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NCT07871864RecruitingPhase 3

Fight Osteosarcoma Through European Research Evolving Study Platform From Diagnosis to Relapse

FOSTER Evolving Study Platform

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 26 Oct 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

This clinical study is the initiative of the FOSTER (Fight OsteoSarcoma Through European Research) consortium and Gustave Roussy, which is the sponsor. Its aim is to evaluate the biology of tumour in greater depth by collecting samples of the tumour during the biopsy at diagnosis, and blood samples. This study is a platform study that evolves over time. This means that it allows for the evaluation of several treatments or therapeutic strategies within a single clinical trial, which can be modified and adapted over time. The FOSTER evolving study platform aim to implement a comprehensive strategy of clinical, biological, radiological, therapeutic integrated research from diagnosis to relapse, with the aim to improve survival of osteosarcoma patients of all age, through randomised therapeutic questions at different phase of treatment from diagnosis to relapse. The platform study makes it possible to evaluate several treatments for the same disease, on an ongoing basis, using a main protocol with adaptable arms. The FOSTER-CabOS trial (part 2 of FOSTER study) is a European Phase III clinical study . It assesses the efficacy of cabozantinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor, as a maintenance therapy post-standard treatment in osteosarcoma patients. The trial is randomized against Best Supportive Care to determine the effectiveness of cabozantinib in improving event-free survival. This maintenance therapy aims to prevent relapse among patients who have already received standard treatment for osteosarcoma.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Phase (registry)
Phase 3
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
530 (estimated)
First submitted
16 Sept 2026
Start date
7 Oct 2026
Primary completion date
Jan 2035
Lead sponsor
Gustave Roussy, Cancer Campus, Grand Paris
NCT number
NCT07871864

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional · Phase 3
  • Planned participants: 530
  • From 7 Oct 2026 to the primary completion date, Jan 2035
  • 77 sites in 8 countries
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

Built from the registry fields of ClinicalTrials.gov. It describes the study, not your situation.

Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Prior treatment

  • Recovery to National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (NCI-CTCAE) v5 Grade 0 or 1 level or recovery to baseline health status preceding the prior treatment from any previous drug/procedure related toxicity (except alopecia, anaemia, and hypothyroidism)
  • Interval between the last treatment either chemotherapy administration or surgical procedures or radiotherapy or thermoablation, (whichever occurred last) and the date of randomisation should be at least 4 weeks but no longer than 2 months;
  • Adequately controlled blood pressure (BP) with or without antihypertensive medications: BP 95th percentile for sex, age and height/length at screening (as per NHLBI (National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute) guidelines) and no change in antihypertensive medications within 1 week prior to start of treatment (C1D1). Patients aged \>18 years should have a BP ≤150/90 mmHg at screening and no change in antihypertensive therapy within 1 week prior to C1D1
  • Patients who are therapeutically treated with an agent such as warfarin or heparin/ Low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) will be allowed to participate provided that no prior evidence of underlying abnormality in coagulation parameters exists.
  • Provision of dated and signed written informed consent from patients or for minor, from their parents/ legal representatives, for the randomised trial prior to any study specific procedures, sampling and analyses..

Other illness

  • Disease in complete remission or with residual persistent stable disease according to RECIST criteria before randomisation (please refer 7.3.4 for the definition of the residual persistent stable disease )

Lab values

  • Adequate cardiac function: Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction (LVEF) ≥50% and/or fractional shortening (FS) \>28% at baseline as determined by echocardiography or multigated acquisition (MUGA) scan (performed only if echocardiography is not feasible)
  • Screening laboratory values must meet the following criteria (according to CTCAE v5) and should be obtained within 7 days prior to randomisation
    • Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1 x 109/L
    • Platelets ≥ 100 x 109/L
    • Haemoglobin ≥ 8.0 g/dL (a hemoglobin of less than 8.0 g/dl is acceptable if it is corrected by growth factor or transfusion before C1D1)
    • Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 x ULN or based on age/gender. If serum creatinine is greater than maximum serum creatinine for age/gender as described, then creatinine clearance (or radioisotope Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR)) must be \>60 ml/min/1.73 m2
    • Urine dipstick \< 2+ for proteinuria. Patients who have ≥2+ proteinuria on dipstick urinalysis should undergo a spot Protein/Creatinine ratio test that should be grade 2 (less or equal) per CTCAE v5.0
    • No clinical evidence of nephrotic syndrome
    • Alanine Aminotransferase/Aspartate Aminotransferase (ALT/AST) ≤ 2.5 x Upper limit of normal (ULN) in the absence of liver metastases or ≤ 5.0 x ULN in the presence of liver metastases
    • Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x ULN (except Gilbert Syndrome: \< 3.0 mg/dL) or ≤ 5.0 x ULN in the presence of liver metastases
    • Alkaline phosphatase (PAL) ≤2.5 x ULN (≤5 x ULN in patient with liver involvement of their cancer). If Alkaline phosphatase \> 2.5 ULN, Gamma-Glutamyl Transferase GGT tests must be performed; GGT \< 1.5 x ULN
    • Lipase ≤1.5 x ULN
    • INR (International Normalized Ratio) /PTT (Partial Thromboplatin Time) ≤1.5 x ULN
  • Women of childbearing potential or young women of childbearing potential and who started their puberty (menarche) must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test (minimum sensitivity 25 IU/L or equivalent units of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG)) done within 7 days prior to randomisation.

