At a glance
- What the study gets you
- Access to the study treatment being tested
- Type of study
- Interventional (receives a drug or procedure)
- Time in hospital
- In-person visits at study sites — visit count not specified by the sponsor
- Drug or intervention
- Bevacizumab (drug), Dinutuximab beta (drug), Irinotecan (drug) (drug), Topotecan (drug)
- How long the study runs
- Study runs about 73 months (dates as stated)
- About the drug or intervention
- Bevacizumab — drug: Bevacizumab · Dinutuximab beta — drug: Dinutuximab beta · Irinotecan (drug) — drug: Irinotecan · Topotecan — drug: Topotecan · Temozolomide (TMZ) — drug: Temozolomide capsule · Temozolomide (TMZ) — drug: Temozolomide liquid suspension
- Patient visit burden
- Not specified by the sponsor
In plain English
This trial, run by the University of Birmingham, is for children and young people whose high-risk neuroblastoma (a cancer of nerve tissue) has come back or continued to grow after treatment. It is a 'multi-arm, platform' trial, meaning it tests several treatments at the same time within one study.
Who can take part
- Confirmed neuroblastoma diagnosed from tissue samples, staged using the International Neuroblastoma Staging System
- High-risk neuroblastoma that has relapsed (come back) or got worse after treatment
- Disease that can be measured on scans or seen on an MIBG scan (disease only found in the bone marrow cannot be included)
- Age 1 year or older
- Consent given by the participant, parent or guardian
- Able to carry out most daily activities (performance score of at least 50%), including children who use a wheelchair due to paralysis but can sit upright unaided
- Expected to live at least 12 weeks
- Good enough blood, kidney, liver and blood-clotting function, and blood pressure below a set level for age (blood pressure medicines are allowed)
- For the Tier 2 group: more than one relapse, or not suitable for Tier 1; previous bevacizumab, anti-GD2 antibody with chemotherapy, or temozolomide with irinotecan may be allowed if the doctor thinks the treatment could still help
Who may not be able to
- Allergy or strong bad reaction to any study drug or to antibody medicines made in the lab; severe past reactions to anti-GD2 antibodies
- Significant nerve problems, uncontrolled seizures, or previous serious (Grade 3 or worse) muscle weakness caused by anti-GD2 treatment
- Past or current blood clots in the arteries, such as a stroke or heart attack
- Lung inflammation (pneumonitis), past or present, that needed steroids
- Allergic to all medicines used to prevent a chest infection called Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia
- Uncontrolled infection
- Not fully recovered from recent surgery, or recent surgery or procedures too close to the start of treatment
- Not enough time since previous treatments, including chemotherapy, anti-GD2 therapy, radiotherapy, MIBG therapy, or stem cell transplants
- Bleeding tumours, or serious coughing up of blood or bleeding in the lungs within the last 6 months
- Enzyme-affecting seizure medicines within 72 hours of starting treatment
- Conditions that raise the risk of bevacizumab side effects, such as bleeding disorders, holes in the bowel, fistulas, abscesses in the tummy, or bowel blockage
- Cannot digest galactose or fructose (a rare inherited problem)
- Not willing or able to use very reliable contraception during treatment and for 6 months after the last dose
- Pregnant or breastfeeding
- Live vaccines (such as some routine jabs) within 28 days before joining
- Any other uncontrolled health problem that would add extra risk
- For Tier 1: more than one relapse, or previous bevacizumab or anti-GD2-with-chemotherapy treatment for relapsed neuroblastoma (unless given for refractory disease with no progression during it)
What taking part involves
- • Not stated — ask the trial team. The registry data does not describe the study treatments, how they are given, or which treatment each participant receives.
- • Previous treatments mentioned in the criteria include bevacizumab, anti-GD2 antibodies, temozolomide and irinotecan, but these are described only as past treatments participants may or may not have had.
Time commitment: Not stated — ask the trial team. The registry data does not say how long the trial lasts or how many hospital visits are needed.
Plain-English summary (AI-generated) from registry data. Not eligibility advice — only the trial team can confirm whether you can take part. Use the eligibility checker to see how your health profile matches this trial.
- Type of study
- Testing a treatment
- Ages
- 1 Year and over
- Who
- All
- Number of participants
- 160
- Started
- 2024-11-11
- Last checked
- 2026-01
Plain English Summary
What is this study?
- • Testing a new treatment for relapsed neuroblastoma
- • Phase1/Phase2 - 160 participants
- • Neuroblastoma is one of the most common solid childhood tumours, and a major cause of cancer-related death in children
Who can take part?
- • Ages 1 Year and over
- • Diagnosed with relapsed neuroblastoma
Where?
- • Aberdeen - Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital
- • Belfast - Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children
- • Birmingham - Birmingham Children's Hospital
- • Bristol - Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
- • +15 more UK sites
This is a simplified summary. Always discuss with your doctor before making any decisions.
