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Phase II Study of Intensive Chemotherapy Comprising Vincristine, Dactinomycin, and Cyclophosphamide Followed By Vincristine and Dactinomycin in Patients With Lower-Risk Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma

Alternate Title
Basic Trial Information
Objectives
Entry Criteria
Expected Enrollment
Outcomes
Outline
Trial Contact Information
Registry Information

Alternate Title

Vincristine, Dactinomycin, and Cyclophosphamide in Treating Patients With Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma

Basic Trial Information

PhaseTypeStatusAgeSponsorProtocol IDs
Phase IITreatmentActiveUnder 18OtherJRSG-UHA-PED03-02
NCT00245089

Objectives

  1. Determine the progression-free survival rate in patients with low-risk embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma treated with intensive chemotherapy comprising vincristine, dactinomycin, and cyclophosphamide followed by vincristine and dactinomycin.

Entry Criteria

Disease Characteristics:

  • Diagnosis of embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma
    • Primary operation for pathological diagnosis within the past 42 days
    • The following variants are eligible:
      • Botryoid
      • Spindle cell
      • Anaplastic


  • Meets 1 of the following stage criteria:
    • Stage I, clinical group II (N1)
      • Favorable site
      • Any tumor size
      • Microscopic residual disease
      • Lymph nodes clinically positive
    • Stage I, clinical group III (N1)
      • Favorable site (orbit only)
      • Any tumor size
      • Gross residual disease
      • Lymph nodes clinically positive
    • Stage I, clinical group III (N0, NX, N1)
      • Favorable site (except orbit)
      • Any tumor size
      • Gross residual disease
      • Lymph nodes clinically negative, involvement unknown, or positive
    • Stage II, clinical group II (N0, NX)
      • Unfavorable site
      • Small tumor (≤ 5 cm in diameter)
      • Microscopic residual disease
    • Stage III, clinical group I or II (N0, NX, N1)
      • Unfavorable site
      • Small tumor (≤ 5 cm in diameter) with positive nodes or large tumor (> 5 cm in diameter) with any lymph nodes status
      • Completely resected or microscopic residual disease


Prior/Concurrent Therapy:

Chemotherapy

  • No prior anticancer chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy

  • Prior anticancer steroids allowed

Radiotherapy

  • Prior emergency radiotherapy allowed within the past 2 weeks

Other

  • No concurrent pentostatin

Patient Characteristics:

Performance status

  • 0-3

Life expectancy

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic

  • WBC ≥ 2,000/mm3
  • Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm3
  • Hemoglobin ≥ 7.5 g/dL

Hepatic

  • SGOT and SGPT ≤ 2.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • Bilirubin ≤ 2.5 times ULN
  • Bile acid ≤ 2.5 times ULN

Renal

  • Creatinine based on age as follows:
    • ≤ 0.8 mg/dL (for patients < 5 years of age)
    • ≤ 1.2 mg/dL (for patients 5-9 years of age)
    • ≤ 1.5 mg/dL (for patients ≥ 10 years of age)

Cardiovascular

  • No severe heart disease

Other

  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • No uncontrolled infection
  • Must have acceptable organ function for age
  • No other malignancy within the past 5 years
  • No hypersensitivity attributed to study drugs
  • No Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease or chickenpox

Expected Enrollment

41

A total of 41 patients will be accrued for this study.

Outcomes

Primary Outcome(s)

Disease-free survival at 3 years after study registration

Secondary Outcome(s)

Overall survival at 3 years after study registration
Toxicity by NCI CTC at 3 years after study registration

Outline

Patients receive vincristine IV, dactinomycin IV, and cyclophosphamide IV on day 1. Treatment repeats every 21 days for 8 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients then receive vincristine IV and dactinomycin IV on day 1. Treatment repeats every 3 weeks for 8 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Trial Contact Information

Trial Lead Organizations

Japan Rhabdomyosarcoma Study Group

Hajime Hosoi, Protocol chair
Ph: 81-75-251-5571
Email: hhosoi@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp
Ryoji Hanada, MD, Protocol co-chair
Ph: 81-487-58-1811
Email: hanada-tky@umin.ac.jp
Keizo Horibe, MD, PhD, Protocol co-chair
Ph: 81-52-951-1111
Email: horibek@nnh.hosp.go.jp

