Clofarabine, Cytarabine, and Idarubicin in Treating Patients With Intermediate-Risk or High-Risk Acute Myeloid Leukemia or High-Risk Myelodysplasia (AML-14A)
Leukemia, Myelodysplastic Syndromes

About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Leukemia focused on measuring adult acute minimally differentiated myeloid leukemia (M0), adult acute myeloblastic leukemia without maturation (M1), adult acute myeloblastic leukemia with maturation (M2), adult acute myelomonocytic leukemia (M4), adult acute monoblastic leukemia (M5a), adult acute monocytic leukemia (M5b), adult erythroleukemia (M6a), adult pure erythroid leukemia (M6b), adult acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (M7), adult acute myeloid leukemia with 11q23 (MLL) abnormalities, adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(16;16)(p13;q22), adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(8;21)(q22;q22), adult acute myeloid leukemia with inv(16)(p13;q22), untreated adult acute myeloid leukemia, de novo myelodysplastic syndromes, secondary acute myeloid leukemia
Eligibility Criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
Diagnosis of 1 of the following by WHO criteria:
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) (≥ 20% bone marrow blasts by bone marrow aspiration or biopsy)
- No acute promyelocytic leukemia (M3)
All cytogenetic groups allowed, except for the following:
- t(15;17)
- t(8;21) or inv(16) AND a WBC count at diagnosis of < 100,000/μL
- Primary or secondary AML allowed, including AML after myelodysplasia (MDS)
- High-risk MDS (≥ 10% bone marrow blasts by bone marrow aspiration or biopsy)
- No chronic myelogenous leukemia in blast crisis or AML supervening a myeloproliferative disorder
- Previously untreated disease, except for ≤ 14 days of hydroxyurea
- No CNS leukemia
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- WHO performance status 0-2
- Serum creatinine ≤ 1.0 mg/dL or glomerular filtration rate > 60 mL/min
- AST/ALT ≤ 2.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- ALP ≤ 2.5 times ULN
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective barrier contraception during and for ≥ 3 months after completion of study treatment
- No active uncontrolled infection
- No HIV positivity
- No psychological, familial, sociological, or geographical conditions precluding compliance with study treatment or follow up
- No concurrent severe uncontrolled cardiovascular disease (i.e., symptomatic congestive heart failure or symptomatic ischemic heart disease [NYHA class III-IV])
- No concurrent malignant disease
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- See Disease Characteristics
- No concurrent cytotoxic drugs or experimental therapies (e.g., antiangiogenic drugs, tyrosine kinase inhibitors)
Sites / Locations
- A.Z. Sint-JanRecruiting
- Institut Jules Bordet
- CHU Sart-Tilman
- University Hospital Rebro
- Hôpital Saint Antoine AP-HP
- Azienda Ospedallera Universitaria - Policlinico Tor VergataRecruiting
- Univesita Degli Studi "La Sapienza"Recruiting
- Leiden University Medical Center
- Radboud University Nijmegen Medical CenterRecruiting
- Jeroen Bosch ZiekenhuisRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Experimental
Arm I
Arm II
Patients receive idarubicin IV over 5 minutes on days 1, 3, and 5, cytarabine IV continuously on days 1-10, and clofarabine IV over 1 hour on days 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10.
Patients receive idarubicin IV and cytarabine IV as in arm I. Patients also receive clofarabine IV by push injection over 10 minutes on days 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10.