Comparison of Different Combination Chemotherapy Regimens in Treating Infants With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy 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. It is not yet known which combination chemotherapy regimen is most effective for treating infants with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of different combination chemotherapy regimens in treating infants who have newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Timeline

Start

1999-05

Primary completion

2006-02

Completion

2009-12

Publications

• Results Hempel G, Relling MV, de Rossi G, Stary J, De Lorenzo P, Valsecchi MG, Barisone E, Boos J, Pieters R. Pharmacokinetics of daunorubicin and daunorubicinol in infants with leukemia treated in the interfant 99 protocol. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2010 Mar;54(3):355-60. doi: 10.1002/pbc.22266.
• Results Mann G, Attarbaschi A, Schrappe M, De Lorenzo P, Peters C, Hann I, De Rossi G, Felice M, Lausen B, Leblanc T, Szczepanski T, Ferster A, Janka-Schaub G, Rubnitz J, Silverman LB, Stary J, Campbell M, Li CK, Suppiah R, Biondi A, Vora A, Valsecchi MG, Pieters R; Interfant-99 Study Group. Improved outcome with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in a poor prognostic subgroup of infants with mixed-lineage-leukemia (MLL)-rearranged acute lymphoblastic leukemia: results from the Interfant-99 Study. Blood. 2010 Oct 14;116(15):2644-50. doi: 10.1182/blood-2010-03-273532. Epub 2010 Jun 30.
• Results Lonnerholm G, Valsecchi MG, De Lorenzo P, Schrappe M, Hovi L, Campbell M, Mann G, Janka-Schaub G, Li CK, Stary J, Hann I, Pieters R; Interfant-99 study group. Pharmacokinetics of high-dose methotrexate in infants treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2009 May;52(5):596-601. doi: 10.1002/pbc.21925.
• Results van der Linden MH, Valsecchi MG, De Lorenzo P, Moricke A, Janka G, Leblanc TM, Felice M, Biondi A, Campbell M, Hann I, Rubnitz JE, Stary J, Szczepanski T, Vora A, Ferster A, Hovi L, Silverman LB, Pieters R. Outcome of congenital acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated on the Interfant-99 protocol. Blood. 2009 Oct 29;114(18):3764-8. doi: 10.1182/blood-2009-02-204214. Epub 2009 Aug 5.
• Results Van der Velden VH, Corral L, Valsecchi MG, Jansen MW, De Lorenzo P, Cazzaniga G, Panzer-Grumayer ER, Schrappe M, Schrauder A, Meyer C, Marschalek R, Nigro LL, Metzler M, Basso G, Mann G, Den Boer ML, Biondi A, Pieters R, Van Dongen JJ; Interfant-99 Study Group. Prognostic significance of minimal residual disease in infants with acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated within the Interfant-99 protocol. Leukemia. 2009 Jun;23(6):1073-9. doi: 10.1038/leu.2009.17. Epub 2009 Feb 12.
• Results Pieters R, Schrappe M, De Lorenzo P, Hann I, De Rossi G, Felice M, Hovi L, LeBlanc T, Szczepanski T, Ferster A, Janka G, Rubnitz J, Silverman L, Stary J, Campbell M, Li CK, Mann G, Suppiah R, Biondi A, Vora A, Valsecchi MG. A treatment protocol for infants younger than 1 year with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (Interfant-99): an observational study and a multicentre randomised trial. Lancet. 2007 Jul 21;370(9583):240-250. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61126-X.
• Results Pieters R, Schrappe M, de Lorenzo P, et al.: Outcome of infants less than one year of age with acute lymphoblastic leukemia treated with the Interfant-99 protocol. [Abstract] Blood 108 (11): A-145, 2006.

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