DFMO as Maintenance Therapy for Molecular High/Very High Risk and Relapsed Medulloblastoma

Purpose

Difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) will be used in an open label, multicenter, study as Maintenance Therapy for Molecular High Risk/Very High Risk and Relapsed/Refractory Medulloblastoma.

Condition

  • Medulloblastoma

Eligibility

Eligible Ages
Under 21 Years
Eligible Sex
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No

Inclusion Criteria

  1. Age: 0-21 years of age at diagnosis 2. Pathology All patients must either have a pathologically confirmed diagnosis of medulloblastoma with molecular grouping identified by either Nanostring or methylation profiling. Cohort 1- Molecular High Risk: - Metastatic non-MYC amplified Group 3 - Metastatic Group 4 - Metastatic non-WNT/non-SHH (Must be non-MYC amplified) Cohort 2- Molecular Very High Risk - Metastatic OR MYCN amplified OR TP53 mutant non-infant (>3 yrs) SHH - MYC amplified Group 3 - Non-WNT, non-SHH infant (< 3 yrs) Cohort 3: Relapsed/Refractory Medulloblastoma 3. Pre-enrollment tumor survey: Prior to enrollment on this study, a determination of mandatory disease staging must be performed: - Tumor imaging studies including: Brain and spine MRI - Lumbar Puncture only if previously positive - Bone Marrow aspiration/biopsy only if previously positive - This disease assessment is required for eligibility and preferably should be done within 2 weeks prior to first dose of study drug, but must be done within a maximum of 4 weeks before first dose of study drug. 4. Disease Status: Subjects must have no evidence of disease, or stable* residual nonbulky** disease. *Stable residual disease defined as non-progression over 2 separate imaging studies at least 6 weeks apart **Non-bulky disease defined as maximal cross-sectional area < 3cm^2 at enrollment. Patients with leptomeningeal disease are allowed to participate on study. 5. Timing from prior therapy: Enrollment (first dose of DFMO) no later than 60 days after last dose of conventional chemotherapy. Patients who have undergone high dose chemotherapy (HDCT) with autologous stem cell transplantation (SCT) are eligible if more than 45 days have elapsed since date of last SCT. 6. Patients must have a Lansky or Karnofsky Performance Scale score of ≥ 50% (see Appendix II) and patients must have a life expectancy of ≥ 2 months. 7. All clinical and laboratory studies for organ functions to determine eligibility must be performed within 7 days prior to first dose of study drug unless otherwise indicated below. 8. Patients must have adequate organ functions at the time of registration: - Hematological: Hematological recovery as defined by ANC ≥750/μL, platelets ≥30 (non-transfused x 7 days) - Liver: Adequate liver function as defined by AST and ALT <10x upper limit of normal - Renal: Adequate renal function defined as (perform one of the following): Creatinine clearance or radioisotope GFR ≥ 70 mL/min/1.73 m2 or a serum creatinine based on age/gender 9. Females of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test. Patients of childbearing potential must agree to use an effective birth control method. Female patients who are lactating must agree to stop breast-feeding. 10. Written informed consent in accordance with institutional and FDA guidelines must be obtained from all subjects (or patients' legal representative).

Exclusion Criteria

  1. BSA of <0.25 m2 2. Metastatic disease outside of CNS 3. Relapsed/refractory patients who are radiation-naïve and age 5 years or older at time of enrollment 4. Investigational Drugs: Subjects who are currently receiving another investigational drug are excluded from participation. 5. Anti-cancer Agents: Subjects who are currently receiving other anticancer agents are not eligible. Subjects must have fully recovered from the hematological and bone marrow suppression effects of prior chemotherapy. 6. Infection: Subjects who have an uncontrolled infection are not eligible until the infection is judged to be well controlled in the opinion of the investigator. 7. Subjects who, in the opinion of the investigator, may not be able to comply with the safety monitoring requirements of the study, or in whom compliance is likely to be suboptimal, should be excluded.

