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    PINEOBLASTOMA: A POOLED OUTCOME STUDY OF NORTH AMERICAN AND AUSTRALIAN THERAPEUTIC DATA
    Hansford, J ; Huang, J ; Dodgshun, A ; Li, B ; Hwang, E ; Leary, S ; Gajjar, A ; Von Hoff, K ; Endersby, R ; Wells, O ; Wray, A ; Kotecha, R ; Raleigh, D ; Stoller, S ; Mueller, S ; Schild, S ; Bandopadhayay, P ; Fouladi, M ; Bouffet, E ; Huang, A ; Onar, A ; Gottardo, N (OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2021-06)
    Abstract Background Pineoblastoma (PB) is a rare embryonal brain tumour most often diagnosed in young children. To date, no clinical trials have been conducted specific to pediatric PB. Collaborative studies performed over the past 30 years have included PB in studies accruing for other embryonal tumours, primarily medulloblastoma (MB), but also including the entity formerly known as CNS-PNET and atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors. Each of these studies have included only a small number of children with PB, making clinical features difficult to interpret and determinants of outcome difficult to ascertain. Patients and Methods Published centrally reviewed series with sufficient treatment and outcome data from North American and Australian cases were pooled. To investigate associations between variables, Fisher’s exact and Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney tests, and Spearman correlations were used as appropriate. Kaplan-Meier plots, log-rank tests, and Cox proportional hazards models were used in survival analysis. Results We describe a 30-year review of the reported clinical features of PB and a pooled centrally reviewed, cohort analysis of cases (n=178) from the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) (n=82) groups and several published, centrally reviewed institutional series (n=96). We find young children <3 years of age have a dramatically poorer outlook compared to older children (5-year OS 16.2% +/- 5.3% vs 67.3% +/- 5%) confirming new and novel approaches are needed in future clinical trials for this at risk group. Interestingly, male gender was predictive of worse outcome possibly suggestive of gender specific subgroup risks that needs validation in future studies. Assessment of radiation therapy is not possible as the vast majority of children under age three did not receive any form of radiation therapy. Conclusion Given the relative scarcity of this tumor and the emerging data on subgroups of pineoblastoma, prospective, collaborative international studies will be vital to improving the long-term survival of these patients.
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    A PHASE II STUDY OF CONTINUOUS LOW DOSE PANOBINOSTAT IN PAEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH MALIGNANT RHABDOID TUMORS/ATYPICAL TERATOID RHABDOID TUMORS
    Wood, P ; Desai, J ; Waldeck, K ; Cain, J ; Gottardo, N ; Strong, R ; Kinross, K ; Carr, M ; Jones, J ; Wong, L ; Ziegler, D ; Hansford, J ; Michael, M ; Ashley, D (OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, 2020-12)
    Abstract

    BACKGROUND

    Panobinostat treatment has been shown to terminally differentiate malignant rhabdoid tumor (MRT)/atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors (ATRT) in pre-clinical models. This is an open label, phase II study of panobinostat in patients with newly diagnosed or relapsed MRT/ATRT. AIMS: To assess the anti-tumor activity of low dose, continuous panobinostat, its associated toxicities, the biological activity of low dose panobinostat by measuring histone acetylation status in peripheral mononuclear cells (PMNC), and markers of differentiation in fresh tumor tissue specimens.

    METHODS

    Following cycles of induction and consolidation chemotherapy and/or radiation treatment, patients were enrolled and commenced on panobinostat as a continuous daily oral dose starting at 10mg/m2 following a three-week wash out period between therapies. Real-time acetylation status, measuring acetylated H4 on PMNC, was performed to determine the pharmacodynamics of panobinostat. Patients were monitored for drug toxicities with the possibility of dose reductions in decrements of 2mg/m2.

    RESULTS

    Six patients with newly diagnosed ATRT/MRT and one patient with relapsed MRT have been enrolled to date. The average age at enrollment was 2.5 years. Currently, six patients (85.7%) remain on study with a mean treatment duration of 170 days (range 44–327 days). One patient was removed from study at day 44 due to disease progression. The main dose-limiting toxicity observed to date has been myelosuppression. Panobinostat, at a dose of 10mg/m2, caused significant acetylation of H4 in PMNC.

    CONCLUSIONS

    Treatment with panobinostat appears to be well tolerated in infants with MRT/ATRT, with successful real-time pharmacodynamic assessment of H4 acetylation.