Fludarabine With or Without Cyclophosphamide in Treating Patients With Advanced Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as fludarabine and cyclophosphamide, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. It is not yet known whether giving fludarabine together with cyclophosphamide is more effective than fludarabine alone in treating chronic lymphocytic leukemia. PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying giving fludarabine together with cyclophosphamide to see how well it works compared to fludarabine alone in treating patients with advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Timeline

Start

1999-07

Primary completion

2003-07

Completion

2007-07

Publications

• Background Eichhorst BF, Fischer K, Fink AM, Elter T, Wendtner CM, Goede V, Bergmann M, Stilgenbauer S, Hopfinger G, Ritgen M, Bahlo J, Busch R, Hallek M; German CLL Study Group (GCLLSG). Limited clinical relevance of imaging techniques in the follow-up of patients with advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia: results of a meta-analysis. Blood. 2011 Feb 10;117(6):1817-21. doi: 10.1182/blood-2010-04-282228. Epub 2010 Dec 7.
• Background Cramer P, Bahlo J, Eichhorst B, Fischer K, Hallek M. Extramedullary manifestations of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia are not unusual. Leuk Res. 2014 Mar;38(3):284-5. doi: 10.1016/j.leukres.2013.11.015. Epub 2013 Dec 1. No abstract available.
• Background Goede V, Cramer P, Busch R, Bergmann M, Stauch M, Hopfinger G, Stilgenbauer S, Dohner H, Westermann A, Wendtner CM, Eichhorst B, Hallek M; German CLL Study Group. Interactions between comorbidity and treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia: results of German Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Study Group trials. Haematologica. 2014 Jun;99(6):1095-100. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2013.096792. Epub 2014 Feb 28.
• Background Jebaraj BMC, Tausch E, Landau DA, Bahlo J, Robrecht S, Taylor-Weiner AN, Bloehdorn J, Scheffold A, Mertens D, Bottcher S, Kneba M, Jager U, Zenz T, Wenger MK, Fingerle-Rowson G, Wendtner C, Fink AM, Wu CJ, Eichhorst B, Fischer K, Hallek M, Dohner H, Stilgenbauer S. Short telomeres are associated with inferior outcome, genomic complexity, and clonal evolution in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Leukemia. 2019 Sep;33(9):2183-2194. doi: 10.1038/s41375-019-0446-4. Epub 2019 Mar 25.
• Background Sachanas S, Pangalis GA, Fink AM, Bahlo J, Fischer K, Levidou G, Kyrtsonis MC, Bartzi V, Vassilakopoulos TP, Kalpadakis C, Koulieris E, Moschogiannis M, Yiakoumis X, Tsirkinidis P, Angelopoulou MK, Eichhorst B, Hallek M. Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma: Analysis of Two Cohorts Including Patients in Clinical Trials of the German Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Study Group (GCLLSG) or in "Real-Life" Outside of Clinical Trials. Anticancer Res. 2019 May;39(5):2591-2598. doi: 10.21873/anticanres.13382.
• Results Eichhorst BF, Busch R, Obwandner T, Kuhn-Hallek I, Herschbach P, Hallek M; German CLL Study Group. Health-related quality of life in younger patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia treated with fludarabine plus cyclophosphamide or fludarabine alone for first-line therapy: a study by the German CLL Study Group. J Clin Oncol. 2007 May 1;25(13):1722-31. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2006.05.6929. Epub 2007 Mar 26.
• Results Eichhorst BF, Busch R, Hopfinger G, Pasold R, Hensel M, Steinbrecher C, Siehl S, Jager U, Bergmann M, Stilgenbauer S, Schweighofer C, Wendtner CM, Dohner H, Brittinger G, Emmerich B, Hallek M; German CLL Study Group. Fludarabine plus cyclophosphamide versus fludarabine alone in first-line therapy of younger patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Blood. 2006 Feb 1;107(3):885-91. doi: 10.1182/blood-2005-06-2395. Epub 2005 Oct 11.

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