Clinical trial NCT01798004: Busulfan, Melphalan, and Stem Cell Transplant After Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed High-Risk Neuroblastoma
Official title: Pilot Study Using Myeloablative Busulfan/Melphalan (BuMel) Consolidation Following Induction Chemotherapy for Patients With Newly Diagnosed High-Risk Neuroblastoma
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE1
Conditions: Ganglioneuroblastoma
Stage 1 Neuroblastoma
Stage 2 Neuroblastoma
Stage 2A Neuroblastoma
Stage 2B Neuroblastoma
Stage 3 Neuroblastoma
Stage 4 Neuroblastoma
Stage 4S Neuroblastoma
Lead sponsor: Children's Oncology Group
Sponsor class: NETWORK
Collaborators: name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
First posted: 2013-02-25
Enrollment: 150
Sex: ALL
Maximum age (years): 30
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This pilot clinical trial studies busulfan, melphalan, and stem cell transplant after chemotherapy in treating patients with newly diagnosed neuroblastoma that is likely to come back or spread. Giving chemotherapy to the entire body before a stem cell transplant stops the growth of tumor cells by stopping them from dividing or killing them. After treatment, stem cells are collected from the patient's blood and stored. More chemotherapy or radiation therapy is given to prepare the bone marrow for the stem cell transplant. The stem cells are then returned to the patient to replace the blood-forming cells that were destroyed by the chemotherapy.

Detailed description: PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine if the acute toxicity of an autologous stem cell transplant with a busulfan-melphalan (BuMel) based regimen is tolerable when given as consolidation therapy for high-risk neuroblastoma.

EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine the incidence of non-hematologic organ toxicity (grade 3 and higher) and all cause mortality in patients undergoing autologous stem cell transplant with a BuMel based regimen followed by local radiotherapy for the treatment of high-risk neuroblastoma.

II. To describe response rates, event-free survival (EFS), and overall survival (OS) for patients undergoing induction therapy followed by consolidation with myeloablative BuMel preparative regimen and local radiotherapy for the treatment of high-risk neuroblastoma.

III. To correlate busulfan pharmacokinetics with non-hematologic toxicity following a BuMel based autologous transplant regimen and event-free survival and overall survival.

IV. To determine the feasibility of performing Curie scores in "real time," as assessed by central scan committee review of a 123 I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) scan obtained after cycle 4 of induction therapy.

V. To examine the concordance between central reviewers and institutional reviewers in performing Curie scoring at diagnosis and after cycle 4 of induction therapy.

VI. To determine the feasibility of detecting aberrations in the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene in tumors obtained at the time of diagnosis in patients with high-risk neuroblastoma.

VII. To determine the feasibility of performing molecular profiling of neuroblastoma tumors obtained at the time of diagnosis in patients with high-risk neuroblastoma.

VIII. To correlate melphalan pharmacokinetics with non-hematologic toxicity following a BuMel based autologous transplant regimen and event-free survival and overall survival.

OUTLINE:

INDUCTION THERAPY:

COURSES 1-2: Patients receive cyclophosphamide intravenously (IV) over 15-30 minutes, topotecan hydrochloride IV over 30 minutes on days 1-5 and filgrastim subcutaneously (SC) or IV once daily (QD) beginning on day 6. Treatment repeats every 3 weeks for 2 courses.

COURSES 3 AND 5: Patients receive cisplatin IV over 1 hour on days 1-4 and etoposide IV over 1-2 hours on days 1-3. Treatment repeats every 3 weeks for 2 courses.

COURSE 4: Patients receive cyclophosphamide IV over 1-6 hours on days 1-2, vincristine sulfate IV over 1 minute on days 1-3, doxorubicin hydrochloride IV over 24 hours on days 1-3 and mesna IV over 15-30 minutes on days 1-2. Treatment repeats every 3 weeks for 1 course.

Treatment continues in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

CONSOLIDATION THERAPY: Beginning 4-8 weeks following the 5th course of induction therapy, patients receive busulfan IV over 3 hours on days -6 to -3 and melphalan IV on day -1. Patients undergo autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) on day 0 and filgrastim SC or IV beginning on day 0.

