S0301 Cyclosporine, Daunorubicin, and Cytarabine in Treating Older Patients With Previously Untreated Acute Myeloid Leukemia

SWOG Cancer Research Network

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 2

Conditions

Leukemia

Treatments

Drug: cyclosporine

Drug: daunorubicin hydrochloride

Biological: sargramostim

Biological: filgrastim

Drug: cytarabine

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

NETWORK

NIH

Identifiers

NCT00066794

S0301 (Other Identifier)

U10CA032102 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cyclosporine, daunorubicin, and cytarabine, use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more cancer cells.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving cyclosporine together with daunorubicin and cytarabine works in treating older patients with untreated acute myeloid leukemia.

Full description

OBJECTIVES:

Determine the safety and efficacy of cyclosporine, daunorubicin, and cytarabine in older patients with previously untreated acute myeloid leukemia.
Determine the frequency and severity of toxic effects of this regimen in these patients.
Determine, preliminarily, the frequency and prognostic significance of functional and phenotypic P-glycoprotein expression and cytogenetics in patients treated with this regimen.
Determine, preliminarily, the pharmacokinetic characteristics of this regimen in these patients.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.

Induction therapy: Patients receive cyclosporine IV and daunorubicin IV continuously on days 1-3 and cytarabine IV continuously on days 1-7. Patients who achieve complete response (CR) after chemotherapy receive filgrastim (G-CSF) or sargramostim (GM-CSF) IV or subcutaneously beginning on day 15 or 20 and continuing until blood counts recover. Patients who maintain CR after 2 courses of induction therapy proceed to consolidation therapy.
Consolidation therapy: Patients receive treatment as in induction therapy with cyclosporine and daunorubicin on days 1-2 and cytarabine on days 1-5. Patients achieving CR receive an additional course of chemotherapy beginning at least 14 days after completion of the first course of cytarabine.

Patients are followed every 3 months for 1 year, every 6 months for 1 year, and then annually for 3 years.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 25-64 patients will be accrued for this study within 13 months.

Enrollment

69 patients

Sex

All

Ages

56+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

Morphologically confirmed acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
- Differential diagnosis of AML based on FAB classification system
  - M0-M7 (No M3)
No blastic transformation of chronic myelogenous leukemia
Must be currently registered on protocols SWOG-9007 and SWOG-S9910

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

56 and over

Performance status

Zubrod 0-3 (for patients 56 to 60 years of age) OR
Zubrod 0-2 (for patients 61 to 70 years of age) OR
Zubrod 0-1 (for patients 71 years of age and over)

Life expectancy

Not specified

Hematopoietic

Not specified

Hepatic

Bilirubin no greater than 2 times upper limit of normal (ULN) unless elevated unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia is secondary to Gilbert's syndrome or hemolysis and not to liver dysfunction
AST and/or ALT no greater than 4 times ULN

Renal

Creatinine no greater than 1.5 times ULN AND/OR
Creatinine clearance greater than 40 mL/min

Cardiovascular

Left ventricular function normal
Ejection fraction at least 50% by MUGA or echocardiogram
No unstable cardiac arrhythmias
No unstable angina

Other

Not pregnant or nursing
Fertile patients must use effective contraception
No other malignancy within the past 5 years except adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, carcinoma in situ of the cervix, or adequately treated stage I or II cancer that is currently in complete remission

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

No concurrent pegfilgrastim

Chemotherapy

At least 30 days since prior low-dose cytarabine (less than 100 mg/m^2/day) for myelodysplastic syndromes and recovered
Prior hydroxyurea to control high cell counts allowed
No prior systemic chemotherapy for acute leukemia
Concurrent single-dose intrathecal chemotherapy allowed

Endocrine therapy