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RecruitingNCT07549646VATCHUpdated Oct 19, 2026

24VA021; VATCH Trametinib for Ras/MAPK Pathway VAs

A Phase 2 interventional study of Trametinib in Ras/MAPK Pathway Vascular Anomalies, Vascular Anomalies and Vascular Anomaly, sponsored by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Recruiting at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 2 Months to 30 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-19.

Sponsored by Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 4 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Aug 2025, registered Jan 2026).
  • Started Aug 2025; still recruiting 1 year 2 months later.
Updated Oct 19, 2026Now RecruitingSite recruiting status changed+3 moreGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
45
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
2 Months to 30 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness and safety of Trametinib (the "Study Drug") in patients with Ras/MAPK pathway driven vascular anomalies (VA). Trametinib has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of metastatic melanoma. Its use in this study is considered experimental because the FDA has not approved the study drug for treating people with VAs.

The study will enroll participants 2 months of age up to 30 years of age that have been diagnosed with Ras/MAPK pathway driven vascular anomalies.

Study participation will last up to 3 years and will involve regular study visits to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Philadelphia Campus. Participants will need to take the study drug Trametinib for at least 2 years, or up to 3 years in total, if there is a positive response. Participating in this research means you will attend up to 16 clinic visits. Most visits will take approximately 30 minutes, but some visits will take approximately 2 hours, because you will be asked to complete questionnaires about your experience. Participating in this research also means taking the study drug, having pictures taken, and completing study drug diaries. There is also an optional portion to this study that involves collecting blood for biomarker testing.

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Conditions studied

  • Ras/MAPK Pathway Vascular Anomalies
  • Vascular Anomalies
  • Vascular Anomaly

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Keywords

  • trametinib
  • vascular anomalies
  • complex vascular anomalies
  • Ras/MAPK pathway
  • CaNVAS
  • MEK inhibitor
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In context

Vascular Malformations

79 studies on the registry are indexed under Vascular Malformations; 33 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 45 is below the median of 55 across 49 interventional studies indexed under Vascular Malformations.

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Lead sponsor

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is the lead sponsor of 489 studies on the registry; 90 are open to participants now.

Of its 28 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 22 (79%) have results posted.

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

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
2 Months to 30 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  1. Signed and assent (when applicable)
  2. Males or females age > 2 months to \< 30 years at the time of informed consent.
  3. Have a documented Ras/MAPK-pathway variant.
  4. Have a symptomatic vascular anomaly in need of medical therapy.
  5. Have a disease-related lesion or lesions which can be measured
  6. Have a Lansky or performance status score of ≥ 50.
  7. Have acceptable organ function
  8. (For persons who can get pregnant) Have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 7 days prior to starting study medication.
  9. Must agree to the use an acceptable method of
  10. Subjects must be able to swallow tablets or liquid or use a nasogastric or gastric tube

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Subjects seeking treatment for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy without a vascular anomaly
  2. Prior medications that are not allowable per the study protocol
  3. Confirmed or possible infections
  4. History of hepatic sinusoidal obstructive syndrome (veno-occlusive disease of the liver) in the last 3 months.
  5. Active gastrointestinal (GI) disease
  6. Subjects with history of or current risk of retinal vein occlusion (RVO) or central serous retinopathy (CSR) or uncontrolled glaucoma or ocular hypertension.
  7. Allergic reactions: Subjects with a history of allergic reaction attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biological composition to trametinib are not eligible.
  8. History of prior and or ongoing cancer or ongoing investigations or treatment for cancer at time of .
  9. Subjects unable to comply with safety monitoring requirements.
  10. Subject may not be pregnant or breast feeding.
  11. Parents/guardian/LAR or subjects who, in the opinion of the Investigator, may be non-compliant with study schedules or procedures.
  12. Debulking or other major surgery performed within 30 days, at time of informed consent;
  13. bleeding related to VA: Grade 2 within 14 days or Grade 3 and more within 28 days before study treatment start as per v. 5.0.

    Sclerotherapy/embolization for vascular complications performed within 14 days before informed consent.

  14. Subjects not able to understand and to comply with study instructions and requirements (in patients, legally authorized representatives, or guardians as applicable) at time of informed consent.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(5)

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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.

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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.

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Clinically significant

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CTCAE grade

The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.

1
Mild.
2
Moderate.
3
Severe.
4
Life-threatening.
5
Death due to the event.

“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
45 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Main Study

    This arm will determine the proportion of subjects with an objective beneficial response to trametinib at the end of cycle 6 using an individualized response criterion based on radiologic assessment, Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) and Clinical Benefit Assessment (CBA). It will also determine the safety of oral trametinib in children and young adults with Ras/MAPK pathway driven vascular anomalies through various laboratory testing and clinical observations.

