Use of Racotumomab in Patients With Pediatric Tumors Expressing N-glycolylated Gangliosides
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2015-06-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
This study will be carried out in children with diagnosis of cancer with tumors known to
express N-glycolylated gangliosides. The disease must be resistant to conventional therapy.
The acute toxicity and immune response will be evaluated.
The expression of N-glycolylated gangliosides in tumors has previously been investigated in
the tumor sample bank at this Hospital. The expression of N-glycolyl GM3 was shown in
neuroblastoma, Ewing's sarcoma, Wilm's tumor and retinoblastoma.
Gliomas and the aforementioned tumor types have a very bad prognosis when conventional
treatment is ineffective.
New therapeutic strategies have thus been examined, and several immunotherapeutic approaches,
including dendritic cell vaccines, peptide vaccines and anti-idiotype vaccines are currently
being assessed.
Racotumomab is an anti-idiotype antibody capable of inducing anti-N-glycolyl GM3 antibodies
in patients with melanoma, breast cancer and lung cancer.
Dose escalation studies have shown the safety of racotumomab in the 0.5 to 2 mg dose range.
The 1 mg dose level was selected for the ensuing clinical studies.
This clinical trial in children involves three dose levels: 0.15 mg, 0.25 mg and 0.4 mg,
owing to the difference in body surface between an adult (1.73 sq. m in average) and the
candidate population for this study (0.55 to 0.7 sq. m).
Phase:
Phase 1
Details
Lead Sponsor:
Laboratorio Elea Phoenix S.A. Laboratorio Elea S.A.C.I.F. y A.