Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 11:54 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 11:54 PM
NCT ID:
NCT00165451
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* Patients with relapsed or progressive poor prognosis tumors for which no curative therapy exists.
* Histologic confirmation of disease at diagnosis or relapse.
* Brain stem glioma patients who have progressed after radiation therapy do not require histologic confirmation. Duration of symptoms at the time of diagnosis must be less than 3 months and should consist of cranial nerve deficits and/or ataxia and/or long tract signs.
* Prior radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy are permitted.
* Karnofsky Performance Status \>50. For infants, the Lansky play scale \>50% can be substituted.
* Life expectancy \> 2 months.
* No active uncontrolled cardiac, hepatic, renal, or psychiatric disease defined as ≥ grade 3 based on the common toxicity criteria.
* No known allergies to sulfonamides
* Adequate renal function: Serum Creatinine \< 1.5 mg/dl or creatinine clearance or GFR \> 70 ml/min.
* Adequate hepatic function: Total Bilirubin \< 1.5 mg/dl; SGOT, SGPT, Alk Phos \< 3x normal.(SGOT can be \< 4x normal for patients on Zantac).
* Adequate bone marrow reserve: Hgb \> 9.0 g/dl, Platelets \> 75,000/mm3 (transfusion independent),WBC \> 2000/mm3 and ANC \> 1000/mm3.
* Patients receiving steroids and/or anti-seizure medications are eligible for this study.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Patients must not be pregnant or nursing, and all patients of child bearing age (both male and female) must be willing to practice birth control during and for 2 months after treatment with thalidomide. If the patient is unable to use oral contraceptives for medical reasons, 2 different barrier methods may be used if approved by the treating physician.
* No concurrent use of other investigational agents.
* Patients that have received more than 2 months of oral therapy with any of the agents used in this study will be ineligible. Standard administration of IV etoposide and cyclophosphamide, usually administered in 3-week cycles is permitted.
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Maximum Age:
21 Years
Study:
NCT00165451
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT00165451