Some patients also undergo external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) after induction and consolidation.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 3 months for 1 year, and then every 6 months for 4 years.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients must have a diagnosis of neuroblastoma (International Classification of Diseases for Oncology \[ICD-O\] morphology 9500/3) or ganglioneuroblastoma (nodular or intermixed) verified by histology or demonstration of clumps of tumor cells in bone marrow with elevated urinary catecholamine metabolites; patients with the following disease stages at diagnosis are eligible, if they meet the other specified criteria
* Patients with newly diagnosed neuroblastoma with International Neuroblastoma Staging System (INSS) stage 4 are eligible with the following:

  * V-myc avian myelocytomatosis viral oncogene neuroblastoma derived homolog (MYCN) amplification (\> 4-fold increase in MYCN signals as compared to reference signals), regardless of age or additional biologic features or
  * Age \> 18 months (\> 547 days) regardless of biologic features or
  * Age 12-18 months (365-547 days) with any of the following 3 unfavorable biologic features (MYCN amplification, unfavorable pathology and/or deoxyribonucleic acid \[DNA\] index = 1) or any biologic feature that is indeterminate/unsatisfactory/unknown
* Patients with newly diagnosed neuroblastoma with INSS stage 3 are eligible with the following:

  * MYCN amplification (\> 4-fold increase in MYCN signals as compared to reference signals), regardless of age or additional biologic features or
  * Age \> 18 months (\> 547 days) with unfavorable pathology, regardless of MYCN status
* Patients with newly diagnosed neuroblastoma with INSS stage 2A/2B with MYCN amplification (\> 4-fold increase in MYCN signals as compared to reference signals), regardless of age or additional biologic features
* Patients with newly diagnosed neuroblastoma with INSS stage 4S with MYCN amplification (\> 4-fold increase in MYCN expression signals as compared to reference signals), regardless of additional biologic features
* Patients \>= 365 days initially diagnosed with neuroblastoma INSS stage 1, 2, 4S who progressed to a stage 4 without interval chemotherapy; these patients must have been enrolled on ANBL00B1; study enrollment on ANBL12P1 must occur within 4 weeks of progression to stage 4 for INSS stage 1, 2, 4S
* Patients must not have had prior systemic therapy except for localized emergency radiation to sites of life-threatening or function-threatening disease and/or no more than 1 cycle of chemotherapy per a low or intermediate risk neuroblastoma regimen (as per P9641, A3961, ANBL0531, or similar) prior to determination of MYCN amplification status and histology
* Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate (GFR) \>= 70 mL/min/1.73 m\^2 or a serum creatinine based on age/gender as follows:

  * Age 1 month to \< 6 months: 0.4 mg/dL
  * Age 6 months to \< 1 year: 0.5 mg/dL
  * Age 1 to \< 2 years: 0.6 mg/dL
  * Age 2 to \< 6 years: 0.8 mg/dL
  * Age 6 to \< 10 years: 1 mg/dL
  * Age 10 to \< 13 years: 1.2 mg/dL
  * Age 13 to \< 16 years: 1.5 mg/dL (males), 1.4 mg/dL (females)
  * Age \>= 16 years: 1.7 mg/dL (males), 1.4 mg/dL (females)
* Total bilirubin =\< 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) for age, and
* Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) (aspartate aminotransferase \[AST\]) or serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT) (alanine aminotransferase \[ALT\]) \< 10 x ULN for age
* Shortening fraction of \>= 27% by echocardiogram, or
* Ejection fraction of \>= 50% by radionuclide evaluation
* No known contraindication to peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) collection; examples of contraindications might be a weight or size less than that determined to be feasible at the collecting institution, or a physical condition that would limit the ability of the child to undergo apheresis catheter placement (if necessary) and/or the apheresis procedure
* All patients and/or their parents or legal guardians must sign a written informed consent
* All institutional, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and National Cancer Institute (NCI) requirements for human studies must be met

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients that are 12-18 months of age with INSS stage 4 and all 3 favorable biologic features (ie, nonamplified MYCN, favorable pathology, and DNA index \> 1) are not eligible
* Female patients who are pregnant are ineligible
* Lactating females are not eligible unless they have agreed not to breastfeed their infants
* Female patients of childbearing potential are not eligible unless a negative pregnancy test result has been obtained
* Sexually active patients of reproductive potential are not eligible unless they have agreed to use an effective contraceptive method for the duration of their study participation

