Digoxin Medulloblastoma Study

Study Purpose

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of digoxin in treating relapsed non-SHH, non-WNT medulloblastoma in pediatric and young adult patients.

Recruitment Criteria

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Healthy volunteers are participants who do not have a disease or condition, or related conditions or symptoms

No
Study Type

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Interventional
Eligible Ages 12 Months - 30 Years
Gender All
More Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • - Patients must be age >12 months and <30 years at the time of enrollment.
  • - Patients must have relapsed non-WNT, non-SHH medulloblastoma confirmed by a CAP/CLIA certified assay (such as nanostring or methylation) performed on tissue from diagnosis or relapse.
  • - Patients must have received at least one prior course of chemotherapy for their medulloblastoma.
They must also have received irradiation.
  • - Prior therapy: Therapy may not have been received more recently than the timeframes defined below: Craniospinal radiotherapy: At least 3 months have elapsed since prior craniospinal radiotherapy (at doses ≥ 18 Gy).
Local radiotherapy: At least 3 months since prior local radiotherapy to primary tumor. Focal radiotherapy: At least 2 weeks since prior focal radiotherapy to symptomatic metastatic sites. Myelosuppressive chemotherapy and/or immunotherapy and/or biologics: More than 3 weeks since prior myelosuppressive chemotherapy (6 weeks for nitrosoureas), immunotherapy, or biologics. Hematopoietic growth factor: Seven days must have elapsed since the completion of therapy with colony-stimulating factors (e.g., filgrastim [G-CSF], sargramostim [GM-CSF], or erythropoietin), or platelet-stimulating agents.
  • - Patients must have recovered from any surgical procedures such as biopsy, with neurological stability for > 7 days.
  • - Patients must have clear residual disease, defined as tumor that is measurable in two perpendicular diameters on MRI (ie, largest tumor diameter and its largest perpendicular).
The size of a measurable lesion at baseline should be at least 2 times the thickness of the slices showing the tumor (adding the interslice gap).
  • - Patients must have a Lansky or Karnofsky performance status score of ≥ 50%.
Use Karnofsky for patients > 16 years of age and Lansky for patients < 16 years of age. Patients who are unable to ambulate but who are functional in a wheelchair will be considered ambulatory for the purpose of assessing the performance score.
  • - Patients must have normal organ and marrow function.
  • - Patient has no evidence of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome or high-grade AV block (form of second-degree heart block) on screening ECG.
  • - Patient has no evidence of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy on screening echo.
  • - Any patient that reports recent palpitations (within the last month), or concerning findings on echo or ECG must be evaluated and cleared for treatment with digoxin by a cardiologist prior to enrollment.
Study PI should be contacted for additional questions/concerns regarding these patients.
  • - Patients receiving concurrent dexamethasone are eligible, provided dosage is stable or decreasing for ≥7 days prior to study enrollment.
  • - Patients must have a stable neurologic status for ≥7 days prior to study enrollment.
If a patient experiences neurologic decline following enrollment but prior to day 1 of cycle 1, they should be reassessed for eligibility.
  • - Pregnancy: Females of childbearing potential must have a negative urine or serum pregnancy test prior to enrollment.
Female patients who are lactating must agree to stop breastfeeding.
  • - Women of child-bearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation.
Should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while she or her partner is participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately.
  • - All patients and/or their parents or legal guardians must have the ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent or assent document.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • - Participants who are receiving concurrent anticancer or any other investigational agents are ineligible.
  • - Participants taking digoxin for any reason during treatment for initial diagnosis of medulloblastoma or relapse are ineligible.
Exposure to digoxin therapy prior to initial diagnosis of medulloblastoma is allowed.
  • - Patients with a history of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to digoxin are ineligible.
  • - Patients with serious or inadequately controlled cardiac arrhythmias, including baseline ectopy, ventricular tachycardia, frequent premature ventricular contractions (PVCs), or symptomatic sinus bradycardia are excluded from the study.
  • - Patients taking medications that are known to interfere with digoxin metabolism are ineligible.
  • - Participants with uncontrolled intercurrent illness, concurrent clinically significant unrelated systemic illness (e.g. serious infection) or significant cardiac, pulmonary, hepatic, or other organ dysfunction that would compromise the patient's ability to tolerate study treatment or would likely interfere with study procedures or results are ineligible.
  • - Participants with psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements are ineligible.
  • - Pregnant women or women unwilling to stop breastfeeding are excluded from this study because it is unknown how pregnant women with recurrent medulloblastoma will metabolize and tolerate digoxin.
There is an unknown but potential risk for adverse events in nursing infants secondary to treatment of the mother with digoxin in this setting.
  • - Participants who in the opinion of the investigator may not be able to comply with the safety monitoring requirements of the study.

Trial Details

Trial ID:

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NCT06701812
Phase

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Phase 2
Lead Sponsor

The sponsor is the organization or person who oversees the clinical study and is responsible for analyzing the study data.

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Principal Investigator

The person who is responsible for the scientific and technical direction of the entire clinical study.

Laura Metrock, MDJonathan Metts, MD
Principal Investigator Affiliation University of Alabama at Birmingham Children's of AlabamaMoffitt Cancer Center
Agency Class

Category of organization(s) involved as sponsor (and collaborator) supporting the trial.

Other
Overall Status Not yet recruiting
Countries United States
Conditions

The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied.

Medulloblastoma, Medulloblastoma, Non-WNT/Non-SHH
Arms & Interventions

Arms

Experimental: Digoxin Treatment

Digoxin will be administered orally at a standard maintenance dosing. Each cycle will be 28 days.

Interventions

Drug: - Digoxin

2.5-10 mcg/kg/day orally divided twice daily or once daily based on age on a continuous dosing schedule.

Contact a Trial Team

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Birmingham, Alabama

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University of Alabama at Birmingham Children's of Alabama

Birmingham, Alabama, 35233

Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut

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Connecticut Children's Medical Center

Hartford, Connecticut, 06106

Children's National Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia

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Children's National Medical Center

Washington, District of Columbia, 20010

Nemours Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida

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Nemours Jacksonville

Jacksonville, Florida, 32207

University of Miami, Miami, Florida

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University of Miami

Miami, Florida, 33136

Johns Hopkins All Children's, Saint Petersburg, Florida

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Johns Hopkins All Children's

Saint Petersburg, Florida, 33701

St. Joseph's Children's Hospital, Tampa, Florida

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St. Joseph's Children's Hospital

Tampa, Florida, 33607

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

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Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore, Maryland, 21218

Washington University St. Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri

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Washington University St. Louis

Saint Louis, Missouri, 63130

Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York

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Montefiore Medical Center

Bronx, New York, 10467

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27514

Levine Cancer Institute, Charlotte, North Carolina

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Levine Cancer Institute

Charlotte, North Carolina, 28204

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee

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Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville, Tennessee, 37232

UT Southwestern, Dallas, Texas

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UT Southwestern

Dallas, Texas, 75390

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