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ArticlePediatric blood & cancer2021

Charting a path for prioritization of novel agents for clinical trials in osteosarcoma: A report from the Children's Oncology Group New Agents for Osteosarcoma Task Force.

Sarah B Whittle, Katharine Offer, Ryan D Roberts, Amy LeBlanc, Cheryl London, Robbie G Majzner, Alex Y Huang, Peter Houghton, E Alejandro Sweet Cordero, Patrick J Grohar and 11 more

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Article in Pediatric blood & cancer, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Targeted therapies in pediatric oncology: A start.Molecular therapy. Oncology · 2026
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  3. Considerations for Clinical Trial Design in Relapsed and Refractory Osteosarcoma: An FDA Symposium.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026
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  8. Pediatric Leukemia Roadmaps Are a Guide for Positive Metastatic Bone Sarcoma Trials.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2024
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  12. Recent and Ongoing Research into Metastatic Osteosarcoma Treatments.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors at 19 institutions in 1 country.

Sarah B WhittleTexas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3149-7374
Katharine OfferJoseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital, Hackensack Meridian Health, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3420-0265
Ryan D RobertsCenter for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disease, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
Amy LeBlancComparative Oncology Program, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Cheryl LondonCummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University, North Grafton, Massachusetts, USA.
Robbie G MajznerDepartment of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Alex Y HuangCase Western Reserve University School of Medicine and UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Peter HoughtonGreehy Children's Cancer Research Institute, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
E Alejandro Sweet CorderoBenioff Children's Hospitals, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Patrick J GroharChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Michael IsakoffCenter for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
Michael W BishopDepartment of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3926-1446
Elizabeth StewartDepartment of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Emily K SlotkinMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA.
Emily GreengardUniversity of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Scott C BorinsteinDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1721-1520
Fariba NavidDepartment of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Richard GorlickDivision of Pediatrics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
Katherine A JanewayDepartment of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6000-3594
Damon R ReedJohns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8238-2465
Pooja HingoraniDivision of Pediatrics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · USThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USBaylor College of Medicine · USCase Western Reserve University · USChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia · USConnecticut Children's Medical Center · USDana-Farber Cancer Institute · USHackensack Meridian Health · USJohns Hopkins University · USMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · USNational Institutes of Health · USNationwide Children's Hospital · USStanford University · USThe University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · USTufts University · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · USUniversity of Minnesota · USUniversity of Southern California · USVanderbilt University Medical Center · US

Funding

NCTN BIQSFP ANBL1531 (NRT)U10CA180886 · NCI · PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE · PI Douglas S. Hawkins · 2014 to 2026
$390.6M
X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI Hongbiao Carl Lekaye · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
COG SDMC - Statistics CoreU10CA180899 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI TODD A ALONZO · 2014 to 2026
$132.8M
COP LaboratoryZIABC011692 · NCI · DIVISION OF BASIC SCIENCES - NCI · PI LEBLANC, AMY · 2016 to 2025
$15.5M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NCI NIH HHS U10 CA180886NCI NIH HHS U10 CA180899
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Osteosarcoma is the most common bone tumor in children and young adults. Metastatic and relapsed disease confer poor prognosis, and there have been no improvements in outcomes for several decades. The disease's biological complexity, lack of drugs developed specifically for osteosarcoma, imperfect preclinical models, and limits of existing clinical trial designs have contributed to lack of progress. The Children's Oncology Group Bone Tumor Committee established the New Agents for Osteosarcoma Task Force to identify and prioritize agents for inclusion in clinical trials. The group identified multitargeted tyrosine kinase inhibitors, immunotherapies targeting B7-H3, CD47-SIRPα inhibitors, telaglenastat, and epigenetic modifiers as the top agents of interest. Only multitargeted tyrosine kinase inhibitors met all criteria for frontline evaluation and have already been incorporated into an upcoming phase III study concept. The task force will continue to reassess identified agents of interest as new data become available and evaluate novel agents using this method.

Indexed as

Bone NeoplasmsOsteosarcomaChildClinical Trials as TopicEpigenesis, GeneticHumansImmunotherapyProtein Kinase InhibitorsYoung AdultProtein Kinase Inhibitorschemotherapyclinical trialsmetastasisosteosarcomarelapsedtherapeutics

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PMID34137164
PMCPMC8316376
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