About this trial
HEM-iSMART is a master protocol which investigates multiple investigational medicinal products in children, adolescents and young adults (AYA) with relapsed/refractory (R/R) ALL and LBL. Sub-protocol D is a phase I/II trial evaluating the safety and efficacy of trametinib in combination with dexamethasone, cyclophosphamide and cytarabine in children and AYA with R/R ped ALL/LBL whose tumor present with alterations in the RAS-RAF-MAPK pathway.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Children between 1 year (≥ 12 months) and 18 years of age at the time of first diagnosis and less than 21 years at the time of inclusion. Patients under 6 years old must weigh at least 7 kg at the time of enrollment. Patients over 6 years old must weigh at least 10 kg at the time of enrollment.
Performance status: Karnofsky performance status (for patients >12 years of age) or Lansky Play score (for patients
12 years of age) ≥ 50% (Appendix I).
Written informed consent from parents/legal representative, patient, and age-appropriate assent before any study specific screening procedures are conducted, according to local, regional or national guidelines.
Disqualifiers
Pregnancy or positive pregnancy test (urine or serum) in females of childbearing potential. Pregnancy test must be performed within 7 days prior to C1D1.
Sexually active participants not willing to use highly effective contraceptive method (pearl index <1) as defined in CTFG HMA 2020 (Appendix II) during trial participation and until 6 months after end of antileukemic therapy.
Breast feeding.
Impairment of gastrointestinal (GI) function or GI disease that may significantly alter drug absorption of oral drugs (e.g., ulcerative diseases, uncontrolled nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or malabsorption syndrome) in case of oral IMPs.
Trial design
Single group
Treatments tested in this trial
Trametinib
DrugOral
Dexamethasone
DrugOral/ Intravenous
Cyclophosphamide
DrugIntravenous
Cytarabine
DrugIntravenous
Intrathecal chemotherapy
DrugIT: Methotrexate +/- prednisone/hydrocortisone/cytarabine according to the degree of central nervous involvement
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Phase I: Maximum tolerated dose (MTD) / Recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D)
Defined as the highest dose level tested at which 0/6 or 1/6 patients experiences dose limiting toxicities (DLT) during course 1 with at least 2 patients experiencing DLT at the next higher dose
Phase II: Best Overall Response Rate (ORR)
For patients with leukemia: CR and MRD response after 1 cycle of treatment. This includes determination of CR, CRp, CRi and minimal residual disease (MRD) negativity rate in patients suffering from overt morphological relapse of T-ALL at time of enrolment (morphological disease (M2/M3)), and the MRD negativity rate in those that entered with high-MRD levels but in morphological CR. These results will together be presented as a composite endpoint Overall Response rate (ORR). MRD negativity will be defined as ≤1x10-4 as generated by multi-parameter flow cytometry. For patients with lymphoma: Response in LBL patients is defined as CR, PR, minor response (MR) as defined in International pediatric NHL response criteria. In case of bone-marrow involvement MRD will be taken into account. For patients with lymphoma: Response in LBL patients is defined as CR, PR, minor response (MR) as defined in International pediatric NHL response criteria
Secondary outcomes
Overall survival (OS)
Defined as time from C1D1 until death of any cause.
Event-free survival (EFS)
Defined as time from C1D1 to the first event (subsequent relapse after CR (including molecular reappearance), death of any cause, failure to achieve remission (CR, CRp or CRi), or secondary malignancy)
Cumulative incidence of relapse (CIR)
Estimate of the risk, that a patient will develop a relapse over a specified period of time.
Number of patients proceeding to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) after the experimental therapy
The rate of those proceeding to subsequent allogenic HSCT
Sponsors and contacts
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Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology
Lead sponsor
Innovative Therapies For Children with Cancer Consortium
Collaborator
IBFM
Collaborator
Fight Kids Cancer
Collaborator