Using risk factors to guide treatment for children with Wilms tumors
Official title: Risk Adapted Treatment of Unilateral Favorable Histology Wilms Tumors (FHWT)
Run by Children's Oncology Group · NCT06401330 · Data updated 2026-11-12
This study is testing if using specific risk factors can help doctors choose the best treatment for children with Wilms tumors to improve their chances of staying cancer-free.
Quick facts
| Phase | Phase 3 |
|---|---|
| Study type | Interventional |
| Ages | Any age to 30 Years |
| Sex | All |
| Enrollment | 1656 (estimated) |
| Sponsor | Children's Oncology Group Research network |
| Drugs / interventions | CHEMOTHERAPY, doxorubicin, radiation, cyclophosphamide |
| Locations | 169 sites (Birmingham, Alabama and 168 other locations) |
| Status | Recruiting |
| Started | April 15, 2025 |
| Main results expected | February 13, 2031 |
| Study ends | February 13, 2031 |
| Registry record updated | August 25, 2026 |
| Trial ID | NCT06401330 on ClinicalTrials.gov |
Is this trial a fit for you?
✓Likely a good fit
Ideal candidates for this study are children under 30 years old with newly diagnosed Stage I-IV favorable histology Wilms tumors.
✕Probably not a fit
Patients with unfavorable histology Wilms tumors or those over 30 years old may not benefit from this study.
A plain-English reading of the study's rules. Only the study team can confirm whether you qualify.
What this trial studies
This phase III trial investigates how risk factors can be utilized to tailor treatment for children diagnosed with favorable histology Wilms tumors (FHWT). The study aims to improve event-free survival rates by adjusting treatment protocols based on tumor characteristics and patient age. It includes various treatment arms, such as comparing different chemotherapy regimens and determining the necessity of certain drugs based on tumor biology. The trial seeks to refine existing treatment strategies to enhance outcomes for affected children.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this study could lead to more personalized and effective treatment plans for children with Wilms tumors, potentially reducing relapse rates.
How similar studies have gone: Previous studies have shown promise in using risk factors to guide treatment in pediatric oncology, indicating that this approach has potential based on earlier findings.
Who can join: the full rules
Show full inclusion / exclusion criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
* Patients must be enrolled on APEC14B1 and consent to Part A - Eligibility Screening prior to enrollment on AREN2231.
* Patients must be \< 30 years old at enrollment.
* Patients with newly diagnosed Stage I-IV Favorable Histology Wilms Tumor confirmed by central review and with a qualifying Initial Stratum Assignment on APEC14B1-REN.
* Patients must receive a qualifying Initial Stratum Assignment on APEC14B1-REN by Day 14 post-diagnostic procedure (nephrectomy or biopsy), where that procedure is Day 0.
* Patients must enroll on AREN2231 by Day 14.
* Exceptions: If patient reaches Day 14 (post initial diagnostic nephrectomy or biopsy) without receiving an Initial Stratum Assignment on APEC14B1-REN, patient will not be eligible for enrollment on AREN2231 unless all required materials (reports and Case Report Forms and specimens) for an Initial Stratum Assignment arrived by Day 7, but an Initial Stratum Assignment was not completed by Day 14. In these circumstances, after obtaining appropriate protocol consent, the patient may proceed with treatment according to local institutional staging and enroll within 5 calendar days of notification of the central Initial Stratum Assignment being issued, only if the AREN2231 Initial Stratum Assignment is in agreement with any treatment already initiated. If the Initial Stratum Assignment is not in agreement with the local institution's assessment then the patient will be ineligible for AREN2231.
* All sites must have sent or plan to send diagnostic tumor sample for molecular testing through a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA)-certified (or equivalent if outside of the United States \[US\]) laboratory that can detect Loss of Heterozygosity (LOH) of chromosome 1p AND 16q, and gain of chromosome 1q. Patients potentially eligible for mVLR must also have LOH of chromosome 11p15 included.
* Note: Patients are eligible for enrollment prior to obtaining these molecular testing results, and it is strongly recommended that patients are enrolled before these results are available. However, molecular results must be returned and uploaded to APEC14B1-REN for integration into risk stratification by the required timepoints (specific timelines vary by treatment arm). Patients who do not have molecular results available by the arm-specific timepoints may be taken off protocol therapy.
