Liposomal Daunorubicin and SU5416 in Treating Patients With Hematologic Cancer That Has Not Responded to Initial Therapy

Completed · Phase 1/Phase 2

Conditions studied: Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia, Previously Treated Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Recurrent Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Refractory Anemia With Excess Blasts, Refractory Anemia With Excess Blasts in Transformation

In brief

Phase I/II trial to study the effectiveness of liposomal daunorubicin and SU5416 in treating patients who have hematologic cancer that has not responded to initial therapy. Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. SU5416 may stop the growth of hematologic cancer by stopping blood flow to the cancer

Key facts

Study ID: NCT00005942
Run by: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
People needed: 37
Starts: 2000-03-01
Last updated by the study team: 2013-01-23

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Adult patients with AML, RAEB, RAEB-T or CMML-T that are not in CR 21-50 days after beginning course one of initial induction chemotherapy; patients may not have received more than 1 prior course of chemotherapy prior to study entry; this must contain Ara-C at a dose of at least 1 g/m\^2 daily x 4 days and either topotecan or an anthracycline at standard doses (i.e., daunorubicin =< 65 mg/m\^2 daily x 3 days, or idarubicin 12 mg/m\^2 daily x 3 days); patients beginning liposomal Daunorubicin on days 21 to 42 of course one must have persistent blasts in bone marrow or blood without evidence of improvement; patients beginning liposomal Daunorubicin on days 42 to 50 may or may not have persistent blasts but must have thrombocytopenia or neutropenia that is not improving
Patients must have recovered from the toxic effects of prior therapy with a minimum interval of 14 days from prior therapy and must not have received recombinant growth factors during this period
Patients of any racial and ethnic group
Zubrod performance status =< 1
Total bilirubin value =< 1.5 mg/dL
Serum creatinine value =< 1.5 mg/dL
Serum sGOT or sGPT =< 2.5 times the upper lim it of normal
Patients must agree to practice approved methods of birth control (if applicable)
Patients must provide written informed consent
Patients from any gender or ethnic background may be included; over the last 5 years, 356 patients with relapsed or refractory acute leukemias that would meet the eligibility criteria for this study have been treated at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, for an annual average of 70 patients; the race (as defined by the patient on admission questionnaire) and sex distribution for these patients

You may not qualify if…

Concurrent cancer chemotherapy, systemic radiotherapy or surgery
Patients should not have any evidence of an active infectious process or be receiving antibiotic therapy for an infectious process, either documented or presumed, at the time of study entry or for 2 weeks prior to study entry
Because of the potential effects of SU5416 on the embryo, women with the potential to become pregnant, unless utilizing birth control, or who are pregnant are excluded from the study; a negative pregnancy test must be documented during the screening period for women of childbearing potential; breast-feeding women are excluded from this trial because of the potential toxicity to the child; men of childfathering potential should use a medically acceptable form of birth control while on study
Overt psychosis or mental disability or otherwise incompetent to give informed consent
Receipt of any of the following prior to SU5416 administration:
major surgery within 2 weeks; minor surgery within 1 week
any previous angiogenesis inhibitor therapy (including metalloproteinase inhibitors, thalidomide, anti-VEGF/Flk-1 monoclonal antibody therapy or other investigational drugs which act directly on the VEGF/Flk-1 signaling pathway)
organ transplant at any time
Known allergy to Cremophor beta or Cremophor beta-based drug products, corticosteroids; H1 blockers, H2 blockers or paclitaxel; patients with uncompensated coronary artery disease on electrocardiogram or physical examination, or with a history of myocardial infarction or severe/unstable angina in the past 6 months are not eligible; patients with a cardiac left ventricular ejection fractions (LVEF) by MUGA or echocardiography of < 40% are not eligible
Patients with diabetes mellitus and others with severe peripheral vascular disease and patients who have had a deep venous or arterial thrombosis (including pulmonary embolism) within 3 months of entry are not eligible
Prior CNS hemorrhage or prior sterotactic CNS radiation
Any acute or chronic medical or psychiatric condition, or a laboratory abnormality that may increase the risks associated with study participation/study drug administration or may interfere with the interpretation of study results

Where it is running

M D Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas, United States

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