Fludarabine in Treating Patients With Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

NCT ID: NCT00049075

Last Updated: 2020-04-06

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE2

Total Enrollment

128 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2002-08-08

Study Completion Date

2009-12-21

Brief Summary

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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of fludarabine in treating patients who have chronic lymphocytic leukemia that has not been previously treated.

Detailed Description

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OBJECTIVES:

* Determine the overall response rate (complete and partial) in patients with previously untreated B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia treated with oral fludarabine.
* Determine the molecular complete response rate in patients who achieve a clinical or immunophenotypic complete response when treated with this drug.
* Determine the progression-free and treatment-free survival of patients treated with this drug.
* Determine the toxicity of this drug in these patients.
* Determine the baseline incidence of defined genetic abnormalities in patients treated with this drug.
* Determine the prognostic and predictive significance of defined genetic abnormalities in patients with respect to response to treatment with this drug.
* Determine the prognostic and predictive significance of immunophenotypic profile of patients with respect to response to treatment with this drug.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.

Patients receive oral fludarabine on days 1-5. Treatment repeats every 28 days for 6-8 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients in complete remission after 6 courses do not receive further study therapy.

Patients are followed at 2 months and then every 4 months for 2 years.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 120 patients will be accrued for this study within 2 years.

Conditions

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Leukemia

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Interventions

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fludarabine phosphate

Intervention Type DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

* Confirmed diagnosis of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)

* Previously untreated
* Rai stage I, II, III, or IV
* Requiring systemic therapy
* Persistent lymphocytosis of greater than 5,000/mm\^3

* Morphologically mature lymphocytes
* Monoclonal B-cell population

* CD19/CD5/CD23 positive with kappa or lambda light chain restriction by immunophenotyping
* No other lymphoproliferative disorders including prolymphocytic leukemia, mantle cell lymphoma, progression to aggressive B-cell lymphoma, or Richter's syndrome
* No clinical autoimmune hematologic complication of CLL including Coomb's-positive hemolytic anemia or immune thrombocytopenia

* Positive Coomb's test allowed if no clinical hemolysis

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

* 16 and over

Performance status

* ECOG 0-2

Life expectancy

* At least 6 months

Hematopoietic

* See Disease Characteristics

Hepatic

* Bilirubin no greater than 2 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
* AST and/or ALT no greater than 2 times ULN

Renal

* Creatinine no greater than 2 times ULN

Other

* Accessible for treatment and follow-up
* No known HIV infection
* No active bacterial, viral, or fungal infection requiring systemic antibiotics
* No conditions requiring corticosteroid therapy
* No history of other malignancies except for the following:

* Adequately treated nonmelanoma skin cancer
* Curatively treated carcinoma in situ of the cervix
* Other solid tumors curatively treated with no evidence of disease within the past 5 years
* No other major medical illness that would preclude study
* No known hypersensitivity to fludarabine or its components
* Not pregnant or nursing
* Negative pregnancy test
* Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for at least 6 months after study

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

* No concurrent immunotherapy including monoclonal antibody therapy
* No concurrent autologous or allogeneic stem cell or bone marrow transplantation

Chemotherapy

* No other concurrent cytotoxic drugs

Endocrine therapy

* No concurrent corticosteroids except inhaled or topical corticosteroids

* No concurrent corticosteroids for nausea prophylaxis

Radiotherapy

* No prior radiotherapy affecting more than 25% of bone marrow and/or involving the pelvic area
* No concurrent radiotherapy

Surgery

* Not specified

Other

* At least 4 weeks since prior investigational agents
* No other concurrent investigational agents
Minimum Eligible Age

16 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

120 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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NCIC Clinical Trials Group

NETWORK

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Ralph M. Meyer, MD, FRCPC

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Margaret and Charles Juravinski Cancer Centre

Locations

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Tom Baker Cancer Center - Calgary

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Site Status

Cross Cancer Institute

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Site Status

Providence Health Care - Vancouver

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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CancerCare Manitoba

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Moncton Hospital

Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

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Saint John Regional Hospital

Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

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Newfoundland Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation

St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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Nova Scotia Cancer Centre

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Northeastern Ontario Regional Cancer Centre, Sudbury

Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

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Margaret and Charles Juravinski Cancer Centre

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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Kingston Regional Cancer Centre

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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Grand River Regional Cancer Centre

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

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Cancer Care Ontario-London Regional Cancer Centre

London, Ontario, Canada

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Credit Valley Hospital

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

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Durham Regional Cancer Centre at Lakeridge Health Oshawa

Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

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Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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Algoma Reginal Cancer Program at Sault Area Hospital

Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada

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Hotel Dieu Health Sciences Hospital - Niagara

St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

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Northwestern Ontario Regional Cancer Centre, Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

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Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Princess Margaret Hospital

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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St. Joseph's Health Centre - Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Humber River Regional Hospital - Weston

Weston, Ontario, Canada

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Cancer Care Ontario - Windsor Regional Cancer Centre

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

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CHUS-Hopital Fleurimont

Fleurimont, Quebec, Canada

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Hopital Charles Lemoyne

Greenfield Park, Quebec, Canada

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Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Hopital de L'Enfant Jesus

Québec, Quebec, Canada

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Hopital du Saint-Sacrement, Quebec

Québec, Quebec, Canada

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Allan Blair Cancer Centre

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Centre Jean Bernard

Le Mans, , France

Site Status

Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud

Pierre-Bénite, , France

Site Status

Countries

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Canada France

References

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Shustik C, Turner AR, Desjardins P, Fernandez L, Rubin S, Larratt L, Duncan AM, Rizi D, Sadura A, Shepherd L, Li D, Rassenti L, Kipps T. Oral fludarabine in untreated patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Leukemia. 2010 Jan;24(1):237-9. doi: 10.1038/leu.2009.205. Epub 2009 Oct 8. No abstract available.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 19812607 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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CAN-NCIC-CL2

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

BRLX-304160

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

CDR0000257836

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

CL2

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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