drugset / Trial / NCT00651261

Daunorubicin, Cytarabine, and Midostaurin in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia

NCT00651261

RandomizedParallel-groupDouble-blindTreatment

Summary

The purpose of this study is to compare the effects, good and/or bad, of a standard chemotherapy regimen for AML that includes the drugs daunorubicin and cytarabine combined with or without midostaurin (also known as PKC412), to find out which is better. This research is being done because it is unknown whether the addition of midostaurin to chemotherapy treatment is better than chemotherapy treatment alone. Midostaurin has been tested in over 400 patients and is being studied in a number of illnesses, including AML, colon cancer, and lung cancer. Midostaurin blocks an enzyme, produced by a gene known as FLT3, that may have a role in the survival and growth of AML cells. Not all leukemia cells will have the abnormal FLT3 gene. This study will focus only on patients with leukemia cells with the abnormal FLT3 gene.

Timeline

Start
2008-04
Primary completion
2016-07
Completion

Publications

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Midostaurin Small molecule 50 mg Oral
Background Cytarabine Small molecule 200 mg/m2 Intravenous
Background Cytarabine Small molecule 3000 mg/m2 Intravenous
Background Daunorubicin Small molecule 60 mg/m2 Intravenous
Background Dexamethasone Small molecule 0.1 % Other

Indications