ALL2008 Protocol for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Intermittent Versus Continuous PEG Asparaginase

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate if intramuscular PEG-asparaginase administered either at six or two week intervals from day 92 until 8 months from diagnosis for patients with non-HR ALL will result in equal probability of Event Free Survival

Timeline

Start

2009-01-01

Primary completion

2016-03-02

Completion

2016-03-02

Publications

• Albertsen BK, Grell K, Abrahamsson J, Lund B, Vettenranta K, Jonsson OG, Frandsen TL, Wolthers BO, Heyman M, Schmiegelow K. Intermittent Versus Continuous PEG-Asparaginase to Reduce Asparaginase-Associated Toxicities: A NOPHO ALL2008 Randomized Study. J Clin Oncol. 2019 Jul 1;37(19):1638-1646. doi: 10.1200/JCO.18.01877. Epub 2019 Apr 12.
• Tram Henriksen L, Gottschalk Hojfeldt S, Schmiegelow K, Frandsen TL, Skov Wehner P, Schroder H, Klug Albertsen B; Nordic Society of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, NOPHO Group. Prolonged first-line PEG-asparaginase treatment in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the NOPHO ALL2008 protocol-Pharmacokinetics and antibody formation. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2017 Dec;64(12). doi: 10.1002/pbc.26686. Epub 2017 Jun 29.
• Nielsen SN, Grell K, Nersting J, Abrahamsson J, Lund B, Kanerva J, Jonsson OG, Vaitkeviciene G, Pruunsild K, Hjalgrim LL, Schmiegelow K. DNA-thioguanine nucleotide concentration and relapse-free survival during maintenance therapy of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (NOPHO ALL2008): a prospective substudy of a phase 3 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2017 Apr;18(4):515-524. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(17)30154-7. Epub 2017 Mar 1.
• Wolthers BO, Frandsen TL, Abrahamsson J, Albertsen BK, Helt LR, Heyman M, Jonsson OG, Korgvee LT, Lund B, Raja RA, Rasmussen KK, Taskinen M, Tulstrup M, Vaitkeviciene GE, Yadav R, Gupta R, Schmiegelow K. Asparaginase-associated pancreatitis: a study on phenotype and genotype in the NOPHO ALL2008 protocol. Leukemia. 2017 Feb;31(2):325-332. doi: 10.1038/leu.2016.203. Epub 2016 Jul 25.
• Henriksen LT, Harila-Saari A, Ruud E, Abrahamsson J, Pruunsild K, Vaitkeviciene G, Jonsson OG, Schmiegelow K, Heyman M, Schroder H, Albertsen BK; Nordic Society of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology (NOPHO) group. PEG-asparaginase allergy in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in the NOPHO ALL2008 protocol. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2015 Mar;62(3):427-33. doi: 10.1002/pbc.25319. Epub 2014 Nov 21.
• Raja RA, Schmiegelow K, Albertsen BK, Prunsild K, Zeller B, Vaitkeviciene G, Abrahamsson J, Heyman M, Taskinen M, Harila-Saari A, Kanerva J, Frandsen TL; Nordic Society of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology (NOPHO) group. Asparaginase-associated pancreatitis in children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in the NOPHO ALL2008 protocol. Br J Haematol. 2014 Apr;165(1):126-33. doi: 10.1111/bjh.12733. Epub 2014 Jan 15.

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