cancer Center at St. Mary's Medical Center
- AFLAC Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - Egleston Campus
- MBCCOP - Medical College of Georgia Cancer Center
- Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute at Memorial Health University Medical Center
- Cancer Research Center of Hawaii
- Tripler Army Medical Center
- Mountain States Tumor Institute at St. Luke's Regional Medical Center
- University of Illinois Cancer Center
- Children's Memorial Hospital - Chicago
- University of Chicago Cancer Research Center
- Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center at Loyola University Medical Center
- Keyser Family Cancer Center at Advocate Hope Children's Hospital
- Advocate Lutheran General Cancer Care Center
- Saint Jude Midwest Affiliate
- Simmons Cooper Cancer Institute
- Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center
- Blank Children's Hospital
- Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Iowa
- Lucille P. Markey Cancer Center at University of Kentucky
- Kosair Children's Hospital
- Tulane Cancer Center Office of Clinical Research
- CancerCare of Maine at Eastern Maine Medical Center
- Maine Children's Cancer Program at Barbara Bush Children's Hospital
- Greenebaum Cancer Center at University of Maryland Medical Center
- Alvin and Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute at Sinai Hospital
- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
- Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts - New England Medical Center
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at University of Michigan Medical Center
- Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
- Hurley Medical Center
- Helen DeVos Children's Hospital at Spectrum Health
- Van Elslander Cancer Center at St. John Hospital and Medical Center
- CCOP - Kalamazoo
- Breslin Cancer Center at Ingham Regional Medical Center
- Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota - Minneapolis
- Masonic Cancer Center at University of Minnesota
- Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
- University of Mississippi Cancer Clinic
- Ellis Fischel Cancer Center at University of Missouri - Columbia
- Children's Mercy Hospital
- Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital
- Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital - Saint Louis
- Children's Hospital
- UNMC Eppley Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center
- CCOP - Nevada Cancer Research Foundation
- Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
- Hackensack University Medical Center Cancer Center
- Overlook Hospital
- Saint Peter's University Hospital
- Cancer Institute of New Jersey at UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Newark Beth Israel Medical Center
- St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
- University of New Mexico Cancer Center
- Albany Medical Center Hospital
- Albert Einstein Cancer Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Maimonides Cancer Center at Maimonides Medical Center
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute
- Winthrop University Hospital
- Schneider Children's Hospital
- NYU Cancer Institute at New York University Medical Center
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University Medical Center
- James P. Wilmot Cancer Center at University of Rochester Medical Center
- SUNY Upstate Medical University Hospital
- New York Medical College
- Mission Hospitals - Memorial Campus
- Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- Blumenthal Cancer Center at Carolinas Medical Center
- Presbyterian Cancer Center at Presbyterian Hospital
- Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Wake Forest University Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Akron Children's Hospital
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital
- Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center
- Nationwide Children's Hospital
- Dayton Children's - Dayton
- Toledo Hospital
- Mercy Children's Hospital
- Oklahoma University Cancer Institute
- Legacy Emanuel Hospital and Health Center and Children's Hospital
- Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health and Science University
- Lehigh Valley Hospital - Muhlenberg
- Geisinger Cancer Institute at Geisinger Health
- Penn State Children's Hospital
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- St. Christopher's Hospital for Children
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
- Rhode Island Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Hollings Cancer Center at Medical University of South Carolina
- Palmetto Health South Carolina Cancer Center
- Greenville Hospital Cancer Center
- Sanford Cancer Center at Sanford USD Medical Center
- T.C. Thompson Children's Hospital
- East Tennessee Children's Hospital
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
- Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine - Amarillo
- Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas
- Driscoll Children's Hospital
- Medical City Dallas Hospital
- Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Dallas
- Cook Children's Medical Center - Fort Worth
- Baylor University Medical Center - Houston
- Covenant Children's Hospital
- University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Methodist Children's Hospital of South Texas
- CCOP - Scott and White Hospital
- Primary Children's Medical Center
- Fletcher Allen Health Care - University Health Center Campus
- University of Virginia Cancer Center
- Inova Fairfax Hospital
- Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters
- Naval Medical Center - Portsmouth
- Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center
- Carilion Medical Center for Children at Roanoke Community Hospital
- Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center - Seattle
- Providence Cancer Center at Sacred Heart Medical Center
- Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Center - Tacoma
- Madigan Army Medical Center - Tacoma
- West Virginia University Health Sciences Center - Charleston
- St. Vincent Hospital Regional Cancer Center
- University of Wisconsin Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Marshfield Clinic - Marshfield Center
- Midwest Children's Cancer Center at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
- Children's Hospital at Westmead
- Royal Children's Hospital
- Women's and Children's Hospital
- Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
- Alberta Children's Hospital
- University of Alberta Hospital
- Children's & Women's Hospital of British Columbia
- CancerCare Manitoba
- Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre
- IWK Health Centre
- McMaster Children's Hospital at Hamilton Health Sciences
- Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario at Kingston General Hospital
- Children's Hospital of Western Ontario
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
- Hospital for Sick Children
- Hopital Sainte Justine
- Allan Blair Cancer Centre at Pasqua Hospital
- Saskatoon Cancer Centre at the University of Saskatchewan
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Quebec
- Universitair Medisch Centrum St. Radboud - Nijmegen
- Starship Children's Health
- Christchurch Hospital
- San Jorge Children's Hospital
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Arm 4
Experimental
Experimental
Experimental
Experimental
Group 2 (chemotherapy, surgery)
Group 3 (chemotherapy, surgery)
Group 4 (chemotherapy, surgery, antineoplastic therapy)
Non-intermediate risk enrolled on intermediate risk trial
2 courses of initial chemotherapy (6 wks) - carboplatin, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin hydrochloride, etoposide, filgrastim. Partial response (PR) to chemo go to observation. No PR: 2-6 additional courses of chemo (beginning course 3 - cyclophosphamide, etoposide, filgrastim, carboplatin, doxorubicin hydrochloride). No PR after additional chemotherapy proceed to retrieval chemo: cyclophosphamide and topotecan hydrochloride on days 1-5. Treatment with retrieval chemotherapy repeats every 21 days for up to 6 courses. Some patients may also undergo surgery.
4 courses of initial chemo - carboplatin, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin hydrochloride, filgrastim. Patients with a PR after chemo proceed to observation. No PR receive 2-4 additional courses of chemotherapy (beginning with course 5) - carboplatin, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin hydrochloride, etoposide, filgrastim. No PR after additional chemo proceed to retrieval chemo - cyclophosphamide and topotecan hydrochloride. Some patients may also undergo surgery.
8 courses of initial chemo - carboplatin, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin hydrochloride, etoposide, filgrastim. Patients < 12 months of age with stg 3, 4, or 4S (not including liver metastases) disease who achieve a very good PR (VGPR) to chemo proceed to observation. Patients 12-18 months of age with stg 3 or 4 who achieve VGPR proceed to isotretinoin therapy. No VGPR proceed to retrieval chemo - cyclophosphamide and topotecan hydrochloride. Some patients may also undergo surgery.
The no treatment group assignment patients may have received some treatment on ANBL0531 but they were not evaluable on this study due to being non-intermediate risk and hence did not receive a treatment assignment on ANBL0531.