Status:

TERMINATED

Brain Stem Gliomas Treated With Adoptive Cellular Therapy During Focal Radiotherapy Recovery Alone or With Dose-intensified Temozolomide (Phase I)

Lead Sponsor:

University of Florida

Collaborating Sponsors:

Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure

Lyla Nsouli Foundation

Conditions:

Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)

Brain Stem Glioma

Eligibility:

All Genders

3-30 years

Phase:

PHASE1

Brief Summary

The standard of care for children with DIPG includes focal radiotherapy (RT) but outcomes have remained dismal despite this treatment. The addition of oral Temozolomide (TMZ) concurrently with RT foll...

Detailed Description

The standard of care for children with DIPG includes external beam focal radiotherapy (RT) but outcomes have remained dismal despite this treatment. The addition of oral Temozolomide (TMZ) concurrentl...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Initial Screening
  • Radiologically confirmed DIPG or other diffuse intrinsic brain stem glioma (Grade III or IV).
  • Patient and/or parents/guardian willing to consent to biopsy for obtaining tumor material for confirmatory diagnosis and/or tumor RNA extraction and amplification.
  • Biopsy confirmation of any grade of glioma (for patients with classic DIPG on neuroimaging or at least grade III glioma in case of other diffuse intrinsic brain stem gliomas)
  • Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) of \> 50% (KPS for \> 16 years of age) or Lansky performance Score (LPS) of ≥ 50 (LPS for ≤ 16 years of age) assessed within 2 weeks prior to registration;
  • Bone Marrow;
  • ANC (absolute neutrophil count) ≥ 1000/µl (unsupported)
  • Platelets ≥ 100,000/µl (unsupported)
  • Hemoglobin \> 8 g/dL (can be transfused)
  • Renal;
  • Serum creatinine ≤ upper limit of institutional normal
  • Hepatic;
  • Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times upper limit of institutional normal for age
  • SGPT (ALT) ≤ 3 times upper limit of institutional normal for age
  • SGOT (AST) ≤ 3 times upper limit of institutional normal for age
  • Patients of childbearing or child-fathering potential must be willing to use medically acceptable forms of birth control while being treated on this study.
  • Signed informed consent according to institutional guidelines.
  • Post Biopsy
  • Patients with post-surgical neurological deficits should have deficits that are stable for a minimum of 1 week prior to registration;
  • Pathologic diagnosis of glioma on tumor biopsy.

Exclusion

  • Patients with severe dysphagia, obtundation, or tetraplegia (poor risks for anesthesia and biopsy procedure);
  • Absence of tumor on biopsy specimen;
  • Pregnant or need to breast feed during the study period (Negative serum pregnancy test required)
  • Known autoimmune or immunosuppressive disease or human immunodeficiency virus infection;
  • Patients with significant renal, cardiac, pulmonary, hepatic or other organ dysfunction;
  • Severe or unstable concurrent medical conditions;
  • Patients who require corticosteroids above physiologic doses (\>4 mg/day dexamethasone) after chemoradiotherapy;
  • Patients scheduled to receive any other concurrent anticancer or investigational drug therapy;
  • Prior allergic reaction to TMZ, GM-CSF, or Td;
  • Patients who are unwilling or unable to receive treatment and undergo follow-up evaluations at University of Florida;
  • Patient and/or parent/guardian demonstrating an inability to comply with the study and/or follow-up procedures.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

July 17 2018

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

March 20 2025

Estimated Enrollment :

11 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03396575

Start Date

July 17 2018

End Date

March 20 2025

Last Update

October 29 2025

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UF Health Shands Children's Hospital

Gainesville, Florida, United States, 32610