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Silmitasertib (CX-4945) in Combination With Chemotherapy for Relapsed Refractory Solid Tumors

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of Silmitasertib and Irinotecan in Neuroblastoma, Ewing Sarcoma and Osteosarcoma, sponsored by Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Recruiting at 24 sites in 2 countries. Open to participants aged Up to 30 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-06.

Sponsored by Milton S. Hershey Medical Center · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Started Oct 2024; still recruiting 2 years later.
Updated Oct 6, 20261 site addedGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
104
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
Up to 30 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the investigational drug, silmitasertib (a pill taken by mouth), in combination with FDA approved drugs for solid tumors. An investigational drug is one that has not been approved by the U.S. Food \& Drug Administration (FDA), or any other regulatory authorities around the world for use alone or in combination with any drug, for the condition or illness it is being used to treat.

The goals of this part of the study are:

  • Establish a recommended dose of silmitasertib in combination with chemotherapy
  • Test the safety and tolerability of silmitasertib in combination with chemotherapy in subjects with cancer
  • To determine the activity of study treatments chosen based on:
  • How each subject responds to the study treatment
  • How long a subject lives without their disease returning/progressing
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Conditions studied

  • Neuroblastoma
  • Ewing Sarcoma
  • Osteosarcoma
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma
  • Liposarcoma
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In context

Neuroblastoma

675 studies on the registry are indexed under Neuroblastoma; 127 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 104 is above the median of 32 across 507 interventional studies indexed under Neuroblastoma.

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Lead sponsor

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center is the lead sponsor of 492 studies on the registry; 60 are open to participants now.

Of its 58 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 46 (79%) have results posted.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Up to 30 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.

Inclusion criteria

  1. Age: Less than 30 years old at initial diagnosis
  2. Pathology All subjects must have a confirmed diagnosis of tumor type. Phase I: solid tumors: Neuroblastoma, Ewing Sarcoma, Osteosarcoma, Rhabdomyosarcoma, Liposarcoma

    Phase II:

    • Relapsed/refractory Neuroblastoma
    • Relapsed/refractory Ewing sarcoma
  3. Tumor assessment:

    Disease assessment is required for eligibility and must be done after last dose of previous therapy and prior to first dose of study drug.

  4. Disease Status:

    Relapsed/Refractory Neuroblastoma Relapsed disease defined as neuroblastoma that was previously in remission after standard therapy (at least 4 cycles of aggressive multi-drug induction chemotherapy, with or without radiation and surgery, followed by immunotherapy, or according to a standard high-risk treatment/neuroblastoma protocol) and has now relapsed and is in any number of relapses.

    Refractory disease defined as High-risk neuroblastoma (as defined by INRG) that failed to achieve CR after at least 4 cycles of aggressive multi-drug induction chemotherapy, progression during upfront therapy or with disease remaining after standard immunotherapy.

    International Neuroblastoma Risk Group Staging System (INRG) High Risk NB defined as one of the following:

    1. Any age with International Neuroblastoma Risk Group (INRG) Stage L2, MS, or M with MYCN amplification
    2. Age ≥ 547 days and INRG Stage M regardless of biologic features
    3. Any age initially diagnosed with INRG Stage L1 MYCN amplified NBL who have progressed to Stage M without systemic chemotherapy
    4. Age ≥ 547 days of age initially diagnosed with INRG Stage L1, L2, or MS who have progressed to Stage M without systemic chemotherapy

    Relapsed/refractory Sarcoma Subjects that have relapsed following standard of care therapy or having progressed during standard of care therapy. Standard of care therapy for sarcoma includes multi-agent chemotherapy with local control consisting of either surgery or radiation therapy.

