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NeuroblastomaNCT02162732

Molecular-Guided Therapy for Childhood Cancer

A study testing Guided Therapy in people with Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma, run by Giselle Sholler at 19 sites in 2 countries.

Completed

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

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Trial summary

The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility (ability to be done) of experimental technologies to determine a tumor's molecular makeup. This technology includes a genomic report based on DNA exomes and RNA sequencing that will be used to discover new ways to understand cancers and potentially predict the best… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 13 months to 21 years
Conditions the study is for
Neuroblastoma, Medulloblastoma, Glioma
What is being tested?
Guided Therapy
Type of treatment
Medical device
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
186 participants
Where
19 sitesin 2 countries
Study dates
8 Jul 2014to 18 Jan 2024
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 13 months to 21 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult

Who may be able to join

  • Subjects must have proven pediatric cancer with confirmation at diagnosis or at the time of recurrence/progression and clinical determination of disease for which there is no known effective curative therapy or disease that is refractory to established proven therapies fitting into one of the following categories:
  • Neuroblastoma- Patients that have relapsed following standard of care therapy (such as high risk patients, patient presenting after age 15 months or MYCN amplified, and only following (for eligible patients) high-dose chemotherapy followed by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and maintenance therapy with retinoic acid and antibody therapy) or having progressed during standard of care therapy and non-responsive/progressive to accepted curative chemotherapy.
  • Brain Tumors
  • Medulloblastomas (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiation] and/or non-responsive/progressive on accepted curative therapy)
  • Gliomas (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery and/or radiation and/or chemotherapy] and/or non-responsive/progressive on accepted curative therapy)
  • Ependymomas (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery with or without radiation] and/or non-responsive/progressive on accepted curative therapy)
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  • Choroid plexus tumors (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery] and/or non-responsive/progressive on accepted curative therapy)
  • Craniopharyngiomas (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery or suppressive therapy] and/or non-responsive/progressive on accepted curative therapy)
  • Dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumors (DNETs) (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery] and/or non-responsive/progressive on accepted curative therapy)
  • Meningiomas (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery] and/or non-responsive/progressive on accepted curative therapy)
  • Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors (PNETs) (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, chemotherapy, and/or radiation] and/or non-responsive/progressive on accepted curative therapy)
  • Germ cell tumors (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, and/or radiation and/or chemotherapy] and/or non-responsive/progressive on accepted curative therapy)
  • Rare Tumors:
  • Soft tissue sarcoma Rhabdomyosarcoma (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, and/or radiation, chemotherapy] and/or non-responsive/progressive to accepted curative chemotherapy) Non-rhabdomyosarcoma (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, and/or radiation, chemotherapy] and/or non-responsive/progressive to accepted curative chemotherapy)
  • Bone Ewings sarcoma (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, and/or radiation, chemotherapy] and/or non- responsive/progressive to accepted curative chemotherapy) Osteosarcoma (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, chemotherapy] and/or non- responsive/progressive to accepted curative chemotherapy)
  • Renal Wilms tumor (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, and/or radiation, chemotherapy] and/or non- responsive/progressive to accepted chemotherapy) Renal cell carcinoma (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, chemotherapy] and/or non- responsive/progressive to accepted curative chemotherapy) Malignant rhabdoid tumor (At diagnosis, as there is no known curative therapy) Clear Cell Sarcoma- (At relapse after standard of care therapy [radiation, chemotherapy] and/or non- responsive/progressive to accepted curative chemotherapy) Germ Cell tumors (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, chemotherapy] and/or non-responsive/progressive to accepted curative chemotherapy)
  • Liver Tumors (At relapse after standard of care therapy [surgery, chemotherapy] and/or non- responsive/progressive to accepted curative chemotherapy)
  • Subjects must be age >12 months at enrollment
  • Subjects must be age ≤ 21 years at initial diagnosis
  • Subjects must have measurable disease as demonstrated by residual abnormal tissue at a primary or metastatic site (measurable on CT or MRI) at the time of biopsy; tumor must be accessible for biopsy. In addition, subjects with bone or bone marrow only disease expected to be >75% tumor are eligible to enroll.
  • Current disease state must be one for which there is currently no known effective therapy
  • Specimens will be obtained only in a non-significant risk manner and not solely for the purpose of investigational testing.
  • Lansky or Karnofsky Score must be ≥ 50
  • Subjects without bone marrow metastases must have an ANC > 750/μl to begin treatment.
  • Subjects with CNS disease must have been on a stable dose of steroids for 2 weeks prior to their biopsy and must not have progressive hydrocephalus at enrollment.
  • Adequate liver function must be demonstrated, defined as:
  • Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) for age AND
  • ALT (SGPT) < 10 x upper limit of normal (ULN) for age
  • A negative serum pregnancy test is required for female participants of child bearing potential (≥13 years of age or after onset of menses)
  • Both male and female post-pubertal study subjects need to agree to use one of the more effective birth control methods during treatment and for six months after treatment is stopped. These methods include total abstinence (no sex), oral contraceptives ("the pill"), an intrauterine device (IUD), levonorgestrol implants (Norplant), or medroxyprogesterone acetate injections (Depo-provera shots). If one of these cannot be used, contraceptive foam with a condom is recommended.
  • Informed Consent: All subjects and/or legal guardians must sign informed written consent. Assent, when appropriate, will be obtained according to institutional guidelines

