Clinical Trials

Diseases Treated:

Galactosialidosis

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

Diseases Treated:

For patients at risk for blood clots

Eligibility:

• Participant has a diagnosis requiring anticoagulant therapy.
• Participant has completed their standard anticoagulant therapy.
• Participant is not receiving active therapy for a malignant condition.
• Participant is less than 18 years of age at the time of consent.
• Participant and legal guardian agree to food and drug restrictions during study.

Diseases Treated:

Blood clots (venous thromboembolism)

Eligibility:

This clinical trial is open only to St. Jude patients.

• Newborn to 17 years old (must be younger than 18)
• Diagnosis of blood clot in a vein (venous thromboembolism, also called VTE)
• Requires anticoagulant therapy for at least 90 days
• Received at least 5 days of heparin therapy prior to study

Diseases Treated:

Non-malignant blood diseases (non-therapeutic)

Eligibility:

• Receiving therapy or a consultation for a non-malignant blood disorder
• Biological relatives (with or without a non-malignant blood disorder) who agree to undergo genetic testing

Diseases Treated:

X-linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID-X1)

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease, X-linked (SCID-X1)
• Newborn to 2 years of age
• No prior therapy with allogeneic stem cell transplantation
• No HIV infection

Diseases Treated:

Pyruvate kinase deficiency (PKD)

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participants of all ages with biochemically or genetically diagnosed PKD.
• Participants with a hemolytic anemia and a family member with genetically diagnosed PKD.
• The participant or the guardian of the participant is willing and able to give written informed consent and/or assent.

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant is receiving an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital using an unlicensed cord blood unit (CBU).
• The patient has a disorder affecting the hematopoietic system that is either inherited, acquired, or a result from myeloablative treatment.

Diseases Treated:

High-risk solid tumors and lymphomas

Eligibility:

• Has a type of high-risk cancer including
  • Neuroblastoma
  • Solid tumors
    
  • Lymphomas
• 21 years of age or younger
• Has not received a prior hematopoietic (blood cells from bone marrow) stem cell transplant within the previous three months

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

Diseases Treated:

Hepatic veno-occlusive disease

Eligibility:

• The patient must have diagnosis of hepatic VOD
• Patients must also provide voluntary written informed consent to the protocol to be eligible for the study.

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant received an integrating retroviral or lentiviral vector based gene transfer or gene marked product at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital within the past 15 year time period.

Diseases Treated:

Leukemia and other blood diseases

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant is receiving an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplant at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital using an unlicensed cord blood unit (CBU).
• Participant may be of any age and either gender.
• Participant has a medical disorder affecting the hematopoietic system that is inherited, acquired, or a result from myeloablative treatment.
• Participant is receiving HPC-CORD BLOOD product manufactured by NCBP (at least one, if the graft contains more than one units).

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

Diseases Treated:

• Leukemia
• Lymphoma
• Myeloid sarcoma
• Myelodysplastic syndrome

Eligibility:

• 21 years old and younger
• Diagnosed with one of the following that has come back or did not improve after bone marrow transplant
  • Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
  • Acute myeloid leukemia
  • Myeloid sarcoma
  • Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
  • Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML)
  • Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
  • Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL)
• Has a family member who is a suitable stem cell donor

Diseases Treated:

Non-therapeutic

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial open only to St. Jude patients.

• 12 years old or younger
• Has had a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCST)
• Recruitment occurs within two weeks before or after discharge from transplant admission
• Prescribed oral medication at discharge
• Speaks and reads English

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

This clinical trial has inclusion and exclusion criteria. See full trial for specifics.

Diseases Treated:

Newly diagnosed Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)

Eligibility:

• Participant is > 36 month and < 21 years of age at the time of study enrollment.
• Participant has newly diagnosed DIPG.
• Participant has a brainstem tumor that was biopsied and proven to be one of the following: anaplastic astrocytoma, glioblastoma, gliosarcoma, or anaplastic mixed glioma.
• Participant has not received any prior chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy or bone marrow transplant for the treatment of DIPG. Prior dexamethasone and/or surgery are allowed.

Diseases Treated:

Brain Tumors

Solid Tumors

Eligibility:

• 12 months old or older and younger than 21 years old
• Diagnosis:
  • Part A - Non-central nervous system (CNS) tumor that returned after treatment or did not respond to treatment
  • Part B – CNS tumor that returned after treatment or did not respond to treatment
• No other proven therapy options

Diseases Treated:

Solid tumors, giomas, hystiocytosis

Eligibility:

• Participant is greater or equal to 12 months and less than 18 years at the time of signing the informed consent form.
• Participant has BRAF V600 mutation positive tumor as confirmed in a CLIA-approved laboratory or equivalent
• Participant has recurrent disease, refractory disease, or progressive disease after having received at least one standard therapy for their disease, OR participant has metastatic (or surgically unresectable) melanoma, and is being enrolled for first-line treatment. Melanoma participants with CNS involvement may be enrolled.

Diseases Treated:

Brain Tumor : Previously treated brain tumors

Eligibility:

• Age is > 6 years and < 17 years & 10 months at the time of study entry.
• Off treatment and progression–free for at least 12 months and less than and equal to 14 years.
• Diagnosis of a primary brain tumor treated with at least one of the following :
  • Neurosurgical resection of the brain tumor;
  • Cranial irradiation;
  • Any chemotherapy to treat the brain tumor

Diseases Treated:

Newly diagnosed localize primary NGGCT or newly diagnosed localized germinoma

Eligibility:

• Participant is > 3 years and < 21 years at the time of enrollment.
• Participant has newly diagnosed localized primary NGGCT or newly diagnosed localized germinoma (has not spread to other parts of the brain or spine).
• Participant must have adequate bone marrow function.
• Participant must have normal renal and liver function for age.
• NO prior therapy except surgery and/or steroids.

Diseases Treated:

Intracranial ependymoma

Eligibility:

• Patient must be greater than 12 months of age and less than 21 years of age at enrollment
• Patients with newly diagnosed intracranial ependymoma without evidence of metastatic disease (confirmed by MRI brain and spine along with lumbar puncture to check CSF)
• Patients with diagnosis of spinal cord ependymoma, myxopapillary ependymoma, subependymoma, ependymoblastoma, or mixed glioma are not eligible
• No prior treatment other than surgical intervention and corticosteriods

Diseases Treated:

• Rhabdoid tumor
• Synovial sarcoma
• INI 1-negative tumor

Eligibility:

• Between 6 months and 21 years old
• Relapsed or refractory rhabdoid tumors, INI1-negative tumors or synovial sarcoma

Diseases Treated:

Solid Tumors, Central Nervous System Tumors

Eligibility:

Phase 1

• 1 to 21 years of age with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumor or primary CNS tumor that has progressed or was nonresponsive to therapy and for which there is no standard or available curative therapy, OR
• ≥ 1 month old with diagnosis of infantile/congenital fibrosarcoma or congenital mesoblastic nephroma with documented NTRK fusion that has progressed or was nonresponsive to therapy and for which there is no standard or available curative therapy

Phase 2

• ≥ 1 month old at C1D1 with locally advanced or metastatic infantile fibrosarcoma OR
• ≥ 1 month old through 21 years old at C1D1 with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumor or primary CNS tumor that has progressed or was not responsive to therapy and for which no standard or available curative therapy with a NTRK gene funsion OR
• More than 21 years old with tumor diagnosis typical of a pediatric patient and an NTRK fusion

Diseases Treated:

Relapsed or refractory solid tumor

Eligibility:

• Participant is at least one month old and younger than 18 years old at the time of signing the informed consent (in Part A, participants < 2 years of age are not included).
• Participant has a histologically confirmed solid tumor
• Participant has a disease that is relapsed or refractory to all potentially curative standard treatment regimens, or has a disease for which there is no standard treatment regimen that is potentially curative.

Diseases Treated:

Gliomas

Eligibility:

• Participant is ≥ 3 but ≤ 21 years of age at registration.
• Participant has a diagnosis of low grade glioma (Grades I & II) or optic pathway gliomas with clinical and/or radiographic evidence of progression.
• Participant received last fraction of local irradiation to the primary tumor ≥ 12 weeks prior to registration, or does not apply.

Diseases Treated:

Unresectable or recurrent craniopharyngioma

Eligibility:

• Participant has a histologically verified diagnosis of craniopharyngioma.
• Participant has recovered from acute toxicities of all prior therapy before entering this study.
• Participant has not received prior interferon, either systemic or into the tumor cyst.
• Participant does not have evidence of metastatic tumor.