Age

  • Age ≥ 4 years old (when able to swallow tablet) ; no upper age limit
  • Effective methods of contraception should be used by male and female patients and their partners during therapy, and for at least 4 months after completing therapy. Because oral contraceptives might not be considered as "effective methods of contraception", they should be used together with another method, such as a barrier method, according to age and gynaecologist advice

Other

  • 1\. Low-grade osteosarcoma, parosteal or periosteal osteosarcoma, small cell osteosarcoma
  • FOR FOSTER-CabOS RANDOMISATION (part-2) :
  • Patient with a histologically proven and confirmed high-grade osteosarcoma, according to the criteria described in the last World Health Organization (WHO) classification of Soft Tissue and Bone Tumours, after the exclusion of all potential differential diagnoses, either by local pathologists with expertise in bone sarcomas, or through centralized revision in a referral centre, according to national rules.
  • First line systemic and local treatment of primary tumour (and metastasis when present) for localised or metastatic osteosarcoma must have been completed according to national guidelines (Mifamurtide is allowed according to centre's practices)
  • Performance status \< 2 for patient adult, or \>70 using Karnofsky or Lansky performance scores.
  • Patient fit to undergo protocol treatment and follow-up
  • Affiliation to a social insurance or equivalent regimen (if required in the country).

Who the study is looking for

  • Newly diagnosed, biopsy-proven, high-grade osteosarcoma,
  • Patient considered medically fit to receive systemic treatment,
  • Planned systemic therapy according to national guidelines and age
  • Written informed consent from patients or for minor, from their parents/ legal representatives, before enrolment and any study-related procedure.
  • Affiliation to a social insurance or equivalent regimen (if required in the country).

Criteria the registry did not label

  • REGISTRATION in FOSTER-Evolving study platfom, Part-1:

Age in the registry: 4 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (77)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Oncology
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AarhusDenmarkNot yet recruiting
Aarhus University Hospital, Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine
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AarhusDenmarkNot yet recruiting
Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine
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CopenhagenDenmarkNot yet recruiting
Herlev Hospital, Department of Oncology
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HerlevDenmarkNot yet recruiting
Hospital Universitario Cruces
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BarakaldoSpainNot yet recruiting
Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO)
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BarcelonaSpainNot yet recruiting
Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Pediatric and adolescent onco-haematology unit
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MadridSpainNot yet recruiting
Hospital Universitario del Niño Jesús
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MadridSpainNot yet recruiting
Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca
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MurciaSpainNot yet recruiting
Hospital Universitario de Canarias
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Santa Cruz de TenerifeSpainNot yet recruiting
Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocio
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SevilleSpainNot yet recruiting
Hospital Universitari i Politécnic La Fe
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ValenciaSpainNot yet recruiting
Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet
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ZaragozaSpainNot yet recruiting
HUS-Yhtymae
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HelsinkiFinlandNot yet recruiting
HUS-Yhtymae, Medical treatment and Clini-cal trial units
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HelsinkiFinlandNot yet recruiting
Pohjois-Savon hyvinvointialue
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KuopioFinlandNot yet recruiting
Pohjois-Pohjanmaan hyvinvointialue
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OuluFinlandNot yet recruiting
Pirkanmaan hyvinvointialue
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TampereFinlandNot yet recruiting
Varsinais-Suomen hyvinvointialue
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TurkuFinlandNot yet recruiting
CHU Amiens-Picardie - Site Sud
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AmiensFranceNot yet recruiting
CHU Angers
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AngersFranceNot yet recruiting
CHRU Besançon - Hopital Jean Minjoz - Service d'Oncologie Médicale
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BesançonFranceNot yet recruiting
CHU de Bordeaux - Groupe Hospitalier Pellegrin
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BordeauxFranceNot yet recruiting
Institut Bergonie
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BordeauxFranceNot yet recruiting
Chu Brest Hopital Morvan
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BrestFranceNot yet recruiting
Chu Caen Normandie
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CaenFranceNot yet recruiting
CHU François Mitterrand
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DijonFranceNot yet recruiting
CHU Grenoble, Hôpital Couple-enfant
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GrenobleFranceNot yet recruiting
CHU de la Réunion
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La RéunionFranceNot yet recruiting
Centre Oscar Lambret
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LilleFranceNot yet recruiting
CHU Limoges
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LimogesFranceNot yet recruiting
Centre Leon Berard
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LyonFranceNot yet recruiting
Hopital de la Timone - Service d'Hématologie et Oncologie Pédiatrique
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MarseilleFranceNot yet recruiting
Hopital de la Timone - Service d'Oncologie médicale
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MarseilleFranceNot yet recruiting
CHU Arnaud de Villeneuve
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MontpellierFranceNot yet recruiting
CHU Nantes - Hôpital Femme-Enfant-Adolescent
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NantesFranceNot yet recruiting
CHU Nice
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NiceFranceNot yet recruiting
Institut Curie
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ParisFranceNot yet recruiting
Hôpital Cochin
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ParisFranceNot yet recruiting
Hôpital Armand-Trousseau
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ParisFranceNot yet recruiting
CHU Poitiers
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PoitiersFranceNot yet recruiting
CHU Reims
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ReimsFranceNot yet recruiting
Centre Eugène Marquis
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RennesFranceNot yet recruiting
CHU Rennes - Hôpital Sud
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RennesFranceNot yet recruiting
CHU Charles Nicolle
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RouenFranceNot yet recruiting
CHU Saint Etienne Hôpital Nord
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Saint-EtienneFranceNot yet recruiting
INSTITUT DE CANCEROLOGIE DE L'OUEST - Site Saint-Herblain
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Saint-HerblainFranceNot yet recruiting
Centre Paul Strauss
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StrasbourgFranceNot yet recruiting
Hôpital de Hautepierre
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StrasbourgFranceNot yet recruiting
CHU Toulouse Hôpital des Enfants
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ToulouseFranceNot yet recruiting
Oncopole Claudius Regaud IUCT ONCOPOLE
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ToulouseFranceNot yet recruiting
CHU Tours Hôpital Bretonneau
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ToursFranceNot yet recruiting
Institut de Cancérologie de Lorraine
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Vandœuvre-lès-NancyFranceNot yet recruiting
CHRU Nancy Hôpital d'enfants
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Vandœuvre-lès-NancyFranceNot yet recruiting
Gustave Roussy
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VillejuifFranceRecruiting
IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli (Osteoncology, Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas and Innovative Therapies Unit)
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BolognaItalyNot yet recruiting
IRCCS Giannina Gaslini (Oncology Unit)
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GenovaItalyNot yet recruiting
Fondazione IRCC Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milano (Pediatric Oncology Unit)
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MilanItalyNot yet recruiting
Azienda Ospedale - Università Padova (Pediatric Oncohematology Unit)
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PadovaItalyNot yet recruiting
AOUP Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Pisana (Pediatric Onco-Hematology Unit)
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PisaItalyNot yet recruiting
IRCCS Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù (Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Gene and Cellular Therapy)
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RomaItalyNot yet recruiting
IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori Regina Elena (Experimental Clinic for Sarcomas, Rare Tumors, and Melanoma Unit)
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RomaItalyNot yet recruiting
Ospedale Infantile Regina Margherita - AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza (Pediatric Onco-Hematology Unit)
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TorinoItalyNot yet recruiting
University Medical Center Groningen
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GroningenNetherlandsNot yet recruiting
Leiden University Medical Center
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LeidenNetherlandsNot yet recruiting
Radboud University Medical Center
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NijmegenNetherlandsNot yet recruiting
Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology
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UtrechtNetherlandsNot yet recruiting
Instytut Matki i Dziecka
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WarsawPolandNot yet recruiting
Sahlgrenska University Hospital
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GothenburgSwedenNot yet recruiting
Sahlgrenska University Hospital , pediatric
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GothenburgSwedenNot yet recruiting
Linkoping University Hospital
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LinköpingSwedenNot yet recruiting
Skåne University Hospital
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LundSwedenNot yet recruiting
Skåne University Hospital , oncology for adults
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LundSwedenNot yet recruiting
Karolinska University Hospital
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StockholmSwedenNot yet recruiting
Norrlands University Hospital
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UmeåSwedenNot yet recruiting
Uppsala University Hospital
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UppsalaSwedenNot yet recruiting
Uppsala University Hospital , oncology for pediatrics
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UppsalaSwedenNot yet recruiting

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