A Phase 1/2 interventional study of Archive Sample Retrieval and Biospecimen Collection in Recurrent Childhood Ewing Sarcoma, Recurrent Childhood Malignant Solid Neoplasm and Recurrent Childhood Rhabdomyosarcoma, sponsored by Children's Oncology Group. Not yet recruiting. Open to participants aged 12 Months to 30 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-09-22.
Sponsored by Children's Oncology Group · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment
This phase I/II trial tests the safety, best dose, and effectiveness of CBX-12 in the treatment of pediatric patients (ages 12 months to 30 years) with rhabdomyosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, or other extracranial solid tumors that have come back after a period of improvement (relapsed) or that do not respond to treatment (refractory). CBX-12 is a conjugate drug made of a peptide linked to a drug called exatecan. Upon administration, the peptide portion of CBX-12 gets inserted into the membrane of tumor cells and then exatecan is released into the tumor cells. Exatecan inhibits deoxyribonucleic acid replication in tumors cells, leading to tumor cell death. CBX-12 may be a safe and effective treatment option for pediatric patients with relapsed or refractory rhabdomyosarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, or other solid tumors.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To estimate the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and/or recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) of pH low insertion peptide-exatecan conjugate CBX-12 (CBX-12) administered as an intravenous (IV) infusion once weekly in 21-day cycles to children with recurrent or refractory extracranial solid tumors. (Part A Phase 1 Dose Escalation) II. To define and describe the toxicities of CBX-12 administered on this schedule. (Part A Phase 1 Dose Escalation) III. To characterize the pharmacokinetics of CBX-12 in children and adolescents with recurrent or refractory extracranial solid tumors. (Part A Phase 1 Dose Escalation) IV. To estimate the preliminary antitumor activity of CBX-12 in a disease-specific expansion cohort of patients with recurrent or refractory rhabdomyosarcoma. (Part B Phase 2 Dose Expansion) V. To estimate the preliminary antitumor activity of CBX-12 in a disease-specific expansion cohort of patients with recurrent or refractory Ewing sarcoma. (Part B Phase 2 Dose Expansion)
SECONDARY OBJECTIVE:
I. To preliminarily determine the antitumor activity of CBX-12 across patients with recurrent or refractory solid tumors within the confines of a phase 1 study. (Part A Phase 1 Dose Escalation)
EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES:
I. To assess whether the activity of CBX-12 is influenced by tumor expression of SLFN11 and/or CAIX.
II. To assess whether the activity of CBX-12 is associated with an homologous recombination deficient (HRD) or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) repair deficient profile of tumors, as measured by whole exome sequencing.
III. To assess whether the activity of CBX-12 is influenced by the metabolic profile of tumors as measured by liquid chromatography (LC)-mass spectrometry (MS)/MS.
IV. To assess the biologic activity of CBX-12 by immunohistochemical assessments of pH2AX in paired optional tumor biopsies before and after treatment.
OUTLINE: This is a phase I, dose-escalation study of CBX-12 followed by a phase II dose-expansion study.
Patients receive CBX-12 intravenously (IV) over 60 minutes on days 1, 8, and 15 of each cycle. Cycles repeat every 21 days for up to 17 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo radiologic imaging throughout the study. Patients may undergo collection of bone marrow as clinically indicated and/or optional collection of blood samples on study.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up in months 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, and 60.
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Patients with recurrent or extracranial solid tumors are eligible. Patients must have had histologic verification of at original diagnosis or relapse
Patients must have fully recovered (grade \< 2) from the acute toxic effects of all prior anti-cancer therapy and must meet the following minimum duration from prior anti-cancer directed therapy prior to enrollment. If after the required timeframe, the numerical eligibility criteria are met, e.g., blood count criteria, the patient is considered to have recovered adequately
Cytotoxic chemotherapy or other anti-cancer agents known to be myelosuppressive: See Developmental Therapeutics (DVL) homepage on the Children's Oncology Group (COG) Members site for commercial and agent classifications. For agents not listed, the duration of this interval must be discussed with the study chair and the study-assigned research coordinator prior to enrollment
Stem cell infusions (with or without total body irradiation [TBI]):
A creatinine based on age/sex as follows:
A 24-hour urine ≥ 70 mL/min/1.73 m\^2 OR a (GFR) ≥ 70 mL/min/1.73 m\^2. GFR must be performed using direct measurement with a nuclear blood sampling method OR direct small molecule clearance method (iothalamate or other molecule per institutional standard)
Exclusion Criteria:
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Relapsed: the illness came back after treatment had worked. Refractory: it did not respond to treatment, or stopped responding while still on it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After a transplant from a donor, the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body, often the skin, gut or liver.
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
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 (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.
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.
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.
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 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.
“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.
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.
Able to have children. For women this usually means from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery; for men, unless permanently sterile. Read who the line is about — participants, women, men, or their partners.
Criteria about it usually ask 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.
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.
CYP3A is a group of enzymes, mainly CYP3A4, in the liver and gut that break down many medicines. Some medicines, supplements and foods (grapefruit, St John’s wort) slow them down or speed them up, which changes how much of a study drug stays in the body.
Studies list them so they can be avoided or switched; bring a list of everything you take, including supplements.
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.
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.
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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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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GVHD (graft-versus-host disease)
After a transplant from a donor, the donor’s immune cells attack the recipient’s body, often the skin, gut or liver.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hemoglobin (Hb)
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Reproductive potential
Able to have children. For women this usually means from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery; for men, unless permanently sterile. Read who the line is about — participants, women, men, or their partners.