Diseases Treated:

Retinoblastoma protein 1 (Rb1) positive recurrent, progressive, or refractory central nervous system tumors

Eligibility:

• Between 4 and 21 years old
• Able to swallow capsules
• Rb1-positive recurrent, progressive or refractory central nervous system (CNS) tumor or DIPG
• Stable neurological deficit for at least 1 week prior to enrollment
• Last dose of known myelosuppressive anticancer chemotherapy at least 3 weeks prior to enrollment
• Last fraction of focal irradiation > 2 weeks prior to enrollment

Diseases Treated:

Recurrent, progressive, or refractory high-grade gliomas

Eligibility:

• Participant has recurrent, progressive or refractory non-brainstem high-grade glioma or diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG)
• Participant is 1 to 18 years of age
• Participant has bi-measurable disease on MRI 
• Participant has received prior radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy and has not received myelosuppressive anticancer chemotherapy for at least three (3) weeks

 

Diseases Treated:

Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of progressive diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) or an increase in the bi-dimensional measurement or the appearance of a new tumor lesion since diagnosis
• At least 2 but not more than 22 years old
• Able to swallow capsules whole

Diseases Treated:

High-grade glioma (HGG), ependymoma

Eligibility:

• Between 5 and 21 years old
• Diagnosis of supratentorial high-grade glioma (HGG) or supratentorial ependymoma that is recurrent, progressive or refractory
• Head circumference of at least 44 cm
• Failed standard therapy with no other available treatment options
• Recovered from prior chemotherapy, immunotherapy or radiotherapy
• Willing and able to use the device at least 18 hours a day for at least 23 days and keep head shaved throughout treatment

Diseases Treated:

Recurrent or progressive low grade gliomas (brain tumors)

Eligibility:

• Participant is three (3) to twenty-one (21) years of age.
• Patient has refractory, progressive or recurrent confirmed low-grade glioma (WHO grade I or II) that was confirmed histologically at initial diagnosis.
• Participant received his or her last dose of myelosuppressive anticancer chemotherapy at least three (3) weeks prior to study registration, or at least six (6) weeks if nitrosourea.
• Participant received his or her last dose of other investigational or biological agent more than seven (7) days prior to study entry.

Diseases Treated:

Brain tumors (recurrent and refractory)

Eligibility:

• 25 years or younger at time of registration
• Histologically confirmed diagnosis of a primary central nervous system tumor
• Positive test for the BRAF^V600E or the BRAF Ins T mutation at a CLIA-approved laboratory

Diseases Treated:

Recurrent ependymoma

Eligibility:

• Progressive intracranial ependymoma after prior focal irradiation
• At least 1 year old and younger than 21 years old
• Adequate performance status (ECOG less than 3)
• Does not require mechanical ventilation
• Interval from start of initial radiation therapy to enrollment greater than 9 months

Diseases Treated:

Craniopharyngioma

Eligibility:

• 21 years of age or younger
• Diagnosis of craniopharyngioma 
• Has not been previously treated with radiation therapy

Diseases Treated:

Craniopharyngioma

Eligibility:

• 21 years old or younger
• Diagnosis of craniopharyngioma

Diseases Treated:

Brain Tumor : Recurrent, progressive, or newly diagnosed atypical teratoid rhabdoid brain tumors (ATRT)
Solid Tumor : Progressive extra-CNS malignant rhabdoid solid tumors (MRT)

Eligibility:

• Has one of these types of tumors:
  • Newly diagnosed atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors (ATRTs) or synchronous extraneural ATRTs
  • ATRTs or malignant rhabdoid tumors (MRTs) that have come back after previous treatment (recurrent disease)
  • ATRTs or MRTs that are growing after previous treatment (progressive disease)
• 21 years of age or younger

Diseases Treated:

Progressive or recurrent pontine glioma or high-grade glioma

Eligibility:

• Between 2 and 21 years of age
• Diagnosis of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) or high-grade glioma

Diseases Treated:

Medulloblastoma (includes all variants of medulloblastoma and posterior fossa PNET)

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of newly medulloblastoma
• Must be least 3 but not more than 22 years of age
• Has not received previous treatment with radiation therapy or chemotherapy
• Must start treatment within 36 days of surgery to remove the tumor

Diseases Treated:

Solid and liquid tumors

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is open to new St. Jude patients. The patient has:

• cancerous or non-cancerous tumor that has been newly diagnosed
• recurred after previous treatment
• not responded to previous treatment (refractory disease)

The protocol is also open to current St. Jude patients with recurrent or refractory disease, where biopsy or resection is being performed to establish the diagnosis and/or palliate symptoms.

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of a primary immunodeficiency predisposed to hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
• Meets at least 4 of 8 diagnostic criteria for HLH as defined by the Histiocyte Society and is receiving HLH-directed therapy
• High suspicion of isolated Central Nervous System-HLH and is receiving HLH-directed therapy

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial open to St. Jude patients only.

Participants have been pre-identified by the primary care team as an English-speaking, four-member family unit diagnosed with TP53 mutation.

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients

Diseases Treated:

Non-therapeutic clinical trial

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is open to children and adults with familial cancer and to their eligible family members.

Note: This is a research study and is not meant to be a substitute for clinical genetic testing. Families may never receive results from the study or may receive results many years from the time they enroll. If you are interested in clinical testing, please consider seeing a local genetic counselor or other genetics professional. If you have already had clinical genetic testing and meet eligibility criteria for the SJFAMILY study, you may enroll regardless of the results of your clinical genetic testing.

In this research study, the definition of “Familial Cancer” is met if any of the following is present:

• An individual and at least one first, second or third degree relative, each with a history of cancer diagnosed under 50 years of age; OR
• An individual under 50 years of age with more than one cancers; OR
• An individual with a clinical or molecular diagnosis of a known cancer predisposition syndrome

Eligible individuals include:

• An individual who meets the definition of “Familial Cancer,” as above
• Blood relatives of the above individual with familial cancer, who are affected or unaffected by cancer

Diseases Treated:

Malaria

Eligibility:

• Healthy male or female adults
• Age 18 to 55 years old
• Minimum weight of 50 kg with BMI between 18 and 34 kg/m^2
• Females must be post-menopausal or have documented hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy

Eligibility:

• Participant is age two (2) to eight (8) years inclusive at the time of enrollment.
• Participant is not currently using investigational or immunosuppressive drugs (e.g. steroids) at the time of enrollment.
• Participant is not currently taking a daily (routine) Vitamin A, D or multi-vitamin. Note: Participant who report occasional or sporadic vitamin use will be allowed to enroll.

Eligibility:

• Child is greater than or equal to twelve (12) months and less than twenty-four (24) months.
• Child has adequate blood, liver and kidney function.
• Child has no history of lung disease, asthma, and hospitalization for respiratory illness, immunodeficiency, sickle cell disease, or any other serious underlying condition.

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

St. Jude patients:

• Treated with an allogeneic bone marrow or stem cell transplant at St. Jude
• 8 years of age or older
• Younger than 21 at time of transplant
• More than 5 years from date of transplant

Healthy volunteers (comparison group):

• 8 years of age or older
• Primarily speaks English
• No known history of serious illness

Diseases Treated:

Langerhans cell histiocytosis and LCH-related disorders

Eligibility:

• Prior diagnosis of Langerhans cell histiocytosis or LCH-related disorder
• Evidence of active disease
• Performance Score > 70% (use Lansky score for age < 16 and Karnofsky score for age ≥16)
• Any age
• Adequate organ functions

Diseases Treated:

Langerhans cell histiocytosis

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of Langerhans cell histiocytosis
• Younger than 18 years old
• Meets inclusion criteria for the respective stratum

 

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant received an integrating retroviral or lentiviral vector based gene transfer or gene marked product at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital within the past 15 year time period.

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of a primary immunodeficiency predisposed to hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
• Meets at least 4 of 8 diagnostic criteria for HLH as defined by the Histiocyte Society and is receiving HLH-directed therapy
• High suspicion of isolated Central Nervous System-HLH and is receiving HLH-directed therapy

Diseases Treated:

X-linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID-X1)

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease, X-linked (SCID-X1)
• Newborn to 2 years of age
• No prior therapy with allogeneic stem cell transplantation
• No HIV infection

Diseases Treated:

HIV Infection

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• The subject has been enrolled on IMPAACT P1025.

Diseases Treated:

HIV

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant receives services at St. Jude.
• Participant has HIV-1 Infection.
• Participant is between the ages of 16 years and 24 years.
• Participant has been offered a prescription for antiretroviral (ARV) medications.
• Participant is able to understand, read, and speak English.
• Participant has used alcohol in the last 12 weeks prior to screening.

Diseases Treated:

Malaria

Eligibility:

• Healthy male or female adults
• Age 18 to 55 years old
• Minimum weight of 50 kg with BMI between 18 and 34 kg/m^2
• Females must be post-menopausal or have documented hysterectomy or bilateral oophorectomy

Eligibility:

• This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.
• Participant is receiving treatment for any disease at St. Jude.
• Participant is age ≥ 5 years to < 25 years.
• Participant has single or double lumen tunneled CVAD (ports not eligible).
• Participant’s treating clinician does not plan to remove CVAD within 12 weeks.
• Participant has not been previously enrolled in the CaRMA study or had past catheter resistance monitoring.

