Adjuvant Treatment in Extensive Unilateral Retinoblastoma Primary Enucleated (RB SFCE 2009) (RB SFCE 09)

January 5, 2026 updated by: Institut Curie

Adjuvant Treatment in Extensive Unilateral Retinoblastoma Primary Enucleated

Postoperative Treatment of Unilateral Retinoblastoma After Primary Enucleation according to histopathological risk factors of the International Retinoblastoma Staging Working Group.

Study Overview

Detailed Description

Post operative chemotherapy +/- radiotherapy according to histopathological risk factors of the International Retinoblastoma Staging Working Group.

  • Low risk group :

    • No optic nerve involvement.
    • Intra and prelaminar involvement
    • No choroidal involvement.
    • Minimal superficial choroidal involvement .
  • Intermediate risk group, 2 sub groups :

    • Sub group 1 :

      • Retrolaminar involvement without Invasion of surgical margin associated or not to massive choroidal involvement
      • Anterior segment involvement.
      • Intrascleral involvement.
    • Sub Group 2 :

      • Isolated massive choroidal involvement.
  • High risk group :

    • Invasion of the surgical margin of the optic nerve
    • and/or microscopic extrascleral involvement
    • Optic nerve meningeal sheat involvement .

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

195

Phase

  • Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

      • Amiens, France, 80054
        • Hopital Nord Chu Amiens
      • Angers, France, 49033
        • CHU Angers
      • Besançon, France, 25030
        • Hopital Jean Minioz
      • Bordeaux, France, 33076
        • Chu R; Pellegrin
      • Brest, France, 29609
        • CHU Morvan
      • Caen, France, 14033
        • CHU Caen
      • Clermont-Ferrand, France, 63003
        • Chu Estaing
      • Dijon, France, 21079
        • CHU Bocage
      • Grenoble, France, 38043
        • CHU de Grenoble
      • Lille, France, 59020
        • Centre Oscar Lambret
      • Limoges, France, 87042
        • CHU Limoges
      • Lyon, France, 69373
        • Centre Léon Bérard
      • Marseille, France, 13385
        • Hopital d'Enfants la Timone
      • Montpellier, France, 34295
        • Hopital Arnaud de Villeneuve
      • Nantes, France, 44093
        • CHU Nantes
      • Nice, France, 06202
        • CHU de Nice
      • Paris, France, 75005
        • Institut Curie
      • Poitiers, France, 86021
        • Chu de Poitiers
      • Reims, France, 51100
        • Chur de Reims
      • Rennes, France, 35056
        • CHU de Rennes
      • Rouen, France, 76031
        • CHU de Rouen
      • Saint-Etienne, France, 420555
        • Chu Saint Etienne
      • Strasbourg, France, 67098
        • Hoptial Hautepierre
      • Toulouse, France, 31026
        • CHU Toulouse
      • Tours, France, 37044
        • CHU Tours
      • Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France, 54500
        • CHU Nancy
    • La Réunion
      • Saint-Denis, La Réunion, France, 97405
        • Chr Felix Guyon

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

2 months to 10 years (Child)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Written informed consent - a signed informed consent and/or assent (as age appropriate) will be obtained according to institutional guidelines;
  2. Male or female ≥2 months and <10 years of age at the time of signing the informed consent form;
  3. Diagnosis of non familial extensive unilateral retinoblastoma treated by primary enucleation
  4. In case of post operative chemotherapy, patients must have adequate organ function:

    • Adequate hematopoietic function Neutrophils>1.0x109/l, Platelets >100 x 109/l.
    • Adequate hepatic function: grade II NCI CTC
    • Adequate renal function: serum creatinemia <1.5 x ULN for age with normal creatinine clearance estimated by SCHWARTZ formula
    • Audiometry < Grade II de Brock.
    • Echocardiography normal in case of high dose cyclophosphamide chemotherapy (3 g/m²).
  5. Patients affiliated to a Social Security Regimen or beneficiary of the same
  6. No chemotherapy or radiotherapy prior to administration of the first dose of study treatment for retinoblastoma or other tumor types
  7. Without medical cons-indication to study drugs.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Bilateral and/or familial or trilateral retinoblastoma.
  • Unilateral retinoblastoma with indication of primary chemotherapy before enucleation:

    • One or several surgical risk factors
    • Buphthalmia Exophthalmia.
    • Peri ocular inflammatory signs.
    • Extraocular extension :
    • Radiological retrolaminar extension (more than 3 mm behind the lamina cribrosa) and or meningeal sheat optic nerve extension.
    • Extrascleral extension
    • Lymp nodes extension
  • Unilateral retinoblastoma with possibility of conservative treatment:
  • Metastatic extension at diagnosis
  • One inclusion criteria non observed
  • Uncontrolled medical conditions, psychological, familial, sociological, or geographical conditions that do not permit compliance with the protocol

