A Phase 2 interventional study of Laboratory Biomarker Analysis and Pharmacogenomic Study in Clear Cell Chondrosarcoma, Dedifferentiated Chondrosarcoma and Locally Advanced Chondrosarcoma, sponsored by National Cancer Institute (NCI). Active, not recruiting at 6 sites in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-08-13.
Sponsored by National Cancer Institute (NCI) · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment
This phase II trial studies how well vismodegib works in treating patients with chondrosarcomas that have spread to other places in the body and usually cannot be cured or controlled with treatment. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as vismodegib, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To evaluate the antitumor activity of GDC-0449 (vismodegib) in terms of 6-month clinical benefit rate (complete response, partial response, and stable disease, as per the revised Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors [RECIST] criteria 2009).
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. Best overall response (as per the revised RECIST criteria 2009). II. 1- and 2-year progression-free survival. III. 1- and 2-year overall survival. IV. GDC-0449 safety. V. Pharmacogenomics analysis of predictive markers of treatment outcome.
OUTLINE:
Patients receive vismodegib orally (PO) on days 1-28. Courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
After completion of study therapy, patients are followed up every 3 months.
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Women of childbearing potential are required to have a negative serum pregnancy test (with a sensitivity of at least 25 mIU/mL) within 7 days prior to initiation of GDC-0449 (serum or urine); a pregnancy test (serum or urine) will be administered every 4 weeks while on study within the 24-hour period prior to the administration of GDC-0449; a positive urine test must be confirmed by a serum pregnancy test; prior to dispensing GDC-0449, the investigator must confirm and document the patient's use of two contraceptive methods, dates of negative pregnancy test, and confirm the patient's understanding of the teratogenic potential of GDC-0449
Women of childbearing potential are defined as follows:
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Exclusion Criteria:
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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.
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.
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.
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
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.
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
The standard rules for measuring tumours on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.
“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).
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.
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It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).
Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.
Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
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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Measurable disease
The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.
The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.
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Line of therapy
A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.
“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.
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Life expectancy
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ECOG performance status
A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.
Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.
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Karnofsky performance status (KPS)
A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.
Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.
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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.
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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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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.
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.
ULN (upper limit of normal)
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
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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.
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Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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RECIST
The standard rules for measuring tumours on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.
“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.
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Childbearing potential
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
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Contraception
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
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Postmenopausal
Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).
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Informed consent
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Brain metastases
Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).
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Clinically significant
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HIV
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
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Patients receive vismodegib PO on days 1-28. Courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis · Other: Pharmacogenomic Study · Drug: Vismodegib
Correlative studies
Correlative studies
Also known as: PHARMACOGENOMIC
Given PO
Also known as: Erivedge, GDC 0449, GDC-0449, GDC0449, Hedgehog Antagonist GDC-0449
Clinical Benefit Rate (CBR) Based on Centralized Imaging Review as Per RECIST 1.1
CBR was defined as the percentage of participants with complete or partial responses (CR, PR) or stable disease (SD) per RECIST 1.1. CR was defined as disappearance of all non-nodal target lesions. PR was defined as at least a 30% decrease in the sum of diameter of all target lesions, taking as reference the baseline sum of diameters. Analysis of response was performed based on radiological centralized review. A 2-stage optimal Simon's design with 37 participants (first stage: 17 participants) was used. If 3 or less non-progressions (CR + PR + SD) at 6 months were observed during stage 1 (out of 17 participants), the trial would stopped early. Otherwise, 20 additional patients would be accrued for stage 2. If 11 or more non-progressions (out of 37 participants) were observed at the end of recruitment, further investigation of this therapy would be warranted.
Time frame: At 6 months after inclusion
Progression-free Survival
Will be analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier method. The median survival rates will be reported with a 95% confidence interval. Median follow-up will be calculated using the reverse Kaplan-Meier method.
Time frame: Time from start of treatment to time of progression or death, whichever occurs first, assessed up to 3 years
Overall Survival Per Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors Criteria 2009
Overall survival will be analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier method. The median survival rates will be reported with a 95% confidence interval. Median follow-up will be calculated using the reverse Kaplan-Meier method.
Time frame: Time from start of treatment to the time of death, assessed up to 3 years
Duration of Response
Will be described in responding subjects using descriptive statistics (median, extreme values, etc.).
Time frame: From the time measurement criteria are met for complete response or partial response (whichever is first recorded) until the first date that recurrent or progressive disease is objectively documented, assessed up to 3 years
Mutational Status of Patched 1 and Smoothened
The 6-months clinical benefit rate will be correlated with the mutational status of patched and smoothened in order to identify predictive factors of clinical benefit from vismodegib.
Time frame: Baseline
Expression Pattern of Hedgehog Signaling Molecules by Using Quantitative Reverse Transcription-polymerase Chain Reaction and Immunohistochemistry
The 6-months clinical benefit rate will be correlated with the expression score of hedgehog signaling molecules in order to identify predictive factors of clinical benefit from vismodegib.