Diseases Treated:

Cancer or allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant > 2 months of age and < 21 years of age at enrollment.
• Participant has or is scheduled to have an external tunneled central venous catheter (CVC) (Broviacs, Hickmans, tunneled percutaneously inserted central PICCs), that is expected to remain in place for an additional > 3 months.
• Participant with a current or previous line infection completed antibiotics > 14 days ago.

Diseases Treated:

Infectious Disease

Eligibility:

• 2 months old or older
• Diagnosed with adenovirus (AdV) infection
• Has symptoms related to AdV infection
• Able to take and absorb oral medication
• No previous treatment with brincidofovir (BCV)

Diseases Treated:

HIV Infection

Eligibility:

• Participant does not have life expectancy of less than 1 year.
• Participant does not have history of significant drug sensitivity or drug allergy.
• Participant is not participating in any other clinical trial without prior approval from sponsor while participating in this trial.
• Participant does not have an ongoing serious infection requiring systemic antibiotic therapy at the time of screening.

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant is ≥ 6 months and < 25 years of age and is ≥ 5 kg.
• Participant has new diagnosis of central line associated blood stream infection with a silicone catheter (ports, and Broviac or Hickman lines will be eligible).
• Participant has not received ELT in the preceding 2 weeks.
• Participant does not have multiple long-term central lines.

Diseases Treated:

Influenza

Eligibility:

• At least 3 years old and younger than 17
• Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipient
• At least 3 and not more than 35 months after transplant
• Platelet count of at least 30,000

Eligibility:

• Participant is age two (2) to eight (8) years inclusive at the time of enrollment.
• Participant is not currently using investigational or immunosuppressive drugs (e.g. steroids) at the time of enrollment.
• Participant is not currently taking a daily (routine) Vitamin A, D or multi-vitamin. Note: Participant who report occasional or sporadic vitamin use will be allowed to enroll.

Diseases Treated:

HIV/AIDS

Eligibility:

• Participant is HIV-1 infected male or female aged six (6) to less than eight-teen (18) years of age at Baseline.
• Participant is currently on a stable 2-NRTI (TDF containing) regimen that includes a protocol specified 3rd ARV agent for greater than or equal to six (6) consecutive months prior to screening.
• Participant does not have an acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) indicator condition with onset within thirty (30) days prior to screening.

Diseases Treated:

Depression

Eligibility:

• 12 to 24 years old
• Receiving mental health or HIV-related care at participating IMPAACT site
• HIV-positive
• Diagnosis of nonpsychotic depression
• Current depressive symptoms that warrant intervention
• Reads and speaks English

Diseases Treated:

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

Eligibility:

• 6 to 24 months old
• In good health
• Never been diagnosed with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
• Growing at normal rate for age
• Received routine immunizations, appropriate for age

Eligibility:

• Participant is > 16 and < 24 years of age.
• Participant is diagnosed with HIV.
• Participant is aware of his/her HIV diagnosis.
• Participant understands either written or spoken English.

Diseases Treated:

Non-Therapeutic

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Between 4 and 21 years old
• Newly confirmed diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or scheduled to receive conditioning for allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation within seven days
• Receiving treatment at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Diseases Treated:

Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Eligibility:

• At least 4 weeks old but younger than 18 years old
• Confirmed HIV-1 infection
• Current or past treatment with HIV medications (Children younger than 2 years old may be eligible even if they have not been treated with HIV medications.)

Eligibility:

• Child is greater than or equal to twelve (12) months and less than twenty-four (24) months.
• Child has adequate blood, liver and kidney function.
• Child has no history of lung disease, asthma, and hospitalization for respiratory illness, immunodeficiency, sickle cell disease, or any other serious underlying condition.

Diseases Treated:

Relapsed or refractory precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoma

Eligibility:

• B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia or lymphoblastic lymphoma that has:
  • Come back after treatment the first time
  • Did not respond to treatment the first time
• Less than 22 years of age
• Does not have HIV or hepatitis B infection

Diseases Treated:

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of one of the following:
  • Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
  • 5% to 20% marrow myeloblasts and evidence of a clonal de novo AML genetic abnormality
  • Myeloid sarcoma
  • High grade myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) with greater than 5% blasts
  • Treatment-related myeloid neoplasms, including AML and MDS
• 28 days to 21 years old
• No prior therapy, except for one dose of intrathecal therapy and the use of hydroxyurea or low-dose cytarabine
• Not pregnant

Diseases Treated:

Leukemia

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is open only to patients who were treated at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital since 1980 and are currently followed at the hospital.

• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital patient with acute leukemia (i.e., ALL or AML)
• Trisomy 21 Down syndrome diagnosis
• Completed all cancer therapy at St. Jude since 1980 and at least six months prior to study visit
• English as the primary language

Diseases Treated:

Leukemia/Lymphoma

Eligibility:

• 21 years and younger
• Does not have a suitable HLA-matched sibling donor or volunteer HLA-matched unrelated donor or is not a candidate for conventional matched donor transplant due to refractory disease
• Has a suitable single haplotype-matched family member donor
• High-risk hematologic malignancy, including certain diagnoses of:
  • Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
  • Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
  • Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)
  • Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
  • Hodgkin lymphoma
  • Non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Diseases Treated:

Leukemia and other blood diseases

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant is receiving an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplant at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital using an unlicensed cord blood unit (CBU).
• Participant may be of any age and either gender.
• Participant has a medical disorder affecting the hematopoietic system that is inherited, acquired, or a result from myeloablative treatment.
• Participant is receiving HPC-CORD BLOOD product manufactured by NCBP (at least one, if the graft contains more than one units).

Diseases Treated:

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of AML or MDS that has come back or did not respond to chemotherapy
• 21 years of age or younger at time of enrollment
• Able to swallow capsules
• Recovered from side effects of previous cancer therapy

Diseases Treated:

• Leukemia
• Lymphoma
• Myeloid sarcoma
• Myelodysplastic syndrome

Eligibility:

• 21 years old and younger
• Diagnosed with one of the following that has come back or did not improve after bone marrow transplant
  • Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
  • Acute myeloid leukemia
  • Myeloid sarcoma
  • Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
  • Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML)
  • Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
  • Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL)
• Has a family member who is a suitable stem cell donor

Diseases Treated:

Relapsed or refractory leukemia or hematologic malignancies

Eligibility:

(Phase II)

• 21 years of age or younger
• Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
• No history of HIV infection

Diseases Treated:

Leukemia and lymphoma

Eligibility:

• 21 years of age or younger
• Newly diagnosed mature B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma and leukemia
• No previous treatment (no more than 72 hours of steroids, one intrathecal chemotherapy treatment, and/or emergency radiation)

Diseases Treated:

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)

Eligibility:

• Newly diagnosed ALL
• 1 year of age or younger at the time of diagnosis
• Has not had any — or has had limited — prior therapy
• Does not have mature B-cell ALL, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or Down syndrome

Diseases Treated:

Leukemia / Lymphoma

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of B-cell or T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or acute lymphoblastic lymphoma (LLy)
• 1 to 18 years old
• No prior therapy or limited prior therapy

Diseases Treated:

Leukemia, Lymphoma

Eligibility:

• T-call acute lymphoblastic leukemia or lymphoma that has:
  • Come back after treatment the first time or
  • Did not respond to treatment the first time
• 21 years or younger
• Able to swallow capsules

Diseases Treated:

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
• Between 2 and 21 years old
• Able to swallow pills
• Recovered from acute effects of prior therapy and no evidence of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD)
• Adequate liver, kidney and heart functions

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant is currently enrolled in the St. Jude Life study and received chest radiation OR
• Participant is a sibling, parent, relative or friend of a current or former St. Jude patient.
• Participant is > 18 years of age at time of evaluation.

Diseases Treated:

Childhood cancer incidence and survival

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Newly diagnosed with cancer between January 1, 1970, and December 31, 1996
• Survival five years from diagnosis
• Age less than 21 years at the time of diagnosis of cancer
• English or Spanish speaking and living in the United States or Canada at the time of diagnosis

Diseases Treated:

Long-term effects of childhood cancer

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant is enrolled on the SJLIFE protocol
• Participant completed a baseline SJLIFE assessment between 4 and 6 years prior to FRAILTY enrollment.
• Participant’s age was between the ages of 18-45 when baseline SJLIFE assessment was completed.
• Participant is not currently receiving treatment for cancer.

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial open to St. Jude patients only.

Participant is a St. Jude Life or ACT (After Completion of Therapy) patient.

Diseases Treated:

For survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma

Eligibility:

• Females, 25 years of age or older.
• Participant does not plan to become pregnant in the next 2 years and is not currently breast feeding.