Study Design

Phase
Phase 2
Study Type
Interventional
Allocation
N/A
Intervention Model
Single Group Assignment
Primary Purpose
Treatment
Masking
None (Open Label)

Arm Groups

ArmDescriptionAssigned Intervention
Experimental
Difluoromethylornithine (DFMO)
study subjects will receive 730 Days of oral difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) at a dose of 2500 mg/m2 BID on each day of study.
  • Drug: Difluoromethylornithine
    DFMO (difluoromethylornithine is an inhibitor of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) designated chemically as 2-(difluoromethyl)-DL-ornithine monohydrochloride monohydrate. The dosage form to be used in this study is provided as a convex tablet containing 192 mg eflornithine (equivalent to 250 mg of eflornithine HCl, monohydrate). The tablets are packaged and sealed in opaque white HDPE bottles, and each bottle contains 100 tablets. The DMFO tablets are supplied by USWorldMeds (USWM). The tablets are to be stored at room temperature (20-250C).
    Other names:
    • Eflornithine
    • DFMO

Recruiting Locations

Arkansas Children's Hospital
Little Rock, Arkansas 72202
Contact:
Susan Hall
HallSF@archildrens.org

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
Oakland, California 94609
Contact:
Group Contact
PedOncRschOAK@ucsf.edu

UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
Sacramento, California 95817
Contact:
Mary Gay Lapasaran
mlapasaran@health.ucdavis.edu

Rady Children's Hospital
San Diego, California 92123
Contact:
Sarah Hollander
shollander@rchsd.org

Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305
Contact:
Stefania U Chirita
schirita@stanford.edu

Connecticut Children's Hospital
Hartford, Connecticut 06106
Contact:
Adam Barselau
Abarselau@connecticutchildrens.org

Nicklaus Children's Hospital
Miami, Florida 33155
Contact:
Aixa Guadarrama
Aixa.Guadarrama@Nicklaushealth.org

Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children
Orlando, Florida 32806
Contact:
Marie Frankos
marie.frankos@orlandohealth.com

All Children's Hospital Johns Hopkins Medicine
St. Petersburg, Florida 33701
Contact:
Kevin Samnarine
ksamnar1@jh.edu

St. Joseph's Children's Hospital
Tampa, Florida 33607
Contact:
Jennifer Manns
Jennifer.Manns@baycare.org

Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
Contact:
Andrea Siu
andrea.siu@kapiolani.org

Advocate Aurora Research Institute
Chicago, Illinois 60453
Contact:
Jennifer Ward
jennifer.ward@aah.org

Kentucky Children's Hospital
Lexington, Kentucky 40502
Contact:
Brittany Fuller
blfull2@email.uky.edu

Norton Children's Research Institute/Affiliated with University of Louisville School of Medicine
Louisville, Kentucky 40202
Contact:
Jennifer Miller

Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
Kansas City, Missouri 64108
Contact:
Nicole Harvey
ndharvey@cmh.edu

Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center
St Louis, Missouri 63104
Contact:
Gina Martin
gina.martin@health.slu.edu

Hackensack University Medical Center
Hackensack, New Jersey 07601
Contact:
Kellie Daniel
kellie.danielle@hmhn.org

Levine Children's Hospital
Charlotte, North Carolina 28204
Contact:
Jontyce Green
Jontyce.Green@advocatehealth.org

Duke University
Durham, North Carolina 27708
Contact:
Morgan Low
morgan.low@duke.edu

University of Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104
Contact:
Christina Gonzalez
Christina-gonzalez@ou.edu

Randall Children's Hospital
Portland, Oregon 97227
Contact:
Aaron White
AJWHITE@lhs.org

Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Children's Hospital
Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033
Contact:
Penn State Clinical Trials
ExtractClinicalTrials@pennstatehealth.psu.edu

Hasbro Children's Hospital
Providence, Rhode Island 02903
Contact:
Christopher Bouressa
cbouressa@lifespan.org

Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina 29425
Contact:
Shanta Salzar, MD
salzers@musc.edu

Dell Children's Blood and Cancer Center
Austin, Texas 78723
Contact:
Rhea Robinson, RN
rmrobinson@ascension.org

More Details

Status
Recruiting
Sponsor
Giselle Sholler

Study Contact

BCC Enroll
7175310003
BCCEnroll@pennstatehealth.psu.edu

Detailed Description

In this study subjects will receive 730 Days of oral difluoromethylornithine (DFMO) at a dose of 2500 mg/m2 BID on each day of study. Subjects will be evaluated in 3 Cohorts: Cohort 1: Molecular High Risk Medulloblastoma Cohort 2: Molecular Very High Risk Medulloblastoma Cohort 3: Relapsed/Refractory Medulloblastoma A total of 118 subjects across all cohorts will be enrolled to ensure that there will be 107 evaluable subjects (32-39 per cohort)