Chemotherapy for the Treatment of Patients With Newly Diagnosed Very Low-Risk and Low Risk Fusion Negative Rhabdomyosarcoma

Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma Clinical Trial

Official title:

A Prospective Phase 3 Study of Patients With Newly Diagnosed Very Low-Risk and Low-Risk Fusion Negative Rhabdomyosarcoma

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05304585
• Other study ID #: ARST2032
• Secondary ID: NCI-2022-01012AR
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 3
• Start date: August 4, 2022
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2030

Study information

• Verified date: April 2024
• Source: Children's Oncology Group
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Rhabdomyosarcoma is a type of cancer that occurs in the soft tissues in the body. This phase III trial aims to maintain excellent outcomes in patients with very low risk rhabdomyosarcoma (VLR-RMS) while decreasing the burden of therapy using treatment with 24 weeks of vincristine and dactinomycin (VA) and examines the use of centralized molecular risk stratification in the treatment of rhabdomyosarcoma. Another aim of the study it to find out how well patients with low risk rhabdomyosarcoma (LR-RMS) respond to standard chemotherapy when patients with VLR-RMS and patients who have rhabdomyosarcoma with DNA mutations get separate treatment. Finally, this study examines the effect of therapy intensification in patients who have RMS cancer with DNA mutations to see if their outcomes can be improved.

Description:

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To evaluate the failure free survival (FFS) of patients with very low-risk (VLR) rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) (fusion negative [FN], stage 1, clinical group [CG] I, MYOD1 wildtype [WT], TP53 [WT]) when treated with 24 weeks of vincristine and dactinomycin (VA). II. To evaluate the FFS of patients with low-risk (LR) RMS (FN, stage 1 CG II, or stage 2 CG I/II or CG III [orbit only], MYOD1 WT, TP53 WT) when treated with 12 weeks of vincristine, dactinomycin and cyclophosphamide (VAC) followed by 12 weeks of VA. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To evaluate the overall survival (OS) of patients with VLR RMS treated with 24 weeks of VA. II. To evaluate the OS of patients with LR RMS treated with 12 weeks of VAC followed by 12 weeks of VA. III. To demonstrate the feasibility of central molecular risk stratification of patients with newly diagnosed RMS in the context of a prospective clinical trial. EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES: I. To collect blood and tissue samples for banking at baseline, during treatment, at the end of therapy, and at the time of progression to bank for future research. II. To describe the methylation array profile of patients with fusion negative, low-risk rhabdomyosarcoma. III. To describe the outcomes of patients with VLR or LR RMS and MYOD1 or TP53 mutations treated with intensified therapy. OUTLINE: Patients are assigned to 1 of 2 regimens based on clinical features. Patients with positive mutation status are transitioned to a third regimen, Regimen M. REGIMEN VA: Patients with VLR RMS receive vincristine intravenously (IV) on day 1 of each cycle and days 8 and 15 of cycles 1, 3, 5, and 7 and dactinomycin IV over 1-5 minutes or over 10-15 minutes on day 1 of each cycle. Treatment repeats every 21 days for 8 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with MYOD1 or TP53 mutated tumors transition to Regimen M at cycle 2 (if mutation status is determined to be positive at week 3) or cycle 3 (if mutation status is determined to be positive after week 3). REGIMEN VAC/VA: Patients with LR RMS receive vincristine IV on day 1 of each cycle and days 8 and 15 of cycles 1-3. Patients also receive dactinomycin IV over 1-5 minutes or 10-15 minutes and cyclophosphamide IV over 60 minutes on day 1 of each cycle. Treatment repeats every 21 days for 4 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients then receive vincristine IV on day 1 of each cycle and days 8 and 15 of cycles 5-7 and dactinomycin IV over 1-5 minutes or over 10-15 minutes on day 1 of each cycle. Treatment repeats every 21 days for 4 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with MYOD1 or TP53 mutated tumors transition to Regimen M at cycle 2 (if mutation status is determined to be positive at week 3) or cycle 3 (if mutation status is determined to be positive after week 3). Patients may also undergo radiation therapy at cycle 5. REGIMEN M: Patients receive vincristine IV on day 1 of each cycle and days 8 and 15 of cycles 2-4, 7-8, and 11-12 and dactinomycin IV over 1-5 minutes or 10-15 minutes on day 1 of cycles 2-5 and 8-14. Patients also receive cyclophosphamide IV over 60 minutes on day 1 of each cycle. Treatment repeats every 21 days for 12-13 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients may also undergo radiation therapy at cycle 5. Patients undergo computed tomography (CT) scan, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), bone scan, positron emission tomography (PET) scan and tumor biopsy throughout the study.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 205
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2030
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2030
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A to 21 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• All patients must be enrolled on APEC14B1 (NCT02402244) and consented to the Molecular Characterization Initiative (Part A) prior to enrollment and treatment on ARST2032 (this trial).
• Patients must be =< 21 years at the time of enrollment.
• Patients must have newly diagnosed embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS), spindle cell/sclerosing RMS, or FOXO1 fusion negative alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (ARMS) (institutional FOXO1 fusion results are acceptable). RMS types included under ERMS include those classified in the 1995 International Classification of Rhabdomyosarcoma (ICR) as ERMS (classic, spindle cell, and botryoid variants), which are reclassified in the 2020 World Health Organization (WHO) classification as ERMS (classic, dense and botryoid variants) and spindle cell/sclerosing RMS (encompassing the historical spindle cell ERMS variant and the newly recognized sclerosing RMS variant). Enrollment in APEC14B1 is required for all patients.
• All patients will be evaluated for stage and clinical group. Note that clinical group designation assigned at the time of enrollment on study remains unchanged regardless of any second-look operation that may be performed.
• Patients will be eligible for the very low-risk stratum (Regimen VA) if they have Stage 1, CG I disease.
• Patients will be eligible for the low-risk stratum (Regimen VAC/VA) if they have Stage 1, CG II disease, Stage 2, CG I or II disease, or Stage 1, CG III (orbit only) disease.
• Paratesticular Tumors: Staging ipsilateral retroperitoneal lymph node sampling (SIRLNS) is required for all patients >= 10 years of age with paratesticular tumors who do not have gross nodal involvement on imaging.
• Extremity Tumors: Regional lymph node sampling is required for histologic evaluation in patients with extremity tumors.
• Clinically or radiographically enlarged nodes must be sampled for histologic evaluation.
• Patients must have a Lansky (for patients =< 16 years of age) or Karnofsky (for patients > 16 years of age) performance status score of >= 50. Patients who are unable to walk because of paralysis, but who are up in a wheelchair, will be considered ambulatory for the purpose of assessing performance score.
• Peripheral absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 750/uL (within 7 days prior to enrollment).
• Platelet count >= 75,000/uL (transfusion independent) (within 7 days prior to enrollment).
• Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate (GFR) >= 70 mL/min/1.73 m^2 or a serum creatinine (within 7 days prior to enrollment) based on

