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Cisplatin-Based Chemotherapy and/or Surgery in Treating Young Patients With Adrenocortical Tumor

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Phase
PHASE3
Status at capture
COMPLETED
Registry last update
2024-02-28

This phase III clinical trial is studying how well cisplatin-based chemotherapy and/or surgery works in treating young patients with stage I, stage II, stage III or stage IV adrenocortical cancer. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cisplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving more than one drug (combination chemotherapy) may kill more tumor cells. Giving chemotherapy before surgery may make the tumor smaller and reduce the amount of normal tissue that needs to be removed. Giving it after surgery may kill any tumor cells that remain after surgery.

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What did the study report?

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Who could take part
eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * Histologically confirmed adrenocortical carcinoma * Newly diagnosed disease within the past 3 weeks * Any disease stage allowed * Lansky performance status 60-100% (for patients ≤ 16 years old) * Karnofsky performance status 60-100% (for patients \> 16 years old) * Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 750/mm\^3 * Platelet count ≥ 75,000/mm\^3 * Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate ≥ 70 mL/min OR serum creatinine based on age as follows: * 0.4 mg/dL (1 month to \< 6 months) * 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) * Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) * AST or ALT \< 2.5 times ULN * Shortening fraction ≥ 27% by echocardiogram OR ejection fraction ≥ 50% by radionuclide angiogram * Not pregnant or nursing * Negative pregnancy test * Fertile patients must use effective contraception * No previous chemotherapy for adrenocortical carcinoma
healthy Volunteers
false
maximum Age
21 Years
sex
ALL
std Ages
  1. CHILD
  2. ADULT
Treatment arms and interventions
arm Groups
  1. description
    Patients undergo primary tumor resection and retroperitoneal lymph node sampling followed by observation. Patients who have undergone prior surgery without nodal sampling undergo observation only.
    intervention Names
    1. Procedure: Conventional Surgery
    label
    Stratum I (surgery, observation)
    type
    EXPERIMENTAL
  2. description
    Patients undergo primary tumor resection and extended regional lymph node dissection followed by observation. Patients who have undergone prior surgery with simple resection of the primary tumor undergo exploratory surgery with extended regional lymph node dissection followed by observation.
    intervention Names
    1. Procedure: Conventional Surgery
    label
    Stratum II (exploratory surgery, observation)
    type
    EXPERIMENTAL
  3. description
    Patients receive combination chemotherapy with filgrastim (G-CSF) for up to 30 weeks (10 courses) followed by mitotane alone for an additional 2 months. Some patients undergo surgery after chemotherapy course 2 or 4. Some patients undergo additional surgery after finishing all chemotherapy.
    intervention Names
    1. Drug: Cisplatin
    2. Procedure: Conventional Surgery
    3. Drug: Doxorubicin Hydrochloride
    4. Drug: Etoposide
    5. Biological: Filgrastim
    6. Drug: Mitotane
    7. Biological: Pegfilgrastim
    label
    Stratum III (chemotherapy, surgery)
    type
    EXPERIMENTAL
interventions
  1. arm Group Labels
    1. Stratum III (chemotherapy, surgery)
    description
    Given IV
    name
    Cisplatin
    other Names
    1. Abiplatin
    2. Blastolem
    3. Briplatin
    4. CDDP
    5. Cis-diammine-dichloroplatinum
    6. Cis-diamminedichloridoplatinum
    7. Cis-diamminedichloro Platinum (II)
    8. Cis-diamminedichloroplatinum
    9. Cis-dichloroammine Platinum (II)
    10. Cis-platinous Diamine Dichloride
    11. Cis-platinum
    12. Cis-platinum II
    type
    DRUG
  2. arm Group Labels
    1. Stratum I (surgery, observation)
    2. Stratum II (exploratory surgery, observation)
    3. Stratum III (chemotherapy, surgery)
    description
    Patients undergo surgery
    name
    Conventional Surgery
    type
    PROCEDURE
  3. arm Group Labels
    1. Stratum III (chemotherapy, surgery)
    description
    Given IV
    name
    Doxorubicin Hydrochloride
    other Names
    1. 5,12-Naphthacenedione, 10-[(3-amino-2,3,6-trideoxy-alpha-L-lyxo-hexopyranosyl)oxy]-7,8, 9,10-tetrahydro-6,8,11-trihydroxy-8-(hydroxyacetyl)-1-methoxy-, hydrochloride, (8S-cis)- (9CI)
    2. ADM
    3. Adriacin
    4. Adriamycin
    5. Adriamycin Hydrochloride
