Induction Therapy Including 131 I-MIBG and Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed High-Risk Neuroblastoma Undergoing Stem Cell Transplant, Radiation Therapy, and Maintenance Therapy With Isotretinoin

Open to people ages 1-30

• Patients have a diagnosis of neuroblastoma (International Classification of Diseases for Oncology [ICD-O] morphology 9500/3) or ganglioneuroblastoma verified by histology or demonstration of clumps of tumor cells in bone marrow with elevated urinary catecholamine metabolites; patients with the following disease stages at diagnosis are eligible, if they meet the other specified criteria:

  • Patients with newly diagnosed neuroblastoma with International Neuroblastoma

    Staging System (INSS) stage 4 are eligible with the following:

    • v-MYC myelocytomatosis viral related oncogene, neuroblastoma derived (avian) (MYCN) amplification (> 4-fold increase in MYCN signals as compared to reference signals) and age >= 365 days regardless of additional biologic features
    • Age > 18 months (> 547 days) regardless of biologic features
    • Age 12-18 months (365-547 days) with any of the following 3 unfavorable biologic features (MYCN amplification, unfavorable pathology and/or deoxyribonucleic acid [DNA] index = 1) or any biologic feature that is indeterminant/unsatisfactory/unknown
  • Patients with newly diagnosed neuroblastoma with INSS stage 3 are eligible with the following:
    • MYCN amplification (> 4-fold increase in MYCN signals as compared to reference signals), and age >= 365 days, regardless of additional biologic features
    • Age > 18 months (> 547 days) with unfavorable pathology, regardless of MYCN status
  • Patients with newly diagnosed INSS stage 2a/2b with MYCN amplification (> 4-fold increase in MYCN signals as compared to reference signals) and age >= 365 days, regardless of additional biologic features
  • Patients >= 365 days initially diagnosed with: INSS stage 1, 2, 4S who progressed to a stage 4 without interval chemotherapy; these patients must have been enrolled on ANBL00B1; it is to be noted that study enrollment must occur within 4 weeks of progression to stage 4 for INSS stage 1, 2, 4S
• Patients must have had no prior systemic therapy except for localized emergency radiation to sites of life-threatening or function-threatening disease and/or no more than 1 cycle of chemotherapy per low- or intermediate-risk neuroblastoma therapy (P9641, A3961, ANBL0531) prior to determination of MYCN amplification and histology

• Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate (GFR) >= 70 mL/min/1.73 m² OR serum creatinine based on age and/or gender as follows:

  • =< 0.6 mg/dL (1 to < 2 years of age)
  • =< 0.8 mg/dL (2 to < 6 years of age)
  • =< 1.0 mg/dL (6 to < 10 years of age)
  • =< 1.2 mg/dL (10 to < 13 years of age)
  • =< 1.5 mg/dL (male) or 1.4 mg/dL (female) (13 to < 16 years of age)
  • =< 1.7 mg/dL (male) or 1.4 mg/dL (female) ( >= 16 years of age)
• Total bilirubin =< 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) for age
• Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) (aspartate aminotransferase [AST]) or serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT) (alanine aminotransferase [ALT]) < 10 x ULN for age
• Shortening fraction >= 27% by echocardiogram or
• Ejection fraction >= 50% by radionuclide evaluation
• No known contraindication to peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) collection; examples of contraindications might be a weight or size less than the collecting institution finds feasible, or a physical condition that would limit the ability of the child to undergo apheresis catheter placement (if necessary) and/or the apheresis procedure
• 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

• Females of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test; patients of childbearing potential must agree to use an effective birth control method
• Female patients who are lactating must agree to stop breast-feeding
• Patients that are 12-18 months of age with INSS stage 4 and all 3 favorable biologic features (i.e., non-amplified MYCN, favorable pathology, and DNA index > 1) are not eligible
• Patients are not eligible if they have received local radiation which includes any of the following: 1200 centigray (cGy) to more than 33% of both kidneys (patient must have at least 1 kidney that has not exceeded the dose/volume of radiation listed) or 1800 cGy to more than 30% of liver and/or 900 cGy to more than 50% of liver; emergency local irradiation is allowed prior to study entry, provided the patient still meets eligibility criteria