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Safety and Efficacy Study to Treat Recurrent Grade 4 Malignant Brain Tumors
Basic Trial Information Trial Description Summary Eligibility Criteria Trial Contact Information
Basic Trial Information
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Phase II
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18 and over
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IXR-102-22-188 NCT00071539
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Trial Description
Summary Immunotoxins can locate tumor cells and kill them without harming normal cells. Immunotoxin therapy may be effective in treating malignant glioma. Eligibility Criteria Inclusion criteria: The patients must fulfill all the following criteria: - Previous histologically-confirmed diagnosis of primary GBM (glioma grade 4 at time of first diagnosis).
- Histologically-confirmed and MRI diagnosed recurrent or progressive GBM after previous resection (surgical or biopsy) and radiation therapy.
- Medically capable of undergoing the planned surgical gross total resection and the catheter placement.
- Karnofsky Performance Status of ≥ 70%.
- Life expectancy of ≥ 3 months.
- Patients must already be taking or begin taking corticosteroids at a stable dose of 4 mg every 6 hours for at least 72 hours prior to catheter placement.
- Patients must be capable of taking, or already taking, anticonvulsant medication.
- Patients must have read, signed, and dated an informed consent according to ICH-GCP, the local regulatory requirement and the rules followed at each institution.
Exclusion Criteria: Patients fulfilling any of the following criteria should not be enrolled in the study: - Previous myelosuppressive chemotherapy within the past 4 weeks of the start of the infusion. Patients who have received more than two chemotherapy regimens (single therapy or combination therapy) are ineligible.
- Any form of brain radiation within 10 weeks of the start of the infusion.
- Previous gamma knife radiosurgery, stereotactic radiosurgery, and/or internal radiotherapy, unless the recurrence/progression is histologically confirmed (fine-needle biopsy).
- Prior intracavitary biologic response modifiers or monoclonal antibodies.
- Bilateral or multifocal tumors.
- Evidence of cerebral uncal herniation.
- Midline brain shift on MRI scan of > 0.5 cm prior to resection; patients with subfalcine herniation may be enrolled.
- Tumors involving the brainstem or cerebellum.
- Diffuse subependymal or CSF disease.
- Women who are pregnant or breast feeding. All women of child-bearing potential should be excluded unless they have a negative pregnancy test and are using adequate contraceptive measures or are surgically sterile. Post-menopausal women must be amenorrhoeic for at least 12 months to be considered of non-childbearing.
- Fertile males not practicing adequate contraception and whose female partners are not using adequate contraceptive protection.
- Prior or concurrent investigational treatment within 30 days of study entry.
- Active infection requiring treatment or having an unexplained febrile illness.
- Systemic diseases or other conditions which may be associated with unacceptable anesthetic/operative risk and/or which would not allow safe completion of this study protocol.
- Prior or concurrent malignancy (curatively treated carcinoma-in-situ or basal cell carcinoma or patients who have been disease free for at least 5 years are eligible).
Trial Contact Information
Trial Lead Organizations/Sponsors IVAX Pharmaceuticals, Incorporated Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record.
NLM Identifer NCT00071539 Information obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov on May 27, 2008 Note: Information about this trial is from the ClinicalTrials.gov database. The versions designated for health professionals and patients contain
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