NCT02559778RecruitingPhase 2
Pediatric Precision Laboratory Advanced Neuroblastoma Therapy
A Study Using Molecular Guided Therapy With Induction Chemotherapy Followed by a Randomized Controlled Trial of Standard Immunotherapy With or Without DFMO Followed by DFMO Maintenance for Newly Diagnosed High-Risk Neuroblastoma
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 4 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
A prospective open label, multicenter study to evaluate the feasibility and acute toxicity of using molecularly guided therapy in combination with standard therapy followed by a Randomized Controlled Trial of standard immunotherapy with or without DFMO followed by DFMO maintenance for Newly Diagnosed High-Risk Neuroblastoma.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 500 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 22 Sept 2015
- Start date
- 1 Sept 2015
- Primary completion date
- 30 Sept 2030
- Lead sponsor
- Giselle Sholler
- Diseases
- Neuroblastoma, Childhood cancers
- NCT number
- NCT02559778
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
- Planned participants: 500
- From 1 Sept 2015 to the primary completion date, 30 Sept 2030
- 28 sites in 2 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
- Participants receiving any investigational drug concurrently.
Other illness
- Participants with any other medical condition, including but not limited to malabsorption syndromes, mental illness or substance abuse, deemed by the Investigator to be likely to interfere with the interpretation of the results or which would interfere with a participant's ability to sign or the legal guardian's ability to sign the informed consent, and participant's ability to cooperate and participate in the study
Age
- Participants who are 12-18 months of age with INSS Stage 4 and all stage 3 participants with favorable biologic features (ie, nonamplified MYCN, favorable pathology, and DNA index \> 1) are not eligible.
Other
- Lactating females are not eligible unless they have agreed not to breastfeed their infants.
Criteria the registry did not label
- Part A- CLOSED:
- Diagnosis: Participants must have a diagnosis of neuroblastoma or ganglioneuroblastoma (nodular or intermixed) verified by histology or demonstration of clumps of tumor cells in bone marrow with elevated urinary catecholamine metabolites. Participants with the following disease stages at diagnosis are eligible, if they meet the other specified criteria:
- Participants with newly diagnosed neuroblastoma with INSS Stage 4 are eligible with the following: i. Age \> 18 months (\> 547 days) regardless of biologic features or ii. Age 12-18 months (365-547 days) with any of the following 3 unfavorable biologic features (MYCN amplification, unfavorable pathology and/or DNA index = 1) or iii. MYCN amplification (\> 4-fold increase in MYCN signals as compared to reference signals), regardless of age or additional biologic features.
- Participants with newly diagnosed neuroblastoma with INSS Stage 3 are eligible with the following: i. MYCN amplification (\> 4-fold increase in MYCN signals as compared to reference signals), regardless of age or additional biologic features or ii. Age \> 18 months (\> 547 days) with unfavorable pathology, regardless of MYCN status.
- Participants 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.
- Participants must be age ≤ 21 years at initial diagnosis
- Participants 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.
- Specimens will be obtained only in a non-significant risk manner and not solely for the purpose of investigational testing.
- Ability to tolerate PBSC collection: No known contraindication to PBSC collection. Examples of contraindications would include 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.
- Part A and B both- Part A CLOSED, Part B- OPEN:
- Adequate Cardiac Function Defined As:
- Shortening fraction of ≥ 27% by echocardiogram, or
- Ejection fraction of ≥ 50% by radionuclide evaluation or echocardiogram.
