An Early Phase 1 interventional study of Niraparib and Resection/Treatment with Niraparib in Low-grade Glioma, IDH2 Gene Mutation and Recurrent Glioma, sponsored by Massachusetts General Hospital. Active, not recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-07-24.
Sponsored by Massachusetts General Hospital · Early Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment
This is a randomized, two-arm, open-label, phase 0 trial to assess intratumoral pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of niraparib in subjects with progressive IDH1 or IDH2 mutant glioma.
- This research study involves an experimental treatment called Niraparib.
This is a randomized, two-arm, open-label, phase 0 trial to assess intratumoral pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of niraparib in subjects with progressive IDH1 or IDH2 mutant glioma.
Participants will be randomized into one of two groups
Participants will receive study treatment for up to 12 Cycles (1 cycle is 28 days long) and will be followed for up to 5 years after the study treatment.
It is expected that about 16 people will take part in this research study.
This research study is a Pilot Study to investigate the study drug's (niraparib) activity in tumor tissue. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved niraparib for this specific disease but it has been approved for other uses.
1,397 studies on the registry are indexed under Glioma; 351 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 16 is below the median of 32 across 1,065 interventional studies indexed under Glioma.
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Participant must have adequate organ function, defined as follows:
Female participant has a negative urine or serum pregnancy test within 3 days prior to taking study treatment if of childbearing potential and agrees to abstain from activities that could result in pregnancy from screening through 180 days after the last dose of study treatment, or is of non-childbearing potential. Non-childbearing potential is defined as follows (by other than medical reasons):
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients randomized to arm A will receive niraparib daily and undergo tumor resection after 28 days (+/- 7 days) of treatment. The participants in both arms will resume/start on treatment with niraparib 2 -4 weeks after surgery . Participants will continue treatment for up to 12 total cycles of treatment or until tumor progression, unacceptable toxicity or withdrawal of consent
Drug: Niraparib · Drug: Resection/Treatment with Niraparib
Subjects in arm B will not receive niraparib prior to surgery. The participants in both arms will resume/start on treatment with niraparib 2 -4 weeks after surgery . Participants will continue treatment for up to 12 total cycles of treatment or until tumor progression, unacceptable toxicity or withdrawal of consent.
Drug: Resection/Treatment with Niraparib
Oral, daily, dosage per protocol,4 Weeks
Also known as: Zejula
The participants in both arms will resume/start on treatment with niraparib 2 -4 weeks after surgery. Treatment can be held for an additional 28 days to allow for recovery from surgery, at the investigator's discretion. Participants will continue treatment for up to 12 total cycles of treatment or until tumor progression, unacceptable toxicity or withdrawal of consent.
Also known as: Zejula
Drug concentration of niraparib
Drug concentrations of niraparib in enhancing and non-enhancing tumor tissue from subjects treated with the agent for one month prior to surgery.
Time frame: 1 year
PARP activity in resected tumors
PARP activity assessed by measuring levels of poly (ADP)-ribose (PAR)s
Time frame: 1 year
Number of Participants With Treatment-Related Adverse Events as Assessed by CTCAE v5.0"
NCI Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 5.0
Time frame: Up to one month after discontinuation of treatment
Median Progression-Free Survival
measured using RANO criteria for low grade glioma
Time frame: is defined as the time from randomization (or registration) to the earlier of progression or death due to any cause. Patients alive without disease progression are censored at date of last disease evaluation up to 5 years
Median Overall Survival
calculated with the Kaplan-Meier method and the Log-Rank test will be conducted to compare between the study arms
Time frame: Overall Survival (OS) is defined as the time from randomization (or registration) to death due to any cause, or censored at date last known alive up to 5 years
Duration of Overall Response
ORR will be calculated as the proportion of patients that are determined to be CR, PR or SD
Time frame: one month from start of treatment (Arm A only) and 2, 4, 6 and 12 months out from start of treatment after surgery up to 5 years
Response Rate in subjects with recurrent glioma after 1 month of treatment
measured by the Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (RANO) Working Group for low-grade gliomas
Time frame: 1 month
Response Rate in subjects with residual glioma after surgery
measured by the Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (RANO) Working Group for low-grade gliomas (only in patients with subtotal resection)
Time frame: Up to 5 years
D-2-hydroxyglutarate (2-HG) levels by MRS
D-2-hydroxyglutarate (2-HG) levels by MRS
Time frame: before and one-month post treatment with niraparib up to 3 months
Genomic profile
assessed by whole exome sequencing (WES) performed on resected tumor
Time frame: Up to 5 years
Plan to share: Yes — The Dana-Farber / Harvard Cancer Center encourages and supports the responsible and ethical sharing of data from clinical trials. De-identified participant data from the final research dataset used in the published manuscript may only be shared under the terms of a Data Use Agreement. Requests may be directed to Sponsor Investigator or designee. The protocol and statistical analysis plan will be made available on Clinicaltrials.gov only as required by federal regulation or as a condition of awards and agreements supporting the research.
Supporting information: Study protocol, Sap
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