About This Trial
Neuroblastoma is one of the most common solid childhood tumours, and a major cause of cancer-related death in children. More than 1200 children/young adults a year are diagnosed in USA and Europe. Around 600 of these cases are considered high-risk, which means the cancer is more difficult to treat successfully. Despite improvements in survival over recent decades, a significant proportion of patients with high-risk neuroblastoma have disease that does not respond to standard treatments (refractory neuroblastoma) or comes back after completion of standard frontline treatment (relapsed neuroblastoma). Therefore, there is a need to develop new treatment strategies and test new drugs to improve outcomes for children with neuroblastoma. Aims Of The BEACON2 Trial * To improve survival for patients with relapsed neuroblastoma by developing new treatment combinations * To evaluate new treatment combinations in relapsed neuroblastoma, within a phase I/II trial that can impact clinical practice, while also allowing dose confirmation for new promising combinations * To evaluate the safety, activity, efficacy and impact on quality of life of these new treatment combinations in relapsed neuroblastoma patients * To improve our understanding of relapsed neuroblastoma biology and advance the development of targeted therapies using biomarkers, by conducting a comprehensive biomarker sample collection. Trial Design BEACON2 is a randomised phase I/phase II, open label, international trial. The trial will have two tiers: Tier 1 will be the main randomisation for two treatment arms initially. Participants will be randomised at trial entry to receive one of the available regimens, treatment A or treatment B. Tier 2 will include smaller dose expansion/confirmation cohorts for more novel experimental treatment combinations (Arm C and future arms), with the potential for them to be moved to Tier 1. Current Tier 1 (Randomisation Tier) Treatment Arms in the BEACON2 Trial: Arm A: dbIT Treatment with dinutuximab beta, irinotecan, and temozolomide, 3 weekly x12 cycles Arm B: BIT Treatment with bevacizumab, irinotecan, and temozolomide, 3 weekly x12 cycles Current Tier 2 (Registration Only Tier) Treatment Arms in the BEACON2 Trial: Arm C: dbBIT Treatment with dinutuximab beta, bevacizumab, irinotecan, and temozolomide, 3 weekly x12 cycles Patient Population and Sample Size Patients aged ≥1 years of age with relapsed neuroblastoma. For each arm in Tier 1, up to 75 patients will be recruited to complete phase 2 investigations. For each arm in Tier 2, 10 patients will be recruited to complete phase I investigations. Approximately 160 participants are initially planned, 75 in each arm of Tier 1 and 10 participants for one dose-confirmation cohort in Tier 2. The study is expected to recruit patients for 3 years, and then finish patient follow-up after an additional 5 years. Translational Sub-study / Biological Studies It is standard of care for patients diagnosed with relapsed neuroblastoma to: * Have had a tumour sample collected at point of initial diagnosis (either during biopsy or surgery) * Have bloods collected before they start and during treatment for their relapsed neuroblastoma * Have a bone aspirate/trephine procedure in order to help confirm relapse. These samples provide very important opportunities for further research, and the study investigators would like to make full use of these opportunities by collecting the analysis already performed on these samples and collect some additional samples (at the same time as the standard ones) to learn and understand more about neuroblastoma and its treatment. Samples will undergo research analysis at the national SIOPEN reference laboratories.
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Eligibility at a Glance
Key info
- Age: 1 Year and over
- Who can join: All genders
Biomarkers mentioned
Treatment history
Treatments you must have had:
- ✓ temozolomide with irinotecan
Treatments you must NOT have had:
- ✗ treatments that
What the study is looking for
- ✓Disease specific
- ✓Histologically proven neuroblastoma as per International Neuroblastoma Staging System (INSS)\[1\] definition
- ✓High risk relapsed neuroblastoma (relapsed or progressed after being defined as High Risk at any time following...
- ✓Age ≥1 year
- ✓Signed agreement to take part from participant, parent or guardian Performance and organ health
Who cannot take part
- ✗• Known safety concern or hypersensitivity to:
- ✗Any the study treatment or component of the formulation
- ✗Chinese hamster ovary products or other recombinant human or humanised antibodies.
- ✗Participants with mild previous hypersensitivity reactions to anti-GD2 antibodies may be included, but those with...
- ✗Prior severe arterial thrombo-embolic events (e.g. heart ischemia, cerebral vascular accident, peripheral arterial...
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Where Is This Study? (19 UK sites)
Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital
Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children
Belfast, United Kingdom
Birmingham Children's Hospital
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
Bristol, United Kingdom
Addenbrookes Hospital
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Children's Hospital for Wales
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Royal Hospital for Sick Children
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Royal Hospital for Children
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Leeds General Infirmary
Leeds, United Kingdom
Alder Hey Hospital
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Great Ormond Street Hospital
London, United Kingdom
Main Email: Research.Governance@gosh.nhs.uk
Research.Governance@gosh.nhs.uk0207 905 2700University College London Hospital
London, United Kingdom
Rajinder Sidhu - Associate Director, Research Governance and Operations
uclh.jro-communications@nhs.net020 3447 9825Royal Manchester Children's Hospital
Manchester, United Kingdom
Royal Victoria Infirmary
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Nottingham Children's Hospital
Nottingham, United Kingdom
John Radcliffe Hospital
Oxford, United Kingdom
Sheffield Children's Hospital
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Southampton General Hospital
Southampton, United Kingdom
Royal Marsden Hospital
Sutton, United Kingdom
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