Low-Dose or High-Dose Lenalidomide in Treating Younger Patients With Recurrent, Refractory, or Progressive Pilocytic Astrocytoma or Optic Pathway Glioma

Phase 2

Completed

Conditions: Neurofibromatosis Type 1
Recurrent Childhood Visual Pathway Glioma
Recurrent Childhood Pilocytic Astrocytoma

Interventions: Drug: Lenalidomide
Other: Pharmacological Study

Registration Number: NCT01553149

Lead Sponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Brief Summary: This randomized phase II trial studies how well low-dose lenalidomide works compared with high-dose lenalidomide in treating younger patients with juvenile pilocytic astrocytomas or optic nerve pathway gliomas that have come back (recurrent), have not responded to treatment (refractory), or are growing, spreading, or getting worse (progressive). Lenalidomide is classified as an immunomodulatory drug as it boosts the immune system. It has other potential anti-tumor effects, for example, it may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking blood flow to the tumor. It is not yet known whether low-dose lenalidomide is more or less effective than high-dose lenalidomide in treating patients with juvenile pilocytic astrocytomas or optic nerve pathway gliomas.

Detailed Description: PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine the objective response rate in children with recurrent, refractory, or progressive juvenile pilocytic astrocytomas and optic pathway gliomas who are treated with Regimen A low-dose (20 mg/m\^2/dose) or Regimen B high-dose (115 mg/m\^2/dose) lenalidomide.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To estimate the event-free survival (EFS) (based on standard two-dimensional tumor measurements, determined by each institution) of children with recurrent, refractory, or progressive juvenile pilocytic astrocytomas and optic pathway gliomas who are treated with lenalidomide.

II. To compare response categories and EFS across the 3 magnetic resonance (MR) sequences (T2-weighted, fluid attenuated inversion recovery \[FLAIR\], T1-weighted post-contrast).

III. To correlate steady-state pharmacokinetics of lenalidomide (1 sample obtained between days 5-21) with objective response and EFS.

IV. To evaluate toxicities of long-term lenalidomide use.

OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.

ARM I (Regimen A): Patients receive low-dose lenalidomide orally (PO) once daily (QD) on days 1-21. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 26 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

ARM II (Regimen B): Patients receive high-dose lenalidomide PO QD on days 1-21. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 26 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up annually for approximately 3 years.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: COMPLETED

