Treatment of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia With All-Trans Retinoic Acid (ATRA) and Idarubicin (AIDA)

NCT00465933 | Completed Phase 4

• 1 other identifier: Pethema LPA-99 protocol
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: N/A
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 2

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) and idarubicin (AIDA) with a dose reduction in patients older than 70 years of age in the remission induction of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). With regard to the induction, the excellent results obtained by the combination of ATRA and idarubicin (AIDA), especially in terms of antileukemic efficacy (1% of resistance), do not support the introduction of substantial changes in this combination. However, given that most of the induction failures were caused by complications, especially of a hemorrhagic nature, and that these had a major impact in the hyperleukocytic forms and in patients older than 70 years of age, the induction was modified as follows:

1. 1.Reduction of idarubicin dose in patients older than 70 years of age (three days instead of four);
2. 2.Early administration of corticosteroid therapy in all patients as ATRA syndrome prophylaxis. A preliminary analysis of the Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases (Gruppo Italiano Malattie Ematologiche dell'Adulto, GIMEMA) has shown that low dose prednisone use in a prophylactic manner appears to reduce the incidence and severity of the ATRA syndrome, which could also have a favorable impact on the hemorrhagic mortality (non-published data); and
3. 3.Treatment of the hyperfibrinolysis with an antifibrinolytic agent (tranexamic acid). It has been recently reported that APL cells present abnormally high levels of annexins (especially annexin II), and that these levels may provide the fundamental mechanism for the hemorrhagic complications in APL by increasing the production of t-PA dependent plasmin. These findings provide new reasons for the introduction of tranexamic acid in the hemorrhagic prophylaxis of APL.

Conditions

Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia

Keywords

Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia; AIDA

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (5)

• To evaluate the efficacy of AIDA with a dose reduction in patients older than 70 years of age in the remission induction of APL

  6 months

• To evaluate the impact on morbidity and mortality of the prophylactic measures included in induction therapy (low dose prednisone and tranexamic acid)

  1 year

• To evaluate the toxicity of the induction, consolidation, and maintenance chemotherapy

  2 years

• To evaluate the impact on the event free survival, disease free survival and global survival in each relapse risk group

  5 years

• To evaluate the rates of molecular remission (PML/RARa negative by RT-PCR) in the successive therapeutic phases with special emphasis on patients with a higher risk for relapse

  2 years

Interventions

AIDA DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: Up to 75 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Age \<= 75 years
• ECOG = 3.
• Morphological diagnosis of M3 or M3v. Those cases without typical morphology but with PML-RARa rearrangement may also be included.

You may not qualify if:

• Age \> 75 years (the treatment with this protocol can be considered on an individual basis but these patients will be analysed separately)
• Absence of PML-RARa rearrangement.
• Prior antileukemic chemotherapy.
• Presence of an associated neoplasm.
• Presence of a severe psychiatric disease.
• HIV seropositivity.
• Contraindication for intensive chemotherapy, especially to anthracyclines.
• Serum creatinine = 2.5 mg/dL.
• Bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, or SGOT \> 3 times the upper normal limit
• Positive pregnancy test.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• PETHEMA Foundation: lead

Study Sites (2)

Hospital La Fe de Valencia

Valencia, Valencia, Spain

Location

Basurtuko Ospitalea

Basurto, Spain

Location

Related Publications (14)

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Related Links

• Spanish Association of Haematology

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Leukemia, Promyelocytic, Acute

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute; Leukemia, Myeloid; Leukemia; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Hematologic Diseases; Hemic and Lymphatic Diseases

Study Officials

• Sanz Miguel Angel, Dr

  Hospital La Fe de Valencia

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 4
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 25, 2007
• First Posted: April 27, 2007
• Study Start: March 1, 1999
• Primary Completion: August 1, 2007
• Study Completion: November 1, 2007
• Last Updated: March 31, 2008

Record last verified: 2008-03

Locations

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