* Patients who have an upfront nephrectomy must have at least one lymph node sampled and confirmed as a lymph node by central pathology review to be eligible.
* Note: Lymph node sampling will also be required at delayed nephrectomy. Patients who do not have a lymph node sampled and confirmed as a lymph node by central pathology review at delayed nephrectomy will be taken off protocol therapy.
* Karnofsky performance status must be ≥ 50 for patients \> 16 years of age and the Lansky performance status must be ≥ 50 for patients ≤ 16 years of age.
* ONLY TO PATIENTS WHO WILL RECEIVE CHEMOTHERAPY: Serum total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 X upper limit of normal (ULN) OR direct bilirubin ≤ 3X ULN for subjects with total bilirubin levels \> 1.5 ULN (within 7 days prior to enrollment).
* ONLY TO PATIENTS WHO WILL RECEIVE CHEMOTHERAPY: Aspartate aminotransferase (AST/serum glutamate oxaloacetic transaminase \[SGOT\]) OR alanine transaminase (ALT/serum glutamic pyruvate transaminase \[SGPT\]) ≤ 3X ULN OR ≤ 5 X ULN for patients with liver metastases (within 7 days prior to enrollment).
* ONLY TO PATIENTS WHO WILL RECEIVE CHEMOTHERAPY: Shortening fraction of ≥ 27% by echocardiogram, or ejection fraction of ≥ 50% (within 7 days prior to enrollment)
* Note: This criteria only applies to patients centrally classified as Stage IV. Stage II and III patients subsequently assigned to a doxorubicin arm will be off protocol therapy if they do not meet this criteria at time of cardiac function assessment.
* Known HIV-infected patients on effective anti-retroviral therapy with undetectable viral load within 6 months are eligible for this trial.
* All patients and/or their parents or legal guardians must sign a written informed consent.
* All institutional, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and National Cancer Institute (NCI) requirements for human studies must be met.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Patient with a diagnosis of Stage V Bilateral Wilms Tumor.
* Patients who in the opinion of the investigator are not able to comply with the study procedures are not eligible.
* Patients with any uncontrolled, intercurrent illness including but not limited to symptomatic congestive heart failure.
* Patients with Stage I FHWT with a known or suspected Wilms Tumor predisposition syndrome or condition (contralateral nephrogenic rests and/or unilateral multicentric tumors) are excluded from treatment on the mVLR (Nephrectomy Only) arm.
* Notes:
* In the context of the renal tumor protocols, multicentric tumors and multifocal tumors are equivalent terms, and refer to the occurrence of two or more tumors arising within one kidney.
* Exclusion from the Nephrectomy Only arm applies to two groups of patients:
* Patients \< 4 years with Stage I FHWT other than epithelial subtype AND
* Stage I patients of any age with Epithelial WT
* For the purpose of exclusion from the Nephrectomy Only Arm, known or suspected WT predisposition syndromes or conditions are defined as follows:
* WT Predisposition Syndromes: Beckwith Wiedemann Spectrum, Denys Drash, Trisomy 18, Idiopathic Hemihypertrophy/Isolated Lateralized Overgrowth, WAGR, Simpson-Golabi-Behmel, Bohring-Opitz, or other conditions considered by treating physician to predispose to WT.
* WT Predisposing Conditions:
* A unilateral WT and (radiologic or pathologic) determination of contralateral nephrogenic rest(s) AND/OR
* Unilateral multicentric WT
* Patients treated with partial nephrectomy at initial diagnosis are excluded from mVLR (Nephrectomy Only) arm.
* Patients with lung metastases as the only metastatic site who already had complete resection of all radiologically evident lung nodules, and have at least one nodule confirmed pathologically as tumor.
* Please note: Those with lung metastases as the only metastatic site who have complete resection of all radiologically evident lung nodules after enrollment but prior to the lung imaging following Cycle 2 of DD-4A will be inevaluable for lung assessment and subsequent stratum assignment and will, therefore, come off protocol therapy.
* Patients with known Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome.
* Patients who have had prior tumor-directed chemotherapy or radiotherapy for the current diagnosis except for therapy delivered for an emergent issue, as medically indicated.
* Patients who will potentially require doxorubicin on this study and have previously received doxorubicin for another diagnosis.
