Modified Low dose Cytarabine versus Hypomethylating agent in Elderly AML patients who are unfit for intensive chemotherapy: Randomized clinical study
- Conditions
- Diseases of the blood and blood -forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 50
•Patients with 65 years or older and unfit for intensive chemotherapy
(Satisfying at least 1 condition below)
- Poor-risk molecular cytogenetics group
- At least 2 conditions among followings (75 years old or older, ECOG (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group) performance score 2-4, leukocyte counts at diagnosis > 50,000/microL)
- HCT-CI (Hematopoietic cell transplantation - comorbidity index) score with 3 or more
•Sufficient liver or renal function (= 2.5 x upper normal limit)
•Acute promyelocytic leukemia presenting t(15;17) or PML/RARa
•Central nervous system involvement
•Myeloid sarcoma without bone marrow involvement
•Uncontrolled prior infectious disease
•Uncontrolled bleeding
•Remnant previous malignancies in another organ
•Serious cardiovascular disease within 6 months from screening
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional Study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 2-year overall survival and disease free survival
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Treatment response including complete remission and incomplete remission, treatment complication and infectious complications and mortaility rate