Diseases Treated:

Cancer

Eligibility:

• Younger than 21 years old at time of cancer diagnosis
• Weight:
  • Males: more than 55 kilograms (about 121 pounds)
  • Females: more than 50 kilograms (about 110 pounds)
• Lifetime cumulative anthracycline dose: ≥ 300 mg/m² DOXOrubicin equivalent without the protection of dexrazoxane (Zinecard) therapy
• Completed cancer treatment at least 2 years prior to study enrollment

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant was enrolled on SJCRH TOTXV ALL protocol (or Best Clinical Management that followed the same treatment provided in the TOTXV protocol)
• Minimum of five years post diagnosis of ALL
• Minimum age of 8.0 years at time of follow-up evaluation

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant has a diagnosis of osteonecrosis and a hematologic malignancy or sickle cell disease.
• Participant is a candidate for hip core decompression surgery.
• Participant is 8 to 29 years of age.

Diseases Treated:

Congestive heart failure

Eligibility:

• Participant is > 16 years of age.
• Participant had cancer diagnosis < 21 years of age.
• Participant has lifetime cumulative anthracycline dose > 300 mg/m2.
• Participant is > 2 years since completion of treatment for cancer.

Diseases Treated:

Solid tumors

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Please see clinical trial for full inclusion and exclusion eligibility criteria.

Diseases Treated:

Long-term effects of childhood cancer

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Currently enrolled on the SJLIFE protocol
• 18 to 49 years old
• At least 10 years post first cancer diagnosis
• Lives within a 45-minute drive of a Greater Memphis Area ATC Fitness Center
• Speaks English
• Low lean mass defined as either:
  • Body fat content of at least 25% in males or at least 35% in females OR
  • Age and sex-specific Relative Lean Muscle Mass Standard Deviation score <-1.0

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant was diagnosed with a childhood cancer which was treated or followed by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
• Participant completed treatment for disease at least ten years prior to entry in this study
• Participant is willing to return to St. Jude for periodic evaluation

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• All patients being followed or treated at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for the diagnosis of childhood cancer
• Patient has not been permanently discharged from care and follow-up

Diseases Treated:

Relapsed or refractory precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoma

Eligibility:

• B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia or lymphoblastic lymphoma that has:
  • Come back after treatment the first time
  • Did not respond to treatment the first time
• Less than 22 years of age
• Does not have HIV or hepatitis B infection

Diseases Treated:

Lymphoma

Eligibility:

• Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) lymphoma or EBV-associated lymphoproliferative disorder
• Primary or acquired immunodeficiency
• Appropriate HLA partially-matched and restricted EBV-Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes (EBV-CTLs)
• No other satisfactory therapies available to treat EBV disease

Diseases Treated:

Hodgkin lymphoma

Eligibility:

• 21 years of age or younger
• Patient has a parent, sister, brother or child who also has Hodgkin lymphoma
• Patient’s other family members who agree to participate

 

Diseases Treated:

Leukemia/Lymphoma

Eligibility:

• 21 years and younger
• Does not have a suitable HLA-matched sibling donor or volunteer HLA-matched unrelated donor or is not a candidate for conventional matched donor transplant due to refractory disease
• Has a suitable single haplotype-matched family member donor
• High-risk hematologic malignancy, including certain diagnoses of:
  • Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
  • Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
  • Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)
  • Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
  • Hodgkin lymphoma
  • Non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Diseases Treated:

High-risk Hodgkin lymphoma

Eligibility:

• Has high-risk Hodgkin lymphoma
• 18 years of age or younger
• Has not received previous treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma

Diseases Treated:

Hodgkin lymphoma

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of early-stage Hodgkin lymphoma 
• Hodgkin lymphoma that has not been previously treated
• 21 years of age or younger

Diseases Treated:

For survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma

Eligibility:

• Females, 25 years of age or older.
• Participant does not plan to become pregnant in the next 2 years and is not currently breast feeding.

Diseases Treated:

• Leukemia
• Lymphoma
• Myeloid sarcoma
• Myelodysplastic syndrome

Eligibility:

• 21 years old and younger
• Diagnosed with one of the following that has come back or did not improve after bone marrow transplant
  • Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
  • Acute myeloid leukemia
  • Myeloid sarcoma
  • Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
  • Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML)
  • Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
  • Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL)
• Has a family member who is a suitable stem cell donor

Diseases Treated:

Leukemia and lymphoma

Eligibility:

• 21 years of age or younger
• Newly diagnosed mature B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma and leukemia
• No previous treatment (no more than 72 hours of steroids, one intrathecal chemotherapy treatment, and/or emergency radiation)

Diseases Treated:

Leukemia / Lymphoma

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of B-cell or T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or acute lymphoblastic lymphoma (LLy)
• 1 to 18 years old
• No prior therapy or limited prior therapy

Diseases Treated:

Leukemia, Lymphoma

Eligibility:

• T-call acute lymphoblastic leukemia or lymphoma that has:
  • Come back after treatment the first time or
  • Did not respond to treatment the first time
• 21 years or younger
• Able to swallow capsules

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

Please see the eligibility section on the clinical trial for full inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Diseases Treated:

Newly diagnosed Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)

Eligibility:

• Participant is > 36 month and < 21 years of age at the time of study enrollment.
• Participant has newly diagnosed DIPG.
• Participant has a brainstem tumor that was biopsied and proven to be one of the following: anaplastic astrocytoma, glioblastoma, gliosarcoma, or anaplastic mixed glioma.
• Participant has not received any prior chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy or bone marrow transplant for the treatment of DIPG. Prior dexamethasone and/or surgery are allowed.

Diseases Treated:

Relapsed or refractory solid tumors

Eligibility:

• Participant is >12 months and < 21 years of age at the time of study entry.
• Participant has had histologic verification of malignancy at original diagnosis or relapse.
• Participant has serum tumor markers including alpha-fetoprotein or beta-HCG.
• Participant has a relapsed or refractory solid tumor.

Diseases Treated:

Solid Tumors

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of solid tumor that is resistant to other anticancer therapy or has come back after therapy. Includes lymphoma and central nervous system (CNS) tumors that may or may not require surgery.
• Fully recovered from the acute toxic effects of all prior anticancer therapy
• At least 1 but not more than 21 years of age
• Able to swallow tablets whole

Diseases Treated:

Brain Tumors

Solid Tumors

Eligibility:

• 12 months old or older and younger than 21 years old
• Diagnosis:
  • Part A - Non-central nervous system (CNS) tumor that returned after treatment or did not respond to treatment
  • Part B – CNS tumor that returned after treatment or did not respond to treatment
• No other proven therapy options

Diseases Treated:

Solid Tumor, CNS Tumor, Lymphoma

Eligibility:

• 12 months to 21 years old
• Able to swallow whole tablets
• Diagnosis of recurrent or refractory solid tumor, including CNS tumor and lymphoma

Diseases Treated:

Solid Tumor, CNS Tumor

Eligibility:

• 12 months to 21 years old
• Diagnosis of recurrent or refractory solid tumor, including CNS tumor

Diseases Treated:

Relapsed or refractory precursor B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphoma

Eligibility:

• B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia or lymphoblastic lymphoma that has:
  • Come back after treatment the first time
  • Did not respond to treatment the first time
• Less than 22 years of age
• Does not have HIV or hepatitis B infection

Diseases Treated:

Osteosarcoma

Eligibility:

• Younger than 30 years old
• Original diagnosis of osteosarcoma
• Osteosarcoma has come back in the lungs after original treatment
• Lung tumors have been removed surgically within the last 4 weeks before enrolling in the study

Diseases Treated:

High-risk solid tumors and lymphomas

Eligibility:

• Has a type of high-risk cancer including
  • Neuroblastoma
  • Solid tumors
    
  • Lymphomas
• 21 years of age or younger
• Has not received a prior hematopoietic (blood cells from bone marrow) stem cell transplant within the previous three months

Diseases Treated:

Relapsed or refractory solid tumors

Eligibility:

• Participant has refractory or recurrent solid tumor for which there is no standard therapy.
• Participant has had histologic verification of malignancy at original diagnosis or at the time of relapse.
• Participant is twelve (12) months to twenty-five (25) years of age at the time of enrollment on study.
• Participant life expectancy is at least eight (8) weeks. 

Diseases Treated:

Solid tumors, giomas, hystiocytosis

Eligibility:

• Participant is greater or equal to 12 months and less than 18 years at the time of signing the informed consent form.
• Participant has BRAF V600 mutation positive tumor as confirmed in a CLIA-approved laboratory or equivalent
• Participant has recurrent disease, refractory disease, or progressive disease after having received at least one standard therapy for their disease, OR participant has metastatic (or surgically unresectable) melanoma, and is being enrolled for first-line treatment. Melanoma participants with CNS involvement may be enrolled.

Diseases Treated:

Brain Tumor : Previously treated brain tumors

Eligibility:

• Age is > 6 years and < 17 years & 10 months at the time of study entry.
• Off treatment and progression–free for at least 12 months and less than and equal to 14 years.
• Diagnosis of a primary brain tumor treated with at least one of the following :
  • Neurosurgical resection of the brain tumor;
  • Cranial irradiation;
  • Any chemotherapy to treat the brain tumor

Diseases Treated:

Newly diagnosed localize primary NGGCT or newly diagnosed localized germinoma

Eligibility:

• Participant is > 3 years and < 21 years at the time of enrollment.
• Participant has newly diagnosed localized primary NGGCT or newly diagnosed localized germinoma (has not spread to other parts of the brain or spine).
• Participant must have adequate bone marrow function.
• Participant must have normal renal and liver function for age.
• NO prior therapy except surgery and/or steroids.

