Clinical trials

This is a phase II study looking at patient response to treatment with the combination dinutuximab, temozolomide, irinotecan, and GM-CSF.

Medical scientists want to find better ways to treat neuroblastoma and to find ways to prevent the tumor from growing back. To do this, they need more information about the characteristics of neuroblastoma cells. Therefore, they want to study samples of neuroblastoma tissues and neuroblastoma and normal cells in the blood and bone marrow that may be related to the growth of neuroblastoma cells. Doctors and other medical scientists also want to find better ways to detect and measure neuroblastoma to improve the ability to follow the response of tumor cells to therapy.

Patients will then be randomized at study entry to one of three treatment arms. Patients on Arm A will receive a single treatment course with 131I-MIBG with vorinostat. Patients on Arm B will receive a single treatment course with 131I-MIBG and dinutuximab. Patients on Arm C will receive a single treatment course with 131I-MIBG with dinutuximab + vorinostat. After this course of treatment, we will check to see your response and then check to see how you are doing over time. All patients may choose to proceed to a second course of the same treatment if they and their physician feel healthy enough to do so. Approximately 118 patients will be receiving therapy on this trial.