Combination Chemotherapy, Biological Therapy, and Bone Marrow Transplantation in Treating Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Biological therapies use different ways to stimulate the immune system and stop cancer cells from growing. Combining chemotherapy with bone marrow transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more cancer cells. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of different treatment regimens in treating patients who have acute myeloid leukemia.

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1994-01

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Publications

• Background Grimwade D, Hills RK, Moorman AV, Walker H, Chatters S, Goldstone AH, Wheatley K, Harrison CJ, Burnett AK; National Cancer Research Institute Adult Leukaemia Working Group. Refinement of cytogenetic classification in acute myeloid leukemia: determination of prognostic significance of rare recurring chromosomal abnormalities among 5876 younger adult patients treated in the United Kingdom Medical Research Council trials. Blood. 2010 Jul 22;116(3):354-65. doi: 10.1182/blood-2009-11-254441. Epub 2010 Apr 12.
• Background Wheatley K, Goldstone AH, Littlewood T, Hunter A, Burnett AK. Randomized placebo-controlled trial of granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) as supportive care after induction chemotherapy in adult patients with acute myeloid leukaemia: a study of the United Kingdom Medical Research Council Adult Leukaemia Working Party. Br J Haematol. 2009 Jun;146(1):54-63. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2009.07710.x. Epub 2009 May 4.
• Background Rao A, Hills RK, Stiller C, Gibson BE, de Graaf SS, Hann IM, O'Marcaigh A, Wheatley K, Webb DK. Treatment for myeloid leukaemia of Down syndrome: population-based experience in the UK and results from the Medical Research Council AML 10 and AML 12 trials. Br J Haematol. 2006 Mar;132(5):576-83. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2005.05906.x.
• Background Gale RE, Hills R, Kottaridis PD, Srirangan S, Wheatley K, Burnett AK, Linch DC. No evidence that FLT3 status should be considered as an indicator for transplantation in acute myeloid leukemia (AML): an analysis of 1135 patients, excluding acute promyelocytic leukemia, from the UK MRC AML10 and 12 trials. Blood. 2005 Nov 15;106(10):3658-65. doi: 10.1182/blood-2005-03-1323. Epub 2005 Aug 2.
• Background Peniket A, Wainscoat J, Side L, Daly S, Kusec R, Buck G, Wheatley K, Walker H, Chatters S, Harrison C, Boultwood J, Goldstone A, Burnett A. Del (9q) AML: clinical and cytological characteristics and prognostic implications. Br J Haematol. 2005 Apr;129(2):210-20. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2005.05445.x.
• Background Burnett AK, Milligan D, Hills RK, et al.: Does all-transretinoic acid (ATRA) have a role in non-APL acute myeloid leukaemia? Results from 1666 patients in three MRC trials. [Abstract] Blood 104 (11): A-1794, 2004.
• Background Wheatley K, Clayton D. Be skeptical about unexpected large apparent treatment effects: the case of an MRC AML12 randomization. Control Clin Trials. 2003 Feb;24(1):66-70. doi: 10.1016/s0197-2456(02)00273-8.
• Background Kottaridis PD, Gale RE, Frew ME, Harrison G, Langabeer SE, Belton AA, Walker H, Wheatley K, Bowen DT, Burnett AK, Goldstone AH, Linch DC. The presence of a FLT3 internal tandem duplication in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) adds important prognostic information to cytogenetic risk group and response to the first cycle of chemotherapy: analysis of 854 patients from the United Kingdom Medical Research Council AML 10 and 12 trials. Blood. 2001 Sep 15;98(6):1752-9. doi: 10.1182/blood.v98.6.1752.
• Background Webb DK, Harrison G, Stevens RF, Gibson BG, Hann IM, Wheatley K; MRC Childhood Leukemia Working Party. Relationships between age at diagnosis, clinical features, and outcome of therapy in children treated in the Medical Research Council AML 10 and 12 trials for acute myeloid leukemia. Blood. 2001 Sep 15;98(6):1714-20. doi: 10.1182/blood.v98.6.1714.
• Results Burnett AK, Hills RK, Milligan DW, Goldstone AH, Prentice AG, McMullin MF, Duncombe A, Gibson B, Wheatley K. Attempts to optimize induction and consolidation treatment in acute myeloid leukemia: results of the MRC AML12 trial. J Clin Oncol. 2010 Feb 1;28(4):586-95. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2009.22.9088. Epub 2009 Dec 28.

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