A Phase 2 interventional study of Stem Cell Transplant in Glioblastoma, Astrocytoma and Pineoblastoma, sponsored by Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Months to 25 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-08-05.
Sponsored by Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
The primary goal of this study is to determine if a stem cell transplant in patients with newly diagnosed high risk CNS tumors (glioblastoma multiforme [GBM], high grade astrocytoma, pineoblastoma, rhabdoid tumor, supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor [PNET]) increases overall survival.
2,132 studies on the registry are indexed under Glioblastoma; 464 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 24 is below the median of 36 across 1,753 interventional studies indexed under Glioblastoma.
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Adequate physiologic function, defined as follows:
Exclusion Criteria:
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The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).
Your pathology report is the document that shows this.
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
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Histologically or cytologically confirmed
The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).
Your pathology report is the document that shows this.
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Creatinine clearance (CrCl)
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ALT and AST (liver enzymes)
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Bilirubin
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hemoglobin (Hb)
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
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Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Platelets
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
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Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Procedure: Stem Cell Transplant
Group A: recurrent medulloblastoma, recurrent germ cell tumor * Cytoxan treatment * Stem cell autologous harvest Group B: GBM, high grade astrocytoma, rhabdoid tumors, pineoblastoma, or supratentorial PNET * Carboplatin and Etoposide treatment * Autologous stem cell harvest The preparatory regimen used for Stem Cell Rescue #1 will be Carboplatinum, VP-16 and Thiotepa. If the patient has recuperated his ANC to \>1,000 within 50 days after Stem Cell Rescue #1, (sustained without G-CSF support) a neuroradiographic evaluation will be performed. If there is lack of progression, the patient will then proceed to Stem Cell Rescue # 2 with Cyclophosphamide and Melphalan, followed by stem cell rescue.
To determine if the use of sequential myeloablative chemotherapy with peripheral blood stem cell rescue will increase the overall survival rate in patients with newly diagnosed high risk CNS tumors
Time frame: To end of study
The overall survival and progression free survival in children with recurrent CNS malignancies after obtaining a state of minimum residual disease with submyeloablative chemotherapy, surgery, and/or radiation.
Time frame: To end of study
To determine the progression free survival and overall survival using sequential myeloablative chemotherapy as compared to historical controls with single autologous stem cell rescue following myeloablative chemotherapy.
Time frame: To end of study
Determine the long term neurocognitive, endocrinologic, cardiopulmonary, and hematologic sequelae of sequential myeloablative chemotherapy and stem cell rescues in patients treated for high risk CNS and recurrent CNS tumors.
Time frame: To end of study
Determine the feasibility and utility of the myeloablative preparatory regimen of Carboplatinum, VP-16 and Thiotepa administered in an outpatient setting, and to determine the cost savings obtained via this strategy.
Time frame: To end of study
The record gives a start of Mar 1998, a primary completion of Jan 2008 and a completion of Sep 2009. It does not say whether these dates are actual or estimated.
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