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CompletedNCT02962167Updated Mar 20, 2024

Modified Measles Virus (MV-NIS) for Children and Young Adults With Recurrent Medulloblastoma or Recurrent ATRT

A Phase 1 interventional study of Modified Measles Virus and Modified Measles Virus Lumbar Puncture in Medulloblastoma, Childhood, Recurrent, Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor and Medulloblastoma Recurrent, sponsored by Sabine Mueller, MD, PhD. Completed at 8 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 12 Months to 39 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-03-20.

Sponsored by Sabine Mueller, MD, PhD · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was May 2023, 3 years 6 months ago, and no results have been posted to the registry.
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
34
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
12 Months to 39 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a three arm Phase I study within the Pacific Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Consortium (PNOC).

This study will look to determine the safety and recommended phase 2 dose of the modified measles virus (MV-NIS) in children and young adults with recurrent medulloblastoma or atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (ATRT).

Read the detailed description

This is an open label, multi-center, Phase I study to assess the safety of administering MV-NIS directly into the tumor bed (for locally recurrent medulloblastoma or ATRT patients) or into the subarachnoid space (for disseminated recurrent medulloblastoma or ATRT patients).

For locally recurrent patients (patients in the first arm) MV-NIS will be directly administered into the tumor bed following a standard of care surgical resection. For patients with disseminated recurrence (patients in the second or third arm), MV-NIS will be injected via lumbar puncture (LP).

Patients in the second arm will receive a one-time administration of MV-NIS. Patients will be closely monitored for 30 days after injection, and then followed for evaluation of 6 month progressive free survival and overall response rate.

Patients in the third arm will receive two administrations of MV-NIS. Patients will be closely monitored for 56 days after injection, and then followed for evaluation of 4 month progressive free survival.

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Conditions studied

  • Medulloblastoma, Childhood, Recurrent
  • Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumor
  • Medulloblastoma Recurrent

Keywords

  • measles virus
  • recurrent medulloblastoma
  • recurrent ATRT
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In context

Medulloblastoma

317 studies on the registry are indexed under Medulloblastoma; 51 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 34 is close to the median of 31 across 255 interventional studies indexed under Medulloblastoma.

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Lead sponsor

Sabine Mueller, MD, PhD is the lead sponsor of 12 studies on the registry; 5 are open to participants now.

Of its 5 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 2 (40%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
12 Months to 39 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • For stratum A, patients must have local recurrent disease (defined as negative spine MRI and negative cytology within 21 days prior to study registration) and undergo resection of local recurrence as part of their standard of care. Children must have undergone what is considered the standard of care as upfront therapy including either surgery followed by high dose chemotherapy with stem cell rescue or multi-modality therapy of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
  • For stratum B, patients must have disseminated recurrent disease (defined as multifocal disease, positive spine MRI including and/or positive cytology within 21 days prior to study registration) and have adequate cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow based on spine MRI with no evidence of bulky disease or if bulky disease is present based on a CSF flow study per institutional guidelines. Children must have undergone what is considered the standard of care as upfront therapy including either surgery followed by high dose chemotherapy with stem cell rescue or multi-modality therapy of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
  • For stratum C, patients must have disseminated recurrent disease (defined as multifocal disease, positive spine MRI including leptomeningeal disease and/or positive cytology within 21 days prior to study registration) and have adequate cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow based on spine MRI with no evidence of bulky disease or if bulky disease is present based on a CSF flow study per institutional guidelines. Children must have undergone what is considered the standard of care as upfront therapy including either surgery followed by high dose chemotherapy with stem cell rescue or multi-modality therapy of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.

Prior Therapy:

  • The patient must have failed at least one prior therapy - surgery followed by high dose chemotherapy with stem cell rescue or multi-modality therapy of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy - prior to study registration. Patients must have fully recovered from the acute toxic effects of all prior chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or radiotherapy prior to entering this study.

    o Myelosuppressive chemotherapy: Patients must have received their last dose of known myelosuppressive anticancer chemotherapy at least three weeks prior to study registration or at least six weeks prior if nitrosourea.

    o Biologic agent: Patient must have recovered from any acute toxicity potentially related to the agent and received their last dose of the biologic agent ≥ 7 days prior to study registration.

  • For agents that have known adverse events occurring beyond 7 days after administration, this period must be extended to beyond the time during which adverse events are known to occur. The duration of this interval should be discussed with the study chair.
  • For biologic agents that have a prolonged half-life, the appropriate interval since last treatment should be discussed with the Study Chair prior to registration.

