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NCT Number: NCT03057626

Late Effects After Treatment in Patients With Previously Diagnosed High-Risk Neuroblastoma

This research trial studies late effects after treatment in patients with previously diagnosed high-risk neuroblastoma. Studying late effects after treatment may help to decide which treatments for high-risk neuroblastoma are better tolerated with less side effects over time.

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This study is active but is not currently recruiting participants.

Key information

About this study

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To estimate the prevalence of organ dysfunction, subsequent malignant neoplasm (SMN), growth impairment, abnormal pubertal development, and neurobehavioral dysfunction in a large cohort of representative 5-year survivors of high-risk neuroblastoma treated with modern therapy.

II. To identify the demographic, clinical and treatment-related risk factors associated with increased risk of organ dysfunction, SMN, growth impairment, abnormal pubertal development and neurobehavioral dysfunction in long-term survivors of high-risk neuroblastoma.

III. To explore the impact of new biologic therapies and diagnostics including immunotherapy, immunocytokines, isotretinoin (cis-retinoic acid) and iobenguane I-131 (131 I-MIBG) on the risk of late effects.

IV. To determine the impact of impaired organ function, physical growth, pubertal development, and neurobehavioral function on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in long-term survivors of high-risk neuroblastoma.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To establish a cohort of high-risk neuroblastoma survivors, with stored peripheral blood samples, who were treated with multi-modal therapies since the year 2000 as a resource for future investigation.

OUTLINE:

Patients undergo collection of blood and urine samples on day 1. Patients also undergo clinical assessments, laboratory, radiographic, and other ancillary studies on day 1.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients must have been enrolled on COG neuroblastoma biology study ANBL00B1
  • Patient must have been diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma per ANBL00B1 definition
  • Patient must have been diagnosed on or after January 1, 2000
  • At least 5 years must have elapsed since diagnosis
  • Patients must have been treated for high-risk neuroblastoma
  • Note: patients may have had any therapy for high-risk neuroblastoma, including second line or non-established therapies (for example in the setting of less than optimal initial response or concerns for high risk of relapse); patients may have received therapy for refractory or relapsed neuroblastoma, or treatment for an SMN; however all cytotoxic anti-neuroblastoma therapy should have been administered >= 2 years of the enrollment date; SMN therapy may be completed or ongoing at the time of enrollment

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients must not be currently receiving active anti-neuroblastoma cytotoxic chemotherapy
  • Patients must not have received anti-neuroblastoma cytotoxic chemotherapy within the last two years
  • Note: cytotoxic therapies include (but are not limited to) chemotherapy (platinum agents, alkylators, anthracyclines, topoisomerases, vinca alkaloids, other cytotoxic chemotherapy), any kind of transplant, MIBG therapy, and/or radiation therapy
  • Non-cytotoxic (biologic/targeted/differentiating/other) therapies are permitted at the time of enrollment; for example, patients receiving oral differentiating agents, antiangiogenic therapy, immune modulators, holistic therapies, difluoromethylornithine (DMFO), other minimal residual disease (MRD) therapies/relapse-prevention therapies are eligible
  • Patients with current active neuroblastoma relapse are ineligible

Treatment and study plan

Cytology Specimen Collection Procedure

Other

Undergo collection of blood and urine

laboratory biomarker analysis

Other

Correlative studies

Quality-of-Life Assessment

Other

Ancillary studies

Primary outcomes

  1. Prevalence of specific late effects

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

    Late effects of interest are organ dysfunction, subsequent malignant neoplasms (SMN), growth impairment, abnormal pubertal development, and neurobehavioral dysfunction. Prevalence will be calculated as the number of patients with late effects divided by the number with known status of that endpoint.

  2. Risk factors of late effects

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

    Risk factors of interest include sex, race, ethnicity, current age, length of follow up, MYCN status, stage, primary site, age at diagnosis, total anthracycline dose (doxorubicin equivalents), cyclophosphamide dose equivalent categories, total platinum exposure (dose), topotecan exposure (yes [Y]/no [N]), cis-retinoic acid exposure (Y/N), GD-2/cytokine exposure (Y/N), radiation (Y/N), abdominal RT (Y/N), radiation to metastatic sites (Y/N), number of transplants, number of meta-iodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) scans, and therapeutic MIBG (Y/N). Will be reported as the number of patients with the risk factor divided by the number with known status of that risk factor for categorical variables and descriptively (mean, standard deviation) for continuous variables.

  3. Pediatric Quality of Life (PedsQL) score

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

    PedsQL score will be reported descriptively (mean, standard deviation). The proportion of patients with impaired physical growth, delayed pubertal development, chronic disease, impaired executive functioning, and impaired social functioning will also be reported.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Collection and storage of blood samples

    Time frame: Up to 3 years

    Proportion of survivors and their families that consent for future utilization of their banked sample for future research will be reported.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Children's Oncology Group

Network

Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Registry information

Official study title

LEAHRN (Late Effects After High-Risk Neuroblastoma) Study

Important dates

Study start
2017
Primary completion
2021
Study completion
2026
First posted
Feb 20, 2017
Registry last updated
Jan 9, 2026

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