Gender
All
Age Group
2 Years to 30 Years
Accepting Healthy Volunteers
No
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients must be > 24 months and < 30 years of age when registered on study.
- Patients must have relapsed neuroblastoma, refractory neuroblastoma that had less
than a partial response to standard treatment or persistent neuroblastoma that had
at least a partial response to frontline therapy frontline therapy with > 3 residual
lesions on end-induction MIBG scan.
- Patients must have evidence of MIBG uptake into tumor at ≥ one site within 4 weeks
prior to entry on study and subsequent to any intervening therapy.
- Patients must have adequate heart, kidney, liver and bone marrow function. Patients
who have bone marrow disease must still have adequate bone marrow function to enter
the study.
- Patients must have a dose of unpurged peripheral blood stem cells is 2.0 x 106
viable CD34+ cells/kg available.
Exclusion Criteria:
- They have had previous I-131 MIBG therapy
- They have other medical problems that could get much worse with this treatment.
- They are pregnant or breast feeding.
- They have a history of a venous or arterial thrombosis that was not associated to a
central line.
- They have active infections such as hepatitis or fungal infections.
- They have active diarrhea.
- They have had an allogeneic stem cell transplant (received stem cell from someone
else)
- They can't cooperate with the special precautions that are needed for this trial.