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 75

Inclusion Criteria

Patients must have a body surface area (BSA) >= 0.4 m^2 at the time of study enrollment
Patients must have a pilocytic astrocytoma or optic pathway glioma that has relapsed, progressed, or become refractory to conventional therapy; patients with neurofibromatosis (NF-1) are eligible
Patients must have histologic verification of malignancy; histologic confirmation for patients with optic pathway gliomas will not be required
Patients must have measurable residual disease, defined as tumor that is measurable in two perpendicular diameters on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); for a lesion to be considered measurable, it must be at least twice the slice thickness on MRI (i.e. visible on more than one slice)
To document the degree of residual tumor, the following must be obtained:
- All patients must have a brain MRI with and without contrast (gadolinium) within 1 week prior to study enrollment; for patients on steroids, baseline MRI scans must be performed after at least 1 week at a stable or decreasing dose of steroids
- All patients with a history of spinal or leptomeningeal disease, and those patients with symptoms suspicious of spinal disease, must have a spine MRI with and without contrast (gadolinium) performed within 2 weeks prior to study enrollment
Patients must have a Lansky or Karnofsky performance status score of >= 60%; use Karnofsky for patients > 16 years of age and Lansky for patients =< 16 years of age
Patients must have been treated with at least one prior treatment regimen that included carboplatin; patients who have received prior radiation therapy for this tumor are eligible
Patients must have recovered (to Common Toxicity Criteria [CTC] version [v.]4.0 =< grade 1 unless indicated below) from the acute toxic effects of all prior chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or radiotherapy prior to entering this study, with the exception of alopecia, weight changes and grade I or II lymphopenia
- Myelosuppressive chemotherapy: must not have received within 3 weeks of entry onto this study (6 weeks if prior nitrosourea or mitomycin-C)
- Biologic (anti-neoplastic agent): at least 7 days after the last dose of a biologic agent; for agents that have known adverse events occurring beyond 7 days after administration, this period must be extended beyond the time during which adverse events are known to occur
- Immunotherapy: at least 42 days after the completion of any type of immunotherapy, e.g. tumor vaccines
- Monoclonal antibodies: at least 3 half-lives of the antibody after the last dose of a monoclonal antibody
- Radiation therapy (RT): patients must have had their last fraction of craniospinal RT >= 6 months prior to study entry and their last fraction of focal RT >= 4 weeks prior to study entry; if the lesion used for on-study criteria is in the radiation field, there must be evidence of tumor progression after radiation therapy was completed
- Study specific limitations on prior therapy:
  - Patients who have received thalidomide are eligible if all acute thalidomide-related toxicity has resolved
  - Patients must not have received lenalidomide previously
Growth factor(s): must not have received within 2 weeks of entry onto this study
Steroids: patients who are receiving corticosteroids must be on a stable or decreasing dose for at least 1 week prior to baseline MRI
Peripheral absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1,000/uL
Platelet count >= 100,000/uL (transfusion independent)
Hemoglobin >= 8.0 g/dL (may receive red blood cell [RBC] transfusions)
Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate (GFR) >= 70 mL/min/m^2 OR a serum creatinine based on age/gender as follows:
- 0.4 mg/dL (1 month to < 6 months of age)
- 0.5 mg/dL (6 months to < 1 year of age)
- 0.6 mg/dL (1 to < 2 years of age)
- 0.8 mg/dL (2 to < 6 years of age)
- 1.0 mg/dL (6 to 10 years of age)
- 1.2 mg/dL (10 to < 13 years of age)
- 1.5 mg/dL (male) or 1.4 mg/dL (female) (13 to < 16 years of age)
- 1.7 mg/dL (male) or 1.4 mg/dL (female) (>= 16 years of age)
Total bilirubin =< 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) for age
Serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT) (alanine aminotransferase [ALT]) =< 110 U/L; for the purpose of this study, the ULN for SGPT is 45 U/L
Serum albumin >= 2 g/dL
No evidence of dyspnea at rest and a pulse oximetry > 94% if there is clinical indication for determination
Patients must be able to swallow intact capsules
All patients and/or their parents or legal guardians must sign a written informed consent
All institutional, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and National Cancer Institute (NCI) requirements for human studies must be met

Exclusion Criteria

Female patients who are pregnant are not eligible
Lactating females are not eligible unless they have agreed not to breastfeed their infants while receiving protocol therapy and for 28 days after the last dose of lenalidomide
Female patients of childbearing potential are not eligible unless they commit to complete abstinence or have been on 2 methods of birth control, including 1 highly effective method and 1 additional method at the same time (unless committing to complete abstinence of heterosexual intercourse) at least 28 days (4 weeks) prior to study enrollment; sexually active females must also agree to remain on 2 methods of birth control, during treatment (including during dose interruptions), and continuing for at least 28 days after the completion of protocol therapy; examples of methods of contraception are as follows:
- Highly effective methods (must use at least 1):
  - Intrauterine device (IUD)
  - Hormonal (prescription birth control pills, injections, implants)
  - Tubal ligation
  - Partner's vasectomy
- Additional effective methods:
  - Male condom
  - Diaphragm
  - Cervical cap The two methods of birth control requirement applies to all sexually active females unless they have undergone a hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy
Female patients of childbearing potential (including those who commit to complete abstinence) are not eligible unless they agree to ongoing pregnancy testing and counseling every 28 days about pregnancy precautions and risks of fetal exposure
Male patients of child fathering potential are not eligible unless they have agreed to use latex condoms during intercourse with a woman of childbearing potential while receiving treatment and for 28 days thereafter
Patients with a history of thromboembolism unrelated to a central line, or patients with a known predisposition syndrome for thromboembolism are not eligible
Patients who have an uncontrolled or untreated infection are not eligible
Patients with known overt cardiac disease, including but not limited to a history of myocardial infarction, severe or unstable angina, clinically significant peripheral vascular disease, grade 2 or greater heart failure, or serious and inadequately controlled cardiac arrhythmia are not eligible
Patients with a significant systemic illness that is not well-controlled in the opinion of the treating physician are not eligible

