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Acute Myeloid LeukemiaPhase 1/2NCT00790855

Bendamustine in Acute Leukemia and MDS

A Phase 1/2 study testing Bendamustine in people with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndrome, run by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at 1 site in United States.

Terminated

Stopped early. The study ended before it was planned to and will not resume.

Official record
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Trial summary

The goal of the Phase I part of this clinical research study is to find the highest safe dose of bendamustine that can be given to patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), Chronic myelogenous (or myeloid) leukemia (CML) in blastic phase, Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 16 years and older
What is being tested?
Bendamustine
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
27 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Nov 2008to Mar 2012
Phase
Phase 1/2
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 16 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Patients will be 16 years of age or older.
  • Patients must have relapsed/refractory leukemias for which no standard therapies are anticipated to result in a durable remission (longer than 3 months). Patients with poor-risk myelodysplasia (MDS) [i.e. refractory anemia with excess blasts (RAEB-1 or RAEB-2) by World Health Organization (WHO) classification] and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML) are also candidates for this protocol. Relapsed/refractory leukemias include acute myeloid leukemia (AML), acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), or chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) in blastic phase.
  • Continued from #2: Elderly patients with AML who are not eligible for frontline standard therapy, or who refuse to be treated with intensive chemotherapy, may be eligible. The phase II portion of the study will enroll patients with AML, MDS, and ALL. Patients with CML and CMML will not participate in the phase II portion of the study. Patients who are being considered for stem cell transplant are also eligible for this protocol.
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0-3.
  • Women of child-bearing potential (i.e., woman has not been naturally postmenopausal for at least 24 consecutive months or not surgically sterile) must use acceptable contraceptive methods (abstinence, intrauterine device [IUD], oral contraceptive or double barrier device), and must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 2 weeks prior to beginning treatment on this trial. Sexually active men must also use acceptable contraceptive methods for the duration of time on study. Men and women must maintain effective contraception until 4 weeks after the last dose of drug is administered.
  • Must be able and willing to give written informed consent.
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  • In the absence of rapidly progressing disease, the interval from prior treatment to time of study drug administration should be at least 2 weeks for cytotoxic agents, or at least 5 half-lives for noncytotoxic agents. If the patient is on hydroxyurea to control peripheral blood leukemic cell counts, the patient must be off hydroxyurea for at least 24 hours before initiation of treatment on this protocol. Persistent clinically significant toxicities (any grade 2 or worse toxicities, non-hematologic or hematologic) from prior chemotherapy must not be greater than Grade 1.
  • Patients must have the following clinical laboratory values unless considered due to leukemic organ involvement: 1) Serum creatinine </= 2.0 mg/dl; 2) Total bilirubin </= 1.5 times the upper limit of normal unless considered due to Gilbert's syndrome; 3) Alanine aminotransferase (ALT), or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) </= 3 times the upper limit of normal unless considered due to organ leukemic involvement.
  • Patients with active Central Nervous System (CNS) disease are included and will be treated concurrently with intrathecal therapy.
  • Phase II Portion: All above criteria apply. After the phase I portion, patients eligibility will be for only 3 disease categories which will accrue in parallel: 1) AML, 2) MDS, and 3) ALL.

Who cannot join

  • Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to uncontrolled infection (i.e. persistent fever, clinical deterioration), acute congestive heart failure and exacerbation, cardiac arrhythmia, chronic liver disease, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
  • Active heart disease including myocardial infarction within previous 3 months, unstable angina, arrhythmias not controlled by medication, or uncontrolled congestive heart failure. Patients with New York Heart Association (NYHA) class 3 or 4 are excluded.
  • Patients receiving any other standard or investigational treatment for their hematologic malignancy, except as permitted under Inclusion #9 above.
  • Pregnant or breast feeding females are excluded because the effects of bendamustine on a fetus or nursing child are unknown.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site

  • UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Houston, Texas, 77030

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About this study

Official title: Phase I-II Study of Bendamustine in Patients With Acute Leukemia and High-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS)

The goal of the Phase I part of this clinical research study is to find the highest safe dose of bendamustine that can be given to patients with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), Chronic myelogenous (or myeloid) leukemia (CML) in blastic phase, Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (CMML), and myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS).

The goal of the Phase II part of this clinical research study is to learn if bendamustine can help to control AML, ALL and MDS. The safety of this drug will continue to be studied.

