Safety and feasibility of cabozantinib (CABO) in combination with cisplatin, doxorubicin, and high-dose methotrexate (MAP) in patients with newly diagnosed high-risk osteosarcoma (OS).
10030 Background: CABO is a multi-targeted kinase inhibitor of VEGFR2, c-MET, AXL and RET and has shown clinical evidence of activity in two prior studies of adult and pediatric patients with advanced OS. We report results of a feasibility cohort of CABO + MAP chemotherapy in patients with newly diagnosed high-risk OS. Methods: Patients <40 years, body surface area ≥ 0.8 m 2 and new diagnosis of high-grade OS with metastatic disease and resectable primary tumor were eligible. Patients were enrolled to two CABO dose levels (Dose Level 1 (DL1) 25 mg/m 2 /day, maximum 40 mg/day; Dose Level 2 (DL2) 35 mg/m 2 /day; maximum 60 mg/day) using a modified IQ 3+3 design. CABO was orally administered concomitantly with six 35-day cycles of MAP (cisplatin 60 mg/m 2 on days 1-2 (cycles 1-4), doxorubicin 37.5 mg/m 2 on days 1-2 (with dexrazoxane), methotrexate 12 g/m 2 on days 22, 29) and for 24 weeks as maintenance monotherapy. CABO was held after 7 weeks and resumed during 4 th MAP cycle to allow for primary tumor resection and metastatic surgeries. Dose-limiting toxicities (DLT) were assessed during weeks 1-6 of treatment; additional monitoring for post-surgical complications was conducted through completion of 4 th MAP cycle. The primary endpoint for this cohort was feasibility of combination therapy. Results: Ten patients (median age 11.5 years, 70% male) were enrolled and treated with CABO + MAP (DL1, n=4; DL2, n=6). Median cumulative doses of all MAP agents were maintained throughout treatment with no dose reductions. Concomitant dosing of CABO with MAP was tolerated with no protocol-specified DLTs occurring during the evaluation period. DL2 (35 mg/m 2 ) was established as the recommended dose for further study of combination therapy. Commonly reported adverse events included hematologic toxicities, febrile neutropenia, and alanine/aspartate aminotransferase (AST/ALT) elevation. Interruption of CABO was required in 6 patients for Grade 3+ AST/ALT elevation following methotrexate (n=3), wound complications (n=3), and Grade 3 pneumothorax (n=1). Wounds included two Grade 3 port site events and one Grade 1 primary tumor resection site; two patients later resumed CABO after healing without wound recurrence. Dose reduction of CABO was required in one patient for Grade 4 amylase elevation. Conclusions: The combination of CABO + MAP is feasible with no protocol-specified DLTs during the evaluation period. Generalizability is limited based on cohort size. Further evaluation of CABO + MAP is ongoing in a phase II/III randomized efficacy study in newly diagnosed standard and high-risk patients using CABO dose of 35 mg/m 2 /day (max 60 mg), with delayed initiation of CABO in patients with port placement and early safety monitoring for wound-related events, as well as full study monitoring of dose delivery, wound complications and systemic toxicity. Clinical trial information: NCT05691478 .
Authors
- Damon R. Reed (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8238-2465)
- Natalie DelRocco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8139-9839)
- Olga Militano
- Katherine A. Janeway (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6000-3594)
- J Andrew Andrew Livingston
- H. Elhalawani
- c lin
- Thomas Scharschmidt
- Megan Anderson
- Julia Lynne Glade Bender
- Allen Boyd Buxton
- Odion Binitie
- Richard F. Riedel
- Andrew Clark
- Michael W. Bishop
- Alyaa Al-Ibraheemi
- Nadia N. Laack
- Timothy Lautz
- Manpreet Meena Bedi
- Elizabeth J. Davis
Institutions
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Boston Children's Hospital (US)
- Lurie Children's Hospital (US)
- Arkansas Children's Hospital (US)
- Nationwide Children's Hospital (US)
- Mayo Clinic (US)
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
- Children's National (US)
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
- WinnMed (US)
- Moffitt Cancer Center (US)
- Cleveland Clinic Florida (US)
- Duke Medical Center (US)
- Children's Oncology Group (US)
- Boston Children's Museum (US)
- Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center (US)
- Duke Cancer Institute
- University of Nebraska Medical Center (US)
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Clinical Oncology
- Published
- 2026-05-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2026.44.16_suppl.10030
- Primary Topic
- Sarcoma Diagnosis and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
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