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Screening Trial for Pain Relief in Schwannomatosis, STARFISH Trial

Trial Status: active

This phase II STARFISH screening and multi-sub study trial is being done to test the safety, pain responses, and pharmacodynamic activity of multiple experimental therapies simultaneously in patients with schwannomatosis (SWN) and moderate-to-severe pain. Patients with SWN overwhelmingly present with intractable pain. The etiology of pain in SWN remains poorly understood, and there are no effective therapies that relieve SWN-related pain. Therefore, developing a platform to study tumor-induced pain and identify novel strategies that relieve pain in patients with SWN is a significant unmet need. Siltuximab acts by blocking the activity of growth pathways and inflammation in tumors. Because tumors need these signals to grow, siltuximab may slow or reverse the growth of the tumors that develop in people with schwannomatosis. Siltuximab may also reduce tumor-related inflammation. By reducing tumor growth and inflammation, siltuximab may reduce pain associated with schwannomatosis. Erenumab-aooe acts by blocking pain signals in the body. By blocking pain signals, erenumabaooe may reduce pain associated with schwannomatosis. This trial may rapidly and efficiently screen therapies for reduction in SWN-associated pain so that they can move on to confirmatory studies for registration purposes.