Time frame: Baseline
| Milestone | Treatment (Vismodegib) |
|---|---|
| Started | 20 |
| Completed | 17 |
| Not completed | 3 |
| Withdrew: Death | 3 |
| Milestone | Treatment (Vismodegib) |
|---|---|
| Started | 45 |
| Completed | 39 |
| Not completed | 6 |
| Withdrew: Death | 5 |
| Withdrew: Protocol violation | 1 |
CBR was defined as the percentage of participants with complete or partial responses (CR, PR) or stable disease (SD) per RECIST 1.1. CR was defined as disappearance of all non-nodal target lesions. PR was defined as at least a 30% decrease in the sum of diameter of all target lesions, taking as reference the baseline sum of diameters. Analysis of response was performed based on radiological centralized review. A 2-stage optimal Simon's design with 37 participants (first stage: 17 participants) was used. If 3 or less non-progressions (CR + PR + SD) at 6 months were observed during stage 1 (out of 17 participants), the trial would stopped early. Otherwise, 20 additional patients would be accrued for stage 2. If 11 or more non-progressions (out of 37 participants) were observed at the end of recruitment, further investigation of this therapy would be warranted.
| percentage of participants | Treatment (Vismodegib) |
|---|---|
| First stage | 23.5 (6.8 to 49.9) |
| Second stage (Overall) | 25.6 (13.0 to 42.1) |
Will be analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier method. The median survival rates will be reported with a 95% confidence interval. Median follow-up will be calculated using the reverse Kaplan-Meier method.
Results for this outcome have not been posted.
Overall survival will be analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier method. The median survival rates will be reported with a 95% confidence interval. Median follow-up will be calculated using the reverse Kaplan-Meier method.
Results for this outcome have not been posted.
Will be described in responding subjects using descriptive statistics (median, extreme values, etc.).
Results for this outcome have not been posted.
The 6-months clinical benefit rate will be correlated with the mutational status of patched and smoothened in order to identify predictive factors of clinical benefit from vismodegib.
Results for this outcome have not been posted.
The 6-months clinical benefit rate will be correlated with the expression score of hedgehog signaling molecules in order to identify predictive factors of clinical benefit from vismodegib.
Results for this outcome have not been posted.
Collected over 14 months of treatment. At the time of primary analysis, 8 were still on treatment and 37 patients discontinued treatment.. Non-serious events are listed at a 5% frequency threshold.
| Group | Deaths | Serious | Other |
|---|---|---|---|
| Treatment (Vismodegib) | 23/45 (51.1%) | 22/45 (48.9%) | 45/45 (100%) |
| Event | Treatment (Vismodegib) |
|---|---|
| Neoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps) - Other, specifyNeoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps) | 5/45 |
| SepsisInfections and infestations | 3/45 |
| Adult respiratory distress syndromeRespiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders | 3/45 |
| ANEMIABlood and lymphatic system disorders | 2/45 |
| General disorders and administration site conditions - Other, specifyGeneral disorders | 2/45 |
| Tumor painNeoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps) | 2/45 |
| Surgical and medical procedures - Other, specifySurgical and medical procedures | 2/45 |
| Thromboembolic eventVascular disorders | 2/45 |
| ABDOMINAL PAINGastrointestinal disorders | 1/45 |
| CONSTIPATIONGastrointestinal disorders | 1/45 |
| Event | Treatment (Vismodegib) |
|---|---|
| DysgeusiaNervous system disorders | 29/45 |
| FatigueGeneral disorders | 24/45 |
| MyalgiaMusculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders | 23/45 |
| AlopeciaSkin and subcutaneous tissue disorders | 18/45 |
| NauseaGastrointestinal disorders | 17/45 |
| DiarrheaGastrointestinal disorders | 13/45 |
| Weight lossInvestigations | 12/45 |
| AnorexiaMetabolism and nutrition disorders | 12/45 |
| ANEMIABlood and lymphatic system disorders | 9/45 |
| Abdominal painGastrointestinal disorders | 9/45 |
All patients enrolled
| Age, Continuous(years) | Treatment (Vismodegib) |
|---|---|
| Median | 58.0 (27.0 to 85.0) |
| Sex: Female, Male(Participants) | Treatment (Vismodegib) |
|---|---|
| Female | 14 |
| Male | 31 |
| Race (NIH/OMB)(Participants) | Treatment (Vismodegib) |
|---|---|
| American Indian or Alaska Native | — |
| Asian | — |
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | — |
| Black or African American | — |
| White | — |
| More than one race | — |
| Unknown or Not Reported | — |
| Region of Enrollment(participants) | Treatment (Vismodegib) |
|---|---|
| France | 45 |
| ECOG Performance status(Participants) | Treatment (Vismodegib) |
|---|---|
| 0 | 20 |
| 1 | 20 |
| 2 | 5 |
| Weight(kilogram) | Treatment (Vismodegib) |
|---|---|
| Median | 76.5 (51.0 to 102.0) |
| Height(millimetres) | Treatment (Vismodegib) |
|---|---|
| Median | 173.0 (148.0 to 200.0) |
| Histological subtype(Participants) | Treatment (Vismodegib) |
|---|---|
| Conventional chondrosarcoma | 39 |
| Dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma | 5 |
| Clear cell chondrosarcoma | 1 |
| Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma | 0 |
2 further baseline measures are reported on the registry.
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