age/gender as follows:

• Age: 1 month to < 6 months; Maximum serum creatinine (mg/dL): 0.4 (male) : 0.4 (female)
• Age: 6 months to < 1 year; Maximum serum creatinine (mg/dL): 0.5 (male) : 0.5 (female)
• Age: 1 to < 2 years; Maximum serum creatinine (mg/dL): 0.6 (male) : 0.6 (female)
• Age: 2 to < 6 years; Maximum serum creatinine (mg/dL): 0.8 (male) : 0.8 (female)
• Age: 6 to < 10 years; Maximum serum creatinine (mg/dL): 1 (male) : 1 (female)
• Age: 10 to < 13 years; Maximum serum creatinine (mg/dL): 1.2 (male) : 1.2 (female)
• Age: 13 to < 16 years; Maximum serum creatinine (mg/dL): 1.5 (male) : 1.4 (female)
• Age >= 16 years; Maximum serum creatinine (mg/dL): 1.7 (male) : 1.4 (female)
• Total bilirubin =< 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) for age (within 7 days prior to enrollment), and
• If there is evidence of biliary obstruction by the tumor, then the total bilirubin must be < 3 x ULN for age.
• Note: For the purpose of this study, the ULN for SGPT (ALT) has been set to the value of 45 U/L.
• Serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT) (alanine aminotransferase [ALT]) =< 135 U/L (within 7 days prior to enrollment).
• All patients and/or their parents or legal guardians must sign a written informed consent.
• All institutional, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and National Cancer Institute (NCI) requirements for human studies must be met.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who have received prior chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy for cancer prior to enrollment. Surgical resection alone of previous cancer(s) is permitted.
• Patients who have received chemotherapy or radiation for non-malignant conditions (e.g., autoimmune diseases) are eligible. Patients must discontinue chemotherapy for non-malignant conditions prior to starting protocol therapy.
• Vincristine is sensitive substrate of the CYP450 3A4 isozyme. Patients must not have received drugs that are moderate to strong CYP3A4 inhibitors and inducers within 7 days prior to study enrollment.
• Patients unable to undergo radiation therapy, if necessary, as specified in the protocol.
• Evidence of uncontrolled infection.
• Female patients who are pregnant since fetal toxicities and teratogenic effects have been noted for several of the study drugs. A pregnancy test is required for female patients of childbearing potential.
• Lactating females who plan to breastfeed their infants.
• Sexually active patients of reproductive potential who have not agreed to use an effective contraceptive method for the duration of their study participation.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma
• Rhabdomyosarcoma

