NCT01878617Active, not recruitingPhase 2
A Clinical and Molecular Risk-Directed Therapy for Newly Diagnosed Medulloblastoma
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 13 Nov 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Historically, medulloblastoma treatment has been determined by the amount of leftover disease present after surgery, also known as clinical risk (standard vs. high risk). Recent studies have shown that medulloblastoma is made up of distinct molecular subgroups which respond differently to treatment. This suggests that clinical risk alone is not adequate to identify actual risk of recurrence. In order to address this, we will stratify medulloblastoma treatment in this phase II clinical trial based on both clinical risk (low, standard, intermediate, or high risk) and molecular subtype (WNT, SHH, or Non-WNT Non-SHH). This stratified clinical and molecular treatment approach will be used to evaluate the following: * To find out if participants with low-risk WNT tumors can be treated with a lower dose of radiation to the brain and spine, and a lower dose of the chemotherapy drug cyclophosphamide while still achieving the same survival rate as past St. Jude studies with fewer side effects. * To find out if adding targeted chemotherapy after standard chemotherapy will benefit participants with SHH positive tumors. * To find out if adding new chemotherapy agents to the standard chemotherapy will improve the outcome for intermediate and high risk Non-WNT Non-SHH tumors. * To define the cure rate for standard risk Non-WNT Non-SHH tumors treated with reduced dose cyclophosphamide and compare this to participants from the past St. Jude study. All participants on this study will have surgery to remove as much of the primary tumor as safely possible, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. The amount of radiation therapy and type of chemotherapy received will be determined by the participant's treatment stratum. Treatment stratum assignment will be based on the tumor's molecular subgroup assignment and clinical risk. The participant will be assigned to one of three medulloblastoma subgroups determined by analysis of the tumor tissue for tumor biomarkers: * WNT (Strata W): positive for WNT biomarkers * SHH (Strata S): positive for SHH biomarkers * Non-WNT Non-SHH, Failed, or Indeterminate (Strata N): negative for WNT and SHH biomarkers or results are indeterminable Participants will then be assigned to a clinical risk group (low, standard, intermediate, or high) based on assessment of: * How much tumor is left after surgery * If the cancer has spread to other sites outside the brain \[i.e., to the spinal cord or within the fluid surrounding the spinal cord, called cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)\] * The appearance of the tumor cells under the microscope * Whether or not there are chromosomal abnormalities in the tumor, and if present, what type (also called cytogenetics analysis)
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 660 (actual)
- First submitted
- 10 Jun 2013
- Start date
- 23 Jun 2013
- Primary completion date
- 13 Oct 2028
- Lead sponsor
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
- Diseases
- Childhood cancers
- NCT number
- NCT01878617
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
- Participants enrolled: 660
- From 23 Jun 2013 to the primary completion date, 13 Oct 2028
- 23 sites in 4 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Research participants with other clinically significant medical disorders that could compromise their ability to tolerate protocol therapy or would interfere with the study procedures or results history.
- Participants in the Stratum S maintenance chemotherapy portion of the study must meet the criteria below prior to start of vismodegib therapy:
- Male and female participants of reproductive potential must agree to effective contraception during and after study treatment. See Appendices I and II for further guidance for participants receiving vismodegib
- Completed protocol-directed radiation therapy
Other illness
- Must have no congenital heart disease
- No significant cognitive impairment operationalized as either an IQ \< 70 for children with St. Jude SJMB12 study baseline testing or based on clinician judgment baseline IQ missing
- No major sensory or motor impairment that would preclude valid cognitive testing (e.g., unresolved posterior fossa syndrome, blindness, poorly controlled seizures/photosensitive epilepsy, psychosis) or a major psychological condition that would preclude completion of the intervention (e.g., significant oppositionality, autism spectrum disorder, severe anxiety or depressive symptoms)
Lab values
- ANC ≥ 1000/mm\^3 (after G-CSF discontinued)
- Platelets ≥ 50,000/mm\^3 (without support)
- Hgb ≥ 8 g/dL (with or without transfusion support)
- Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 mg/dL
- Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5X the institutional ULN
- SGPT (ALT) ≤ 2.5X the institutional ULN
- SGOT (AST) ≤ 2.5X the institutional ULN
- Alkaline Phosphatase ≤ 1.5X the institutional ULN
- Serum albumin ≥ 2.5 g/dL
- Participants in the exercise intervention portion of the study must meet all criteria below:
Age
- Participants must be skeletally mature defined as females with a bone age ≥ 15 years and males with a bone age ≥ 17 years.
