Pre-reinductive Decitabine and Vorinostat in Relapsed Lymphoblastic Lymphoma or Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Leukemia, Lymphoma
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Leukemia focused on measuring recurrent adult lymphoblastic lymphoma, recurrent childhood lymphoblastic lymphoma, recurrent adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia, recurrent childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
Diagnosis of lymphoblastic lymphoma or acute lymphoblastic leukemia with ≥ 5% blasts in the bone marrow (M2/M3) (with or without extramedullary disease) that meets 1 of the following criteria:
- Refractory disease/induction failure (failure to achieve initial remission after 2 lines of induction therapy)
- Relapsed disease (in first relapse or higher)
- Central nervous system (CNS)-positive disease allowed
- Karnofsky performance status (PS) 50-100% (for patients ≥ 16 years of age) OR Lansky PS 50-100% (for patients < 16 years of age)
- Life expectancy ≥ 8 weeks
Creatinine clearance ≥ 70 mL/min OR maximum serum creatinine based on age/gender as follows:
- 0.4 mg/dL (for patients 1 to 5 months of age)
- 0.5 mg/dL (for patients 6 to 11 months of age)
- 0.6 mg/dL (for patients 1 year of age)
- 0.8 mg/dL (for patients 2 to 5 years of age)
- 1.0 mg/dL (for patients 6 to 9 years of age)
- 1.2 mg/dL (for patients 10 to 12 years of age)
- 1.5 mg/dL (males) or 1.4 mg/dL (females) (for patients 13 to 15 years of age)
- 1.7 mg/dL (males) or 1.4 mg/dL (females) (for patients ≥ 16 years of age)
- ALT < 5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times ULN for age
- LVEF ≥ 40% by ECHO/MUGA scan
- Shortening fraction > 29% by ECHO/MUGA scan
- Able to swallow capsules
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 2 months after completion of study treatment
- No untreated positive blood cultures or progressive infections as assessed by radiographic studies
No known allergy to any of the agents or their ingredients used in this study
- Patients with clinically significant prior allergies to pegaspargase may be treated with asparaginase-Erwinia, if available
- Patients who cannot receive asparaginase on this study (e.g., due to prior pancreatitis, stroke, or other toxicity) are eligible provided they meet all other inclusion/exclusion criteria
- Recovered from prior therapy (defined as CTCAE v3.0 toxicity ≤ grade 1)
- More than 3 weeks since prior chemotherapy for cancer other than hydroxyurea for patients with WBC > 10,000/mm³
- At least 7 days since prior hematopoietic growth factors (14 days for pegfilgrastim)
- At least 1 month since prior biologic therapy, such as monoclonal antibodies
- At least 3 months since prior hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Exclusion Criteria:
- Evidence of graft-versus-host disease
- Concurrent valproic acid
- Concurrent coumadin/warfarin other than a short course administered in a prophylactic setting
Sites / Locations
- University of Minnesota Amplatz Children's Hospital
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Experimental
Decitabine / Vorinostat
This is a therapeutic trial investigating the combination of decitabine 15 mg/m2 and vorinostat 230 mg/m2 (maximum daily dose not to exceed 400 mg) in relapsed/refractory ALL/LL patients prior to induction chemotherapy.