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Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia

NCT00274807

NaSingle-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as mitoxantrone, cytarabine, and etoposide, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving more than one drug (combination chemotherapy) may kill more cancer cells. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well combination chemotherapy works in treating patients with newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia.

Timeline

Start
2001-06
Primary completion
2007-04
Completion
2008-05

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Cytarabine Small molecule Intravenous
Subject Etoposide Small molecule Intravenous
Subject Mitoxantrone Small molecule Intravenous
Background filgrastim Protein / enzyme biologic Subcutaneous

Indications