Combination Chemotherapy Followed By Filgrastim or Sargramostim in Treating Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia or Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Leukemia Clinical Trial

Official title:

High Dose Cytarabine And Mitoxantrone Therapy For Relapsed And Refractory Acute Myeloid And Lymphocytic Leukemia: Effects Of GM-CSF Versus G-CSF On Dendritic Cells And Leukemia Associated Antigen-Specific T-Lymphocytes

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00053131
• Other study ID #: CDR0000269285
• Secondary ID: RPCI-RPC-9902
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• First received: January 27, 2003
• Last updated: March 7, 2011
• Start date: January 1999
• Est. completion date: February 2004

Study information

• Verified date: March 2011
• Source: Roswell Park Cancer Institute
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Food and Drug Administration
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Colony-stimulating factors such as filgrastim and sargramostim may increase the number of immune cells found in bone marrow or peripheral blood and may help a person's immune system recover from the side effects of chemotherapy. It is not yet known whether combination chemotherapy is more effective followed by filgrastim or sargramostim in treating leukemia.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to compare the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy followed by filgrastim with that of combination chemotherapy followed by sargramostim in treating patients who have relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia or acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Description:

OBJECTIVES:

• Compare amounts of dendritic cells and leukemia-associated antigen-specific T lymphocytes in patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia or acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated with filgrastim (G-CSF) vs sargramostim (GM-CSF) after high-dose cytarabine and mitoxantrone.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized study.

All patients receive high-dose cytarabine IV over 1 hour twice daily on days 1-6 and mitoxantrone IV over 30 minutes on days 2-4. On day 6, patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.

• Arm I: Patients receive filgrastim (G-CSF) subcutaneously (SC) daily until blood counts recover in the absence of unacceptable toxicity.

• Arm II: Patients receive sargramostim (GM-CSF) SC daily as in arm I.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 60 patients will be accrued for this study within 6 years.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: February 2004
• Est. primary completion date: February 2004
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 15 Years and older

Eligibility

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

• Diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia or acute lymphoblastic leukemia by morphology, cytochemical staining, and flow cytometry

• In first or subsequent relapse or refractory disease after at least 1 prior treatment regimen

• Antecedent hematologic disorders allowed except Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

• 15 and over

Performance status

• 0-3

Life expectancy

• At least 4 weeks

Hematopoietic

• Not specified

Hepatic

• Bilirubin no greater than 2 times normal*

• SGOT no greater than 2 times normal* NOTE: *Unless directly attributable to leukemia

Renal

• Creatinine no greater than 1.5 times normal* NOTE: *Unless directly attributable to leukemia

Cardiovascular

• Ejection fraction at least 45%* NOTE: *Unless directly attributable to leukemia

Other

• Not pregnant or nursing

• Negative pregnancy test

• Fertile patients must use effective contraception

• No other concurrent medical or psychiatric illness that would preclude study entry

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

• Prior autologous or allogeneic bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation allowed

• Prior cytokines allowed

Chemotherapy

• Prior chemotherapy allowed

Endocrine therapy

• No concurrent corticosteroids except for treatment of severe vomiting that is refractory to standard agents

Radiotherapy

• Prior radiotherapy allowed

Surgery

• Not specified

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Leukemia
• Leukemia, Lymphoid
• Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
• Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma

Intervention

Biological:
• filgrastim

• sargramostim

Drug:
• cytarabine

• mitoxantrone hydrochloride

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Roswell Park Cancer Institute	Buffalo	New York

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States,