Read the detailed description

The Study Drug:

Bendamustine is designed to damage and destroy the DNA of cancer cells.

Study Groups:

If you are found to be eligible to take part in this study, you will be assigned to a study group based on when you joined this study. Up to 60 participants will be enrolled in the Phase I portion of the study, and up to 3 groups of 31 participants will be enrolled in Phase II.

If you are enrolled in the Phase I portion, the dose of bendamustine you receive will depend on when you joined this study. The first group of participants will receive the lowest dose level of bendamustine. Each new group will receive a higher dose of bendamustine than the group before it, if no intolerable side effects were seen. This will continue until the highest tolerable dose of bendamustine is found.

If you are enrolled in the Phase II portion, you will receive bendamustine at the highest dose that was tolerated in the Phase I portion.

Study Drug Administration:

You will receive bendamustine through a needle or catheter in your vein over 2 hours twice on Days 1-4 of every 4 week study cycle. You will begin a new study cycle when your blood cell counts have returned to an appropriate level. You may begin a new study cycle earlier if your disease gets worse or does not improve.

Study Visits:

Blood (about 2 tablespoons) will be drawn for routine tests every 3-7 days during Cycle 1, and then every 1-2 weeks during all other cycles.

A bone marrow aspirate will be performed to check the status of the disease after Cycle 1 and every 3-4 Cycles thereafter, or as needed to document response.

Length of Study:

You may remain on study for as long as you are benefitting. You will be taken off study early if the disease gets worse or intolerable side effects occur.

This is an investigational study. Bendamustine is not FDA approved or commercially available in the United States. At this time, bendamustine is only being used in research.

Up to 153 patients will take part in this study. All will be enrolled at M. D. Anderson.

Being tested
Bendamustine
Keywords
Bendamustine, Acute Leukemia, Leukemia, Acute myeloid leukemia, Myelodysplastic Syndrome, Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Chronic myeloid leukemia, MDS, ALL, AML, CML
Medical subject headings
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive, Leukemia

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • BendamustineDrug

    Also called Treanda®, Bendamustine Hydrochloride, Bendamustine HCI, CEP-18083

    Starting dose of 50 mg/m^2 through a needle or catheter in vein over 2 hours twice on Days 1-4 of every 4 week study cycle. A new study cycle may begin when blood cell counts have returned to an appropriate level or a new study cycle may begun earlier if disease gets worse or does not improve.

Study groups in NCT00790855
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
BendamustineExperimentalStarting dose 50 mg/m^2 intravenously over 2 hours twice on Days 1-4 of every 4 week study cycle.
Receives: Drug: Bendamustine

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD)

    The MTD is the highest dose level in which <2 patients of 6 develop first cycle dose limiting toxicity (DLT). MTD assessed during course 1 (4 week cycle), every 3-7 days.

    Measured: During course 1 (4 week cycle)

Secondary outcomes (1)

  1. Number of Participants With a Response

    A complete response (CR) is defined as normalization of the bone marrow and peripheral blood counts with </= 5% marrow blasts in a normo-or hypercellular marrow, with a granulocyte count of >/= 10^9/L and a platelet count of >/=100 X 10^9/L. A partial response (PR) was defined as for CR, but with only >/=50% reduction of marrow blasts and to a range of 6%-25%. A marrow complete response was defined as a reduction of marrow blasts to </=5% but without recovery of peripheral counts.

    Measured: 1 - 24 week cycles (up to 8 weeks)

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted14 Nov 2008 (estimated)
  2. Study startNov 2008
  3. Primary completionMar 2012
  4. Study completionMar 2012

Why it stopped: Lack of Response

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 1/2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
27 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT00790855
Sponsor's protocol ID
2007-0634
Status last verified
Dec 2012
First submitted
13 Nov 2008
Last updated
4 Dec 2012
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 1/2 study testing Bendamustine in people with Acute Myeloid Leukemia and Myelodysplastic Syndrome, run by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 10 inclusion and 4 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: stopped early, as of the sponsor's last update on 4 Dec 2012. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this combined phase mean?

Phase 1 studies test a treatment in a small group of people for the first time or in a new way, mainly to check safety and find the right dose.

Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 19 Oct 2012). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) (time frame: During course 1 (4 week cycle)). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT00790855.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 4 Dec 2012.

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