    6. Adriamycin PFS
    7. Adriamycin RDF
    8. ADRIAMYCIN, HYDROCHLORIDE
    9. Adriamycine
    10. Adriblastina
    11. Adriblastine
    12. Adrimedac
    type
    DRUG
  4. arm Group Labels
    1. Stratum III (chemotherapy, surgery)
    description
    Given IV
    name
    Etoposide
    other Names
    1. Demethyl Epipodophyllotoxin Ethylidine Glucoside
    2. EPEG
    3. Lastet
    4. Toposar
    5. Vepesid
    6. VP 16
    7. VP 16-213
    8. VP-16
    9. VP-16-213
    10. VP16
    type
    DRUG
  5. arm Group Labels
    1. Stratum III (chemotherapy, surgery)
    description
    Given subcutaneously
    name
    Filgrastim
    other Names
    1. Filgrastim-aafi
    2. Filgrastim-ayow
    3. G-CSF
    4. Neupogen
    5. Nivestym
    6. r-metHuG-CSF
    7. Recombinant Methionyl Human Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor
    8. Releuko
    9. rG-CSF
    10. Tevagrastim
    type
    BIOLOGICAL
  6. arm Group Labels
    1. Stratum III (chemotherapy, surgery)
    description
    Given orally
    name
    Mitotane
    other Names
    1. (o,p)-DDD
    2. 1, 1-Dichloro-2-(o-chlorophenyl)-2-(p-chlorophenyl)ethane
    3. 1-Chloro-2-[2,2-dichloro-1-(4-chlorophenyl)ethyl]benzene
    4. 2, 2-Bis(2-chlorophenyl-4-chlorophenyl)-1,1-dichloroethane
    5. 2, 4'-Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane
    6. CB 313
    7. CB-313
    8. Chloditan
    9. Chlodithane
    10. DDD
    11. Ethane, 2-(o-chlorophenyl)-2-(p-chlorophenyl)-1,1-dichloro-
    12. Khloditan
    type
    DRUG
  7. arm Group Labels
    1. Stratum III (chemotherapy, surgery)
    description
    Given subcutaneously
    name
    Pegfilgrastim
    other Names
    1. Filgrastim SD-01
    2. filgrastim-SD/01
    3. Fulphila
    4. HSP-130
    5. Jinyouli
    6. Neulasta
    7. Neulastim
    8. Nyvepria
    9. PEG-filgrastim
    10. Pegcyte
    11. Pegfilgrastim Biosimilar HSP-130
    12. Pegfilgrastim Biosimilar Nyvepria
    type
    BIOLOGICAL
Study design
allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
intervention Model
PARALLEL
masking Info
masking
NONE
primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Enrollment
count
78
type
ACTUAL
Registered outcome plans (not posted results)
primary Outcomes
  1. description
    The model used for comparison will be an exponential model with a constant failure rate of 0.053 (stratum I), 0.347 (stratum II), 0.602 (stratum III and IV) per year for the first two years and 0 after that. The one-sample one-sided log-rank test comparing the observed data with the hypothesized model (Woolson, 1981) of size 0.05 will be used to assess whether the data are consistent with the target models. Since this test has independent increments, the method of Lan and DeMets will be used to derive the p-values for testing procedure.
    measure
    Five Year Event-free Survival (EFS)
    time Frame
    Up to five years after enrollment
secondary Outcomes
  1. description
    The proportion of patients assigned to receive chemotherapy that experience CTC Version 4 grade 3 or higher anemia at any time during protocol therapy
    measure
    Toxicity Associated With Chemotherapy Using National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) Version 4.0
    time Frame
    Up to 182 Days After Enrollment
  2. description
    Any patient who dies because of surgery or has a grade 3 or 4 toxicity possibly, probably or likely related to surgery will be considered as having experienced a surgical complication. The complication rate is estimated as the proportion of evaluable patients that have a complication.
    measure
    Complications Associated With Radical Adrenalectomy and RLND
    time Frame
    Up to 1 month after surgery
  3. description
    The number eligible patients who have lymph node involvement by imaging at study enrollment.
    measure
    Frequency of Lymph Node Involvement by Imaging.
    time Frame
    At study enrollment
  4. description
    The proportion of patients in each subpopulation are compared.This test is dependent on the number of patients from whom blood can be obtained as well as the frequency of the relevant mutation in each group.
    measure
    Incidence and Type of Germline TP53 Mutations in Non-Brazilian Children and Children From Southern Brazil by Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Sequencing and Affymetrix Gene Chip Analysis.
    time Frame
    At study enrollment
  5. description
    The number of eligible patients who have A43 del33bp mutation of (beta)-catenin.
    measure
    Molecular Alterations and Embryonal Markers in Children With ACT - A43 del33bp Mutation of (Beta)-Catenin.
    time Frame
    Patients who had surgery at time of enrollment.