Primary outcomes:
measure: The Tolerability of BuMel Regimen
timeFrame: Up to 28 days post-consolidation therapy, up to 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
measure: Incidence of Non-hematologic Organ Toxicity (Grade 3 and Higher) and All Cause Mortality Graded According to CTC v4.0
timeFrame: Up to 180 days
measure: Response Rate Determined Using the International Response Criteria
timeFrame: Up to 5 years
measure: EFS
timeFrame: Up to 5 years
measure: Overall Survival
timeFrame: Up to 5 years
measure: First Dose Area Under the Curve (AUC) and Average Daily AUC for Busulfan
timeFrame: Within 28 days following consolidation
measure: Percentage of Centrally Reviewed Post-course 4 MIBG Scans Reporting a Curie Score Considered to Have Been Determined in "Real Time"
timeFrame: Up to week 12 (course 4 of induction therapy)
measure: Percentage of MIBG Scans Receiving Institutionally and Centrally Reviewed and Automated Advanced Assisted Scoring Platform Curie Scores Within 1 Unit of Each Other
timeFrame: Up to week 12 (course 4 of induction therapy)
measure: Proportion of High-risk Neuroblastoma Patients for Whom ALK Status Can be Obtained
timeFrame: Within 6 weeks of diagnosis
measure: Proportion of High-risk Neuroblastoma Patients With MYCN Non-amplified Tumors for Whom Molecular Profiling Results Can be Obtained
timeFrame: Within 8 weeks of diagnosis
measure: Melphalan Pharmacokinetics and the Combination of Busulfan and Melphalan AUC (Optional)
timeFrame: Within 28 days post-consolidation
Locations:
city: Birmingham
country: United States
facility: Children's Hospital of Alabama
state: Alabama
city: Downey
country: United States
facility: Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center
state: California
city: Duarte
country: United States
facility: City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
state: California
city: Loma Linda
country: United States
facility: Loma Linda University Medical Center
state: California
city: Los Angeles
country: United States
facility: Children's Hospital Los Angeles
state: California
city: Oakland
country: United States
facility: UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
state: California
city: Oakland
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facility: Kaiser Permanente-Oakland
state: California
city: Orange
country: United States
facility: Children's Hospital of Orange County
state: California
city: Palo Alto
country: United States
facility: Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford University
state: California
city: Sacramento
country: United States
facility: University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
state: California
city: San Diego
country: United States
facility: Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego
state: California
city: San Francisco
country: United States
facility: UCSF Medical Center-Parnassus
state: California
city: San Francisco
country: United States
facility: UCSF Medical Center-Mission Bay
state: California
city: Aurora
country: United States
facility: Children's Hospital Colorado
state: Colorado
city: Hartford
country: United States
facility: Connecticut Children's Medical Center
state: Connecticut
city: Wilmington
country: United States
facility: Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children
state: Delaware
city: Washington
country: United States
facility: MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
state: District of Columbia
city: Washington
country: United States
facility: Children's National Medical Center
state: District of Columbia
city: Fort Myers
country: United States
facility: Lee Memorial Health System
state: Florida
city: Fort Myers
country: United States
facility: Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida
state: Florida
city: Gainesville
country: United States
facility: University of Florida Health Science Center - Gainesville
state: Florida
city: Hollywood
country: United States
facility: Memorial Regional Hospital/Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital
state: Florida
city: Jacksonville
country: United States
facility: Nemours Children's Clinic-Jacksonville
state: Florida
city: Miami
country: United States
facility: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine-Sylvester Cancer Center
state: Florida
city: Miami
country: United States
facility: Miami Cancer Institute
state: Florida
city: Orlando
country: United States
facility: AdventHealth Orlando
state: Florida
city: Orlando
country: United States
facility: Nemours Children's Hospital
state: Florida
city: Pensacola
country: United States
facility: Nemours Children's Clinic - Pensacola
state: Florida
city: Saint Petersburg
country: United States
facility: Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
state: Florida
city: Tampa
country: United States
facility: Saint Joseph's Hospital/Children's Hospital-Tampa
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city: Atlanta
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facility: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - Egleston
state: Georgia
city: Augusta
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facility: Augusta University Medical Center
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city: Savannah
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facility: Memorial Health University Medical Center
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city: Chicago
country: United States
facility: Lurie Children's Hospital-Chicago
state: Illinois
city: Chicago
country: United States
facility: University of Illinois
state: Illinois
city: Chicago
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facility: University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center
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city: Maywood
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facility: Loyola University Medical Center
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city: Peoria
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facility: Saint Jude Midwest Affiliate
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city: Springfield
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facility: Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
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city: Indianapolis
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facility: Riley Hospital for Children
state: Indiana
city: Indianapolis
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facility: Ascension Saint Vincent Indianapolis Hospital
state: Indiana
city: Des Moines
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facility: Blank Children's Hospital
state: Iowa