Trial Sites

Japan
  Sapporo
 Hokkaido Medical Center for Child Health and Rehabilitation
 Tooru Kudoh, MD, PhD
Ph: 81-11-691-5696
Aichi
  Anjo
 Anjo Kosei Hosptial
 Yuji Miyajima, MD
Ph: 81-566-75-2111
 Email: miyajima@kosei.anjo.aichi
  Nagakuti
 Aichi Medical University
 Toshinori Hori
Ph: 81-561-62-3311
  Nagoya
 National Hospital Orgnization Nagoya Medical Center
 Keizo Horibe, MD, PhD
Ph: 81-52-951-1111
 Email: horibek@nnh.hosp.go.jp
Ehime
  Matsuyama-shi
 Ehime Prefectural Central Hospital
 Otoh Yoshiko
Ph: 81-89-947-1111
Fukuoka
  Fukuoka-shi
 National Kyushu Cancer Center
 Ryohei Yokoyama, MD
Ph: 81-92-541-3231 ext. 5070
 Email: ryokoya@nk-cc.go.jp
  Kurume City
 Kurume University School of Medicine
 Hiroko Inada
Ph: 81-942-31-7565
Fukushima
  Fukushima
 Fukushima Medical University Hospital
 Atsushi Kikuta, MD
Ph: 81-24-547-1295
Gifu
  Gifu
 Gifu University Graduate School of Medicine
 Hideo Kaneko
Ph: 81-58-230-6386
  Gifu-shi
 Gifu Municipal Hospital
 Akira Takao, MD
Ph: 81-58-251-1101
 Email: oyuki@gmhosp.gifu.gifu.jp
Gunma
  Seta-gun
 Gunma Children's Medical Center
 Manabu Sotomatsu, MD
Ph: 81-279-52-3551
 Email: sotomatsu@gcmc.pref.gunma.jp
Hiroshima
  Hiroshima
 Hiroshima University Hospital
 Nishimura Shinichiro, MD
Ph: 81-82-257-5212
  Kure
 National Hospital Organization - Medical Center of Kure
 Takeo Tanaka, MD, PhD
Ph: 81-82-322-3111
Hokkaido
  Sapporo
 Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine
 Ryoji Kobayashi, MD
Ph: 81-11-706-5954
 Sapporo Medical University
 Nobuhiro Suzuki, MD, PhD
Ph: 81-11-611-2111
Hyogo
  Kobe
 Kobe City General Hospital
 Ikuya Usami
Ph: 81-78-302-4321
Ibaraki
  Mito-shi
 Ibaraki Children's Hospital
 Kazutoshi Koike
Ph: 81-29-254-1151
 Email: kazukoike@ibaraki-kodomo.com
  Tsukuba-city
 University of Tsukuba
 Michio Kaneko, MD, PhD
Ph: 81-29-853-3094
 Email: mkaneko@md.tsukuba.ac.jp
Ishikawa
  Kanazawa
 Kanazawa Medical University
 Yutaka Saikawa, MD, PhD
Ph: 81-76-265-2314
 Email: saikawa@ped.m.kanazawa-u.ac.jp
  Kanazawa-shi
 Ishikawa Prefectural Central Hospital
 Seiki Horita
Ph: 81-76-237-8211
 Email: shorita@ipch.jp
Kagoshima
  Kagoshima
 Kagoshima University
 Yoshifumi Kawano
Ph: 81-99-275-5351
 Email: ykawano@m3.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp
  Kagoshima City
 Kagoshima City Hospital
 Kiyoshi Kawakami
Ph: 81-99-224-2101
Kanagawa
  Tokyo
 National Center for Child Health and Development
 Masa-aki Kumagai, MD
Ph: 81-3-3416-0181
 Email: kumagai-ma@ncchd.go.jp
  Yokohama
 Yokohama City University
 Hiroaki Goto
Ph: 81-45-787-2800
  Yokohama-shi
 Showa University Fujigaoka Hospital
 K. Isoyama
Ph: 81-45-971-1151
 Email: isoyama@syowa-univesity-fujigaoka.gr.jp
Kyoto
  Kyoto
 Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
 Hajime Hosoi
Ph: 81-75-251-5571
 Email: hhosoi@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp
 Kyoto University Hospital
 Kenichiro Watanabe, MD
Ph: 81-75-751-3297
 Email: wataken@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Miyazaki
  Miyazaki-gun
 Miyazaki Medical College University of Miyazaki
 Hiroshi Moritake
