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NCI-COG Pediatric MATCH (Molecular Analysis for Therapy Choice) Screening Protocol.

Primary Aims:
1) To utilize clinical and biological data to screen for eligibility to phase 2 pathway- targeting specific subprotocols of pathway-targeting agents in pediatric patients with advanced solid tumors, non-Hodgkin lymphomas, and histiocytic disorders.

2) To determine the proportion of pediatric patients whose advanced tumors have pathway alterations that can be targeted by select anti-cancer drugs.

3) To determine the objective response rates (ORR; complete response + partial response) in pediatric patients with advanced solid tumors, non-Hodgkin lymphomas, and histiocytic disorders harboring a priori-specified genomic alterations treated with pathway-targeting agents.

Secondary Aims:
1) To estimate the progression free survival in pediatric patients receiving targeted therapies for advanced solid tumors, non-Hodgkin lymphomas, and histiocytic disorders.

2) To obtain preliminary or additional information about the tolerability of targeted therapies in children with advanced cancers.

3) To provide preliminary estimates of the pharmacokinetics of targeted therapies in children with advanced cancers.

4) To obtain preliminary information on the response rate to targeted therapy in patients whose tumors lack actionable alterations as defined for the MATCH study, for selected agents for which efficacy is observed in the primary matched cohort.

Exploratory Aims:
1) To increase knowledge of the genomic landscape of advanced pediatric solid
tumors, non-Hodgkin lymphomas, and histiocytic disorders.

2) To describe the genomic changes that occur in advanced pediatric cancers between the time of initial diagnosis and relapse, in cases for which paired tumor specimens are available.

3) To explore approaches to diagnosing and profiling genomics of advanced pediatric cancers through evaluation of circulating tumor DNA

4) To determine the frequency and spectrum of germline cancer susceptibility mutations in children with relapsed solid tumors and non-Hodgkin lymphomas and assess the feasibility of return of those results in the NCTN group setting.

Protocol Number: 111706
Phase: N/A
Applicable Disease Sites: Any Site
Principal Investigator: Richard A Drachtman
Scope: National
Participating Institutions:
  • Rutgers University
  • Saint Peters University Hospital
Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

Please note that we have obtained the inclusion and exclusion criteria information from the National Institutes of Health’s clinical trials web site ClinicalTrials.gov. The listed criteria may not necessarily reflect recent amendments to the protocol and the current criteria.

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