Pilot Study of Cabozantinib for Recurrent or Progressive Central Nervous System Tumors in Children

Inclusion Criteria

• •1. Age: Patients must be ≥2 years and ≤21 years of age
• •2. Diagnosis: Patients with relapsed or refractory central nervous system tumors. Patients must have had histological verification of malignancy at original diagnosis or relapse. Metastatic disease to the spine or primary tumors in the spine are eligible. Patients may be in first, second, or third relapse. Subjects with intrinsic brain stem gliomas may be eligible with or without histological confirmation. Please contact study chair prior to enrollment.
• •3. Disease Status: Patients must have measurable disease. Linear enhancement of leptomeningeal without measurable mass is excluded.
• •4. Therapeutic Options: Patient's current disease state must be one for which there is no accepted standard therapy, no known curative therapy or therapy proven to prolong survival with an acceptable quality of life. For patients in whom surgery is feasible, maximal surgical resection must have occurred.
• •5. Performance Level: Karnofsky ≥ 50% for patients \> 16 years of age and Lansky ≥ 50 for patients ≤ 16 years of age (See Appendix 1). Note: Neurologic deficits in patients must have been relatively stable for at least 7 days prior to study enrollment. Patients who are unable to walk because of paralysis, but who are in a wheelchair, will be considered ambulatory for the purpose of assessing the performance score.
• •6. Subjects must have a reasonable life expectancy of at least 2 months.
• •7. Prior Therapy
• •a. Patients must have fully recovered from the acute toxic effects of all prior anti-cancer chemotherapy i. Cytotoxic chemotherapy (including investigational agents) or biologic agents (eg. Cytokines or antibodies): At least 3 weeks after the last dose.
• •ii. Nitrosoureas/mitomycin C: At least 6 weeks from the last dose. iii. XRT: At least 14 days after local palliative XRT (small port); At least 150 days must have elapsed if prior TBI, craniospinal XRT or if ≥ 50% radiation of pelvis; At least 42 days must have elapsed if other substantial BM radiation. e.g. Stem cell Infusion without TBI: No evidence of active graft vs. host disease and at least 56 days must have elapsed after transplant or stem cell infusion.
• •8. Organ Function Requirements:
• •a. Adequate bone marrow function defined as: absolute neutrophil count (ANC ≥1000/mm3) i. Platelet count ≥ 100,000/ mm3 (transfusion independent, defined as not receiving platelet transfusions for at least 7 days prior to enrollment) ii. Patients with bone marrow metastatic disease will not be eligible. b. Adequate renal function defined as: i. Creatinine clearance or radioisotope GFR ≥ 70mL/min/1.73 m² or a serum creatinine based on age/gender as follows:
• •Age Maximum Serum Creatinine (mg/dL) Male Female 2 to \< 6 years 0.8 0.8 6 to \< 10 years 1 1 10 to \< 13 years 1.2 1.2 13 to \< 16 years 1.5 1.4
• •≥ 16 years 1.7 1.4 The threshold creatinine values in this table were derived from the Schwartz formula for estimating GFR (Schwartz et al. J. Peds, 106:522, 1985) utilizing child length and stature data published by the CDC.
• •ii. Urine protein: ≤ 30 mg/dL in urinalysis or ≤ 1+ on dipstick, unless quantitative protein is \< 1000 mg in a 24 hour urine sample.
• •c. Adequate Liver Function Defined as:
• •i. Bilirubin (sum of conjugated + unconjugated) ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) for age ii. SGPT (ALT) ≤ 110 U/L. For the purpose of this study, the ULN for SGPT is 45 U/L.
• •iii. Serum albumin ≥ 2.8 g/dL. d. Adequate coagulation status defined as: PT and INR ≤ 1.5x ULN e. Adequate pancreatic function defined as: Serum amylase and lipase ≤ 1.5 x ULN f. Adequate blood pressure control defined as: A blood pressure (BP) ≤ the 95th percentile for age, height and gender (Appendix II) despite optimal antihypertensive treatment within 7 days of the first dose of the study treatment. Please note that 3 serial blood pressures should be obtained and averaged to determine baseline BP.
• •g. Central nervous system function defined as: Patients with seizure disorder may be enrolled if receiving non-enzyme inducing anticonvulsants and well controlled. See Appendix III for a list of recommended non-enzyme inducing anticonvulsants.
• •h. Adequate cardiac function defined as: i. No history of congenital QTc syndrome, NYHA Class III or IV congestive heart failure (CHF) ii. No clinical significant cardiac arrhythmias, stroke or myocardial infarction within 6 months prior to enrollment iii. QTc
• •≤ 480 msec. Note: One ECG must be performed for eligibility determination. If the QTc is \> 480 msec, two additional ECGs must be performed and the average of the three ECGs will be used to determine eligibility. Patients with Grade 1 prolonged QTc (450-480 msec) at the time of study enrollment should have correctable causes of prolonged QTc addressed if possible (i.e. electrolytes, medications). See Appendix IV for a list of drugs that prolong QTc.
• •9. Informed consent: All patients and/or their parents or legally authorized representatives must sign a written informed consent. Assent, when appropriate will be obtained according to institutional guidelines.