Fludarabine, Cytarabine, Topotecan in Treating Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia

NCT ID: NCT00488709

Last Updated: 2008-11-18

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE4

Total Enrollment

47 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2003-05-31

Study Completion Date

2007-04-30

Brief Summary

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The study is designed with drugs used frequently in the treatment of AML, but with a new combination less toxic,and effective in AML multidrug resistant.

Justification:

* The AML patients with primary resistance or relapsed in the first 12 months after CR, have second line chemotherapy low response rate .
* These patients with AML with primary resistance or relapse, that reach remission after a rescue treatment, have an interval free survival and a global survival very short
* Probably the resistance to the treatments is in relation to different forms expression of the MDR.
* Complete remission is considered valid evaluation, because every patient who should obtain a CR can be considered to be eligible for a possible curative treatment: Ara-C administration to high doses or the TPH treatment

Detailed Description

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It is a protocol opened, multicentric, led to end to increase a) the rate of complete responses, b) the duration of the response, c) the free survival of disease and d) the global survival.

The included subjects will be patients with primary or secondary AML that they have not achieved the CR after the standard treatment with an anthracycline or derivative associated with Ara-C or have relapsed in the first 12 months after having achieved the RC. Also patients with AML that, for any reason, they could not receive the standard treatment with anthracycline and Ara-C, will be included

Cycle of induction. The patients will be treated by FLAT according to the following scheme:

* FLUDARABINE, 30 mg/m2 i.v. (In 1 hour) on the 1st to 4.
* CITARABINE, 2 g/m2 i.v. (In 4 hours), four hours after finishing the fludarabine, on the 1st to 4.
* TOPOTECAN, 1,5 mg/m2 i.v. (In 4 hours), four hours after finishing the cytarabine, on the 1st to 4.

When the patient starts recovering the hematological counts, and providing that has not blasts in the peripheral blood (SP), he will become a medullar revision (MO):

* If MO presents severe hypocellularity without blasts,no therapeutic measurement will take and there will repeat revisions weekly and MDR's study up to the CR or the blasts appearance.
* If in MO persist blasts (\>5 %) but have diminished less than 50 % of the initial number, the induction will be continued by the FLAT's second shift.
* If in MO persists more than 50 % of blasts of the initial number, the patient goes out of the protocol and it will be treated as an agreement by the criterion of the center.

The patients who have managed to enter CR will receive a cycle of consolidation as soon as possible and always within 2 months from the day in which they received first FLAT's dose. The cycle of consolidation consists of another FLAT's scheme to the same doses.

Conditions

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Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Keywords

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Acute Myeloid Leukemia Multi Drug Resistance

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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Topotecan

Intervention Type DRUG

Fludarabine

Intervention Type DRUG

Cytarabine

Intervention Type DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Subjects of 18 years of age or major, with diagnosis of primary or secondary AML, confirmed cytologically, that fulfill one of the following conditions:

* Do not reach a CR after the conventional treatment.
* Relapse in the first 12 months after a CR. During remission, patients can have be treated by a transplant. The relapse is defined as the presence of blasts in peripheric blood or the presence of \>5 % of blasts in MO.
* Not participation in a clinical trial.
2. ECOG \< o = 2
3. Considered suitable patients for an intensive chemotherapy
4. Informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

1. Pelvic or spinal radiotherapy in 4 weeks before the incorporation in the protocol.
2. Acute promyelocytic leukaemia
3. First line chemotherapy for AML which has contained fludarabine or topotecan.
4. Active or chronic hepatitis or hepatic cirrhosis.
5. Positivity known to the virus of the human immunodeficiency (HIV)
6. Pregnant or breastfeeding patients.
7. Patients with deterioration of the functions hepatic or renal, defined for the following values base them of laboratory:

* AST or ALT \>2,5 times the top limit of the normality of the center (LSNC)
* Alkaline phosphatase \>2,5 times the LSNC
* Total bilirubin value \>2 times the LSNC
* Creatinine value \>2 times the LSNC after a suitable hydration
8. Precedents of intervention of major surgery in 2 weeks before the incorporation in the protocol.
9. Patients with disease serious or not controlled (for example not controlled diabetes, infection, hypertension, etc.).
10. Patients who have received other cytotoxic drugs (except hydroxyurea to reduce the leucocytosis) as treatment of the current relapse or of the resistance, in 4 weeks before the protocol.
11. Patients with hypersensitivity known to someone of the drugs of the protocol.
12. Patients treated previously with growth factors with purposes of sensibilization.
13. Patients with psychological, intellectual or sensitive dysfunction that can reduce his capacity of comprehension and fulfillment of the protocol.
14. Patients treated before with FLAT.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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PETHEMA Foundation

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Principal Investigators

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Bueno Javier, Dr

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Hospital Vall d'Hebron

Sanchez Eva, Dr

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hospital Vall d'Hebron

Locations

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Hospital Juan Canalejo

A Coruña, , Spain

Site Status

Hospital Ntra. Sra. de Sonsoles

Ávila, , Spain

Site Status

Hospital germans Trias i Pujol

Badalona, , Spain

Site Status

Centro Médico Teknon

Barcelona, , Spain

Site Status

Hospital Sant Pau

Barcelona, , Spain

Site Status

Hospital Vall d'Hebron

Barcelona, , Spain

Site Status

Hospital General Yagüe

Burgos, , Spain

Site Status

Hospital de Jerez

Cadiz, , Spain

Site Status

Complejo hospitalario Xeral-Calde

Lugo, , Spain

Site Status

Hospital Clínico Universitario San Carlos

Madrid, , Spain

Site Status

Hospital Ramón y Cajal

Madrid, , Spain

Site Status

Hospital Virgen de la Victoria

Málaga, , Spain

Site Status

Hosptal Joan XXIII

Tarragona, , Spain

Site Status

Hospital Verge de la Cinta

Tortosa, , Spain

Site Status

Hospital Rio Hortega

Valladolid, , Spain

Site Status

Hospital Clinico Lozano Blesa

Zaragoza, , Spain

Site Status

Countries

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Spain

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Related Links

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http://www.aehh.org

Spanish association of Haematology

Other Identifiers

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FLAT

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

LAMR 2003

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id