Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy With or Without Second-Look Surgery Followed by Radiation Therapy With or Without Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation in Treating Patients With Intracranial Germ Cell Tumors
Brain Tumor, Central Nervous System Tumors, Childhood Germ Cell Tumor
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Brain Tumor focused on measuring childhood central nervous system germ cell tumor, childhood teratoma, recurrent childhood malignant germ cell tumor, childhood central nervous system choriocarcinoma, childhood central nervous system embryonal tumor, childhood central nervous system germinoma, childhood central nervous system mixed germ cell tumor, childhood central nervous system teratoma, childhood central nervous system yolk sac tumor, recurrent childhood central nervous system embryonal tumor
Eligibility Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: One of the following diagnoses: Histologically confirmed intracranial non-germinomatous germ cell tumor (NGGCT) of 1 of the following types: Endodermal sinus tumor (yolk sac tumor) Embryonal carcinoma Choriocarcinoma Immature teratoma and teratoma with malignant transformation Mixed germ cell tumor Histologically confirmed germinoma with elevation of serum/CSF beta human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) levels greater than 50 mIU/mL or any serum/CSF alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels greater than 10 ng/ml or above institutional norm Histologically unconfirmed pineal and/or suprasellar tumors with serum/CSF beta HCG levels greater than 50 mIU/mL or AFP levels greater than 10 ng/ml or above institutional norm Patients with normal AFP and beta HCG < 50 mIU/mL without histologic diagnosis of a NGGCT or patients with pure germinoma without elevation of tumor marker are ineligible Initial diagnosis within the past 31 days PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age 3 to 24 at diagnosis Performance status No minimum performance level Life expectancy At least 8 weeks Hematopoietic Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,000/mm^3 Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3 (transfusion independent) Hemoglobin at least 10.0 g/dL (transfusion allowed) Hepatic Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) ALT no greater than 2.5 times ULN Renal Creatinine no greater than 1.5 times ULN OR Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate at least 70 mL/min Pulmonary No assisted ventilation Other Seizure disorders allowed No patients in status or coma Not pregnant or nursing Negative pregnancy test Fertile patient must use effective contraception PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy Not specified Chemotherapy Not specified Endocrine therapy Prior corticosteroids allowed Concurrent corticosteroids allowed Concurrent endocrine replacement therapy allowed (e.g., L-thyroxine, testosterone, estrogen, desmopressin acetate) No concurrent growth hormone therapy Radiotherapy Not specified Surgery More than 1 prior surgery allowed Other No other prior therapy for malignancy
Sites / Locations
- Lurleen Wallace Comprehensive Cancer at University of Alabama - Birmingham
- Phoenix Children's Hospital
- Arkansas Cancer Research Center at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Southern California Permanente Medical Group
- 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
- Sutter Cancer Center
- Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego
- UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Stanford Cancer Center
- Carole and Ray Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Connecticut Health Center
- Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
- Children's National Medical Center
- Lee Cancer Care of Lee Memorial Health System
- University of Florida Shands Cancer Center
- Nemours Children's Clinic
- University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center - Miami
- Miami Children's Hospital
- Florida Hospital Cancer Institute at Florida Hospital Orlando
- Sacred Heart Cancer Center at Sacred Heart Hospital
- All Children's Hospital
- St. Joseph's Cancer Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital
- Kaplan Cancer Center at St. Mary's Medical Center
- Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- MBCCOP - Medical College of Georgia Cancer Center
- Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
- University of Chicago Cancer Research Center
- Advocate Lutheran General Cancer Care Center
- Simmons Cooper Cancer Institute
- Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center
- St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital
- Kansas Masonic Cancer Research Institute at the University of Kansas Medical Center
- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
- Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts - New England Medical Center
- Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center at Dana Farber Cancer Institute
- Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
- Butterworth Hospital at Spectrum Health
- Van Elslander Cancer Center at St. John Hospital and Medical Center
- 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
- Children's Mercy Hospital
- Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital - Saint Louis
- Hackensack University Medical Center Cancer Center
- 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
- Albert Einstein Cancer Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- NYU Cancer Institute at New York University Medical Center
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at Columbia University Medical Center
- SUNY Upstate Medical University Hospital
- New York Medical College
- Blumenthal Cancer Center at Carolinas Medical Center
- Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Akron Children's Hospital
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center
- Nationwide Children's Hospital
- Children's Medical Center - Dayton
- Oklahoma University Cancer Institute
- Oregon Health and Science University Cancer Institute
- Penn State Cancer Institute at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- St. Christopher's Hospital for Children
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
- Rhode Island Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Hollings Cancer Center at Medical University of South Carolina
- Sanford Cancer Center at Sanford USD Medical Center
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
- Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas
- Driscoll Children's Hospital
- Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Dallas
- Cook Children's Medical Center - Fort Worth
- Covenant Children's Hospital
- University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Methodist Children's Hospital of South Texas
- Primary Children's Medical Center
- Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters
- West Virginia University Health Sciences Center - Charleston
- St. Vincent Hospital Regional Cancer Center
- Marshfield Clinic - Marshfield Center
- Midwest Children's Cancer Center
- Royal Children's Hospital
- Royal Children's Hospital
- Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
- Children's & Women's Hospital of British Columbia
- Janeway Children's Health and Rehabilitation Centre
- IWK Health Centre
- McMaster Children's Hospital at Hamilton Health Sciences
- Hospital for Sick Children
- Montreal Children's Hospital at McGill University Health Center
- Hopital Sainte Justine
- Saskatoon Cancer Centre at the University of Saskatchewan
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Quebec
- Starship Children's Health
- Christchurch Hospital
- Swiss Pediatric Oncology Group Bern
- Swiss Pediatric Oncology Group Geneva
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Experimental
Radiation Therapy (CR from Induction)
Patients will receive 6 cycles of Induction chemotherapy consisting of carboplatin and etoposide (Cycles 1, 3, and 5) alternating with ifosfamide and etoposide (Cycles 2, 4, and 6). The entire length of Induction is 18 weeks unless delay occurs due to myelosuppression or unanticipated toxicity. Each cycle of Induction will begin when ANC > 750/L and platelets > 75,000/L and when off filgrastim (G-CSF) for at least 48 hours. Following the Induction phase (weeks 0-18) those patient in CR will undergo radiation therapy.