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CINJALL: Treatment for Children With Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia

Registration Number
NCT00176462
Lead Sponsor
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Brief Summary

The purpose of this research study is to identify better ways to treat children and young adults with acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL). At the same time, doctors hope to define methods to identify those patients at higher risk for certain side effects, as well as those who are at higher risk for relapse of their leukemia.

Detailed Description

Outline of Therapy:

Combinations of chemotherapy drugs will be given orally, intravenously and intrathecally (directly into the cerebrospinal fluid by spinal tap) over a period of roughly two and a half years.

Therapy will be divided into five phases:

Induction (4 weeks): chemotherapy given to produce a clinical remission (defined by normal blood counts, with the absence of leukemia cells in the blood and fewer than 5% leukemia cells in the bone marrow).

Consolidation (11 weeks): chemotherapy given to consolidate the remission. Delayed Intensification (7 weeks) Intensive chemotherapy aimed at killing any resistant leukemia cells will be given only for patients at high risk of relapse.

Intensive Continuation (approximately 1 year): Eight week cycles of chemotherapy, given eight times.

Continuation (final year of therapy): Eight week cycles of largely oral chemotherapy, with one clinic visit for a lumbar puncture every eight weeks.

Irradiation: radiation will be given in the middle of intensive continuation to the head and spine of those patients who have leukemia cells found in the cerebrospinal fluid at the time of diagnosis.

Follow-up: After the conclusion of therapy, there will be periodic office visits, initially monthly, then gradually spaced out to annual visits. The purpose of these visits is to evaluate for late side-effects of therapy.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
60
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Arm 1 Standard Riskdaunomycin6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE METHOTREXATE Leucovorin
Arm 1 Standard RiskL-asparaginase6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE METHOTREXATE Leucovorin
Arm 1 Standard Riskdexamethasone6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE METHOTREXATE Leucovorin
Arm 1 Standard Risk6-mercaptopurine6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE METHOTREXATE Leucovorin
Arm 1 Standard Riskmethotrexate6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE METHOTREXATE Leucovorin
Arm 1 Standard Riskvincristine6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE METHOTREXATE Leucovorin
Arm 1 Standard RiskTriple Intrathecal Therapy (MTX, Cytarabine, Hydrocortisone)6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE METHOTREXATE Leucovorin
Arm 1 Standard RiskLeucovorin6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE METHOTREXATE Leucovorin
Arm 2 High Riskaminopterin6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE 6-THIOGUANINE CYTARABINE AMINOPTERIN CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE ARABINOSIDE-C
Arm 2 High RiskL-asparaginase6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE 6-THIOGUANINE CYTARABINE AMINOPTERIN CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE ARABINOSIDE-C
Arm 2 High Risk6-thioguanine6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE 6-THIOGUANINE CYTARABINE AMINOPTERIN CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE ARABINOSIDE-C
Arm 2 High Riskvincristine6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE 6-THIOGUANINE CYTARABINE AMINOPTERIN CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE ARABINOSIDE-C
Arm 2 High RiskTriple Intrathecal Therapy (MTX, Cytarabine, Hydrocortisone)6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE 6-THIOGUANINE CYTARABINE AMINOPTERIN CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE ARABINOSIDE-C
Arm 2 High Riskcyclophosphamide6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE 6-THIOGUANINE CYTARABINE AMINOPTERIN CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE ARABINOSIDE-C
Arm 2 High Riskcytarabine6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE 6-THIOGUANINE CYTARABINE AMINOPTERIN CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE ARABINOSIDE-C
Arm 2 High Riskdaunomycin6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE 6-THIOGUANINE CYTARABINE AMINOPTERIN CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE ARABINOSIDE-C
Arm 2 High Riskdexamethasone6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE 6-THIOGUANINE CYTARABINE AMINOPTERIN CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE ARABINOSIDE-C
Arm 2 High Risk6-mercaptopurine6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE 6-THIOGUANINE CYTARABINE AMINOPTERIN CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE ARABINOSIDE-C
Arm 2 High RiskLeucovorin6-MERCAPTOPURINE DAUNOMYCIN DEXAMETHASONE Triple Intrathecal Therapy (ITT) L-ASPARAGINASE VINCRISTINE 6-THIOGUANINE CYTARABINE AMINOPTERIN CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE ARABINOSIDE-C
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Percentage of Patients With ALL at High Risk of Relapse (Arm 2) Who Were Relapse-free at 5 Years5 years

This measure looks at the percentage of patients on Arm 2 who did not experience a relapse at 5 years, where relapse is defined as the presence of progressive disease after the achievement of a complete remission.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
To Measure 5-methyltetrahydrofolate, Aminopterin and Methotrexate Uptake in Leukemic Blasts Isolated at Diagnosis5 years

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Jersey Shore University Medical Center

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Neptune, New Jersey, United States

Cancer Institute of New Jersey

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New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

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