Combination Chemotherapy, Surgery, and Radiation Therapy in Treating Children With Advanced Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Children's Oncology Group

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 2

Conditions

Sarcoma

Treatments

Radiation: low-LET photon therapy

Radiation: brachytherapy

Drug: mesna

Radiation: low-LET electron therapy

Procedure: conventional surgery

Biological: filgrastim

Radiation: low-LET cobalt-60 gamma ray therapy

Drug: vincristine sulfate

Drug: ifosfamide

Drug: doxorubicin hydrochloride

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

NETWORK

NIH

Identifiers

NCT00002804

CDR0000064905 (Other Identifier)

COG-P9953 (Other Identifier)

POG-9553 (Other Identifier)

9553

Details and patient eligibility

About

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage tumor cells. Combining more than one chemotherapy drug with radiation therapy may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation therapy in treating children who have advanced soft tissue sarcoma.

Full description

OBJECTIVES: I. Assess the response to vincristine/ifosfamide/doxorubicin (VID) with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor support in children with newly diagnosed, inoperable or metastatic non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcomas. II. Estimate the 2-year and event-free survival rates in children treated with VID plus radiotherapy and/or surgery. III. Establish a bank of frozen tumor and peripheral blood tissue for use in further molecular studies.

OUTLINE: The following acronyms are used: DOX Doxorubicin, NSC-123127 G-CSF Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor (Amgen), NSC-614629 IFF Ifosfamide, NSC-109724 Mesna Mercaptoethane sulfonate, NSC-113891 VCR Vincristine, NSC-67574 VID VCR/IFF/DOX Induction: 3-Drug Combination Chemotherapy. VID. Local Control: Surgery and/or Radiotherapy plus 3-Drug Combination Chemotherapy. Excision of the primary tumor and pulmonary metastases; and/or irradiation of the primary tumor and pulmonary metastases using x-rays or Co60 beam energies of at least 4 MV (electrons or iridium-192 implant allowed for boost); plus VID. Continuation: 3-Drug Combination Chemotherapy. VID.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 40 patients will be entered over 2.7 years if there are at least 7 responses in the first 20 patients.

Enrollment

43 patients

Sex

All

Ages

Under 21 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Biopsy proven non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcoma (NRSTS) Evaluable residual tumor after initial biopsy or excision required Registration required within 42 days of definitive diagnosis Grade II/III, unresectable or metastatic disease The following histologies exclude: Angiofibroma of the nasopharynx Mesothelioma Desmoid tumor Peripheral neuroepithelioma Desmoplastic small cell tumor Rhabdomyosarcoma Extraosseous Ewing's sarcoma Undifferentiated sarcoma Kaposi's sarcoma Grade 1 NRSTS, including: Angiomatoid malignant fibrous histiocytoma Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans Myxoid and well-differentiated liposarcoma Well-differentiated and infantile hemangiopericytoma Well-differentiated malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 21 and under Performance status: Not specified Hematopoietic: Not specified Hepatic: Not specified Renal: Creatinine normal for age No hydronephrosis Cardiovascular: Shortening fraction greater than 28% Other: No HIV infection Not pregnant or nursing Effective contraception required of fertile women

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: No prior chemotherapy or radiotherapy No prior nephrectomy (surgical correction of hydronephrosis allowed)

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

N/A

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

43 participants in 1 patient group

Chemotherapy Regimen

Experimental group

Description:

Induction (Weeks 1-6) Vincristine sulfate (1.5 mg/m2) day 1, Ifosfamide (3 grams/m2) days 1-3, Doxorubicin (30 mg/m2) days 1-2, filgrastim day 4. Weeks 2 and 3 - Vincristine sulfate (1.5 mg/m2) IV day 1, week 5 no chemotherapy. Evaluate for response. Local Control (Weeks 7-13) Conventional surgery and radiation therapy. Vincristine sulfate (1.5 mg/m2) IV day 1, Ifosfamide (3 grams/m2) days 1-3, Doxorubicin (30 mg/m2) days 1-2, filgrastim day 4. Treatment continues per protocol.

Treatment: