Tretinoin and Arsenic Trioxide With or Without Idarubicin in Treating Patients With Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

December 23, 2015 updated by: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Phase II Study of Combined All-Trans Retinoic Acid and Arsenic Trioxide for Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia Followed by Risk-Adapted Postremission Therapy

RATIONALE: Tretinoin may help cancer cells become more like normal cells, and to grow and spread more slowly. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as arsenic trioxide and idarubicin, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving tretinoin together with arsenic trioxide with or without idarubicin may kill more cancer cells.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving tretinoin together with arsenic trioxide with or without idarubicin works in treating patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia.

Study Overview

Status

Terminated

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

Primary

  • To determine the rate of molecular remission after induction therapy comprising tretinoin (ATRA) and arsenic trioxide (ATO) (along with idarubicin in patients with leukocytosis) in patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL).

Secondary

  • To determine the rate of clinical complete remission and the time to remission after induction therapy.
  • To determine the proportion of patients in molecular remission after each course of postremission therapy and to use these findings to direct the number of consolidation courses with ATRA and idarubicin that are administered.
  • To determine the disease-free survival and overall survival of patients treated with this regimen.
  • To determine the toxicity of this treatment regimen, including the number and length of hospitalizations, the incidence of secondary myelodysplastic syndromes or acute myeloid leukemia, and the effects of treatment on LVEF.
  • To characterize the differentiation of APL cells during treatment with combined ATRA and ATO using serial immunophenotyping studies of peripheral blood and bone marrow.
  • To compare the results of quantitative real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assays performed on bone marrow and peripheral blood.

OUTLINE:

  • Induction therapy: Patients receive tretinoin orally twice daily and arsenic trioxide IV over 1-4 hours once daily until a marrow remission is documented or for 60 days, whichever comes first. Patients with leukocytosis (WBC > 10,000/μL) also receive idarubicin IV over 10-15 minutes beginning on day 2 and continuing every other day for 4 doses. Patients who achieve a clinical complete remission (CR) proceed to consolidation therapy. If a marrow remission is not achieved after 60 days, the patient is removed from the study.

  • Consolidation therapy:

    • Consolidation courses 1, 2, and 3: Beginning 3-6 weeks after documentation of clinical CR, patients receive consolidation therapy comprising tretinoin orally twice daily for 15 days and arsenic trioxide IV over 1-4 hours once daily 5 days a week for 5 weeks. Consolidation therapy repeats every 3-6 weeks for 3 courses.

Patients who have a negative PML-RARα transcript by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay after consolidation course 2 proceed to maintenance therapy after receiving consolidation course 3. Patients who have a negative PML-RARα transcript by RT-PCR assay after consolidation course 3, proceed to consolidation course 4 followed by maintenance therapy. Patients who have a positive PML-RARα transcript by RT-PCR assay after consolidation courses 2 and 3 proceed to consolidation courses 4 and 5.

  • Consolidation course 4: Beginning 3-6 weeks after completion of consolidation course 3, patients receive tretinoin orally twice daily for 15 days and idarubicin IV over 10-15 minutes once daily for 4 days.
  • Consolidation course 5: Beginning 3-6 weeks after completion of consolidation course 4, patients receive tretinoin orally twice daily for 15 days and idarubicin IV over 10-15 minutes once daily for 3 days.

Patients who remain positive for the PML-RARα transcript after 5 courses of consolidation therapy are removed from the study. Patients who have a negative PML-RARα transcript after 5 courses of consolidation therapy proceed to maintenance therapy.

  • Maintenance therapy: Beginning approximately 3 months after completion of the final consolidation course, patients receive tretinoin orally twice daily for 15 days. Treatment repeats every 3 months for up to 2 years.

Disease status will be monitored with serial analyses of bone marrow and peripheral blood samples using RT-PCR for PML-RARα mRNA. Patients will be followed until relapse, death, loss to follow-up, or removal from study.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

1

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

18 years to 120 years (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Morphologic diagnosis of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), confirmed by one of the following:

    • Demonstration of t(15;17) using conventional cytogenetics or fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)
    • Positive PML-RARα transcript by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay
  • Patients with CNS involvement by APL are eligible

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Karnofsky performance status 60-100%
  • Creatinine ≤ 2.0 mg/dL or creatinine clearance > 60 mL/min
  • Bilirubin < 2.0 mg/dL (unless attributed to Gilbert disease)
  • Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 2.5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • AST and ALT ≤ 2.5 ULN
  • LVEF ≥ 50% on echocardiogram or MUGA scan
  • QTc ≤ 500 msec on baseline ECG
  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for ≥ 4 months after the completion of study treatment
  • No active serious infections not controlled by antibiotics
  • No other concurrent active malignancy requiring immediate therapy
  • No clinically significant cardiac disease (New York Heart Association class III or IV heart disease), including chronic arrhythmias
  • No pulmonary disease
  • No other serious or life-threatening condition deemed unacceptable by the principal investigator

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

  • No prior treatment for APL

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
  • Allocation: NA
  • Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
  • Masking: NONE

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Tretinoin and Arsenic Trioxide With or Without Idarubicin
See Outline for details
Drug: arsenic trioxide
Drug: idarubicin
Drug: tretinoin

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Molecular Remission Rate
Time Frame: 2 years
# of patients with Complete Remission
2 years

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)
Cephalon

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Joseph G. Jurcic, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Principal Investigator: Peter Maslak, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

September 1, 2007

Primary Completion (ACTUAL)

January 1, 2011

Study Completion (ACTUAL)

January 1, 2011

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

September 10, 2007

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 10, 2007

First Posted (ESTIMATE)

September 12, 2007

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (ESTIMATE)

January 29, 2016

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

December 23, 2015

Last Verified

December 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 07-108
  • P30CA008748 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
  • MSKCC-07108
  • CEPHALONO-MSKCC-07108

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