- Must be ≥ 5 years and \< 22 years at the time of enrollment
- ≥5 years at the time of remediation intervention consent or age is greater than or equal to 22 years and less than 40 years and patient has SHH medulloblastoma
Other
- CNS embryonal tumor other than medulloblastoma or PNET in the posterior fossa, for example, patients with diagnosis of Atypical Teratoid / Rhabdoid Tumor (ATRT), supratentorial PNET, pineoblastoma, ependymoblastoma, ETANTR are excluded.
- Participants must be Stratum S (SHH)
- Must be able to swallow pills
- BSA must be \>0.67 and \<2.5 m2
- Must be capable of performing the exercise intervention at the time of baseline assessment as determined by the treating physician.
- Participants in the cognitive remediation intervention portion of the study must meet all criteria below:
- English as primary language and training aide who speaks English available to participate in required sessions
Who the study is looking for
- Medulloblastoma or medulloblastoma variants including posterior fossa PNET as documented by an institutional pathologist.
- Participant's age meets one of the following: (1) Age greater than or equal to 3 years and less than 22 years of age at the time of diagnosis (may enroll on Strata W, S or N), OR (2) age is greater than or equal to 22 years and less than 40 years AND patient has SHH medulloblastoma (must enroll on Stratum S).
- No previous radiotherapy, chemotherapy or other brain tumor directed therapy other than corticosteroid therapy and surgery.
- Patients must begin treatment as outlined in the protocol within 36 days of definitive surgery (day of surgery is day 0; definitive surgery includes second surgeries to resect residual tumor).
- Adequate performance status: children \< 10-Lansky Score ≥ 30; children ≥ 10-Karnofsky ≥ 30 (except for posterior fossa syndrome).
- Females of child-bearing potential cannot be pregnant or breast-feeding. Female participants \> 10 years of age or post-menarche must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test prior to enrollment.
- Biological parent(s) of participant (child) enrolling on this protocol. These parents will be assigned to cohort P. The exclusion criteria below do not apply to this cohort.
Age in the registry: 3 years to 39 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (23)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queensland Children's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Brisbane | Australia | Unknown status |
| Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Melbourne | Australia | Unknown status |
| Perth Children's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Perth | Australia | Unknown status |
| Sydney Children's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Randwick | Australia | Unknown status |
| Children's Hospital at Westmead Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Westmead | Australia | Unknown status |
| Alberta Children's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Calgary | Canada | Unknown status |
| Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Montreal | Canada | Unknown status |
| The Hospital for Sick Children Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Toronto | Canada | Unknown status |
| Starship Children's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Auckland | New Zealand | Unknown status |
| Medical University of South Carolina Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Charleston | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dallas | United States | Unknown status |
| Duke Children's Hospital and Health Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Durham | United States | Unknown status |
| Cook Children's Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Fort Worth | United States | Unknown status |
| University of Florida Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gainesville | United States | Unknown status |
| Texas Children's Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Unknown status |
| St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Memphis | United States | Unknown status |
| Children's Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Minneapolis | United States | Unknown status |
| Yale University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | New Haven | United States | Unknown status |
| Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Orlando | United States | Unknown status |
| Lucille Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Palo Alto | United States | Unknown status |
| Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Philadelphia | United States | Unknown status |
| Rady Children's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Diego | United States | Unknown status |
| Children's National Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Washington D.C. | United States | Unknown status |
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