Diseases Treated:

Human papillomavirus

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

Questionnaire phase

• Cancer survivor (9 to 26 years of age at study participation)
• English or Spanish-speaking

Vaccine Phase

• Survey response indicated no prior history of HPV vaccination
• Agrees to return to participating institution for 3 HPV vaccine injections
• Allergy to any component of the HPV vaccine including yeast and aluminum will not be eligible for the study

Diseases Treated:

For patients at risk for blood clots

Eligibility:

• Participant has a diagnosis requiring anticoagulant therapy.
• Participant has completed their standard anticoagulant therapy.
• Participant is not receiving active therapy for a malignant condition.
• Participant is less than 18 years of age at the time of consent.
• Participant and legal guardian agree to food and drug restrictions during study.

Diseases Treated:

HIV Infection

Eligibility:

• Participant does not have life expectancy of less than 1 year.
• Participant does not have history of significant drug sensitivity or drug allergy.
• Participant is not participating in any other clinical trial without prior approval from sponsor while participating in this trial.
• Participant does not have an ongoing serious infection requiring systemic antibiotic therapy at the time of screening.

Diseases Treated:

Ewing sarcoma

Eligibility:

• Younger than or equal to 50 years old
• Diagnosis of Ewing sarcoma or peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) arising from bone or soft tissue and with metastatic disease involving lung, bone, bone marrow or other metastatic site

Diseases Treated:

• Rhabdoid tumor
• Synovial sarcoma
• INI 1-negative tumor

Eligibility:

• Between 6 months and 21 years old
• Relapsed or refractory rhabdoid tumors, INI1-negative tumors or synovial sarcoma

Diseases Treated:

High-risk Hodgkin lymphoma

Eligibility:

• Has high-risk Hodgkin lymphoma
• 18 years of age or younger
• Has not received previous treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma

Diseases Treated:

Hodgkin lymphoma

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of early-stage Hodgkin lymphoma 
• Hodgkin lymphoma that has not been previously treated
• 21 years of age or younger

Diseases Treated:

Lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma 

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of early-stage lymphocyte-predominant Hodgkin lymphoma (LPHL)
• LPHL that has not been previously treated with chemotherapy or radiation therapy
• 18 years of age or younger

 

Diseases Treated:

Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

Eligibility:

• 6 to 24 months old
• In good health
• Never been diagnosed with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
• Growing at normal rate for age
• Received routine immunizations, appropriate for age

Diseases Treated:

Retinoblastoma

Eligibility:

• Age 17 or younger
• Diagnosis of retinoblastoma that did not go away with treatment or came back after treatment

Diseases Treated:

Refractory or progressive malignancies

Eligibility:

• Age > 12 months and < 18 years.
• Participant has been diagnosed with a locally advanced or metastatic malignancy that has progressed despite standard therapy, or which no effective standard therapy exists.
• Specimen is being submitted for molecular pre-screening to test for genetic alteration of ALK and the tumor must carry a genetic alteration of the ALK gene.
• Participant has adequate liver, kidney, cardiac, and bone marrow function.

Diseases Treated:

For survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma

Eligibility:

• Females, 25 years of age or older.
• Participant does not plan to become pregnant in the next 2 years and is not currently breast feeding.

Diseases Treated:

Solid Tumors, Central Nervous System Tumors

Eligibility:

Phase 1

• 1 to 21 years of age with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumor or primary CNS tumor that has progressed or was nonresponsive to therapy and for which there is no standard or available curative therapy, OR
• ≥ 1 month old with diagnosis of infantile/congenital fibrosarcoma or congenital mesoblastic nephroma with documented NTRK fusion that has progressed or was nonresponsive to therapy and for which there is no standard or available curative therapy

Phase 2

• ≥ 1 month old at C1D1 with locally advanced or metastatic infantile fibrosarcoma OR
• ≥ 1 month old through 21 years old at C1D1 with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumor or primary CNS tumor that has progressed or was not responsive to therapy and for which no standard or available curative therapy with a NTRK gene funsion OR
• More than 21 years old with tumor diagnosis typical of a pediatric patient and an NTRK fusion

Diseases Treated:

Cancer

Eligibility:

• Younger than 21 years old at time of cancer diagnosis
• Weight:
  • Males: more than 55 kilograms (about 121 pounds)
  • Females: more than 50 kilograms (about 110 pounds)
• Lifetime cumulative anthracycline dose: ≥ 300 mg/m² DOXOrubicin equivalent without the protection of dexrazoxane (Zinecard) therapy
• Completed cancer treatment at least 2 years prior to study enrollment

Diseases Treated:

Relapsed or refractory solid tumor

Eligibility:

• Participant is at least one month old and younger than 18 years old at the time of signing the informed consent (in Part A, participants < 2 years of age are not included).
• Participant has a histologically confirmed solid tumor
• Participant has a disease that is relapsed or refractory to all potentially curative standard treatment regimens, or has a disease for which there is no standard treatment regimen that is potentially curative.

Diseases Treated:

Advanced melanoma or PD-L1 positive advanced relapsed or refractory solid tumor or lymphoma

Eligibility:

• Participant has advanced melanoma or PD-L1 positive advanced, relapsed or refractory solid tumor or lymphoma
• Participant of child bearing potential has a negative pregnancy test 72 hours prior to medication administration
• Participant has appropriate liver and kidney function

Diseases Treated:

Neuroblastoma

Eligibility:

• Participant is < 19 years of age at the time of study enrollment.
• Participant has newly diagnosed, advanced stage, high-risk neuroblastoma.
• Participant has histologic proof of neuroblastoma or positive bone marrow for tumor cells with increased urine catecholamine.
• Participant has adequate renal and hepatic function.

Diseases Treated:

Sickle cell disease

Eligibility:

• 12 to 17 years old
• Diagnosis of sickle cell disease
• Able to swallow capsules

 

Diseases Treated:

Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Eligibility:

• At least 4 weeks old but younger than 18 years old
• Confirmed HIV-1 infection
• Current or past treatment with HIV medications (Children younger than 2 years old may be eligible even if they have not been treated with HIV medications.)

Diseases Treated:

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of AML or MDS that has come back or did not respond to chemotherapy
• 21 years of age or younger at time of enrollment
• Able to swallow capsules
• Recovered from side effects of previous cancer therapy

Diseases Treated:

Gliomas

Eligibility:

• Participant is ≥ 3 but ≤ 21 years of age at registration.
• Participant has a diagnosis of low grade glioma (Grades I & II) or optic pathway gliomas with clinical and/or radiographic evidence of progression.
• Participant received last fraction of local irradiation to the primary tumor ≥ 12 weeks prior to registration, or does not apply.

Diseases Treated:

Unresectable or recurrent craniopharyngioma

Eligibility:

• Participant has a histologically verified diagnosis of craniopharyngioma.
• Participant has recovered from acute toxicities of all prior therapy before entering this study.
• Participant has not received prior interferon, either systemic or into the tumor cyst.
• Participant does not have evidence of metastatic tumor.

Diseases Treated:

Retinoblastoma protein 1 (Rb1) positive recurrent, progressive, or refractory central nervous system tumors

Eligibility:

• Between 4 and 21 years old
• Able to swallow capsules
• Rb1-positive recurrent, progressive or refractory central nervous system (CNS) tumor or DIPG
• Stable neurological deficit for at least 1 week prior to enrollment
• Last dose of known myelosuppressive anticancer chemotherapy at least 3 weeks prior to enrollment
• Last fraction of focal irradiation > 2 weeks prior to enrollment

Diseases Treated:

Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG)

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of progressive diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) or an increase in the bi-dimensional measurement or the appearance of a new tumor lesion since diagnosis
• At least 2 but not more than 22 years old
• Able to swallow capsules whole

Diseases Treated:

Sickle cell disease

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

Diseases Treated:

Recurrent or progressive low grade gliomas (brain tumors)

Eligibility:

• Participant is three (3) to twenty-one (21) years of age.
• Patient has refractory, progressive or recurrent confirmed low-grade glioma (WHO grade I or II) that was confirmed histologically at initial diagnosis.
• Participant received his or her last dose of myelosuppressive anticancer chemotherapy at least three (3) weeks prior to study registration, or at least six (6) weeks if nitrosourea.
• Participant received his or her last dose of other investigational or biological agent more than seven (7) days prior to study entry.

Diseases Treated:

Congestive heart failure

Eligibility:

• Participant is > 16 years of age.
• Participant had cancer diagnosis < 21 years of age.
• Participant has lifetime cumulative anthracycline dose > 300 mg/m2.
• Participant is > 2 years since completion of treatment for cancer.

