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Brain TumorNCT00077207

Carboplatin, Vincristine, and Temozolomide in Treating Children With Progressive and/or Symptomatic Low-Grade Glioma

A study testing carboplatin, temozolomide and vincristine sulfate in people with Brain Tumor and Central Nervous System Tumor, run by Children's Oncology Group at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as carboplatin, vincristine, and temozolomide, work in different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Giving more than one drug may kill more tumor cells. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages Up to 10 years
Conditions the study is for
Brain Tumor, Central Nervous System Tumor
What is being tested?
carboplatin, temozolomide and vincristine sulfate
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
66 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Jul 2004to Dec 2013
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages Up to 10 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically confirmed progressive and/or symptomatic low-grade glioma, including any of the following:
  • WHO grade I or II astrocytoma
  • Grade I or II oligodendrogliomas
  • Mixed oligodendrogliomas
  • Gangliogliomas
  • Measurable disease
  • Progressive and/or symptomatic supratentorial or spinal cord tumors that cannot be removed for anatomical reasons are allowed
  • Optic pathway tumors allowed provided there is evidence of progressive disease by MRI and/or symptoms of deteriorating vision, progressive hypothalamic/pituitary dysfunction, or diencephalic syndrome
  • Dorsally exophytic brainstem gliomas that were previously resected more than 50% are allowed provided the residual tumor shows progression (with or without symptoms)
  • No diffuse brain stem tumors
  • No type 1 neurofibromatosis

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

  • 10 and under

Performance status

  • ECOG 0-2
  • Lansky 50-100%

Life expectancy

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic

  • Hemoglobin ≥ 8.0 gm/dL
  • Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,000/mm^3
  • Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm^3

Hepatic

  • Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • ALT < 2.5 times ULN

Renal

  • Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate ≥ 70 mL/min OR
  • Creatinine ≤ 0.8 mg/dL (age 5 and under) OR ≤ 1.0 mg/dL (age 6 to10)

Other

  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 2 months after study participation

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

  • No concurrent immunomodulating agents

Chemotherapy

  • No other concurrent anticancer chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy

  • Prior corticosteroids allowed
  • No concurrent corticosteroids except for the treatment of increased intracranial pressure

Radiotherapy

  • Not specified

Surgery

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • Prior surgery allowed

Other

  • No other prior therapy

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • Childrens Oncology Group

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104

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About this study

Official title: A Pilot Study Using Carboplatin, Vincristine And Temozolomide For Children ≤ 10 Years With Progressive/Symptomatic Low-Grade Gliomas

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as carboplatin, vincristine, and temozolomide, work in different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Giving more than one drug may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: This pilot study is studying giving carboplatin and vincristine together with temozolomide in treating children with progressive and/or symptomatic low-grade glioma.

Read the detailed description

OBJECTIVES:

Primary

  • Determine the feasibility and toxicity of an induction and maintenance regimen comprising carboplatin, vincristine, and temozolomide in children with progressive and/or symptomatic low-grade gliomas.

Secondary

  • Determine response rate in patients treated with this regimen.
  • Determine 3-year progression-free survival and overall survival of patients treated with this regimen.
  • Correlate response and progression-free survival with the genomic profile of tumors in patients treated with this regimen.

OUTLINE: This is a pilot study.

  • Induction therapy: Patients receive carboplatin IV over 1 hour on days 1, 8, 15, and 22; vincristine IV on days 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, and 36; and oral temozolomide on days 43-47. Four weeks after the completion of induction therapy, patients achieving stable or responding disease proceed to maintenance therapy.
  • Maintenance therapy: Patients receive carboplatin and temozolomide as in induction therapy and vincristine IV on days 1, 8, and 15. Treatment repeats every 10 weeks for a total of 6 courses in the absence of disease progression.

Patients are followed every 3 months for 1 year, every 4 months for 1 year, every 6 months for 1 year, and then annually thereafter.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 30-50 patients will be accrued for this study within 2 years.