* Patients receiving concurrent chemotherapy for a different diagnosis.
* Female patients who are pregnant since fetal toxicities and teratogenic effects have been noted for several of the study drugs. A pregnancy test is required for female patients of childbearing potential.
* Lactating females who plan to breastfeed their infants.
* Sexually active patients of reproductive potential who have not agreed to use an effective contraceptive method for the duration of their study participation.
Where it's running
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Children's Hospital of Alabama
Birmingham, Alabama, United States Recruiting -
USA Health Strada Patient Care Center
Mobile, Alabama, United States Recruiting -
Providence Alaska Medical Center
Anchorage, Alaska, United States Recruiting -
Banner Children's at Desert
Mesa, Arizona, United States Recruiting -
Phoenix Childrens Hospital
Phoenix, Arizona, United States Recruiting -
Banner University Medical Center - Tucson
Tucson, Arizona, United States Recruiting
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Arkansas Children's Hospital
Little Rock, Arkansas, United States Recruiting -
Kaiser Permanente Downey Medical Center
Downey, California, United States Recruiting -
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Duarte, California, United States Recruiting -
Loma Linda University Medical Center
Loma Linda, California, United States Recruiting -
Miller Children's and Women's Hospital Long Beach
Long Beach, California, United States Recruiting -
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, United States Recruiting -
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California, United States Recruiting -
Valley Children's Hospital
Madera, California, United States Recruiting -
UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
Oakland, California, United States Recruiting -
Kaiser Permanente-Oakland
Oakland, California, United States Recruiting -
Children's Hospital of Orange County
Orange, California, United States Recruiting -
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford University
Palo Alto, California, United States Recruiting -
University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
Sacramento, California, United States Recruiting -
Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego
San Diego, California, United States Recruiting -
UCSF Medical Center-Mission Bay
San Francisco, California, United States Recruiting -
Children's Hospital Colorado
Aurora, Colorado, United States Recruiting -
Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children-Presbyterian Saint Luke's Medical Center
Denver, Colorado, United States Recruiting -
Connecticut Children's Medical Center
Hartford, Connecticut, United States Recruiting -
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, United States Recruiting -
Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children
Wilmington, Delaware, United States Recruiting -
Children's National Medical Center
Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States Recruiting -
Broward Health Medical Center
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States Recruiting -
Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida
Fort Myers, Florida, United States Recruiting -
UF Health Cancer Institute - Gainesville
Gainesville, Florida, United States Recruiting -
Memorial Regional Hospital/Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital
Hollywood, Florida, United States Recruiting -
Nemours Children's Clinic-Jacksonville
Jacksonville, Florida, United States Recruiting -
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine-Sylvester Cancer Center
Miami, Florida, United States Recruiting -
Nicklaus Children's Hospital
Miami, Florida, United States Recruiting -
Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children
Orlando, Florida, United States Recruiting -
Nemours Children's Hospital
Orlando, Florida, United States Recruiting -
Nemours Children's Clinic - Pensacola
Pensacola, Florida, United States Recruiting -
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
St. Petersburg, Florida, United States Recruiting -
Saint Joseph's Hospital/Children's Hospital-Tampa
Tampa, Florida, United States Recruiting -
Saint Mary's Medical Center
West Palm Beach, Florida, United States Recruiting -
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - Arthur M Blank Hospital
Atlanta, Georgia, United States Recruiting -
Augusta University Medical Center
Augusta, Georgia, United States Recruiting -
Atrium Health Navicent
Macon, Georgia, United States Recruiting -
Memorial Health University Medical Center
Savannah, Georgia, United States Recruiting -
Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States Recruiting -
Saint Luke's Cancer Institute - Boise
Boise, Idaho, United States Recruiting -
Lurie Children's Hospital-Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States Recruiting -
University of Illinois
Chicago, Illinois, United States Recruiting -
University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center
Chicago, Illinois, United States Recruiting -
Advocate Children's Hospital-Oak Lawn
Oak Lawn, Illinois, United States Recruiting
+119 more sites. See ClinicalTrials.gov for the full list.
Study contacts
- Principal investigator: Elizabeth A Mullen — Children's Oncology Group
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How to take part
- Review the eligibility criteria above with your treating physician.
- Check the official listing on ClinicalTrials.gov for the latest contact details and recruitment status.
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