Medulloblastoma is a rare brain malignancy, mainly affecting children. Treatment of this rapidly growing tumor begins with maximal surgical removal plus radiation and chemotherapy. Treatment toxicity is high. Post-pubertal and pediatric medulloblastomas are biologically and prognostically different, which mandates age-adapted treatment strategies. Patients after puberty bear an intermediate to high prognostic risk. This means that a large number of these patients, are faced with death and/or disability (mainly neurocognitive). Therefore, the scientific and medical need is high. One of the genetic subgroups of medulloblastoma, the SHH-subgroup (Sonic HedgeHog- subgroup), is highly overrepresented in medulloblastoma patients after puberty. This subgroup can be treated with a targeted therapy. The investigators will therefore randomize patients and treat SHH-subgroup patients with sonidegib and a reduction of radiotherapy dose in the experimental arm of the trial. The hypothesis that this personalized risk-adapted therapy will improve outcomes in view of increased efficacy and decreased toxicity.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
20
Sonidegib is a selective smoothened inhibitor that inhibits the sonic hedgehog-signaling pathway. It is used in patients with locally advanced basal cell carcinoma (BCC) that has recurred following surgery or radiation therapy, or those who are not candidates for surgery or radiation therapy.
Cisplatin (CIS) is a platinum derivate used in the treatment in several epithelial tumours. The application route is through the veins.
Lomustine is a nitrosourea used in the treatment of brain tumours and Hodgkin's disease. The application route is oral.
Vincristine sulfate (VCR) is an inhibitor of microtubule formation in the mitotic spindle, resulting in an arrest of dividing cells at the metaphase stage. Vincristine sulfate is indicated in acute leukemia, Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphomas, rhabdomyosarcoma, neuroblastoma, and Wilms' tumor. The application route is through the vein.
Radiotherapy to the cranio-spinal axis of 35.2 Gy in 22 daily fractions of 1.6 Gy, followed by an additional boost to the tumour site of 19.8 Gy in 11 daily fractions of 1.8 Gy, summing up to a total dose of 55.0 Gy in 33 daily fractions of 1.6/1.8 Gy.
Royal Adelaide Hospital
Adelaide, Australia
Princess Alexandra Hospital - University Of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
Austin Health - Austin hospital
Melbourne, Australia
Peter Maccallum Cancer Institute
Melbourne, Australia
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Nedlands, Australia
John Hunter Children's Hospital
Progression Free Survival
compare progression-free survival (PFS) by central review of a personalized intensity-modulated therapy (experimental arm; sonidegib) vs. standard therapy in the SHH-activated subgroup in post-pubertal patients with newly diagnosed standard risk medulloblastoma.
Time frame: 91 months after the date of recruitment of the first patient
Progression Free Survival (PFS)
Time frame: when 43 PFS events are observed which is estimated to occur 91 months after the date of recruitment of the first patient.
overall survival (OV)
Time frame: when 43 PFS events are observed which is estimated to occur 91 months after the date of recruitment of the first patient.
safety and tolerability profile: CTCAE
This study will use the International Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE), version 5.0, for adverse event reporting (with neurological, kidney, auditory, endocrine and radiotherapy associated as AE of special interest). The highest CTCAE v. 5 grading per cycle and per patient will be computed at the EORTC HQ for analysis . Safety and tolerability analyses will be performed in the safety population. Severe grades (3/4) which did not resolve after treatment discontinuation or emerged during follow-up will be identified and listed.
Time frame: when 43 PFS events are observed which is estimated to occur 91 months after the date of recruitment of the first patient.
health-related quality of life (HRQoL)
The primary HRQoL endpoint that is considered relevant for this study is social functioning. The other scales from the QLQ-C30 and BN20 will be considered as exploratory in nature. A difference of 10 points on the 100-point QLQ-C30 social functioning scale between the two arms will be considered as clinically relevant.
Time frame: when 43 PFS events are observed which is estimated to occur 91 months after the date of recruitment of the first patient.
overall survival
Time frame: when 43 PFS events are observed which is estimated to occur 91 months after the date of recruitment of the first patient.
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