Who cannot join

  • Subjects who have received any cytotoxic chemotherapy within the last 7 days prior to biopsy
  • Subjects who have received any radiotherapy to the primary sample site within the last 14 days (radiation may be included in treatment decision after biopsy).
  • Subjects receiving any investigational drug concurrently.
  • Subjects with uncontrolled serious infections or a life-threatening illness (unrelated to tumor)
  • Subjects with any other medical condition, including 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 subject's ability to sign or the legal guardian's ability to sign the informed consent, and subject's ability to cooperate and participate in the study

Trial locations and contacts

19 sites in 2 countries.

19 sites in 2 countries

United States18 sites
  • Dell Children's Blood and Cancer Center

    Austin, Texas, 78723

  • Medical University of South Carolina

    Charleston, South Carolina, 29425

  • Levine Children's Hospital

    Charlotte, North Carolina, 28204

  • Helen DeVos Children's Hospital

    Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49503

  • Connecticut Children's Hospital

    Hartford, Connecticut, 06106

  • Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Children's Hospital

    Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033

  • Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children

    Honolulu, Hawaii, 96813

  • Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers

    Houston, Texas, 77030

  • Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics

    Kansas City, Missouri, 64108

  • Arkansas Children's Hospital

    Little Rock, Arkansas, 72202

  • Children's Hospital and Clinics on Minnesota

    Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55404

  • Monroe Carrell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt

    Nashville, Tennessee, 37232

  • Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children

    Orlando, Florida, 32806

  • Randall Children's Hospital

    Portland, Oregon

  • Primary Children's Hospital

    Salt Lake City, Utah, 84113

  • Rady Children's Hospital

    San Diego, California, 92123

  • Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center

    St Louis, Missouri, 63104

  • The Children's Hospital at Montefiore

    The Bronx, New York, 10467

Other trials in United States

Lebanon1 site
  • American University of Beirut Medical Center

    Beirut

Other trials in Lebanon

About this study

Official title: Molecular-guided Therapy for the Treatment of Patients With Relapsed and Refractory Childhood Cancers

The purpose of this study is to test the feasibility (ability to be done) of experimental technologies to determine a tumor's molecular makeup. This technology includes a genomic report based on DNA exomes and RNA sequencing that will be used to discover new ways to understand cancers and potentially predict the best treatments for patients with cancer in the future.

Being tested
Guided Therapy
Medical subject headings
Neuroblastoma, Medulloblastoma, Glioma, Ependymoma, Choroid Plexus Neoplasms, Craniopharyngioma, Meningioma, Neuroectodermal Tumors, Primitive

What participants receive

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

  • Guided TherapyDevice

    A total of 200 neuroblastoma, brain tumor, and rare tumor patients will be treated. Guided therapy will allow the use of any therapeutic combination (up to 4 agents) provided it includes medications contained in the study report. All patients will be followed for survival, disease response, progression and safety. All patients will be treated according to the discretion of the treating oncologist and study committee (minimum 3 oncologists and one pharmacist). Extent of disease will be measured and assessed for changes throughout the course of the study and at 6-8 week intervals (every 2 cycles).