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Non-Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intermediate risk sub group 1
2 cycles (4 courses): 2 courses of etoposide and Carboplatin from D1 to D5 and Vincristin at D22 and D26- Cyclophosphamide from D22 to D26.
100 mg/m²/d, IV (in the vein) from D1 to D5.
Other Names:
  • Intermediate risk sub group 1
1, 5 mg/m²/d, IV at D1.
Other Names:
  • Intermediate risk sub group 2
160 mg/m²/d, IV from D1 to D5.
Other Names:
  • Intermediate risk sub group 1
1,5 mg/m²/d, IV at D22 and D26
Other Names:
  • Intermediate risk sub group 1
300 mg/m²/d, IV from D22 to D26.
Other Names:
  • Intermediate risk sub group 1
560 mg/m²/d, IV at D1.
Other Names:
  • Intermediate risk sub group 2
100 mg/m²/d, IV from D1 to D5
Other Names:
  • High risk group
160 mg/m²/d,IV from D1 to D5
Other Names:
  • High risk group
1,5 mg/m²/d), IV at D22
Other Names:
  • High risk group
1000 mg/m²/d, IV from D22 à D24.
Other Names:
  • High risk group
AUC : 7/d, IV from D-8 to D-6.
Other Names:
  • High risk group
250 mg/m²/d, IV from D -5 to D-3.
Other Names:
  • High risk group
Experimental: Intermediate risk sub group 2
2 courses of Vincristin and Carboplatin
1, 5 mg/m²/d, IV at D1.
Other Names:
  • Intermediate risk sub group 2
160 mg/m²/d, IV from D1 to D5.
Other Names:
  • Intermediate risk sub group 1
1,5 mg/m²/d, IV at D22 and D26
Other Names:
  • Intermediate risk sub group 1
560 mg/m²/d, IV at D1.
Other Names:
  • Intermediate risk sub group 2
160 mg/m²/d,IV from D1 to D5
Other Names:
  • High risk group
1,5 mg/m²/d), IV at D22
Other Names:
  • High risk group
AUC : 7/d, IV from D-8 to D-6.
Other Names:
  • High risk group
Experimental: High risk group
  • Orbital irradiation
  • 3 cycles of two different types of alternating chemotherapy courses (id 6 courses) :

    • Etoposide (100 mg/m²/d) and Carboplatin (160 mg/m²/d) with intrathecal Thiotepa injection.
    • Vincristin (1,5 mg/m²/d) - Cyclophosphamide (1000 mg/m²/d)
    • Cytapheresis for peripheral blood stem cells collection after the primary or the secondary courses of Vincristine- Cyclophosphamide.
  • High dose chemotherapy :

    • Carboplatin (AUC : 7/d) - etoposide (250 mg/m²/d) - Thiotepa (300 mg/m²/d)
    • Peripheral bood stem cell transplantation.
100 mg/m²/d, IV (in the vein) from D1 to D5.
Other Names:
  • Intermediate risk sub group 1
1, 5 mg/m²/d, IV at D1.
Other Names:
  • Intermediate risk sub group 2
160 mg/m²/d, IV from D1 to D5.
Other Names:
  • Intermediate risk sub group 1
1,5 mg/m²/d, IV at D22 and D26
Other Names:
  • Intermediate risk sub group 1
300 mg/m²/d, IV from D22 to D26.
Other Names:
  • Intermediate risk sub group 1
560 mg/m²/d, IV at D1.
Other Names:
  • Intermediate risk sub group 2
100 mg/m²/d, IV from D1 to D5
Other Names:
  • High risk group
160 mg/m²/d,IV from D1 to D5
Other Names:
  • High risk group
1,5 mg/m²/d), IV at D22
Other Names:
  • High risk group
1000 mg/m²/d, IV from D22 à D24.
Other Names:
  • High risk group
AUC : 7/d, IV from D-8 to D-6.
Other Names:
  • High risk group
250 mg/m²/d, IV from D -5 to D-3.
Other Names:
  • High risk group
45 Grays (Standard or external beam radiotherapy).
Other Names:
  • High risk group
15 mg, intrathecal Thiotepa injection at D1.
Other Names:
  • High risk group
Cytapheresis for peripheral blood stem cells collection after the primary or the secondary courses of Vincristine- Cyclophosphamid.
Other Names:
  • High risk group
300 mg/m²/d, IV from D-5 to D-3.
Other Names:
  • High risk group
at D0
Other Names:
  • High risk group
Experimental: Low risk group
No treatment
no post operative chemotherapy
Other Names:
  • Low risk group

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Rate of extra ocular relapses
Time Frame: 5 years
5 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Evaluate long term and acute toxicities of adjuvant chemotherapy and orbital irradiation if necessary.
Time Frame: 5 years
Number of participants with treatment-related Adverse Events as assessed by CTCAE v3.0.
5 years
Number of patient with secondary bilateralisation
Time Frame: 5 years
5 years
Evaluate the different histopathological risk factors frequency
Time Frame: 5 years
Number of patient in each histopathological risk group
5 years
To determine tumors genomic
Time Frame: at the inclusion
Tumor genomic characterization in order to provide some new prognosis factors and better understanding of tumorigenesis by using of NGS (Next Generation Sequencing) techniques
at the inclusion
Evaluate sensitivity of MRI in detecting extra ocular extension
Time Frame: At the inclusion
Number of extra ocular extension detected by MRI
At the inclusion

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

March 18, 2010

Primary Completion (Estimated)

March 1, 2031

Study Completion (Estimated)

March 1, 2031

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 9, 2016

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 12, 2016

First Posted (Estimated)

August 17, 2016

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimated)

January 7, 2026

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 5, 2026

Last Verified

January 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

YES

IPD Plan Description

Sponsor will share de-identified data sets. Documents generated under the project will be disseminated in accordance with Institut Curie policies.

IPD Sharing Time Frame

Data requests can be submitted starting 9 months after last article publication and will be made accessible for up to 12 months.

IPD Sharing Access Criteria

Access to trial individual participant data can be requested by qualified researchers engaging in independent scientific research, and will be provided following review and approval of a research proposal and Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP) and execution of a data sharing agreement (DSA).

IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type

  • SAP

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