Study & Design

Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Arm II (high-dose lenalidomide)	Pharmacological Study	Patients receive high-dose lenalidomide PO QD on days 1-21. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 26 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Arm I (low-dose lenalidomide)	Pharmacological Study	Patients receive low-dose lenalidomide PO QD on days 1-21. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 26 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Arm I (low-dose lenalidomide)	Lenalidomide	Patients receive low-dose lenalidomide PO QD on days 1-21. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 26 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Arm II (high-dose lenalidomide)	Lenalidomide	Patients receive high-dose lenalidomide PO QD on days 1-21. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 26 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of Patients Who Demonstrate Complete or Partial Response	26 cycles of chemotherapy - up to 3 years after enrollment	Number of patients who demonstrate a complete or partial response as defined below: Complete Response - Complete disappearance of all known disease for at least 4 weeks; Partial Response - A reduction of at least 50% in the size of all measurable tumor as quantitated by the sum of the products of the largest diameters of measurable lesions when compared with that measurement at the time of study enrollment and maintained for at least 4 weeks.
Number of Patients Who Demonstrate Early Progression	Up to 180 days after enrollment	Number of patients with disease progression during the first six months of protocol therapy. Disease progression is defined as ≥ 25% increase in the sum of the products of the largest diameters of the measurable lesions or the appearance of one or more new lesions when compared with the measurements of lesions at the time of enrollment.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Overall Survival [OS]	Up to 3 years after study enrollment	Estimated 3-year overall survival is calculated as the time from study enrollment to death from any cause or last follow-up whichever occurs first. Kaplan-Meier method is used for estimation. Patients alive at last contact are censored at that time.
Event-free Survival [EFS]	Up to 3 years after study enrollment	Estimated 3-year EFS where EFS is calculated as the time from study enrollment to disease progression, disease relapse, occurrence of a second malignant neoplasm, death from any cause or last follow-up whichever occurs first. Kaplan-Meier method is used for estimation. Patients without an event are censored at last contact.
Number of Patients With Toxic Events After 2 Dose Reductions	While receiving protocol therapy up to 3 years after study enrollment	Number of patients who have an additional significant toxicity coded using Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events Version 5.0 after experiencing two dose reductions from their assigned treatment dose.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Sequence	Up to 3 years	Response categories (complete response, partial response, stable disease, and progression) will be determined from the following three standard magnetic resonance sequences, T2-weighted, fluid attenuated inversion recovery, T1-weighted post-contrast. Percent agreement between the sequences will be estimated as the number of follow-up scans in which the corresponding sequence agreed divided by the total number of follow-up scans.
Pharmacokinetic Parameters of Lenalidomide	Between days 5-21 of course 1 and each dose reduction	Concentration of lenalidomide obtained from any day between day 5 and 21 of the first cycle of chemotherapy in nanograms per mL.

Trial Locations

Locations (126): Children's Hospital of Alabama
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Birmingham, Alabama, United States
University of Alabama at Birmingham Cancer Center
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Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Phoenix Childrens Hospital
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Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Arkansas Children's Hospital
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Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
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Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center
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Downey, California, United States
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
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Duarte, California, United States
Loma Linda University Medical Center
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Loma Linda, California, United States
Miller Children's and Women's Hospital Long Beach
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Long Beach, California, United States
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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Children's Hospital of Alabama
🇺🇸Birmingham, Alabama, United States