Intervention

Procedure:
• Biopsy
Undergo tumor biopsy
• Bone Scan
Undergo bone scan
• Computed Tomography
Undergo CT scan

Drug:
• Cyclophosphamide
Given IV

Biological:
• Dactinomycin
Given IV

Procedure:
• Magnetic Resonance Elastography
Undergo MRI
• Positron Emission Tomography
Undergo PET scan

Radiation:
• Radiation Therapy
Undergo radiation

Drug:
• Vincristine
Given IV

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Australia	Perth Children's Hospital	Perth	Western Australia
Australia	The Children's Hospital at Westmead	Westmead	New South Wales
Canada	Alberta Children's Hospital	Calgary	Alberta
Canada	University of Alberta Hospital	Edmonton	Alberta
Canada	IWK Health Centre	Halifax	Nova Scotia
Canada	Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine	Montreal	Quebec
Canada	CHU de Quebec-Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite Laval (CHUL)	Quebec
Canada	Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke-Fleurimont	Sherbrooke	Quebec
Canada	CancerCare Manitoba	Winnipeg	Manitoba
New Zealand	Christchurch Hospital	Christchurch
New Zealand	Starship Children's Hospital	Grafton	Auckland
United States	Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron	Akron	Ohio
United States	Albany Medical Center	Albany	New York
United States	Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest	Allentown	Pennsylvania
United States	C S Mott Children's Hospital	Ann Arbor	Michigan
United States	Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - Egleston	Atlanta	Georgia
United States	Children's Hospital Colorado	Aurora	Colorado
United States	Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas	Austin	Texas
United States	Johns Hopkins University/Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center	Baltimore	Maryland
United States	Sinai Hospital of Baltimore	Baltimore	Maryland
United States	Children's Hospital of Alabama	Birmingham	Alabama
United States	Saint Luke's Cancer Institute - Boise	Boise	Idaho
United States	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute	Boston	Massachusetts
United States	Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center	Boston	Massachusetts
United States	Montefiore Medical Center - Moses Campus	Bronx	New York
United States	Roswell Park Cancer Institute	Buffalo	New York
United States	UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center	Chapel Hill	North Carolina
United States	West Virginia University Charleston Division	Charleston	West Virginia
United States	Carolinas Medical Center/Levine Cancer Institute	Charlotte	North Carolina
United States	Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center	Charlotte	North Carolina
United States	University of Virginia Cancer Center	Charlottesville	Virginia
United States	Lurie Children's Hospital-Chicago	Chicago	Illinois
United States	University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center	Chicago	Illinois
United States	University of Illinois	Chicago	Illinois
United States	Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center	Cincinnati	Ohio
United States	Cleveland Clinic Foundation	Cleveland	Ohio
United States	Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital	Cleveland	Ohio
United States	Prisma Health Richland Hospital	Columbia	South Carolina
United States	Nationwide Children's Hospital	Columbus	Ohio
United States	Driscoll Children's Hospital	Corpus Christi	Texas
United States	Medical City Dallas Hospital	Dallas	Texas
United States	UT Southwestern/Simmons Cancer Center-Dallas	Dallas	Texas
United States	Geisinger Medical Center	Danville	Pennsylvania
United States	Dayton Children's Hospital	Dayton	Ohio
United States	Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children-Presbyterian Saint Luke's Medical Center	Denver	Colorado
United States	Blank Children's Hospital	Des Moines	Iowa
United States	Children's Hospital of Michigan	Detroit	Michigan
United States	Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center	Downey	California
United States	El Paso Children's Hospital	El Paso	Texas
United States	Inova Fairfax Hospital	Falls Church	Virginia
United States	Sanford Broadway Medical Center	Fargo	North Dakota
United States	Broward Health Medical Center	Fort Lauderdale	Florida
United States	Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida	Fort Myers	Florida
United States	Cook Children's Medical Center	Fort Worth	Texas
United States	University of Florida Health Science Center - Gainesville	Gainesville	Florida
United States	Helen DeVos Children's Hospital at Spectrum Health	Grand Rapids	Michigan
United States	BI-LO Charities Children's Cancer Center	Greenville	South Carolina
United States	East Carolina University	Greenville	North Carolina
United States	Hackensack University Medical Center	Hackensack	New Jersey
United States	Connecticut Children's Medical Center	Hartford	Connecticut
United States	Memorial Regional Hospital/Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital	Hollywood	Florida
United States	Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children	Honolulu	Hawaii
United States	Baylor College of Medicine/Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center	Houston	Texas
United States	M D Anderson Cancer Center	Houston	Texas
United States	Ascension Saint Vincent Indianapolis Hospital	Indianapolis	Indiana
United States	Riley Hospital for Children	Indianapolis	Indiana
United States	University of Iowa/Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center	Iowa City	Iowa
United States	University of Mississippi Medical Center	Jackson	Mississippi
United States	Nemours Children's Clinic-Jacksonville	Jacksonville	Florida
United States	Bronson Methodist Hospital	Kalamazoo	Michigan
United States	Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics	Kansas City	Missouri
United States	East Tennessee Childrens Hospital	Knoxville	Tennessee
United States	Alliance for Childhood Diseases/Cure 4 the Kids Foundation	Las Vegas	Nevada
United States	Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center/Dartmouth Cancer Center	Lebanon	New Hampshire
