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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. It is not yet known which combination chemotherapy regimen is more effective in treating young patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

PURPOSE: This partially randomized phase III trial is studying how well combination chemotherapy works in treating young patients with relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia.


Clinical Trial Description

OBJECTIVES:

Primary

- Evaluate the progression-free survival (defined as the time from study entry to the first occurrence of progression, relapse, death while in complete clinical remission, or second malignancy) of United Kingdom patients with relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia stratified by risk group.

- Evaluate whether a minimal residual disease (MRD) level of 10^-4 is a suitable criterion at the end of induction therapy on which to decide whether chemotherapy or stem cell transplantation will be most beneficial to patients with intermediate-risk disease.

Secondary

- Use MRD as a surrogate marker for response to therapy.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients are stratified by risk group (standard vs intermediate vs high) and participating country (UK and Ireland vs Australia and New Zealand vs The Netherlands).

Patients with standard-risk disease receive induction therapy, consolidation therapy, intensification therapy, interim maintenance therapy, and maintenance therapy. Patients with intermediate-risk disease receive induction therapy followed by assessment of minimal residual disease (MRD). Those whose MRD status is < 10^-4 at week 5 (after induction therapy) proceed to consolidation therapy followed by intensification therapy, interim maintenance therapy, and maintenance therapy. Those whose MRD status is ≥ 10^-4 at week 5 (after induction therapy) proceed to consolidation therapy followed by intensification therapy and assessment of MRD at week 13 (after intensification therapy). Those whose MRD status is ≥ 10^-3 at week 13 proceed to pre-stem cell transplantation cytoreduction (FLAD) followed by allogeneic stem cell transplant (ASCT). Those whose MRD status is < 10^-3 at week 13 proceed directly to ASCT. Patients with high-risk disease receive induction therapy, consolidation therapy, and intensification therapy followed by assessment of MRD at week 13 (after intensification therapy). These patients then proceed to further treatment (FLAD and/or ASCT) based on the same MRD parameters at week 13 as for patients with intermediate-risk disease.

- Induction therapy (weeks 1-4): Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 induction therapy arms.

- Arm I: Patients receive idarubicin IV over 1 hour on days 1 and 2; oral dexamethasone twice daily on days 1-5 and 15-19; intrathecal (IT) methotrexate on days 1 and 8; vincristine sulfate IV on days 3, 10, 17, and 24; and pegaspargase intramuscularly (IM) on days 3 and 17 or asparaginase IM on days 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, and 25.

- Arm II: Patients receive mitoxantrone IV over 1 hour on days 1 and 2. Patients also receive dexamethasone, methotrexate, vincristine sulfate, and pegaspargase or asparaginase as in arm I.

- Consolidation therapy (weeks 5-8): Patients receive oral dexamethasone twice daily on days 1-5; vincristine sulfate IV on day 3; IT methotrexate on day 8; methotrexate IV continuously over 36 hours beginning on day 8; pegaspargase IM on day 9 or asparaginase IM on days 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, and 19; leucovorin calcium IV twice on day 10; and cyclophosphamide IV over 30 minutes and etoposide phosphate IV over 4 hours on days 15-19.

- Intensification therapy (weeks 9-13): Patients receive oral dexamethasone twice daily on days 1-5; vincristine sulfate IV on 3; IT methotrexate on days 1 and 22; cytarabine IV over 3 hours twice on days 1, 2, 8, and 9; asparaginase IM on days 2, 4, 9, 11, and 23; methotrexate IV continuously over 36 hours beginning on day 22; and leucovorin calcium IV twice on day 24.

- Interim maintenance therapy (weeks 14-29): Patients receive oral dexamethasone twice daily on days 1-5; IT methotrexate* on days 1 and 43; vincristine sulfate IV on day 3; high-dose oral methotrexate 4 times on day 22; oral leucovorin calcium twice on day 24; oral mercaptopurine once daily on days 1-42; oral methotrexate on days 8, 15, 29, and 36; oral thioguanine on days 43-49; etoposide phosphate IV over 4 hours and cyclophosphamide IV over 30 minutes on days 43 and 50; and cytarabine IV or subcutaneously (SC) on days 44-47 and 51-54. Treatment repeats every 56 days (8 weeks) for 2 courses.

Patients undergoing cranial irradiation do so before starting interim maintenance therapy. Patients undergoing testicular irradiation do so concurrently with interim maintenance therapy.

NOTE: *Patients who undergo cranial irradiation do not receive IT methotrexate.

- Maintenance therapy (weeks 30-117): Patients receive IT methotrexate* on day 15; oral dexamethasone twice daily on days 1-5, 29-33, and 57-61; vincristine sulfate IV on days 1, 29, and 57; oral mercaptopurine once daily on days 1-84; and oral methotrexate on days 1, 8, 22, 29, 36, 43, 50, 57, 64, 71, and 78. Treatment repeats every 84 days (12 weeks) for 7 courses. Patients then receive 4 additional weeks (course 8) of maintenance therapy without IT methotrexate.

NOTE: *Patients who undergo cranial irradiation do not receive IT methotrexate.

- Pre-stem cell transplantation cytoreduction (FLAD): Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV over 30 minutes and cytarabine over 4 hours on days 1-5 and liposomal daunorubicin citrate IV over 2 hours on day 1. Patients also receive filgrastim IV or SC beginning on day 7 and continuing until blood counts recover.

- ASCT: Patients undergo ASCT (including conditioning and graft-vs-host disease [GVHD] prophylaxis) according to national transplant guidelines based on the type of donor.

- Post-transplant immunotherapy: Patients who undergo ASCT may receive incremental doses of donor lymphocytes by infusion until a response and/or GVHD has occurred. ;


Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Primary Purpose: Treatment


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


NCT number NCT00967057
Study type Interventional
Source National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Contact
Status Completed
Phase Phase 3
Start date October 2002
Completion date December 2011

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