city: Lexington
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facility: University of Kentucky/Markey Cancer Center
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city: Louisville
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facility: Norton Children's Hospital
state: Kentucky
city: New Orleans
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facility: Children's Hospital New Orleans
state: Louisiana
city: Scarborough
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facility: Maine Children's Cancer Program
state: Maine
city: Baltimore
country: United States
facility: Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
state: Maryland
city: Baltimore
country: United States
facility: Johns Hopkins University/Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center
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city: Bethesda
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facility: Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
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city: Boston
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facility: Tufts Children's Hospital
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city: Boston
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facility: Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
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facility: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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facility: University of Minnesota/Masonic Cancer Center
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facility: University of Mississippi Medical Center
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city: Kansas City
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state: Missouri
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facility: Mercy Hospital Saint Louis
state: Missouri
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facility: Children's Hospital and Medical Center of Omaha
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facility: University of Nebraska Medical Center
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facility: Alliance for Childhood Diseases/Cure 4 the Kids Foundation
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facility: Nevada Cancer Research Foundation NCORP
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state: North Carolina
city: Cincinnati
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facility: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
state: Ohio
city: Cleveland
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facility: Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital
state: Ohio
city: Cleveland
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state: Ohio
city: Columbus
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state: Ohio
city: Dayton
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facility: Dayton Children's Hospital
state: Ohio
city: Toledo
country: United States
facility: ProMedica Toledo Hospital/Russell J Ebeid Children's Hospital
state: Ohio
city: Toledo
country: United States
facility: Mercy Children's Hospital
state: Ohio
city: Oklahoma City
country: United States
facility: University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
state: Oklahoma
city: Bethlehem
country: United States
facility: Lehigh Valley Hospital - Muhlenberg
state: Pennsylvania
city: Philadelphia
country: United States
facility: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
state: Pennsylvania
city: Pittsburgh
country: United States
facility: Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
state: Pennsylvania
city: Charleston
country: United States
facility: Medical University of South Carolina
state: South Carolina
city: Columbia
country: United States
facility: Prisma Health Richland Hospital
state: South Carolina
city: Greenville
country: United States
facility: BI-LO Charities Children's Cancer Center
state: South Carolina
city: Chattanooga
country: United States
facility: T C Thompson Children's Hospital
state: Tennessee
city: Knoxville
country: United States
facility: East Tennessee Childrens Hospital
state: Tennessee
city: Nashville
country: United States
facility: Vanderbilt University/Ingram Cancer Center
state: Tennessee
city: Dallas
country: United States
facility: UT Southwestern/Simmons Cancer Center-Dallas
state: Texas
city: Fort Worth
country: United States
facility: Cook Children's Medical Center
state: Texas
city: Houston
country: United States
facility: Baylor College of Medicine/Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
state: Texas
city: San Antonio
country: United States
facility: Methodist Children's Hospital of South Texas
state: Texas
city: San Antonio
country: United States
facility: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
state: Texas
city: Portsmouth
country: United States
facility: Naval Medical Center - Portsmouth
state: Virginia
city: Richmond
country: United States
facility: Virginia Commonwealth University/Massey Cancer Center
state: Virginia
city: Seattle
country: United States
facility: Seattle Children's Hospital
state: Washington
city: Spokane
country: United States
facility: Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital
state: Washington
city: Madison
country: United States
facility: University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center - University Hospital
state: Wisconsin
city: Marshfield
country: United States
facility: Marshfield Medical Center-Marshfield
state: Wisconsin
city: Perth
country: Australia
facility: Princess Margaret Hospital for Children
state: Western Australia
city: Vancouver
country: Canada
facility: British Columbia Children's Hospital
state: British Columbia
city: Winnipeg
country: Canada
facility: CancerCare Manitoba
state: Manitoba
city: Halifax
country: Canada
facility: IWK Health Centre
state: Nova Scotia
city: Hamilton
country: Canada
facility: McMaster Children's Hospital at Hamilton Health Sciences
state: Ontario
city: Toronto
country: Canada
facility: Hospital for Sick Children
state: Ontario
city: Montreal
country: Canada
facility: The Montreal Children's Hospital of the MUHC
state: Quebec
city: Montreal
country: Canada
facility: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine
state: Quebec
city: Quebec
country: Canada
facility: CHU de Quebec-Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite Laval (CHUL)
city: Grafton
country: New Zealand
facility: Starship Children's Hospital
state: Auckland
Study officials:
affiliation: Children's Oncology Group
name: Mary Meaghan P Granger
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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