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Clofarabine and Cytarabine in Treating Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Minimal Residual Disease

NCT00863434

NaSingle-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as clofarabine and cytarabine, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving clofarabine together with cytarabine may kill more cancer cells. PURPOSE: This pilot phase II trial is studying how well giving clofarabine together with cytarabine works in treating patients with acute myeloid leukemia with minimal residual disease

Timeline

Start
2009-02
Primary completion
2011-02
Completion

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject Clofarabine Other / unclassified Intravenous
Subject Cytarabine Small molecule Intravenous
Background filgrastim Protein / enzyme biologic Subcutaneous