Status:
COMPLETED
Sunitinib in Treating Young Patients With Refractory Solid Tumors
Lead Sponsor:
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Conditions:
Central Nervous System Metastases
Childhood Central Nervous System Choriocarcinoma
Eligibility:
All Genders
2-21 years
Phase:
PHASE1
Brief Summary
This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of sunitinib in treating young patients with refractory solid tumors. Sunitinib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the...
Detailed Description
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and recommended phase II dose of sunitinib malate in pediatric patients with refractory solid tumors. II. Determine the toxicity of ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Inclusion Criteria:
- Histologically confirmed solid tumor (not required for patients with intrinsic brain stem tumors or optic pathway gliomas)
- Recurrent or refractory disease
- Measurable or evaluable disease
- No known curative therapy or therapy proven to prolong survival with an acceptable quality of life exists
- Patients with metastatic bone marrow disease are eligible but are not evaluable for hematologic toxicity
- Must not be refractory to red blood cell or platelet transfusions
- Primary CNS tumors or known CNS metastases allowed
- Neurological deficits must have been relatively stable for ≥ 1 week before study enrollment
- No imaging evidence of prior intracranial hemorrhage
- No evidence of new CNS hemorrhage on baseline MRI obtained within 14 days before study enrollment (ECHO gradient MRI sequences per institutional guidelines required for evaluation of CNS hemorrhage)
- The presence of small punctuate CNS hemorrhage on these scans will exclude a patient from participation
- No known bone marrow metastatic disease
- No tumors involving the pleural surface
- Karnofsky performance status (PS) 50-100% (\> 10 years of age) OR Lansky PS 50-100% (≤ 10 years of age)
- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,000/mm³\*
- Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm³ (transfusion independent)\*
- Hemoglobin ≥ 8.0 g/dL (transfusions allowed)\*
- Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate ≥ 70 mL/min OR creatinine based on age/gender as follows:
- No greater than 0.8 mg/dL (2 to 5 years of age)
- No greater than 1 mg/dL (6 to 9 years of age)
- No greater than 1.2 mg/dL (10 to 12 years of age)
- No greater than 1.5 mg/dL (male) OR 1.4 mg/dL (female) (13 to 15 years of age)
- No greater than 1.7 mg/dL (male) OR 1.4 mg/dL (female) (≥ 16 years of age)
- Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- ALT and AST ≤ 2.5 times ULN (≤ 5 times ULN for liver metastases)
- Albumin ≥ 2 g/dL
- LVEF or shortening fraction normal
- Corrected QT interval ≤ 450 msec
- Amylase ≤ 1.5 times ULN
- Lipase ≤ 1.5 times ULN
- Body surface area ≥ 0.5 m² (≥ 0.4 m² for part B)
- Blood pressure within ULN
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- No uncontrolled infection
- Able to swallow sunitinib malate capsules (part A only)
- No pre-existing thyroid abnormality (hyper- or hypothyroidism) with unstable thyroid function
- No prior CNS hemorrhage
- No history of allergic reaction attributed to sunitinib malate or component of sunitinib malate capsules
- No allergy to both applesauce and yogurt (part B only)
- Recovered from prior therapy
- No prior sunitinib malate
- No prior anthracycline (any dose)
- No prior radiotherapy to a radiation field that included the heart(including total body or craniospinal irradiation)
- At least 3 months since prior stem cell transplantation or rescue (without total-body irradiation) and no evidence of graft-vs-host disease
- At least 2 weeks since prior local, palliative, small-port radiotherapy (at least 6 months for radiation to ≥ 50% of pelvis)
- At least 6 weeks since other prior substantial bone marrow radiotherapy
- At least 3 weeks since prior myelosuppressive therapy (6 weeks for nitrosoureas)
- At least 1 week since prior antineoplastic biologic agents
- At least 1 week since prior and no concurrent hematopoietic growth factors
- At least 12 days since prior and no concurrent CYP3A4 inducers, including any of the following:
- Rifampin
- Rifabutin
- Carbamazepine
- Phenobarbital
- Phenytoin
- Hypericum perforatum (St. John's wort)
- Efavirenz
- Tipranavir
- At least 7 days since prior and no concurrent CYP3A4 inhibitors, including any of the following:
- Azole antifungals (e.g., itraconazole or ketoconazole)
- Clarithromycin
- Erythromycin
- Diltiazem
- Verapamil
- HIV protease inhibitors (e.g., indinavir, saquinavir, ritonavir, atazanavir, or nelfinavir)
- Delavirdine
- No more than 1 concurrent antihypertensive agent
- No concurrent major surgery
- No concurrent antithrombotic or antiplatelet agents, including any of the following:
- Warfarin
- Heparin
- Low molecular weight heparin
- Acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin)
- Ibuprofen
- Other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
- No concurrent medication for the treatment of hypertension
- No other concurrent investigational drugs
- No other concurrent anticancer agents, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy, or biologic therapy
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
October 1 2006
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
Estimated Enrollment :
35 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00387920
Start Date
October 1 2006
Last Update
January 28 2014
Active Locations (17)
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1
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294
2
Childrens Hospital of Orange County
Orange, California, United States, 92868-3874
3
UCSF-Mount Zion
San Francisco, California, United States, 94115
4
University of California San Francisco Medical Center-Parnassus
San Francisco, California, United States, 94143