Keywords
untreated childhood cerebellar astrocytoma, untreated childhood visual pathway and hypothalamic glioma, childhood spinal cord neoplasm, childhood oligodendroglioma, childhood low-grade cerebral astrocytoma
Medical subject headings
Brain Neoplasms, Central Nervous System Neoplasms, Spinal Cord Neoplasms, Oligodendroglioma

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

Study groups in NCT00077207
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Treatment (carboplatin, vincristine sulfate, temozolomide)ExperimentalInduction therapy: Patients receive carboplatin IV (175/m2) over 1 hour on days 1, 8, 15, and 22; vincristine IV (1.5 mg/m2) on days 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, and 36; and oral temozolomide (200 mg/m2) on days 43-47. Four weeks after the completion of induction therapy, patients achieving stable or responding disease proceed to maintenance therapy. Maintenance therapy: Patients receive carboplatin (175/m2) and temozolomide (200 mg/m2) as in induction therapy and vincristine IV ((1.5 mg/m2) day 1 of weeks 10,11,12. Treatment repeats every 10 weeks for a total of 6 courses in the absence of disease progression.
Receives: Drug: carboplatin; Drug: temozolomide; Drug: vincristine sulfate

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Short Term Feasibility Success

    Success is defined as the completion of induction plus one cycle of maintenance within 24 weeks of enrollment without more than a 25% reduction in either carboplatin or temozolomide dosage.

    Failure to complete the induction and one cycle of maintenance within 24 weeks counts as a short-term-feasibility failure.

    Measured: 24 weeks

  2. Long Term Feasibility Success

    Success is defined as the completion of induction plus four cycles of maintenance within 60 weeks of enrollment without more than a 25% reduction in either carboplatin or temozolomide dosage.

    If the participant completes all therapy within 60 weeks the patient is a long-term feasibility success. As such, a patient who experiences short term feasibility failure can be classified as a long-term feasibility success.

    Measured: 60 weeks

Secondary outcomes (5)
  1. Number of Participants Who Experienced Toxic Death

    Primary safety endpoints are (1) the occurrence of toxic death, which is death during treatment that is not primarily attributable to disease progression, and (2) the occurrence of grade 4 allergy to carboplatin.

    Measured: Up to 6 years after the start of protocol therapy

  2. Number of Participants Who Experienced a Grade 3 or 4 Thrombocytopenia and/or Neutropenia.

    Occurence of grade 3 or 4 thrombocytopenia or neutropenia while receiving protocol therapy.

    Measured: Up to 18 months of protocol therapy

  3. Percent Probability of Progression-free Survival (PFS)

    Percentage probability of being alive and without the occurrence of disease progression 3 years following enrollment.

    Measured: 3 years

  4. Percentage Probability of Event-free Survival (EFS)

    Percentage probability of being alive and without the occurrence of disease progression or second malignant neoplasm 6 years following enrollment.

    Measured: Six years

  5. Total Number of Patients Experiencing a Response

    Response as complete response, partial response, stable disease, or progressive disease using three-dimensional imaging measurements (preferable) or two-dimensional imaging measurements, as well as the response in the context of multiple lesions or disseminated disease.

    Measured: Up to 18 months of protocol therapy

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted11 Feb 2004 (estimated)
  2. Study startJul 2004
  3. Primary completionMar 2010
  4. Study completionDec 2013

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
66 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT00077207
Sponsor's protocol ID
ACNS0223
Other IDs
CDR0000350005, COG-ACNS0223, NCI-2012-02572
Status last verified
Apr 2018
First submitted
10 Feb 2004
Last updated
16 May 2018
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Publications

  • Chintagumpala M, Eckel SP, Krailo M, Morris M, Adesina A, Packer R, Lau C, Gajjar A. A pilot study using carboplatin, vincristine, and temozolomide in children with progressive/symptomatic low-grade glioma: a Children's Oncology Group studydagger. Neuro Oncol. 2015 Aug;17(8):1132-8. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/nov057. Epub 2015 Apr 7.

    PubMed 25854526

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing carboplatin, temozolomide and vincristine sulfate in people with Brain Tumor and Central Nervous System Tumor, run by Children's Oncology Group at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 16 May 2018. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 2 Jul 2014). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Short Term Feasibility Success (time frame: 24 weeks). The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT00077207, which also lists 1 linked publication.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 16 May 2018.

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