  5. Measurable or evaluable disease, including at least one of the following:

    • Measurable tumor by CT or MRI
    • MIBG or PET that is positive for disease
    • Bone Marrow /aspirate that is positive for disease
  6. Timing from prior therapy:

    Subjects must have fully recovered from the acute toxic effects of all prior anti- cancer therapy and be within the following timelines:

    1. Myelosuppressive chemotherapy: Must not have received within 2 weeks of enrollment onto this study.
    2. Small Molecule Inhibitors (anti-neoplastic agent): At least 2 weeks from the completion of therapy with a small molecule inhibitor.
    3. Immunotherapy: At least 4 weeks since the completion of any type of immunotherapy, e.g. tumor vaccines, CAR-T cells, anti-GD2 Monoclonal antibodies (ex. naxitamab, dinutuximab, etc.).
    4. Radiotherapy: At least 30 days since the last treatment except for radiation delivered with palliative intent to a non-target site.
    5. Stem Cell Transplant:

      • Allogeneic: No evidence of active graft vs. host disease
      • Allogeneic/Autologous: ≥ 2 months must have elapsed since transplant.
    6. MIBG Therapy: At least 6 weeks since treatment with MIBG therapy.
  7. Subjects must have a Lansky or Performance Scale score of >/= 50.
  8. Subjects must have adequate organ function at the time of enrollment:

    • Cardiac: Subjects must have a ≤ 480 msc.
    • Hematological: Hematological recovery as defined by ≥750/μL
    • Liver: Adequate liver function as defined by and ALT \<5x
    • Renal: Subjects must have adequate renal function defined as:
    • estimated (eGFR) as calculated from the Bedside Schwartz equation (for subjects \< 17 years old) (in units of mL/min/1.73 m2) or via radioisotope GFR of ≥ 70 mL/min/1.73 m2. The Bedside Schwartz equation is: [(0.413) X (Height in cm)] / SCr
    • estimated Glomerular Filtration rate (eGFR) as calculated from the Cockcroft and Gault formula (for subjects ≥17 years old (in units of mL/min/1.73 m2) or via radioisotope GFR of ≥ 70 mL/min/1.73 m2. The Cockcroft and Gault formula is: [(140-age) x (Wt in kg) x (0.85 if female)] / (72 x SCr)
    • OR a 24 hour urine ≥ 70 mL/min/1.73 m2
  9. Subjects of must have a negative serum pregnancy test. Subjects of childbearing potential must agree to use effective measures to avoid pregnancy.
  10. Written in accordance with institutional and FDA guidelines must be obtained from all subjects (or subjects' legal representative).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Drugs: Subjects who are currently receiving another investigational drug are excluded from participation.
  2. Anti-cancer Agents: Subjects who are currently receiving other anticancer agents are not eligible. Subjects must have fully recovered from the hematological and bone marrow suppression effects of prior therapy.
  3. Subjects who are currently receiving Vitamin K antagonists (warfarin).
  4. Subjects who are currently receiving the class of lipid-lowering medications HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins).
  5. Infection: Subjects who have an uncontrolled infection are not eligible until the infection is judged to be well controlled in the opinion of the investigator.
  6. Subjects who, in the opinion of the investigator, may not be able to comply with the safety monitoring requirements of the study, or in whom compliance is likely to be suboptimal, should be excluded.
  7. Subjects with any unrelated systemic illness (serious infections or significant cardiac, pulmonary, hepatic or other organ dysfunction), that in the opinion of the investigator would compromise the subject's ability to tolerate protocol therapy, put them at additional risk for toxicity or would interfere with the study procedures or results.
  8. Subjects with any of the following gastrointestinal disorders:

    1. Active malabsorption (e.g. short gut) syndrome.
    2. Uncontrolled diarrhea (excess of 4 stools/day)
    3. Gastritis, ulcerative colitis, Chron's disease or hemorrhagic coloproctitis
    4. History of gastric or small bowel surgery involving any extent of gastric or small bowel resection
  9. Lactating subjects are not eligible unless they have agreed to not breastfeed their infants. There is an unknown but potential risk for adverse events in nursing infants secondary to treatment of the nursing subject with silmitasertib. (NOTE: breast milk cannot be stored for future use while the nursing subject is being treated on study.)
  10. Subjects with a history of any other .
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(14)

Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.

Relapsed and refractory

Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.

Biopsy and archival tissue

A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.

Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.

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.

QT and QTc

On an ECG, the QT interval is the time the heart’s lower chambers take to activate electrically and recover in each beat. QTc is that time adjusted for heart rate (QTcF by Fridericia’s formula, QTcB by Bazett’s). Some medicines lengthen it, and a long QTc can raise the risk of a dangerous heart rhythm.

