Chemotherapy With Cordycepin Plus Pentostatin in Treating Patients With Refractory Acute Lymphocytic or Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
- Registration Number
- NCT00003005
- Lead Sponsor
- Boston Medical Center
- Brief Summary
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more tumor cells.
PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of chemotherapy consisting of cordycepin plus pentostatin in treating patients with refractory acute lymphocytic or chronic myelogenous leukemia.
- Detailed Description
OBJECTIVES: I. Evaluate the safety, maximum tolerated dose, adverse effects, and toxicities of cordycepin, given 1 hour following a fixed dose of the adenosine deaminase inhibitor pentostatin, in patients with refractory TdT positive leukemia. II. Determine the single and multiple dose pharmacokinetics of cordycepin given 1 hour following a fixed dose of pentostatin. III. Characterize selected whole blood and blast cell metabolic parameters serially in relation to cordycepin/pentostatin administration. IV. Measure and quantify any clinical responses in refractory TdT positive leukemia patients following cordycepin/pentostatin administration.
OUTLINE: This is a dose escalation study. Each treatment course is 28 days in length. On days 1-3 pentostatin is administered over 5 minutes by IV bolus and followed 1 hour later by a 1 hour infusion of cordycepin IV. An escalating dose of pentostatin is given with a fixed dose of cordycepin until the desired level of adenosine deaminase inhibition is observed. After this is determined, a dose escalation schedule for cordycepin is initiated to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) when given in combination with pentostatin. The MTD is determined by the number of patients who exhibit dose limiting toxicity and the severity of the toxicity.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: Approximately 30 patients will be accrued.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 14
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description deoxycoformycin and cordycepin Deoxycoformycin Dose escalation for deoxycoformycin and cordycepin deoxycoformycin and cordycepin Cordycepin Dose escalation for deoxycoformycin and cordycepin
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Maximum tolerated dose 28 days Dose limiting toxicities will be assessed within the first 28 days of study drug
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (13)
Johns Hopkins Oncology Center
🇺🇸Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital - Ohio State University
🇺🇸Columbus, Ohio, United States
New England Medical Center Hospital
🇺🇸Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Vincent T. Lombardi Cancer Research Center, Georgetown University
🇺🇸Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
🇺🇸Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Brigham and Women's Hospital
🇺🇸Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Boston Medical Center
🇺🇸Boston, Massachusetts, United States
University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center
🇺🇸Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Washington University Barnard Cancer Center
🇺🇸Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Oregon Cancer Center at Oregon Health Sciences University
🇺🇸Portland, Oregon, United States
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
🇺🇸Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
🇺🇸Buffalo, New York, United States
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC
🇺🇸Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States