The best dose of radiation to be given with bevacizumab is currently unknown. This study will use higher doses of radiation with bevacizumab than have been used before. This study will test the safety of radiation given at different doses with bevacizumab to find out what effects, good and/or bad, it has on the patient and the malignant glioma or related brain cancers.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
15
Treatment: (until treatment failure): bevacizumab 10 mg/kg IV once every two weeks on days 1 (+/- 3 days) and 15 (+/- 3 days) of every cycle (Cycle defined as 28 days). On day 28 (or up to 2 days before) of cycles 1 and 2 (and for every other cycle thereafter) patients will undergo a physical and radiological re-evaluation (MRI). Patients will begin stereotactic radiotherapy beginning anywhere from day 7 to day 10 of cycle 2 with escalating fraction sizes (interpatient - there is no intrapatient escalation). Assessment of response will be performed following cycles 1 and 2 then following every two cycles.
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge
Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Commack
Commack, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester
Harrison, New York, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
To establish the maximum tolerated dose (MTD)
of hypofractionated stereotactic re-irradiation delivered with concomitant bevacizumab in recurrent malignant gliomas (using a standard 3+3 design).
Time frame: 1 year
Response rate
Median overall survival and progression-free survival, along with the estimated survival and PFS rates at specified time points will be estimated using Kaplan-Meier method. Confidence intervals will be included with all point estimates. Response rate will be estimated using an exact binomial distribution together with 95% confidence interval.
Time frame: 1 year
Median progression free survival
Median overall survival and progression-free survival, along with the estimated survival and PFS rates at specified time points will be estimated using Kaplan-Meier method. Confidence intervals will be included with all point estimates. Response rate will be estimated using an exact binomial distribution together with 95% confidence interval.
Time frame: 1 year
6 month progression-free survival rate
Median overall survival and progression-free survival, along with the estimated survival and PFS rates at specified time points will be estimated using Kaplan-Meier method. Confidence intervals will be included with all point estimates. Response rate will be estimated using an exact binomial distribution together with 95% confidence interval.
Time frame: 1 year
Median overall survival
Median overall survival and progression-free survival, along with the estimated survival and PFS rates at specified time points will be estimated using Kaplan-Meier method. Confidence intervals will be included with all point estimates. Response rate will be estimated using an exact binomial distribution together with 95% confidence interval.
Time frame: 1 year
Use of tractography to predict routes of progression in gliomas (MSKCC only)
DTI will be acquired at the time of the patient's routinely scheduled brain MRIs but at least on the baseline scan and the MRI 1 month after cycle 2. DTI parameters: A spin-echo echo-planar sequence using 25 gradient directions, TR/TE 11000/100 msec; matrix 128 × 128; in-plane resolution 1.88 × 1.88 mm; slice thickness 3 mm; b-value 1000 sec/mm2; NEX 1 and maximum diffusion gradient strength 22mTm-1.
Time frame: 1 year
Correlation of VEGF and VEGFR IHC and related pathways (MSKCC only) and MGMT promoter methylation with efficacy
Exploratory analyses related to VEGFR signaling including IHC for VEGF and VEGFR on pre-treatment tissue and post-treatment tissue and the analysis of biological correlate data has the overall goal of providing increased understanding of the nature of the response to bevacizumab but the amount of data available for the various measures is uncertain. Information may also be limited by the impact of intervening treatment between the most recent surgery and initiation of study treatment.
Time frame: 1 year
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