Diseases Treated:

• Leukemia
• Lymphoma
• Myeloid sarcoma
• Myelodysplastic syndrome

Eligibility:

• 21 years old and younger
• Diagnosed with one of the following that has come back or did not improve after bone marrow transplant
  • Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
  • Acute myeloid leukemia
  • Myeloid sarcoma
  • Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
  • Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML)
  • Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
  • Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL)
• Has a family member who is a suitable stem cell donor

Diseases Treated:

Refractory and recurrent solid tumors

Eligibility:

• Participant is between 1-25 years old e at the time of enrollment (Note:  eligibility up to age 50 years for other participating sites).
• Participant has had histologic verification of an extracranial germ cell tumor that is not a pure teratoma (mature or immature), pure germinoma, or pure seminoma.
• Participant has relapsed or refractory disease following at least two prior platinum-containing chemotherapy regimens.
• Patients must have measurable disease, documented according to RECIST criteria, or evaluable disease with a standard tumor marker (AFP and/or HCG) greater than 10 times the upper limit of normal.
• Other requirements for this study.

Diseases Treated:

Recurrent ependymoma

Eligibility:

• Progressive intracranial ependymoma after prior focal irradiation
• At least 1 year old and younger than 21 years old
• Adequate performance status (ECOG less than 3)
• Does not require mechanical ventilation
• Interval from start of initial radiation therapy to enrollment greater than 9 months

Diseases Treated:

Craniopharyngioma

Eligibility:

• 21 years of age or younger
• Diagnosis of craniopharyngioma 
• Has not been previously treated with radiation therapy

Diseases Treated:

Craniopharyngioma

Eligibility:

• 21 years old or younger
• Diagnosis of craniopharyngioma

Diseases Treated:

Metastatic sarcomas

Eligibility:

• Participant has histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis:
  • Nonrhabdomyosarcoma of soft tissue
  • Ewing sarcoma
  • Osteosarcoma at any site
• Participant must be greater than 3 years of age and < 40 years of age.
• Participant has not had any prior radiotherapy to the treatment site.

Diseases Treated:

Relapsed or refractory leukemia or hematologic malignancies

Eligibility:

(Phase II)

• 21 years of age or younger
• Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
• No history of HIV infection

Eligibility:

• Child is greater than or equal to twelve (12) months and less than twenty-four (24) months.
• Child has adequate blood, liver and kidney function.
• Child has no history of lung disease, asthma, and hospitalization for respiratory illness, immunodeficiency, sickle cell disease, or any other serious underlying condition.

Diseases Treated:

Brain Tumor : Recurrent, progressive, or newly diagnosed atypical teratoid rhabdoid brain tumors (ATRT)
Solid Tumor : Progressive extra-CNS malignant rhabdoid solid tumors (MRT)

Eligibility:

• Has one of these types of tumors:
  • Newly diagnosed atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors (ATRTs) or synchronous extraneural ATRTs
  • ATRTs or malignant rhabdoid tumors (MRTs) that have come back after previous treatment (recurrent disease)
  • ATRTs or MRTs that are growing after previous treatment (progressive disease)
• 21 years of age or younger

Diseases Treated:

Progressive or recurrent pontine glioma or high-grade glioma

Eligibility:

• Between 2 and 21 years of age
• Diagnosis of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) or high-grade glioma

Diseases Treated:

Medulloblastoma (includes all variants of medulloblastoma and posterior fossa PNET)

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of newly medulloblastoma
• Must be least 3 but not more than 22 years of age
• Has not received previous treatment with radiation therapy or chemotherapy
• Must start treatment within 36 days of surgery to remove the tumor

Diseases Treated:

Retinoblastoma

Eligibility:

• Newly diagnosed retinoblastoma that has not spread beyond the eye
• Has not received previous treatment with chemotherapy or radiation therapy
• Patients who have been diagnosed with retinoblastoma in one eye who did not receive chemotherapy, but then developed retinoblastoma in the opposite eye

Diseases Treated:

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)

Eligibility:

• Newly diagnosed ALL
• 1 year of age or younger at the time of diagnosis
• Has not had any — or has had limited — prior therapy
• Does not have mature B-cell ALL, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or Down syndrome

Diseases Treated:

Human papillomavirus

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

Questionnaire phase

• Cancer survivor (9 to 26 years of age at study participation)
• English or Spanish-speaking

Vaccine Phase

• Survey response indicated no prior history of HPV vaccination
• Agrees to return to participating institution for 3 HPV vaccine injections
• Allergy to any component of the HPV vaccine including yeast and aluminum will not be eligible for the study

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

This clinical trial requires pediatric participants (Phase I and II) as well as control participants. Please see Eligibility Criteria section for details.

Diseases Treated:

Depression

Eligibility:

• 12 to 24 years old
• Receiving mental health or HIV-related care at participating IMPAACT site
• HIV-positive
• Diagnosis of nonpsychotic depression
• Current depressive symptoms that warrant intervention
• Reads and speaks English

Diseases Treated:

Solid tumors

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• At least 12 years old 
• Diagnosed with a solid tumor or lymphoma within the past 30 days 
• Speaks, reads and writes in English or Spanish
• No blindness or history of eye disease including, but not limited to macular degeneration, or other diagnosed retinal problems 
• Not initiated antidepressant medication, including either SSRIs in the past month, and MAOIs in the past two months
• No laser corrective eye surgery in the past 30 days

Diseases Treated:

Sickle cell disease

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial open to St. Jude patients only.

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Please see the eligibility section on the clinical trial for full inclusion and exclusion criteria.

Diseases Treated:

Sickle cell disease

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

Diseases Treated:

Cancer

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients and their parents.

• 8 to 17.9 years old
• Cancer survivor who is off cancer therapy
• Parents and legal guardians of children to also enroll in the study
• Speaks English

 

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

Diseases Treated:

Non-therapeutic

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic research study open only to St. Jude patients, their parents and patients' teachers.

• Patient between 4 and 6 years old
• Primary diagnosis of brain tumor or non-CNS solid tumor
• 6 to 12 months since therapy was completed (+/- 1 month)
• Chemotherapy was part of tumor treatment
• Able to speak and read English

Diseases Treated:

Non-therapeutic

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial open only to St. Jude patients.

• 12 years old or younger
• Has had a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCST)
• Recruitment occurs within two weeks before or after discharge from transplant admission
• Prescribed oral medication at discharge
• Speaks and reads English

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

St. Jude patients:

• Treated with an allogeneic bone marrow or stem cell transplant at St. Jude
• 8 years of age or older
• Younger than 21 at time of transplant
• More than 5 years from date of transplant

Healthy volunteers (comparison group):

• 8 years of age or older
• Primarily speaks English
• No known history of serious illness

Diseases Treated:

Cancer

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial for adolescents and young adult (AYA) oncology patients between the ages of 14 and 21 and their legal guardians or identified surrogate decision makers.

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant is the parent of a child with relapsed or refractory high risk neuroblastoma receiving primary oncology care or a second opinion at a participating site.
• Parent aged 18 year or older, of a child aged ≤ 18 years.
• Participating parent if the primary decision maker for the family.
• Participating parent is English-speaking.

Diseases Treated:

Cancer

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients and their parents.

• St. Jude childhood cancer survivors between 8 and 17 years old
• Parents of St. Jude childhood cancer survivors

Diseases Treated:

Cancer

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients and their parents.

• 8 to 17.9 years old
• Cancer survivor who is off cancer therapy
• Parents and legal guardians of children to also enroll in the study
• Speaks English

 

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

Diseases Treated:

Non-therapeutic

Eligibility:

Primary oncologist:

• Attending physician age 18 years or older who provides medical care to patients in the Solid Tumor Clinic at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
• Primary hematology-oncology fellows age 18 or older (audio-recorded disease reevaluation only)

Parents of children with cancer:

• Age 18 or older
• Biological parent, step-parent or primary legal guardian
• Reads and speaks English

Patients:

• Primary oncologist is enrolled in the study.
• 30 years old or younger
• Diagnosed with one or more of the  following diseases:
  • High-risk neuroblastoma
  • Any sarcoma
  • Any carcinoma
  • Desmoplastic small round cell tumor
  • Incompletely resected or metastatic retinoblastoma, Wilms tumor, germ cell tumor, hepatoblastoma or melanoma
  • Disease has relapsed, progressed or not responded to therapy

Diseases Treated:

Solid tumors

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant is under the care of a St. Jude physician with a known or suspected, newly diagnosed bone or soft tissue sarcoma who will be treated on or as per disease specific protocols and has not begun therapy OR participant has started therapy and the needed research imaging can be performed within 2-5 days of starting treatment. 
• Participant has undergone or is scheduled for PET-CT, Bone Scan, or PET-CT and Bone Scan within two (2) weeks of the whole body and primary tumor DWI-MRI. 
• Participant meets institutional MRI safety screening requirements. 
• Participant has not undergone primary tumor resection prior to arrival to St. Jude. 