    Drug: Trametinib

Interventions

  • Subjects will receive oral trametinib daily in continuous 28-day cycles at 0.025 mg/kg/day with a maximum dose of 2 mg. A single dose reduction will be permitted in individual subjects who experience toxicity while still having evidence of clinical benefit and is assessed per the investigator.

    Also known as: TMT212, GSK1120212

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Percentage of subjects with a Substantial Response or Intermediate Response to Trametinib using an Individualized Response Criteria

    Individualized Response is a composite outcome determined by the combined results of the following 3 distinct study assessments after cycle 6: Radiologic evaluation, PROMIS Patient reported outcome (PRO) measurements, and Clinical Benefit Assessments (CBA). The results of these 3 distinct assessments will be evaluated using a set of specific criteria to determine the Individualized Response to treatment (i.e. "Substantial Response" = Improvement in Radiologic assessment by 20%, AND improvement in Global Health PROs by 3T-score points, AND improvement in at least 1 CBA, AND no clinically meaningful worsening of disease). Each subject will be determined to have: 1) Substantial Response, or 2) Intermediate Response, or 3) Stable disease, or 4) Worsening disease. A subject that is found to have a Substantial Response or Intermediate Response is considered to have a "beneficial response." Statistical analyses will be run to determine the percentage of subjects with a beneficial response.

    Time frame: Individualized Response Criteria will be evaluated after 6 cycles (each cycle is 28 days) and then every 6 months until the end of the study (approximately 1.5 years)

  2. Relative size of target lesion(s) as determined by radiologic assessment

    \*\*For subjects with radiologically evaluable disease only\*\* The target lesion(s) will be measured at screening using imaging modality of choice based on underlying vascular anomaly (e.g. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Magnetic Resonance Lymphangiography (MRL), US, X-rays, CT scan). MRI or MRL imaging will be recommended as primary imaging modality. For subjects with disease manifestation better characterized by alternative quantitative imaging modality (e.g. X-ray or ultrasound) this may be substituted and used as alternative imaging. Up to 3 lesions will be identified as target lesions and recorded and measured at screening. The same method of assessment and the same technique will be used to characterize each target lesion at the specified follow-up timepoints. CBA can be substituted for radiologic evaluation in subjects without radiologically evaluable disease.

    Time frame: Measured at screening and after cycles 6, 12, and 24. Each cycle is 28 days.

  3. Quality of life as evaluated by PROMIS Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) questionnaire T-scores

    Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) questionnaires will be distributed to subjects and caregivers (if applicable.) A raw score will be calculated for each PROMIS subscale. Raw scores will then be translated into a T-score metric with mean of 50 (standard deviation of 10). A higher T-score means more of the outcome being measured. Global health measures will be used as the primary outcome. Change in quality of life will be evaluated \& applied to the Individualized Response Criteria using the PROMIS global health T-scores.

    Time frame: Begin at screening and after cycles 6, 12, and 24. If subject enters extension phase, will continue to measure every 6 cycles until end of therapy (approximately 1 year). Each cycle is 28 days.

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

1 registry update since Sep 25, 2026
Status
Active, not recruiting→Recruiting
changed Oct 19, 2026
Sites
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is now Recruiting
Oct 19, 2026
Primary completion
Aug 27, 2029→Oct 27, 2029
Oct 19, 2026
Study completion
Aug 27, 2030→Oct 27, 2030
Oct 19, 2026
Contact
Study contact now listed: added C•••@chop.edu · •••9188. See the current contact
Oct 19, 2026
Site contacts
Changed at 1 site. See the sites
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  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, United StatesContact added C•••@chop.eduContact added (no phone or email listed)
Oct 19, 2026
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  1. Oct 19, 2026
    Active, not recruiting→Recruiting
    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is now Recruiting
    Primary completion Aug 27, 2029→Oct 27, 2029
    Study completion Aug 27, 2030→Oct 27, 2030
    Contact Study contact now listed: added C•••@chop.edu · •••9188. See the current contact
    Site contacts Changed at 1 site. See the sites
    Show the site
    • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Philadelphia, United StatesContact added C•••@chop.eduContact added (no phone or email listed)
    + 3 other changes: documents, verification date and references

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
NCT07549646
Collaborators
Novartis, CaNVAS (Consortium of Investigators of Vascular Anomalies), Baylor College of Medicine, Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Nemours Children's Health, Boston Children's Hospital, NYU Langone Health, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Oregon Health and Science University, Children's Hospital Colorado, Riley Children's Health, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles (CHLA), Seattle Children's Hospital, Children's Hospital of Orange County, Children's Wisconsin - Milwaukee, University of North Carolina, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, University of California, San Francisco, Columbia University, Children's Hospital of Pittsburg, Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 24, 2026
Start date
Aug 27, 2025
Primary completion
Oct 27, 2029 (estimated)
Completion
Oct 27, 2030 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 19, 2026

Study contacts

CVAP Research Team
Contact
CVAPResearch@chop.edu
267-426-9188

Oversight

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