The study may name a correction formula and a limit in milliseconds, often around 450–480.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Clinically significant

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.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
104 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Phase I- Dose level 1

    Silmitasertib 600 mg/m2 twice a day plus Neuroblastoma: Regimen A: Irinotecan and Temozolomide Sarcoma: Regimen B: Vincristine, Irinotecan and Temozolomide

    Drug: Silmitasertib · Drug: Irinotecan · Drug: Temozolomide · Drug: Vincristine

  • Experimental
    Phase I- Dose level 2

    Silmitasertib 800 mg/m2 twice a day plus Neuroblastoma: Regimen A: Irinotecan and Temozolomide Sarcoma: Regimen B: Vincristine, Irinotecan and Temozolomide

    Drug: Silmitasertib · Drug: Irinotecan · Drug: Temozolomide · Drug: Vincristine

  • Experimental
    Phase II- Relapsed/refractory Neuroblastoma

    Silmitasertib RP2D twice a day plus Irinotecan and Temozolomide

    Drug: Silmitasertib · Drug: Irinotecan · Drug: Temozolomide

  • Experimental
    Phase II- Relapsed/refractory Ewing sarcoma

    Silmitasertib RP2D twice a day plus Vincristine, irinotecan and temozolomide

    Drug: Silmitasertib · Drug: Irinotecan · Drug: Temozolomide · Drug: Vincristine

Interventions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Phase I- Number of Participants with Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety and Tolerability

    To characterize the safety profile of silmitasertib in combination with chemotherapy

    Time frame: 2 years plus 30 days

  2. Phase I- Number of Participants with Dose Limiting Toxicities to determine RP2D

    To determine the Recommended Phase 2 Dose (RP2D) of silmitasertib in combination with chemotherapy

    Time frame: 21 days

  3. Phase II- Determine the Overall Response Rate (ORR) of Participants using INRC

    To evaluate the efficacy of silmitasertib in combination with chemotherapy in 2 disease cohorts, based upon Overall response rate (ORR)

    Time frame: 2 years

Secondary outcomes

  1. Phase I- Determine the Overall Response Rate (ORR) of Participants using INRC

    To evaluate the efficacy of silmitasertib in combination with chemotherapy in 2 disease cohorts based upon Overall response rate (ORR)

    Time frame: 2 years

  2. Number of participants with progression free survival (PFS) during study

    To evaluate the efficacy of silmitasertib in combination with chemotherapy in 2 disease cohorts based upon Progression Free Survival (PFS)

    Time frame: 2 years

  3. Phase II- Length of time that participants experience Overall Survival (OS)

    To evaluate the efficacy of silmitasertib in combination with chemotherapy in 2 disease cohorts based upon Overall Survival (OS)

    Time frame: 7 years

  4. Phase II- Number of Participants with Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety and Tolerability

    To characterize the safety profile of silmitasertib in combination with chemotherapy

    Time frame: 2 years plus 30 days

  5. Phase II - Determine the Disease Control Rate (DCR) of participants based on response

    Disease Control Rate (DCR): Defined as CR + PR + MR + SD for Neuroblastoma (INRC) and CR + PR + SD for Ewing Sarcoma (RECIST v1.1).

    Time frame: 2 years plus 30 days

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Study locations

24 of 24 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Timeline

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Started Oct 2024 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Nov 2030, 72 months after the start.

Of 35 phase 1/2 interventional studies under Neuroblastoma, half reached primary completion within 80 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 62 and three quarters within 115. This study's planned 72 months is close to that.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Aug 2, 2024
First posted
Aug 7, 2024
StartActual
Oct 30, 2024
Primary completionEst.
Nov 1, 2030
CompletionEst.
Nov 1, 2035
Last update
Oct 6, 2026
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
Sites
1 site added
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  • UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center · Sacramento, United States
Oct 6, 2026
Show all 1 update
  1. Oct 6, 2026
    1 site added
    Show site
    • UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center · Sacramento, United States
    + 1 other change: verification date

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT06541262
Responsible party
Giselle Sholler (Beat Childhood Cancer Chair, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center) — Principal investigator
First posted
Aug 7, 2024
Start date
Oct 30, 2024
Primary completion
Nov 1, 2030 (estimated)
Completion
Nov 1, 2035 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 6, 2026

Study contacts

BCC Enroll
Contact
BCCEnroll@pennstatehealth.psu.edu
7175310003
Chandrika Behura, MD
study chair · Penn State Health Children's Hospital

Oversight

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