    • Monoclonal antibody treatment: At least three half-lives must have elapsed prior to registration. Such patients should be discussed with the study chair prior to registration. For bevacizumab, patients must have received last dose ≥ 32 days prior to study registration.
    • Bone Marrow Transplant: Patient must be:
  • ≥ 6 months since bone marrow transplant prior to registration
  • ≥ 3 months since autologous bone marrow/stem cell prior to registration
  • Radiation:

Patients must have:

  • Had their last fraction of local irradiation to primary tumor ≥2 weeks prior to registration for local palliative radiation therapy (XRT) (small port)
  • Had their last fraction of craniospinal irradiation ≥ 12 weeks prior to registration

    • Age ≥ 12 months to less than or equal to 39 years of age
    • ≥ 50 for patients ≥ 16 years of age, and Lansky ≥ 50 for patients \< 16 years of age (See Appendix A). 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 the performance score. Patients with pre-existing neurological deficits need to be stable prior to surgery or LP as determined by the investigator.
    • Cluster of Differentiation 4 (CD4) (>= 200/microliter)
    • Organ Function Requirements (within 7 days prior to study registration)
  • Adequate Bone Marrow Function Defined as:

    • Peripheral (ANC) ≥ 1000/mm3 and
    • count ≥ 100,000/mm3 (transfusion independent, defined as not receiving platelet transfusions for at least 7 days prior to enrollment).
  • Adequate Renal Function Defined as:

    • or radioisotope (GFR) greater than or equal to 70 milliliters (mL)/min/1.73 m2 or
    • A serum creatinine based on age/gender as follows:

Maximum Serum/Creatinine (mg/dL)

Age Male Female

    • 2 years 0.6 0.6
  1. to \<6 years 0.8 0.8

6 to \<10 years 1 1

10 to \<13 years1.2 1.2

13 to \<16 years1.5 1.4

  • 16 years 1.7 1.4 The threshold creatinine values in this table were derived from the Schwartz formula for estimating GFR utilizing child length and stature data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

    • Adequate Liver Function Defined as:

      • (sum of conjugated + unconjugated) less than or equal to 1.5 x (ULN) for age and
      • serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase ()/alanine aminotransferase (ALT) less than or equal to 110 U/L and
      • Serum albumin less than or equal to 2 g/dL.
      • The effects of MV-NIS on the developing human fetus are unknown. For this reason, females of and males must agree to use adequate (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry, for the duration of study participation and 4 months after completion of MV-NIS administration. Should a female become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while she or her partner is participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately.
      • Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written document.

Exclusion criteria

-Exclusion Criteria

-Patients who have had chemotherapy within 3 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) or radiotherapy within 2 weeks prior to entering the study for local palliative XRT (small port) and within 12 weeks prior for patients that received craniospinal XRT

  • Patients who have not recovered from acute adverse events due to agents administered more than 4 weeks earlier

-Patients who are receiving any other agents

  • History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to measles virus vaccination

-Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements

-Female patients of must not be pregnant or breast-feeding.

-Female patients of childbearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test (within 7 days prior to study registration)

-Patients with known positivity

  • Patients with inability to return for follow-up visits or obtain follow-up studies required to assess toxicity to therapy
  • Exposure to household contact with known immunodeficiency
  • History of chronic or C infection
  • History of organ transplantation
  • Patients with evidence of extraneural disease
  • Patients on chronic or other agents. Note: Patients that are currently using inhaled, intranasal, ocular, topical or other non-oral or non-IV steroids may be eligible.
  • Inability to undergo magnetic resonance (MR) imaging to assess disease status
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(18)

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Leptomeningeal disease

Cancer that has spread to the leptomeninges, the thin layers covering the brain and spinal cord, and the fluid between them. It is not the same as brain metastases.

Criteria often treat it separately, and many studies leave it out even where treated brain metastases are allowed.

Allogeneic and autologous transplant

Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.

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.

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.

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.

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.

GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)

GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².

Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

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.

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.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
34 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Locally Recurrent Medulloblastoma/ATRT

    Patients must have local recurrent disease (defined as negative spine MRI and negative cytology within 21 days prior to study registration) and undergo resection of local recurrence as part of their standard of care. Patients must have undergone what is considered the standard of care as upfront therapy including either surgery followed by high dose chemotherapy with stem cell rescue or multi-modality therapy of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Patients will receive the modified measles virus, MV-NIS, directly into the tumor bed during standard of care resection.