- Adequate liver function must be demonstrated, defined as:
- Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) for age AND d. ALT (SGPT) \< 10 x upper limit of normal (ULN) for age
- ⦁ For participants \< 17 years old: estimated Glomerular Filtration rate (eGFR) as calculated from the Bedside Schwartz equation (in units of mL/min/1.73 m2) or via radioisotope GFR of ≥ 70 mL/min/1.73 m2. The Bedside Schwartz equation is: \[(0.413) X (Height in cm)\] / SCr
- ⦁ For participants ≥17 years old: estimated Glomerular Filtration rate (eGFR) as calculated from the Cockcroft and Gault formula (in units of mL/min/1.73 m2) or via radioisotope GFR of ≥ 70 mL/min/1.73 m2. The Cockcroft and Gault formula is: \[(140-age) x (Wt in kg) x (0.85 if female)\] / (72 x SCr)
- A negative serum pregnancy test is required for female participants of child bearing potential (≥13 years of age or after onset of menses)
- Post-pubertal study participants must be willing to use a highly effective contraceptive method (i.e., achieves a failure rate of \<1% per year when used consistently and correctly) from the time of informed consent (and assent, as applicable) until 6 months after study treatment discontinuation. Such methods include: combined (estrogen and progestogen containing) hormonal contraception associated with inhibition of ovulation (oral, intravaginal, transdermal), progestogen-only hormonal contraception associated with inhibition of ovulation (oral, injectable, implantable), intrauterine device (IUD), intrauterine hormone-releasing system (IUS), bilateral tubal occlusion, vasectomized partner, sexual abstinence.
- Informed Consent: All participants and/or legal guardians must sign informed written consent. Assent, when appropriate, will be obtained according to institutional guidelines.
- Part B- OPEN:
- All patients must have a pathologically confirmed diagnosis of neuroblastoma, be age ≤ 21 years at initial diagnosis, and classified as high risk by the criteria used by COG or SIOPEN at the time of diagnosis. Exception: patients who are initially diagnosed as non-high-risk neuroblastoma, but later converted (and/or relapsed) to high risk neuroblastoma are also eligible.
- Previous Therapy- participants must fit into one of the strata categories listed in section 10.5 to be eligible to enroll on Part B of this study.
- Pre-enrollment tumor survey:
- Prior to enrollment on Part B, a determination of mandatory disease staging must be performed. Tumor imaging studies including CT or MRI, MIBG or PET, and VMA/HVA (PET scan should be done for patients with prior disease that was MIBG non-avid). Bone marrow aspirates and biopsies are required.
- This disease assessment is required for eligibility and should be done preferably within 2 weeks, but must be done within a maximum of 4 weeks before first dose of study drug.
- Timing- Enrollment to occur prior to Day + 120 post-transplant, preferably when the participant is within 28 days after completing local radiation therapy (if given).
Age in the registry: - to 22 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (28)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alberta Children's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Calgary | Canada | Recruiting |
| CHU Sainte-Justine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Montreal | Canada | Recruiting |
| CHUQ Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Québec | Canada | Recruiting |
| CIUSSS de l'Estrie-CHUS Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Sherbrooke | Canada | Recruiting |
| Augusta University Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Augusta | United States | Recruiting |
| Dell Children's Blood and Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Austin | United States | Recruiting |
| University of Alabama/Children's of Alabama Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Birmingham | United States | Recruiting |
| St. Lukes Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Boise | United States | Completed |
| Medical University of South Carolina Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Charleston | United States | Recruiting |
| Levine Children's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Charlotte | United States | Recruiting |
| Advocate Aurora Research Institute Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Chicago | United States | Completed |
| Children's Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Dallas | United States | Recruiting |
| Helen DeVos Children's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Grand Rapids | United States | Recruiting |
| Hackensack University Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hackensack | United States | Completed |
| Connecticut Children's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hartford | United States | Recruiting |
| Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Children's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Hershey | United States | Recruiting |
| Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Honolulu | United States | Recruiting |
| Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Kansas City | United States | Completed |
| Arkansas Children's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Little Rock | United States | Recruiting |
| Norton Children's Research Institute/Affiliated with University of Louisville School of Medicine Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Louisville | United States | Recruiting |
| Nicklaus Children's Miami Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Miami | United States | Recruiting |
| Children's Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Minneapolis | United States | Recruiting |
| UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Oakland | United States | Recruiting |
| Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Orlando | United States | Recruiting |
| Randall Children's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Portland | United States | Recruiting |
| Rady Children's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | San Diego | United States | Recruiting |
| Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | St Louis | United States | Recruiting |
| St. Joseph's Children's Hospital Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Tampa | United States | Recruiting |
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