Study groups in NCT02162732
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Guided TherapyExperimentalA total of 200 neuroblastoma, brain tumor, and rare tumor patients will be treated. Guided therapy will allow the use of any therapeutic combination (up to 4 agents) provided it includes medications contained in the study report. All patients will be followed for survival, disease response, progression and safety. All patients will be treated according to the discretion of the treating oncologist and study committee (minimum 3 oncologists and one pharmacist). Extent of disease will be measured and assessed for changes throughout the course of the study and at 6-8 week intervals (every 2 cycles).
Receives: Device: Guided Therapy

What is being measured

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

  1. Days to Treatment Will be Used in Order to Determine Feasibility of Using Tumor Samples to Assess Genomic Sequencing Using Predictive Modeling to Make Real-time Treatment Decisions for Children With Relapsed/Refractory Cancers.

    The definition of feasibility is: Enrollment onto study, genomic profile, analysis and report generation completed, tumor board held with treatment decision, treatment review completed, start of treatment, and completion of 1 cycle of therapy.

    Measured: 2 years

Secondary outcomes (3)
  1. Number of Participants With an Unexpected Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety

    To determine the safety of allowing a molecular tumor board to determine individualized treatment plans

    Measured: Adverse Events were collected starting with the date of the first dose of study drug until 30 days after last dose of study drug, ongoing related adverse events were continued to be followed until resolution, on average of 4 years.

  2. Overall Response Rate (ORR) of Participants by the Presence of Radiologically Assessable Disease by Cross-sectional CT or MRI Imaging and/or by MIBG or PET Scans.

    To determine the activity of treatments chosen based on Overall response rate (ORR) using RESIST criteria. The assessment of response will include the initial measurable targets and will be performed after cycle 2, then after every other cycle. Per Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Criteria (RECIST v1.1) for target lesions and assessed by CT or MRI imaging and/or by MIBG or PET scans: Complete Response (CR), Disappearance of all target lesions; Partial Response (PR), >=30% decrease in the sum of the longest diameter of target lesions; Progressive Disease, At least a 20% increase in the sum of the disease measurements for measurable lesions, Stable Disease, Neither sufficient decrease to qualify for PR or sufficient increase to qualify for PD from study entry. Overall Response (OR) = CR + PR.

    Measured: Followed until off therapy, generally 4 years

  3. Progression Free Survival (PFS) Interval Will be Measured by Days and Compared to the PFS of Previous Chemotherapy Regimens Since Relapse for Each Patient.

    Time to progression (PFS), defined as the period from the start of the treatment until the criteria for progression are met taking as reference the screening measurements. Progression is defined using Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Criteria (RECIST v1.1), as at least a 20% increase in the sum of the disease measurements for measurable lesions, taking as reference the smallest disease measurement recorded since the start of treatment (nadir), and minimum 5 mm increase over the nadir or the appearance of one or more new lesions or appearance of positive bone marrow.

    Measured: From date of start of treatment until the date of first documented progression or date of death from any cause, whichever came first, assessed up to 4 years

Timeline

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

  1. First posted13 Jun 2014 (estimated)
  2. Study start8 Jul 2014
  3. Primary completion18 Jan 2024
  4. Study completion18 Jan 2024

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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
186 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT02162732
Sponsor's protocol ID
NMTRC009
Status last verified
Oct 2025
First submitted
11 Jun 2014
Last updated
3 Nov 2025
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Publications

  • Sholler GLS, Bergendahl G, Lewis EC, Kraveka J, Ferguson W, Nagulapally AB, Dykema K, Brown VI, Isakoff MS, Junewick J, Mitchell D, Rawwas J, Roberts W, Eslin D, Oesterheld J, Wada RK, Pastakia D, Harrod V, Ginn K, Saab R, Bielamowicz K, Glover J, Chang E, Hanna GK, Enriquez D, Izatt T, Halperin RF, Moore A, Byron SA, Hendricks WPD, Trent JM. Molecular-guided therapy for the treatment of patients with relapsed and refractory childhood cancers: a Beat Childhood Cancer Research Consortium trial. Genome Med. 2024 Feb 12;16(1):28. doi: 10.1186/s13073-024-01297-5.

    PubMed 38347552

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Guided Therapy in people with Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma, run by Giselle Sholler at 19 sites in 2 countries.

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

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 31 inclusion and 5 exclusion criteria. 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 3 Nov 2025. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 19 sites in United States, Lebanon. 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 5 Apr 2024). 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?

Days to Treatment Will be Used in Order to Determine Feasibility of Using Tumor Samples to Assess Genomic Sequencing Using Predictive Modeling to Make Real-time Treatment Decisions for Children With Relapsed/Refractory Cancers. (time frame: 2 years). 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 NCT02162732, 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 3 Nov 2025.

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