Diseases Treated:

Recurrent ependymoma

Eligibility:

• Progressive intracranial ependymoma after prior focal irradiation
• At least 1 year old and younger than 21 years old
• Adequate performance status (ECOG less than 3)
• Does not require mechanical ventilation
• Interval from start of initial radiation therapy to enrollment greater than 9 months

Diseases Treated:

Rhabdomyosarcoma (low-risk, intermediate-risk and high-risk)

Eligibility:

• Must have newly diagnosed rhabdomyosarcoma
• Less than 22 years of age
• Has not received previous treatment with chemotherapy or radiation therapy

Diseases Treated:

Craniopharyngioma

Eligibility:

• 21 years of age or younger
• Diagnosis of craniopharyngioma 
• Has not been previously treated with radiation therapy

Diseases Treated:

Craniopharyngioma

Eligibility:

• 21 years old or younger
• Diagnosis of craniopharyngioma

Diseases Treated:

Metastatic sarcomas

Eligibility:

• Participant has histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis:
  • Nonrhabdomyosarcoma of soft tissue
  • Ewing sarcoma
  • Osteosarcoma at any site
• Participant must be greater than 3 years of age and < 40 years of age.
• Participant has not had any prior radiotherapy to the treatment site.

Diseases Treated:

Sickle cell anemia

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant’s age is equal to or greater than two (2) years old
• No active sickle cell disease
• Adequate blood counts

Diseases Treated:

Non-malignant blood diseases (non-therapeutic)

Eligibility:

• Receiving therapy or a consultation for a non-malignant blood disorder
• Biological relatives (with or without a non-malignant blood disorder) who agree to undergo genetic testing

Diseases Treated:

Sickle cell disease

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial open to St. Jude patients only.

Diseases Treated:

Iron overload 

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant has a history of 12 or more lifetime erythrocyte transfusions.
• Participant has a need for liver iron content assessment.
• No contra-indication to having an MRI exam, such as the presence of metal in the body.

Diseases Treated:

Sickle cell disease

Eligibility:

• 12 to 17 years old
• Diagnosis of sickle cell disease
• Able to swallow capsules

 

Diseases Treated:

Sickle cell disease

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

Diseases Treated:

Sickle cell disease

Eligibility:

• Participant has a diagnosis of Sickle Cell Disease of any genotype.

Diseases Treated:

Sickle cell disease

Eligibility:

• Participant with Sickle Cell Disease (laboratory determined HbSS or HbS beta zero thalassemia) who have had >2 episodes of Vaso-occlusive crisis in the past year. 
• Participants >2 years of age and < 18 years of age.

Diseases Treated:

Germ cell tumors

Eligibility:

• 14 years old or older
• Diagnosis of germ cell tumor (GCT)
• Previously received 3 to 6 cycles of cisplatin-based chemotherapy
• No more than one prior line of chemotherapy
• No prior treatment with high-dose chemotherapy

Diseases Treated:

Relapsed or refractory solid tumors

Eligibility:

• Participant is >12 months and < 21 years of age at the time of study entry.
• Participant has had histologic verification of malignancy at original diagnosis or relapse.
• Participant has serum tumor markers including alpha-fetoprotein or beta-HCG.
• Participant has a relapsed or refractory solid tumor.

Diseases Treated:

Solid Tumors

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of solid tumor that is resistant to other anticancer therapy or has come back after therapy. Includes lymphoma and central nervous system (CNS) tumors that may or may not require surgery.
• Fully recovered from the acute toxic effects of all prior anticancer therapy
• At least 1 but not more than 21 years of age
• Able to swallow tablets whole

Diseases Treated:

Brain Tumors

Solid Tumors

Eligibility:

• 12 months old or older and younger than 21 years old
• Diagnosis:
  • Part A - Non-central nervous system (CNS) tumor that returned after treatment or did not respond to treatment
  • Part B – CNS tumor that returned after treatment or did not respond to treatment
• No other proven therapy options

Diseases Treated:

Solid Tumor, CNS Tumor, Lymphoma

Eligibility:

• 12 months to 21 years old
• Able to swallow whole tablets
• Diagnosis of recurrent or refractory solid tumor, including CNS tumor and lymphoma

Diseases Treated:

Solid Tumor, CNS Tumor

Eligibility:

• 12 months to 21 years old
• Diagnosis of recurrent or refractory solid tumor, including CNS tumor

Diseases Treated:

Neuroblastoma

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• All newly diagnosed suspected:
  • neuroblastoma,
  • ganglioneuroblastoma, or 
  • ganglioneuroma (maturing subtype) patients
• Less than or equal to 21 years of age
• Seen at Children's Oncology Group (COG) institutions

Diseases Treated:

Osteosarcoma

Eligibility:

• Younger than 30 years old
• Original diagnosis of osteosarcoma
• Osteosarcoma has come back in the lungs after original treatment
• Lung tumors have been removed surgically within the last 4 weeks before enrolling in the study

Diseases Treated:

High-risk solid tumors and lymphomas

Eligibility:

• Has a type of high-risk cancer including
  • Neuroblastoma
  • Solid tumors
    
  • Lymphomas
• 21 years of age or younger
• Has not received a prior hematopoietic (blood cells from bone marrow) stem cell transplant within the previous three months

Diseases Treated:

Relapsed or refractory solid tumors

Eligibility:

• Participant has refractory or recurrent solid tumor for which there is no standard therapy.
• Participant has had histologic verification of malignancy at original diagnosis or at the time of relapse.
• Participant is twelve (12) months to twenty-five (25) years of age at the time of enrollment on study.
• Participant life expectancy is at least eight (8) weeks. 

Diseases Treated:

Solid tumors, giomas, hystiocytosis

Eligibility:

• Participant is greater or equal to 12 months and less than 18 years at the time of signing the informed consent form.
• Participant has BRAF V600 mutation positive tumor as confirmed in a CLIA-approved laboratory or equivalent
• Participant has recurrent disease, refractory disease, or progressive disease after having received at least one standard therapy for their disease, OR participant has metastatic (or surgically unresectable) melanoma, and is being enrolled for first-line treatment. Melanoma participants with CNS involvement may be enrolled.

Diseases Treated:

Solid tumors

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant is under the care of a St. Jude physician with a known or suspected, newly diagnosed bone or soft tissue sarcoma who will be treated on or as per disease specific protocols and has not begun therapy OR participant has started therapy and the needed research imaging can be performed within 2-5 days of starting treatment. 
• Participant has undergone or is scheduled for PET-CT, Bone Scan, or PET-CT and Bone Scan within two (2) weeks of the whole body and primary tumor DWI-MRI. 
• Participant meets institutional MRI safety screening requirements. 
• Participant has not undergone primary tumor resection prior to arrival to St. Jude. 

Diseases Treated:

Ewing sarcoma

Eligibility:

• Younger than or equal to 50 years old
• Diagnosis of Ewing sarcoma or peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor (PNET) arising from bone or soft tissue and with metastatic disease involving lung, bone, bone marrow or other metastatic site

Diseases Treated:

• Rhabdoid tumor
• Synovial sarcoma
• INI 1-negative tumor

Eligibility:

• Between 6 months and 21 years old
• Relapsed or refractory rhabdoid tumors, INI1-negative tumors or synovial sarcoma

Diseases Treated:

Adrenocortical tumors (carcinoma and adenoma)

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of an adrenocortical tumor (ACT)
• 21 years of age or younger at diagnosis
• Relatives of patients with ACT

Diseases Treated:

Retinoblastoma

Eligibility:

• Age 17 or younger
• Diagnosis of retinoblastoma that did not go away with treatment or came back after treatment

Diseases Treated:

Refractory or progressive malignancies

Eligibility:

• Age > 12 months and < 18 years.
• Participant has been diagnosed with a locally advanced or metastatic malignancy that has progressed despite standard therapy, or which no effective standard therapy exists.
• Specimen is being submitted for molecular pre-screening to test for genetic alteration of ALK and the tumor must carry a genetic alteration of the ALK gene.
• Participant has adequate liver, kidney, cardiac, and bone marrow function.