United States	University of Kentucky/Markey Cancer Center	Lexington	Kentucky
United States	Arkansas Children's Hospital	Little Rock	Arkansas
United States	Loma Linda University Medical Center	Loma Linda	California
United States	Miller Children's and Women's Hospital Long Beach	Long Beach	California
United States	Children's Hospital Los Angeles	Los Angeles	California
United States	Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA	Los Angeles	California
United States	Norton Children's Hospital	Louisville	Kentucky
United States	Covenant Children's Hospital	Lubbock	Texas
United States	UMC Cancer Center / UMC Health System	Lubbock	Texas
United States	Valley Children's Hospital	Madera	California
United States	University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center	Madison	Wisconsin
United States	Marshfield Medical Center-Marshfield	Marshfield	Wisconsin
United States	Loyola University Medical Center	Maywood	Illinois
United States	Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital	Memphis	Tennessee
United States	Nicklaus Children's Hospital	Miami	Florida
United States	University of Miami Miller School of Medicine-Sylvester Cancer Center	Miami	Florida
United States	Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota - Minneapolis	Minneapolis	Minnesota
United States	University of Minnesota/Masonic Cancer Center	Minneapolis	Minnesota
United States	The Children's Hospital at TriStar Centennial	Nashville	Tennessee
United States	Vanderbilt University/Ingram Cancer Center	Nashville	Tennessee
United States	Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital	New Brunswick	New Jersey
United States	Yale University	New Haven	Connecticut
United States	Ochsner Medical Center Jefferson	New Orleans	Louisiana
United States	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	New York	New York
United States	NYP/Columbia University Medical Center/Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center	New York	New York
United States	Newark Beth Israel Medical Center	Newark	New Jersey
United States	Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters	Norfolk	Virginia
United States	Advocate Children's Hospital-Oak Lawn	Oak Lawn	Illinois
United States	UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland	Oakland	California
United States	University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center	Oklahoma City	Oklahoma
United States	Children's Hospital and Medical Center of Omaha	Omaha	Nebraska
United States	University of Nebraska Medical Center	Omaha	Nebraska
United States	Children's Hospital of Orange County	Orange	California
United States	Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children	Orlando	Florida
United States	Nemours Children's Hospital	Orlando	Florida
United States	Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford University	Palo Alto	California
United States	Advocate Children's Hospital-Park Ridge	Park Ridge	Illinois
United States	Sacred Heart Hospital	Pensacola	Florida
United States	Saint Jude Midwest Affiliate	Peoria	Illinois
United States	Children's Hospital of Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
United States	Saint Christopher's Hospital for Children	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
United States	Phoenix Childrens Hospital	Phoenix	Arizona
United States	Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania
United States	Oregon Health and Science University	Portland	Oregon
United States	Rhode Island Hospital	Providence	Rhode Island
United States	Renown Regional Medical Center	Reno	Nevada
United States	Mayo Clinic in Rochester	Rochester	Minnesota
United States	University of Rochester	Rochester	New York
United States	Beaumont Children's Hospital-Royal Oak	Royal Oak	Michigan
United States	Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center	Saint Louis	Missouri
United States	Mercy Hospital Saint Louis	Saint Louis	Missouri
United States	Washington University School of Medicine	Saint Louis	Missouri
United States	Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital	Saint Petersburg	Florida
United States	Primary Children's Hospital	Salt Lake City	Utah
United States	Children's Hospital of San Antonio	San Antonio	Texas
United States	Methodist Children's Hospital of South Texas	San Antonio	Texas
United States	University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio	San Antonio	Texas
United States	Naval Medical Center -San Diego	San Diego	California
United States	Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego	San Diego	California
United States	UCSF Medical Center-Mission Bay	San Francisco	California
United States	Memorial Health University Medical Center	Savannah	Georgia
United States	Maine Children's Cancer Program	Scarborough	Maine
United States	Seattle Children's Hospital	Seattle	Washington
United States	Sanford USD Medical Center - Sioux Falls	Sioux Falls	South Dakota
United States	Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital	Spokane	Washington
United States	Southern Illinois University School of Medicine	Springfield	Illinois
United States	State University of New York Upstate Medical University	Syracuse	New York
United States	Madigan Army Medical Center	Tacoma	Washington
United States	Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and Health Center	Tacoma	Washington
United States	Saint Joseph's Hospital/Children's Hospital-Tampa	Tampa	Florida
United States	Scott and White Memorial Hospital	Temple	Texas
United States	ProMedica Toledo Hospital/Russell J Ebeid Children's Hospital	Toledo	Ohio
United States	Children's National Medical Center	Washington	District of Columbia
United States	Saint Mary's Hospital	West Palm Beach	Florida
United States	Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children	Wilmington	Delaware
United States	Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital	Winfield	Illinois
United States	UMass Memorial Medical Center - University Campus	Worcester	Massachusetts