Ph: 81-98-585-0989
Nagano
  Toyoshina-machi
 Nagano Children's Hospital
 Eizaburo Ishii
Ph: 81-263-73-6700
Osaka
  Izumi
 Osaka Medical Center and Research Institute for Maternal and Child Health
 Keisei Kawa, MD, PhD
Ph: 81-725-56-1220
 Email: kawakei@mch.pref.osaka.jp
  Osaka
 Osaka City University
 Kazumi Yamato
Ph: 81-6-6645-3175
 Osaka General Medical Center
 Keiko Yumura-Yagi, MD
Ph: 81-6-6692-1201
  Suita-shi
 Osaka City General Hospital
 Junichi Hara
Ph: 81-6-6929-1221
 Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine
 Hideaki Ohta, MD, PhD
Ph: 81-6-6879-3937
 Email: ohta@ped.med.osaka-u.ac.jp
  Takatsuki City
 Osaka Medical College
 Tomoko Kuno
Ph: 81-72-683-1221
Saitama
  Koshigaya
 Dokkyo University School of Medicine
 Hitoshi Ikeda, MD
Ph: 81-489-65-1111
 Email: hike@dokkyomed.ac.jp
  Saitama
 Saitama Children's Medical Center
 Akira Kikuchi, MD, PhD
Ph: 81-48-758-1811
 Email: a1091069@pref.saitama.jp
  Tokorozawa
 National Defense Medical College
 Kazuhiro Kogawa
Ph: 81-4-2995-1621
Shiga
  Otsu-shi
 Shiga University of Medical Science
 Shigeru Ohta, MD
Ph: 81-775-48-2228
 Email: ohta@belle.shiga-med.ac.jp
Shimane
  Izumo
 Shimane University Hospital
 Ken Taketani, MD
Ph: 81-853-20-2219
 Email: ttaketani@med.shimane-u.ac.jp
Shizuoka
  Hamamatsu
 Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital
 Tadashi Matsubayashi
Ph: 81-53-474-2222
Tokyo
  Tokyo
 Keio University School of Medicine
 Yasuhide Morikawa, MD
Ph: 81-3-5363-2593
 Email: ymorikaw@sc.itc.keio.ac.jp
 National Cancer Center Hospital
 Atsushi Makimoto
Ph: 81-3-3542-2511
 Nihon University Itabashi Hospital
 Hideo Mugishima, MD
Ph: 81-3-3972-8111 ext. 2700
 St. Luke's International Hospital
 R. Hosoya, MD
Ph: 81-3-3541-5151
 Toho University School of Medicine
 Akira Ohara
Ph: 81-3-3762-4151
 Tokyo Medical and Dental University
 Masayuki Nagasawa
Ph: 81-3-5803-5246
Yamagata
  Yamagata
 Yamagata University Hospital
 Mitsui Tetsuo, MD, DMedSci
Ph: 81-23-628-5329
 Email: tmitsui@med.id.yamagata-u.ac.jp

Registry Information
Official Title Phase II Trial of VAC2.2/VA Therapy for Low-Risk B Group Patients with Rhabdomyosarcoma
Trial Start Date 2004-05-01
Trial Completion Date 2011-04-30 (estimated)
Registered in ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00245089
Date Submitted to PDQ 2005-10-19
Information Last Verified 2008-12-28

Note: The purpose of most clinical trials listed in this database is to test new cancer treatments, or new methods of diagnosing, screening, or preventing cancer. Because all potentially harmful side effects are not known before a trial is conducted, dose and schedule modifications may be required for participants if they develop side effects from the treatment or test. The therapy or test described in this clinical trial is intended for use by clinical oncologists in carefully structured settings, and may not prove to be more effective than standard treatment. A responsible investigator associated with this clinical trial should be consulted before using this protocol.

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