Diseases Treated:

Cancer

Eligibility:

• Younger than 18 years old
• Diagnosis of solid tumor that has not responded to treatment or came back after treatment (excluding melanoma and lymphomas)

 

Diseases Treated:

Solid tumors

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• At least 12 years old 
• Diagnosed with a solid tumor or lymphoma within the past 30 days 
• Speaks, reads and writes in English or Spanish
• No blindness or history of eye disease including, but not limited to macular degeneration, or other diagnosed retinal problems 
• Not initiated antidepressant medication, including either SSRIs in the past month, and MAOIs in the past two months
• No laser corrective eye surgery in the past 30 days

Diseases Treated:

Solid Tumors, Central Nervous System Tumors

Eligibility:

Phase 1

• 1 to 21 years of age with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumor or primary CNS tumor that has progressed or was nonresponsive to therapy and for which there is no standard or available curative therapy, OR
• ≥ 1 month old with diagnosis of infantile/congenital fibrosarcoma or congenital mesoblastic nephroma with documented NTRK fusion that has progressed or was nonresponsive to therapy and for which there is no standard or available curative therapy

Phase 2

• ≥ 1 month old at C1D1 with locally advanced or metastatic infantile fibrosarcoma OR
• ≥ 1 month old through 21 years old at C1D1 with locally advanced or metastatic solid tumor or primary CNS tumor that has progressed or was not responsive to therapy and for which no standard or available curative therapy with a NTRK gene funsion OR
• More than 21 years old with tumor diagnosis typical of a pediatric patient and an NTRK fusion

Diseases Treated:

Melanoma

Eligibility:

• Diagnosed with a melanoma tumor that is malignant (cancerous) or that might be cancerous, including:
  • Conventional or “adult-type” melanoma
  • Spitzoid melanoma/atypical Spitz tumor
  • Congenital melanoma
  • Melanoma arising in a giant congenital nevus
  • Melanocytic lesions with indeterminate biological behavior (e.g., pigment-synthesizing melanomas)
• Younger than 19 years of age 

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

Diseases Treated:

Relapsed or refractory solid tumor

Eligibility:

• Participant is at least one month old and younger than 18 years old at the time of signing the informed consent (in Part A, participants < 2 years of age are not included).
• Participant has a histologically confirmed solid tumor
• Participant has a disease that is relapsed or refractory to all potentially curative standard treatment regimens, or has a disease for which there is no standard treatment regimen that is potentially curative.

Diseases Treated:

Advanced melanoma or PD-L1 positive advanced relapsed or refractory solid tumor or lymphoma

Eligibility:

• Participant has advanced melanoma or PD-L1 positive advanced, relapsed or refractory solid tumor or lymphoma
• Participant of child bearing potential has a negative pregnancy test 72 hours prior to medication administration
• Participant has appropriate liver and kidney function

Diseases Treated:

Neuroblastoma

Eligibility:

• Participant is < 19 years of age at the time of study enrollment.
• Participant has newly diagnosed, advanced stage, high-risk neuroblastoma.
• Participant has histologic proof of neuroblastoma or positive bone marrow for tumor cells with increased urine catecholamine.
• Participant has adequate renal and hepatic function.

Diseases Treated:

Neuroblastoma, ganglioneuroblastoma

Eligibility:

• Participant has been enrolled on ANBLB1 (ANBL00B1).
• Participant has newly diagnosed MYCN non-amplified neuroblastoma or MYCN non-amplified ganglioneuroblastoma.
• Participant is less than 12 months (Group A) and less than 18 months (Group B and Group C) of age at diagnosis.

 

Diseases Treated:

Osteosarcoma

Eligibility:

• At least 12 years old and younger than 25 years old
• Osteosarcoma that has relapsed, progressed or become refractory to conventional therapy

Diseases Treated:

Recurrent, progressive, or refractory high-grade gliomas

Eligibility:

• Participant has recurrent, progressive or refractory non-brainstem high-grade glioma or diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG)
• Participant is 1 to 18 years of age
• Participant has bi-measurable disease on MRI 
• Participant has received prior radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy and has not received myelosuppressive anticancer chemotherapy for at least three (3) weeks

 

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• Participant is the parent of a child with relapsed or refractory high risk neuroblastoma receiving primary oncology care or a second opinion at a participating site.
• Parent aged 18 year or older, of a child aged ≤ 18 years.
• Participating parent if the primary decision maker for the family.
• Participating parent is English-speaking.

Diseases Treated:

Retinoblastoma

Eligibility:

• 7 years old or younger
• Part I
  • Diagnosed with retinoblastoma and has not received any treatment OR
  • Diagnosed with cataracts and has not received any treatment OR
  • Diagnosed with glaucoma and has not received any treatment
• Part II
  • Referred to an eye doctor to check for leukocoria or other eye conditions
• Part III
  • Diagnosed with retinoblastoma and is receiving treatment

Diseases Treated:

Refractory and recurrent solid tumors

Eligibility:

• Participant is between 1-25 years old e at the time of enrollment (Note:  eligibility up to age 50 years for other participating sites).
• Participant has had histologic verification of an extracranial germ cell tumor that is not a pure teratoma (mature or immature), pure germinoma, or pure seminoma.
• Participant has relapsed or refractory disease following at least two prior platinum-containing chemotherapy regimens.
• Patients must have measurable disease, documented according to RECIST criteria, or evaluable disease with a standard tumor marker (AFP and/or HCG) greater than 10 times the upper limit of normal.
• Other requirements for this study.

Diseases Treated:

Retinoblastoma (non-therapeutic)

Eligibility:

Family history of retinoblastoma with one of the following:

• RB1 mutation OR
• Diagnosis of bilateral retinoblastoma OR
• Diagnosis of unilateral retinoblastoma with RB1 mutation or MYCN amplification

Diseases Treated:

Rhabdomyosarcoma (low-risk, intermediate-risk and high-risk)

Eligibility:

• Must have newly diagnosed rhabdomyosarcoma
• Less than 22 years of age
• Has not received previous treatment with chemotherapy or radiation therapy

Diseases Treated:

Non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcoma

Eligibility:

• > 2 years at the time of the biopsy that established the diagnosis of NRSTS.
• Participant has a NRSTS in the extremity or trunk.
• Participant has adequate bone marrow function.
• Participant has not had prior Anthracycline or Ifosfamide therapy.
• Participant is not HIV-positive.

Diseases Treated:

Metastatic sarcomas

Eligibility:

• Participant has histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis:
  • Nonrhabdomyosarcoma of soft tissue
  • Ewing sarcoma
  • Osteosarcoma at any site
• Participant must be greater than 3 years of age and < 40 years of age.
• Participant has not had any prior radiotherapy to the treatment site.

Diseases Treated:

Brain Tumor : Recurrent, progressive, or newly diagnosed atypical teratoid rhabdoid brain tumors (ATRT)
Solid Tumor : Progressive extra-CNS malignant rhabdoid solid tumors (MRT)

Eligibility:

• Has one of these types of tumors:
  • Newly diagnosed atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors (ATRTs) or synchronous extraneural ATRTs
  • ATRTs or malignant rhabdoid tumors (MRTs) that have come back after previous treatment (recurrent disease)
  • ATRTs or MRTs that are growing after previous treatment (progressive disease)
• 21 years of age or younger

Diseases Treated:

Retinoblastoma

Eligibility:

• Newly diagnosed retinoblastoma that has not spread beyond the eye
• Has not received previous treatment with chemotherapy or radiation therapy
• Patients who have been diagnosed with retinoblastoma in one eye who did not receive chemotherapy, but then developed retinoblastoma in the opposite eye

Diseases Treated:

Non-therapeutic

Eligibility:

Primary oncologist:

• Attending physician age 18 years or older who provides medical care to patients in the Solid Tumor Clinic at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
• Primary hematology-oncology fellows age 18 or older (audio-recorded disease reevaluation only)

Parents of children with cancer:

• Age 18 or older
• Biological parent, step-parent or primary legal guardian
• Reads and speaks English

Patients:

• Primary oncologist is enrolled in the study.
• 30 years old or younger
• Diagnosed with one or more of the  following diseases:
  • High-risk neuroblastoma
  • Any sarcoma
  • Any carcinoma
  • Desmoplastic small round cell tumor
  • Incompletely resected or metastatic retinoblastoma, Wilms tumor, germ cell tumor, hepatoblastoma or melanoma
  • Disease has relapsed, progressed or not responded to therapy

Diseases Treated:

Neuroblastoma

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

• All newly diagnosed suspected:
  • neuroblastoma,
  • ganglioneuroblastoma, or 
  • ganglioneuroma (maturing subtype) patients
• Less than or equal to 21 years of age
• Seen at Children's Oncology Group (COG) institutions

Diseases Treated:

Adrenocortical tumors (carcinoma and adenoma)

Eligibility:

• Diagnosis of an adrenocortical tumor (ACT)
• 21 years of age or younger at diagnosis
• Relatives of patients with ACT

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

Eligibility:

This is a non-therapeutic clinical trial that is only open to St. Jude patients.

Diseases Treated:

Influenza

Eligibility:

• At least 3 years old and younger than 17
• Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipient
• At least 3 and not more than 35 months after transplant
• Platelet count of at least 30,000

Eligibility:

• Participant is age two (2) to eight (8) years inclusive at the time of enrollment.
• Participant is not currently using investigational or immunosuppressive drugs (e.g. steroids) at the time of enrollment.
• Participant is not currently taking a daily (routine) Vitamin A, D or multi-vitamin. Note: Participant who report occasional or sporadic vitamin use will be allowed to enroll.

Eligibility:

• Child is greater than or equal to twelve (12) months and less than twenty-four (24) months.
• Child has adequate blood, liver and kidney function.
• Child has no history of lung disease, asthma, and hospitalization for respiratory illness, immunodeficiency, sickle cell disease, or any other serious underlying condition.