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Fludarabine in Treating Patients With Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

Phase 2
Completed
Conditions
Leukemia
Registration Number
NCT00049075
Lead Sponsor
NCIC Clinical Trials Group
Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of fludarabine in treating patients who have chronic lymphocytic leukemia that has not been previously treated.

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

* Determine the overall response rate (complete and partial) in patients with previously untreated B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia treated with oral fludarabine.

* Determine the molecular complete response rate in patients who achieve a clinical or immunophenotypic complete response when treated with this drug.

* Determine the progression-free and treatment-free survival of patients treated with this drug.

* Determine the toxicity of this drug in these patients.

* Determine the baseline incidence of defined genetic abnormalities in patients treated with this drug.

* Determine the prognostic and predictive significance of defined genetic abnormalities in patients with respect to response to treatment with this drug.

* Determine the prognostic and predictive significance of immunophenotypic profile of patients with respect to response to treatment with this drug.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.

Patients receive oral fludarabine on days 1-5. Treatment repeats every 28 days for 6-8 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients in complete remission after 6 courses do not receive further study therapy.

Patients are followed at 2 months and then every 4 months for 2 years.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 120 patients will be accrued for this study within 2 years.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
128
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary Outcome Measures
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Secondary Outcome Measures
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Trial Locations

Locations (34)

Tom Baker Cancer Center - Calgary

🇨🇦

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Cross Cancer Institute

🇨🇦

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Providence Health Care - Vancouver

🇨🇦

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

CancerCare Manitoba

🇨🇦

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Moncton Hospital

🇨🇦

Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada

Saint John Regional Hospital

🇨🇦

Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Newfoundland Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation

🇨🇦

St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Nova Scotia Cancer Centre

🇨🇦

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Margaret and Charles Juravinski Cancer Centre

🇨🇦

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Kingston Regional Cancer Centre

🇨🇦

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

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Tom Baker Cancer Center - Calgary
🇨🇦Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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