    Biological: Modified Measles Virus

  • Experimental
    Disseminated Recurrent MB/ATRT

    Patients must have disseminated recurrent medulloblastoma (MB) or ATRT (defined as multifocal disease, positive spine MRI including leptomeningeal disease and/or positive cytology within 21 days prior to study registration) and have adequate CSF flow based on spine MRI with no evidence of bulky disease or if bulky disease is present based on a CSF flow study per institutional guidelines. Patients must have undergone what is considered the standard of care as upfront therapy including either surgery followed by high dose chemotherapy with stem cell rescue or multi-modality therapy of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Patients will receive the modified measles virus, MV-NIS, via lumbar puncture (modified measles virus lumbar puncture).

    Biological: Modified Measles Virus Lumbar Puncture

  • Experimental
    Disseminated Recurrent Medulloblastoma

    Patients must have disseminated recurrent medulloblastoma (defined as multifocal disease, positive spine MRI including leptomeningeal disease and/or positive cytology within 21 days prior to study registration) and have adequate CSF flow based on spine MRI with no evidence of bulky disease or if bulky disease is present based on a CSF flow study per institutional guidelines. Patients must have undergone what is considered the standard of care as upfront therapy including either surgery followed by high dose chemotherapy with stem cell rescue or multi-modality therapy of surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Patients will receive the modified measles virus, MV-NIS, via lumbar puncture (modified measles virus lumbar puncture).

    Biological: Modified Measles Virus Lumbar Puncture

Interventions

  • Administration of MV-NIS either into the tumor bed, if surgery to remove local tumor

    Also known as: MV-NIS

  • BiologicalModified Measles Virus Lumbar Puncture

    Administration of MV-NIS into the cerebrospinal fluid via lumbar puncture

    Also known as: MV-NIS LP

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of Participants with Adverse Events as Assessed by CTCAE v5.

    The safety of the modified measles virus will be assessed by monitoring for adverse events. Subjects will be monitored for adverse events via scheduled laboratory assessments, vital sign measurements, and physical examinations. The severity of any toxicity will be graded according to the NCI CTCAE v5.0. We will aggregate this information into the number of subjects with adverse events that are related to study treatment.

    Time frame: 12 months

  2. Recommended Phase 2 Dose.

    The maximum tolerated dose (MTD)/recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) will be the dose level at which 6 evaluable patients have been treated and at most 1 patient experienced a dose limiting toxicity (DLT) and the next highest dose level is too toxic or we have reached the protocol defined highest dose level.

    Time frame: 12 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Objective Response Rate (ORR)

    Any eligible patient that receives MV-NIS will be considered evaluable for clinical efficacy. The objective response criteria is that partial response (PR) and complete response (CR) must be confirmed at least 8 weeks after the initial PR or CR criteria is met.

    Time frame: 24 months

  2. Progression Free Survival (PFS)

    For patients who are still progression free at the time of analysis, PFS will be censored at the last contact date. PFS will be estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method.

    Time frame: 24 months

Other outcomes

  1. The distribution of MV-NIS

    Subjects who consent to this optional study will receive an injection of technetium-99m (TC-99m) (pertechnetate) and then undergo SPECT imaging to determine MV-NIS distribution after local injection or after administration into the subarachnoid space.

    Time frame: 12 months

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Study locations

8 sites
  • Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    Los Angeles, California 90027, United States
  • University of California, San Francisco
    San Francisco, California 94143, United States
  • Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
    Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States
  • Washington University in St. Louis
    Saint Louis, Missouri 63130, United States
  • Nationwide Children's Hospital
    Columbus, Ohio 43205, United States
  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
  • University of Utah
    Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
  • Seattle Children's Hospital
    Seattle, Washington 98105, United States
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Mar 20, 2024, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02962167
Lead sponsor
Sabine Mueller, MD, PhD
Collaborators
No More Kids With Cancer, The Matthew Larson Foundation for Pediatric Brain Tumors, Vyriad, Inc., Mayo Clinic
Responsible party
Sabine Mueller, MD, PhD (Associate Adjunct Professor, University of California, San Francisco) — Sponsor-investigator
First posted
Nov 11, 2016
Start date
Feb 22, 2017
Primary completion
May 10, 2023
Completion
May 10, 2023
Last update
Mar 20, 2024

Study contacts

Sabine Mueller, MD, PhD, MAS
study chair · University of California, San Francisco

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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