Chemotherapy With or Without Imatinib and/or Peripheral Stem Cell Transplant in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Imatinib mesylate may stop the growth of cancer cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. A peripheral stem cell transplant may be able to replace blood-forming cells that were destroyed by chemotherapy. When the healthy stem cells are infused into the patient they may help the patient's bone marrow make stem cells, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Giving combination chemotherapy together with imatinib mesylate and peripheral stem cell transplant may be an effective treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Nevertheless, in the last few years GIMEMA has pubblished a paper in which 100% of Ph+ ALL patients reach HCR only with Imatinib, without any chemiotherapy. Thus, this treatment will be implemented in patients pertaining to this category.

Timeline

Start

2004-10

Primary completion

2014-03

Completion

2014-03

Publications

• Background Chiaretti S, Vitale A, Vignetti M, Piciocchi A, Fazi P, Elia L, Falini B, Ronco F, Ferrara F, De Fabritiis P, Luppi M, La Nasa G, Tedeschi A, Califano C, Fanin R, Dore F, Mandelli F, Meloni G, Foa R. A sequential approach with imatinib, chemotherapy and transplant for adult Ph+ acute lymphoblastic leukemia: final results of the GIMEMA LAL 0904 study. Haematologica. 2016 Dec;101(12):1544-1552. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2016.144535. Epub 2016 Aug 11.
• Results Messina M, Chiaretti S, Iacobucci I, Tavolaro S, Lonetti A, Santangelo S, Elia L, Papayannidis C, Paoloni F, Vitale A, Guarini A, Martinelli G, Foa R. AICDA expression in BCR/ABL1-positive acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is associated with a peculiar gene expression profile. Br J Haematol. 2011 Mar;152(6):727-32. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2010.08449.x. Epub 2011 Jan 31.
• Piciocchi A, Messina M, Elia L, Vitale A, Soddu S, Testi AM, Chiaretti S, Mancini M, Albano F, Spadano A, Krampera M, Bonifacio M, Cairoli R, Vetro C, Colella F, Ferrara F, Cimino G, Bassan R, Fazi P, Vignetti M. Prognostic impact of KMT2A-AFF1-positivity in 926 BCR-ABL1-negative B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients treated in GIMEMA clinical trials since 1996. Am J Hematol. 2021 Sep 1;96(9):E334-E338. doi: 10.1002/ajh.26253. Epub 2021 Jun 9. No abstract available.

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