Efficacy of the Use of Bortezomib for the Treatment of Relapsed Leukemia or Positive MRD

Hospital General de Mexico

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 4

Conditions: Chemotherapeutic Toxicity; Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, in Relapse; Minimal Residual Disease

Treatments: Drug: Bortezomib

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05137860

HGMDI/21/204/03/67

Details and patient eligibility

About

Various drugs have been added to different treatment regimens in order to improve the response rate in patients with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, however, it has been shown that adding Bortezomib to the relapsing regimen improves the proportion of second complete remissions without increasing chemotherapy toxicity. Therefore, proteasome inhibitors can drastically modify the prognosis of patients, since their synergy with drugs such as steroids has positioned them as an attractive strategy.

Full description

Mortality associated with leukemia has decreased due to the use of various chemotherapy combinations, the addition of new agents, or the chemical modification of existing drugs. Despite advances in treatment, the prognosis in the adult population continues to be unfavorable. About 25% of the patients will be refractory to the first treatment regimen and the rest will have a disease-free survival below 40%. The chemotherapy intensity reduction strategy based on risk stratification according to Minimal Residual Disease (MRD) is a strategy used by various pediatric centers in order to detect patients at high risk of relapse.

Enrollment: 56 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with a confirmatory diagnosis of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia relapsed to bone marrow described with more than 5% blasts in bone marrow at any stage of treatment or positivity of minimal residual disease at any stage of treatment.
• Patients who have signed their informed consent from the institution for hospitalization, and accepted the performance of the bone marrow study, and the administration of chemotherapy.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with a diagnosis of phenotypic leukemia or bilinear leukemia
• Patients treated only with palliative regimen or transfusion support
• Patients without the administration of prophylaxis to the central nervous system by intrathecal chemotherapy
• Patients with lymphoblastic leukemia with a positive Philadelphia chromosome
• Patients with severe comorbidities may put treatment therapy at risk.
• Patient with a history of cardiac toxicity or arrhythmias associated with treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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56 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard Care Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Each patient will receive their standard chemotherapy treatment for patients with relapsed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia based on the HyperCVAD scheme for a period of 12 weeks. Each chemotherapy cycle will be monitored by the health team corresponding to the Hematology service and the principal investigator.

Bortezomib Treatment Group

Experimental group

Description:

Each patient will receive their standard chemotherapy treatment for patients with relapsed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia based on the HyperCVAD scheme in combination with Bortezomib for a period of 12 weeks. Each chemotherapy cycle will be monitored by the health team corresponding to the Hematology service and the principal investigator.

Treatment:

Drug: Bortezomib