Radiation Therapy, Amifostine, and Chemotherapy in Treating Young Patients With Newly Diagnosed Nasopharyngeal Cancer
Stage I Nasopharyngeal Keratinizing Squamous Cell Carcinoma AJCC v7, Stage I Nasopharyngeal Undifferentiated Carcinoma AJCC v7, Stage II Nasopharyngeal Keratinizing Squamous Cell Carcinoma AJCC v7
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Stage I Nasopharyngeal Keratinizing Squamous Cell Carcinoma AJCC v7
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: Histological diagnosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma WHO type II or III Stage I-IV disease Newly diagnosed disease Performance status Patients ≤ 16 years of age: Lansky 60-100% Patients > 16 years of age: Karnofsky 60-100% Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate ≥ 70 mL/min Creatinine based on age/gender as follows: No greater than 0.4 mg/dL (for patients 1 month to < 6 months of age) No greater than 0.5 mg/dL (for patients 6 months to < 1 year of age) No greater than 0.6 mg/dL (for patients 1-2 years of age) No greater than 0.8 mg/dL (for patients < 6 years of age) No greater than 1.0mg/dL (for patients 6 to < 10 years of age) No greater than 1.2 mg/dL (for patients 10 to < 13 years of age) No greater than 1.4 mg/dL (for female patients 13 to ≥ 16 years of age) No greater than 1.5 mg/dL (for male patients 13 to < 16 years of age) No greater than 1.7 mg/dL (for male patients ≥ 16 years of age) Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) for age AST or ALT < 2.5 times ULN for age Not pregnant or nursing Negative pregnancy test Fertile patients must use effective contraception No prior chemotherapy or radiotherapy to the nasopharynx or neck for the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Sites / Locations
- Children's Hospital of Alabama
- University of Alabama at Birmingham Cancer Center
- Banner University Medical Center - Tucson
- Arkansas Children's Hospital
- University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
- Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA
- UCLA / Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Valley Children's Hospital
- Kaiser Permanente-Oakland
- Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford University
- UCSF Medical Center-Mount Zion
- UCSF Medical Center-Parnassus
- UCSF Medical Center-Mission Bay
- Children's Hospital Colorado
- University of Connecticut
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center
- MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
- Children's National Medical Center
- Lee Memorial Health System
- 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
- Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children
- Orlando Health Cancer Institute
- Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
- Saint Joseph's Hospital/Children's Hospital-Tampa
- Saint Mary's Hospital
- Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - Egleston
- Emory University Hospital/Winship Cancer Institute
- University of Hawaii Cancer Center
- Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children
- Lurie Children's Hospital-Chicago
- Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
- Indiana University/Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center
- Riley Hospital for Children
- University of Kentucky/Markey Cancer Center
- Norton Children's Hospital
- Tulane University Health Sciences Center
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
- Johns Hopkins University/Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
- Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
- C S Mott Children's Hospital
- Wayne State University/Karmanos Cancer Institute
- Ascension Saint John Hospital
- Helen DeVos Children's Hospital at Spectrum Health
- Spectrum Health at Butterworth Campus
- Mayo Clinic in Rochester
- University of Mississippi Medical Center
- Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
- Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center
- Washington University School of Medicine
- Children's Hospital and Medical Center of Omaha
- University of Nebraska Medical Center
- Alliance for Childhood Diseases/Cure 4 the Kids Foundation
- Nevada Cancer Research Foundation NCORP
- Hackensack University 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
- NYP/Columbia University Medical Center/Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of Rochester
- State University of New York Upstate Medical University
- New York Medical College
- Carolinas Medical Center/Levine Cancer Institute
- Duke University Medical Center
- Sanford Broadway Medical Center
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- Nationwide Children's Hospital
- Dayton Children's Hospital
- Mercy Children's Hospital
- University of Toledo
- University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
- Penn State Milton S Hershey Medical Center
- Penn State Children's Hospital
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Saint Christopher's Hospital for Children
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
- Prisma Health Richland Hospital
- BI-LO Charities Children's Cancer Center
- Greenville Cancer Treatment Center
- East Tennessee Childrens Hospital
- Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Driscoll Children's Hospital
- UT Southwestern/Simmons Cancer Center-Dallas
- Cook Children's Medical Center
- Baylor College of Medicine/Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Methodist Children's Hospital of South Texas
- University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Primary Children's Hospital
- Inova Fairfax Hospital
- Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters
- Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital
- West Virginia University Charleston Division
- Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
- Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
- Alberta Children's Hospital
- British Columbia Children's Hospital
- IWK Health Centre
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine
- Saskatoon Cancer Centre
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Quebec
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Experimental
Stratum I (radiotherapy, chemoprotective agent)
Stratum II (chemotherapy, chemoprotective agent, radiotherapy)
Patients undergo radiotherapy 5 days a week for 8 weeks. Patients also receive amifostine subcutaneously on the same days they undergo radiotherapy.
Patients receive cisplatin IV over 6 hours on day 1 and fluorouracil IV continuously on days 1-4. Treatment repeats every 3 weeks for 3 courses. In weeks 10-18, patients undergo radiotherapy and receive amifostine as in stratum I. Patients also receive 3 courses of cisplatin as before.