Combination Chemotherapy With or Without Dexrazoxane in Treating Children With Hodgkin's Disease
Cardiac Toxicity, Lymphoma
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Cardiac Toxicity focused on measuring stage II childhood Hodgkin lymphoma, stage I childhood Hodgkin lymphoma, stage III childhood Hodgkin lymphoma, stage IV childhood Hodgkin lymphoma, cardiac toxicity
Eligibility Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically proven Hodgkin's disease of the following stages: Stages IIB, IIIB or IV PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 21 or under Performance status: Not specified Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: Not specified Hepatic: Bilirubin less than 2 times upper normal limit Renal: Not specified Other: Not pregnant PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: No prior biologic therapy Chemotherapy: No prior chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: Less than one week of steroids for management of airway complications Radiotherapy: No prior radiotherapy except emergency radiation to the mediastinum Surgery: Not specified
Sites / Locations
- University of Alabama Comprehensive Cancer Center
- MBCCOP - University of South Alabama
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- University of California San Diego Cancer Center
- Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford
- University of California Davis Medical Center
- Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Walter Reed Army Medical Center
- Shands Hospital and Clinics, University of Florida
- Sylvester Cancer Center, University of Miami
- Miami Children's Hospital
- CCOP - Florida Pediatric
- Emory University Hospital - Atlanta
- Cancer Research Center of Hawaii
- Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago
- University of Kansas Medical Center
- CCOP - Wichita
- MBCCOP - LSU Medical Center
- CCOP - Ochsner
- Ochsner Clinic
- Marlene & Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland
- Johns Hopkins Oncology Center
- Boston Floating Hospital Infants and Children
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center
- Children's Hospital of Michigan
- University of Mississippi Medical Center
- Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital
- Washington University School of Medicine
- CCOP - Northern New Jersey
- Hackensack University Medical Center
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute
- Schneider Children's Hospital
- Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- University of Rochester Cancer Center
- State University of New York - Upstate Medical University
- Memorial Mission Hospital
- Carolinas Medical Center
- Presbyterian Healthcare
- Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
- East Carolina University School of Medicine
- Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
- Oklahoma Memorial Hospital
- CCOP - Columbia River Program
- St. Christopher's Hospital for Children
- Rhode Island Hospital
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Children's Hospital of Greenville Hospital System
- Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Simmons Cancer Center - Dallas
- Baylor College of Medicine
- MBCCOP - South Texas Pediatric
- University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Cancer Center, University of Virginia HSC
- Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth
- Massey Cancer Center
- Midwest Children's Cancer Center
- Cross Cancer Institute
- McMaster Division
- Hospital for Sick Children
- Montreal Children's Hospital
- Hopital Sainte Justine
- Swiss Pediatric Oncology Group Bern
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Experimental
Arm 1
Arm 2
Patients are randomized to one of two treatment arms. All patients receive 3 courses of chemotherapy consisting of doxorubicin hydrochloride and etoposide on days 0 and 1, bleomycin sulfate and vincristine sulfate on days 0 and 7, cyclophosphamide on day 0, and prednisone on days 0-6. Filgrastim (G-CSF) is administered on days 5-6 and 8-19. Each course is 21 days in length. Patients assigned to arm I receive only these drugs.
Patients are randomized to one of two treatment arms. All patients receive 3 courses of chemotherapy consisting of doxorubicin hydrochloride and etoposide on days 0 and 1, bleomycin sulfate and vincristine sulfate on days 0 and 7, cyclophosphamide on day 0, and prednisone on days 0-6. Filgrastim (G-CSF) is administered on days 5-6 and 8-19. Each course is 21 days in length. Dexrazoxane hydrochloride on days 0, 1, and 7