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Children's Oncology Group	National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Countries where clinical trial is conducted

United States,  Australia,  Canada,  New Zealand, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Methylation array profile of patients with fusion negative, low-risk rhabdomyosarcoma	Summary statistics will be used to describe the methylation array profile of patients with fusion negative, low-risk rhabdomyosarcoma. Correlation between methylation patterns and clinical presentation, histology, and genetics will be evaluated.	Up to 5 years
Primary	Failure free survival (FFS) for very low risk patients	The Kaplan-Meier method will be used to estimate 3-year FFS along with 80% log-minus-log transformed confidence limits for very low risk (VLR) patients.	From study enrollment to disease progression, recurrence, or death as a first event, assessed up to 3 years
Primary	Failure free survival (FFS) for low risk patients	The Kaplan-Meier method will be used to estimate 3 year FFS along with 80% log-minus-log transformed confidence limits for low risk (LR) patients.	From study enrollment to disease progression, recurrence, or death as a first event, assessed up to 3 years
Secondary	Overall survival (OS) for very low risk patients	Log-rank test will be used to compare the OS of patients with VLR rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) treated with 24 weeks of vincristine, dactinomycin (VA) to the VLR RMS patients from ARST0331 and D9602 with the same inclusion criteria.	From study entry to death of any cause, assessed up to 5 years
Secondary	Overall survival (OS) for low risk patients	Log-rank test will be used to compare the OS from LR RMS patients to LR RMS patients from ARST0331 and D9602 with the same inclusion criteria.	From study entry to death of any cause, assessed up to 5 years
Secondary	Feasibility of central molecular risk stratification of patients assessed by the percentage of patients who have molecular testing results returned by 6 weeks	If the percentage of patients who have molecular testing results returned by 6 weeks is >= 80% then the central molecular risk stratification is considered feasible.	Up to 24 weeks