Chemotherapy Treatment for Children With Intraocular Germ-Line Retinoblastoma

NCT ID: NCT00179920

Last Updated: 2020-08-05

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: PHASE2
• Total Enrollment: 30 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 1996-04-30
• Study Completion Date: 2006-09-30

Brief Summary

Retinoblastoma is an unusual cancer of early childhood involving tumor is both eyes or, in certain circumstances, one eye only. This condition is the result of an abnormal gene which makes both retinas (the back of the eye) vulnerable to develop multiple tumors. Growths in the eye impair vision temporarily or permanently. These tumors are malignant, which means that they can grow within the eye, spread outside of the eye, and be fatal if untreated.

Standard therapy for bilateral retinoblastoma includes removal of one eye if vision cannot be save and radiation treatment of either eye in which vision might be saved. Radiation controls tumor growth in the majority of cases. Another standard method is cryotherapy (freezing a tumor to kill it). Chemotherapy (medicines used to kill tumor cells) has been used in the past for tumor in or outside the eye, but is not standard. Hyperthermia, increasing the temperature of a tumor to kill it, is widely performed, and can be done to a retinoblastoma tumor by a laser; this method is not standard.

The problem with removal of an eye is that any hope of vision is lost. The problems with radiation include incomplete control of tumor, injury to the eye or surrounding tissue with decreased growth, and that (due to the abnormal retinoblastoma gene) children are very susceptible to develop other tumors, especially in the tissue which was given radiation.

The doctors at Children's Memorial Hospital are using a newer form of treatment, including laser hyperthermia, chemotherapy and cryotherapy to decrease retinoblastoma tumors. Some may be controlled indefinitely, reducing the number of eyes that need radiation or removal.

OBJECTIVES

1. To find out how well chemotherapy plus cryotherapy and laser hyperthermia work on retinoblastoma tumors.

2. To find out whether vision can be saved and tumors controlled without radiation or removal of the eye.

Conditions

Retinoblastoma; Retinal Neoplasms

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Interventions

Carboplatin

Intervention Type: DRUG

VP-16

Intervention Type: DRUG

Local Surgery

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Cryotherapy

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Laser hyperthermia

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Eligibility Criteria:

• Initial clinical diagnosis of Retinoblastoma, with Bilateral tumors, OR Unilateral tumor with hope for salvage of vision AND Multiple primary tumors, or positive family history for retinoblastoma, or age < 12 months
• No prior antitumor therapy (except enucleation of one eye)
• At least one tumor exceeds 6 mm in diameter
• No evidence of dissemination outside the globe
• Signed IRB-approved informed consent
• Patient/family available for follow-up

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Stewart Goldman

Division Head

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Stewart Goldman, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

Locations

Children's Memorial Hospital

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

CNS 0294

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id