Gemcitabine, Paclitaxel and Oxaliplatin (GemPOx)

Nationwide Children's Hospital

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 2

Conditions

CNS Germ Cell Tumor

Treatments

Drug: Gemcitabine, Paclitaxel and Oxaliplatin (GemPOx).

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01270724

GemPOx

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will look to see how well patients with relapsed or recurrent intracranial germ cell tumors respond to the new combination of chemotherapy (in induction)of Gemcitabine, Paclitaxel and Oxaliplatin (GemPOx) followed by consolidation chemotherapy and autologous stem cell rescue.

Enrollment

10 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

ICGCT including pure germinoma and MMGCT.
Patients with histologically proven germinoma and MMGCT, including endodermal sinus tumor (yolk sac tumor), embryonal carcinoma, choriocarcinoma and mixed germ cell tumor will be eligible for the study.
Patients with mature/immature teratoma who have tumor marker elevations are eligible on this study.
Patient with ONLY mature and/or immature teratoma are ineligible in the absence of the tumor marker elevations.

Exclusion criteria

Patients with ICGCTs who are newly diagnosed are excluded from the study.
Patients with the diagnosis of mature or immature teratoma in the absence of tumor marker elevations are excluded from the study.
Patients who are pregnant or breastfeeding are excluded from the study.
Patients who have received previously a high dose chemotherapy regimen and autologous transplant are excluded from this study.
Patients who have received gemcitabine, oxaliplatin and/or paclitaxel are excluded from this study.