Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Osteosarcoma, or Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma

March 6, 2013 updated by: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Phase II Trial of Trimetrexate and Leucovorin in The Treatment of Recurrent Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as trimetrexate glucuronate and leucovorin, use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more cancer cells.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well combination chemotherapy works in treating children with recurrent acute lymphoblastic leukemia, recurrent osteosarcoma, or refractory non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine the efficacy of trimetrexate glucuronate with leucovorin calcium rescue in children with recurrent acute lymphoblastic leukemia, recurrent osteogenic sarcoma, or refractory non-Hodgkin's lymphoma resistant to methotrexate.
  • Evaluate the toxicity of this treatment regimen in this patient population.

OUTLINE: Patients are stratified according to disease (acute lymphocytic leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma vs osteogenic sarcoma).

Patients receive trimetrexate glucuronate orally or IV every 12 hours on days 1-21 and oral leucovorin calcium every 12 hours on days 1-24. Treatment repeats every 4 weeks. Patients with stable or responsive disease may receive up to 4 courses of therapy.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 25 patients will be accrued for this study within 2 years.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

25

Phase

  • Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • New York
      • New York, New York, United States, 10021
        • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

No older than 21 years (ADULT, CHILD)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologic evidence of one of the following malignancies that has failed conventional therapy:

    • Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
    • Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with bone marrow involvement
    • Osteogenic sarcoma
  • In vitro transport resistance to methotrexate demonstrated by bone marrow aspirate assay

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

  • 21 and under at diagnosis

Performance status:

  • ECOG 0-2

Life expectancy:

  • At least 8 weeks

Hematopoietic:

  • Granulocytopenia allowed with bone marrow involvement
  • Thrombocytopenia allowed with bone marrow involvement
  • Anemia allowed with bone marrow involvement

Hepatic:

  • (unless due to disease)
  • Bilirubin no greater than 2.0 mg/dL
  • AST no greater than 100

Renal:

  • Creatinine less than 1.5 mg/dL OR
  • Creatinine clearance at least 60 mL/min

Other:

  • No other serious medical illness
  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

  • Prior bone marrow transplantation allowed

Chemotherapy:

  • At least 1 week since prior intrathecal treatment

  • At least 2 weeks since prior systemic chemotherapy and recovered

    • At least 10 days for rapidly proliferating leukemia (i.e., WBC greater than 50,000)
  • No concurrent chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy:

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy:

  • Prior radiotherapy allowed and recovered
  • No concurrent radiotherapy

Surgery:

  • Not specified

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: TREATMENT

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Collaborators

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

January 1, 1996

Primary Completion (ACTUAL)

June 1, 2006

Study Completion (ACTUAL)

June 1, 2006

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

November 1, 1999

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 26, 2003

First Posted (ESTIMATE)

January 27, 2003

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (ESTIMATE)

March 7, 2013

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 6, 2013

Last Verified

March 1, 2013

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 95-093
  • P30CA008748 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
  • MSKCC-95093
  • NCI-V96-0840

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