Low-dose Nilotinib and Imatinib Combination in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Patients, With Failure, Suboptimal Response or Treatment Intolerance

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if low-dose imatinib and nilotinib combination, will improve treatment results in CML patients with failure, suboptimal response or intolerance to imatinib therapy. The hypothesis is that with low-dose imatinib and nilotinib combination, major molecular response will be achieved in patients not previously obtained with imatinib monotherapy.

Timeline

Start

2012-10

Primary completion

2013-07

Completion

2013-08

Publications

• Background Schoffski P, Reichardt P, Blay JY, Dumez H, Morgan JA, Ray-Coquard I, Hollaender N, Jappe A, Demetri GD. A phase I-II study of everolimus (RAD001) in combination with imatinib in patients with imatinib-resistant gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Ann Oncol. 2010 Oct;21(10):1990-1998. doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdq076. Epub 2010 May 27.
• Background Gomez-Almaguer D, Tarin-Arzaga L, Cantu-Rodriguez O, Ceballos-Lopez A. More about imatinib and nilotinib combination therapy in chronic myeloid leukemia. Acta Haematol. 2013;129(1):18-9. doi: 10.1159/000342455. Epub 2012 Sep 12. No abstract available.
• Background Zhu GR, Ji O, Ji JM, Zhang YC, Wu Y, Yu H, Jiang PJ, Shen Q. Combining nilotinib and imatinib improves the outcome of imatinib-resistant blast phase CML. Acta Haematol. 2012;127(3):152-5. doi: 10.1159/000333107. Epub 2012 Jan 27.
• Gomez-Almaguer D, Saldana-Vazquez R, Tarin-Arzaga L, Herrera-Rojas MA, Vazquez-Mellado de Larracoechea A, Cantu-Rodriguez OG, Gutierrez-Aguirre CH, Jaime-Perez JC. Combination of low-dose imatinib plus nilotinib for the treatment of chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukaemia after imatinib failure. Hematology. 2016 Aug;21(7):411-4. doi: 10.1080/10245332.2015.1119369. Epub 2016 Feb 16.

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