  6. description
    The number of eligible patients who have surgical resection of the primary tumor and have tumor spillage at the time of resection.
    measure
    Frequency of Tumor Spillage at the Time of Tumor Resection
    time Frame
    Up to one year or while on protocol therapy, whichever is less
Full study description
brief Summary
This phase III clinical trial is studying how well cisplatin-based chemotherapy and/or surgery works in treating young patients with stage I, stage II, stage III or stage IV adrenocortical cancer. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cisplatin, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving more than one drug (combination chemotherapy) may kill more tumor cells. Giving chemotherapy before surgery may make the tumor smaller and reduce the amount of normal tissue that needs to be removed. Giving it after surgery may kill any tumor cells that remain after surgery.
detailed Description
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. Describe the outcome of patients with stage I adrenocortical tumor (ACT) treated with surgery alone. II. Describe the outcome of patients with stage II ACT treated with radical adrenalectomy plus regional retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. III. Describe the outcome of patients with unresectable or metastatic ACT treated with mitotane and a cisplatin-based chemotherapy regimen. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the feasibility and complications associated with the use of radical adrenalectomy and regional node dissection (RLND) in these patients. II. Determine the toxicity of mitotane when administered with cisplatin, etoposide, and doxorubicin hydrochloride in patients with residual disease after surgery, inoperable tumors, or metastatic disease at diagnosis. III. Determine, prospectively, the frequency of tumor spillage during surgery in these patients. IV. Determine the frequency of lymph node involvement in these patients. V. Compare the incidence and type of germline p53 mutation in non-Brazilian children and children from Southern Brazil. VI. Characterize the cooperating molecular alterations associated with ACT. VII. Determine the presence of embryonal markers in children with ACT. OUTLINE: STRATUM I (stage I disease): Patients undergo primary tumor resection and retroperitoneal lymph node sampling followed by observation. Patients who have undergone prior surgery without nodal sampling undergo observation only. STRATUM II (stage II disease): Patients undergo primary tumor resection and extended regional lymph node dissection followed by observation. Patients who have undergone prior surgery with simple resection of the primary tumor undergo exploratory surgery with extended regional lymph node dissection followed by observation. STRATUM III (stage III or IV disease): INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY: Patients receive cisplatin-based chemotherapy comprising oral mitotane four times daily on days 1-21; cisplatin IV over 6 hours on days 1-2; etoposide IV over 1 hour on days 1-3; and doxorubicin hydrochloride IV over 1 hour on days 4-5. Patients also receive filgrastim (G-CSF) subcutaneously (SC) once daily beginning on day 6 and continuing until blood counts recover OR pegfilgrastim SC once on day 6. Treatment repeats every 21 days for 2-4 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with stable disease or partial response proceed to surgery. Patients with a complete response proceed directly to continuation chemotherapy. SURGERY: Patients with stage III disease undergo extended surgery and regional lymph node dissection. Patients with stage IV disease undergo primary tumor resection (if feasible) with regional lymph node dissection and resection of the metastases. Patients then proceed to continuation chemotherapy. CONTINUATION CHEMOTHERAPY: Patients receive additional cisplatin-based chemotherapy (as in induction chemotherapy) for 4-6 courses followed by mitotane alone for an additional 2 months. Patients with stage IV disease then proceed to additional surgery when feasible. ADDITIONAL SURGERY: Patients with stage IV disease may undergo additional primary tumor resection with regional lymph node dissection and resection (or re-resection) of the metastases. After completion of study treatment, patients are followed periodically for at least 5 years.
Source references
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  1. citation
    Pinto EM, Maxwell KN, Halalsheh H, Phillips A, Powers J, MacFarland S, Walsh MF, Breen K, Formiga MN, Kriwacki R, Nichols KE, Mostafavi R, Wang J, Clay MR, Rodriguez-Galindo C, Ribeiro RC, Zambetti GP. Clinical and Functional Significance of TP53 Exon 4-Intron 4 Splice Junction Variants. Mol Cancer Res. 2022 Feb;20(2):207-216. doi: 10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-21-0583. Epub 2021 Oct 21.
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