Combination Chemotherapy, Interleukin-2, and Peripheral Stem Cell Transplant in Treating Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Summary

RATIONALE: Giving combination chemotherapy before a peripheral blood stem cell transplant stops the growth of cancer cells by stopping them from dividing or killing them. After treatment, stem cells are collected from the patient's blood or bone marrow and stored. More chemotherapy or radiation therapy is given prepare the bone marrow for the stem cell transplant. The stem cells are then returned to the patient to replace the blood-forming cells that were destroyed by the chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Interleukin-2 may stimulate the patient's white blood cells to kill cancer cells. PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying two different regimens of combination chemotherapy, interleukin-2, and peripheral stem cell transplant and comparing them to see how well they work in treating patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

Timeline

Start

1999-09

Primary completion

2008-01

Completion

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Outcome

Missed primary endpoint

paper overall survival was 38.7% for patients randomly assigned to SD cytarabine and 42.5% for those randomly assigned to HD cytarabine (log-rank test P = .06 PMID 24297940 ↗

Publications

• Background Maurillo L, Buccisano F, Spagnoli A, et al.: In acute myeloid leukemia, the use in induction of standard dose arac is associated with a better quality of response as compared to an induction regimen containing high dose arac. [Abstract] Blood 114 (22): A-1584, 2009.
• Results Aslanyan MG, Langemeijer SMC, Cilloni D, et al.: Incidence and clinical impact of TET2 mutations in acute myeloid leukemia patients treated within the EORTC/GIMEMA AML-12/06991 AML trial. [Abstract] Blood 114 (22): A-2609, 2009.
• Results Willemze R, Suciu S, Mandelli F, et al.: Value of low dose IL-2 as maintenance following consolidation treatment or autologous transplantation in acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) patients aged 15-60 years who reached CR after high dose (HD-AraC) vs standard dose (SD-AraC) cytosine arabinoside during induction: results of the AML-12 trial of EORTC and GIMEMA Leukemia Groups. [Abstract] Blood 114 (22): A-791, 2009.
• Baron F, Stevens-Kroef M, Kicinski M, Meloni G, Muus P, Marie JP, Halkes CJM, Thomas X, Vrhovac R, Albano F, Lefrere F Sr, Sica S, Mancini M, Venditti A, Hagemeijer A, Jansen JH, Amadori S, de Witte T, Willemze R, Suciu S. Impact of induction regimen and allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation on outcome in younger adults with acute myeloid leukemia with a monosomal karyotype. Haematologica. 2019 Jun;104(6):1168-1175. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2018.204826. Epub 2018 Dec 6.
• Baron F, Stevens-Kroef M, Kicinski M, Meloni G, Muus P, Marie JP, Halkes CJM, Thomas X, Vrhovac R, Specchia G, Lefrere F Sr, Sica S, Mancini M, Venditti A, Hagemeijer A, Becker H, Jansen JH, Amadori S, de Witte T, Willemze R, Suciu S. Cytogenetic clonal heterogeneity is not an independent prognosis factor in 15-60-year-old AML patients: results on 1291 patients included in the EORTC/GIMEMA AML-10 and AML-12 trials. Ann Hematol. 2018 Oct;97(10):1785-1795. doi: 10.1007/s00277-018-3396-4. Epub 2018 Jun 20.
• Kroeze LI, Aslanyan MG, van Rooij A, Koorenhof-Scheele TN, Massop M, Carell T, Boezeman JB, Marie JP, Halkes CJ, de Witte T, Huls G, Suciu S, Wevers RA, van der Reijden BA, Jansen JH; EORTC Leukemia Group and GIMEMA. Characterization of acute myeloid leukemia based on levels of global hydroxymethylation. Blood. 2014 Aug 14;124(7):1110-8. doi: 10.1182/blood-2013-08-518514. Epub 2014 Jul 1.
• Willemze R, Suciu S, Meloni G, Labar B, Marie JP, Halkes CJ, Muus P, Mistrik M, Amadori S, Specchia G, Fabbiano F, Nobile F, Sborgia M, Camera A, Selleslag DL, Lefrere F Sr, Magro D, Sica S, Cantore N, Beksac M, Berneman Z, Thomas X, Melillo L, Guimaraes JE, Leoni P, Luppi M, Mitra ME, Bron D, Fillet G, Marijt EW, Venditti A, Hagemeijer A, Mancini M, Jansen J, Cilloni D, Meert L, Fazi P, Vignetti M, Trisolini SM, Mandelli F, de Witte T. High-dose cytarabine in induction treatment improves the outcome of adult patients younger than age 46 years with acute myeloid leukemia: results of the EORTC-GIMEMA AML-12 trial. J Clin Oncol. 2014 Jan 20;32(3):219-28. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2013.51.8571. Epub 2013 Dec 2.

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