Criteria about it usually ask for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
CYP3A (CYP3A4) inhibitors and inducers
CYP3A is a group of enzymes, mainly CYP3A4, in the liver and gut that break down many medicines. Some medicines, supplements and foods (grapefruit, St John’s wort) slow them down or speed them up, which changes how much of a study drug stays in the body.
Studies list them so they can be avoided or switched; bring a list of everything you take, including supplements.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Brain metastases
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Patients receive CBX-12 IV over 60 minutes on days 1, 8, and 15 of each cycle. Cycles repeat every 21 days for up to 17 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo radiologic imaging throughout the study. Patients may undergo collection of bone marrow as clinically indicated and/or optional collection of blood samples on study.
Procedure: Archive Sample Retrieval · Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Drug: pH Low Insertion Peptide-exatecan Conjugate CBX-12 · Procedure: Radiologic Imaging Procedure
Ancillary studies
Also known as: ARCHIVE RETRIEVING
Undergo collection of bone marrow and blood samples
Also known as: Biological Sample Collection, Biospecimen Collected, Sample Collection, Specimen Collection
Given IV
Also known as: Alphalex Conjugate CBX-12, Alphalex-exatecan Conjugate CBX-12, CBX 12, CBX-12, CBX12, Low pH Targeting Alphalex-exatecan Conjugate CBX-12, pHLIP-exatecan Conjugate CBX-12
Undergo radiologic imaging
Maximum tolerated dose (MTD) (part A phase 1 dose escalation)
The MTD will be defined as the maximum dose level at which fewer than one-third of dose limiting toxicity (DLT)-evaluable patients experience a cycle 1 DLT.
Time frame: During cycle 1 of part A (dose escalation phase; cycle length = 21 days)
Recommended phase 2 dose (part A phase 1 dose escalation)
Time frame: During cycle 1 of part A (dose escalation phase; cycle length = 21 days)
Incidence of adverse events (part A phase 1 dose escalation)
A descriptive summary of all toxicities will be reported. Toxicity tables will be constructed to summarize the observed incidence by type of toxicity and grade. A patient will be counted only once for a given toxicity for the worst grade of that toxicity reported for that patient. Toxicity information recorded will include the type, severity, time of onset, time of resolution, and the probable association with the study regimen.
Time frame: During cycle 1 of part A (dose escalation phase; cycle length = 21 days)
Pharmacokinetics (part A phase 1 dose escalation)
A descriptive analysis of pharmacokinetic parameters will be performed to define systemic exposure, drug clearance, and other pharmacokinetic parameters. The pharmacokinetic parameters will be summarized with simple summary statistics, including means, medians, ranges, and standard deviations (if numbers and distribution permit).
Time frame: During cycle 1 of part A (dose escalation phase; cycle length = 21 days)
Objective response rate (part B phase 2 dose expansion)
A responder is defined as a patient who achieves a best confirmed response of partial response or complete response on the study. Response is defined relative to baseline disease. For each disease cohort, response rates will be estimated by the uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimate, p-value, and 93% one-sided confidence interval consistent with a two-stage design.
Time frame: Up to 60 months
Objective response rate (part A phase 1 dose escalation)
A responder is defined as a patient who achieves a best confirmed response of partial response or complete response on the study. Response is defined relative to baseline disease. For each cohort, response rates will be estimated by the uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimate, p-value, and 93% one-sided confidence interval consistent with a two-stage design.
Time frame: During part A phase 1 dose escalation
Effect of tumor expression of SLFN11 and/or CAIX on pH low insertion peptide-exatecan conjugate CBX-12 (CBX-12) activity
Will evaluate whether the activity of CBX-12 is influenced tumor expression of SLFN11 and/or CAIX. A descriptive analysis of biomarkers will assess associations with disease response. The parameters will be summarized with simple summary statistics, including means, medians, ranges, and standard deviations (if numbers and distribution permit). All these analyses will be descriptive and exploratory and hypotheses generating in nature.
Time frame: Up to 60 months
Effect of homologous recombinant deficient (HRD) or deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) repair deficient profile on CBX-12 activity
Will evaluate whether the activity of CBX-12 is associated with and HRD or DNA repair deficient profile, measured by whole exome sequencing. A descriptive analysis of biomarkers will assess associations with disease response. The parameters will be summarized with simple summary statistics, including means, medians, ranges, and standard deviations (if numbers and distribution permit). All these analyses will be descriptive and exploratory and hypotheses generating in nature.
Time frame: Up to 60 months
Effect of metabolic profile on CBX-12 activity
Will evaluate whether the activity of CBX-12 is influenced by the tumor metabolic profile. A descriptive analysis of biomarkers will assess associations with disease response. The parameters will be summarized with simple summary statistics, including means, medians, ranges, and standard deviations (if numbers and distribution permit). All these analyses will be descriptive and exploratory and hypotheses generating in nature.
Time frame: Up to 60 months
pH2AX
Will evaluate the biologic activity of CBX-12 by immunohistochemical assessments of pH2AX. A descriptive analysis of biomarkers will assess associations with disease response. The parameters will be summarized with simple summary statistics, including means, medians, ranges, and standard deviations (if numbers and distribution permit). All these analyses will be descriptive and exploratory and hypotheses generating in nature.
Time frame: Before and after treatment
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Studies of the drug tested here: pH Low Insertion Peptide-exatecan Conjugate CBX-12