Levofloxacin in Preventing Infection in Young Patients With Acute Leukemia Receiving Chemotherapy or Undergoing Stem Cell Transplantation
Acute Leukemias of Ambiguous Lineage, Bacterial Infection, Diarrhea
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for Acute Leukemias of Ambiguous Lineage
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
Patient must fit 1 of the following 2 categories:
Chemotherapy patients
Planned to receive at least 2 consecutive cycles (not required to be the first 2 cycles) of intensive chemotherapy for either:
- De novo, relapsed or secondary acute myeloid leukemia (AML), or acute leukemia of ambiguous lineage treated with standard AML therapy
- Relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
- For the purposes of this study, "intensive chemotherapy" is defined as regimens that are predicted by the local investigator to cause neutropenia for > 7 days; examples include, but are not limited to, treatment with "4-drug induction" (anthracycline, vincristine, asparaginase, and steroid), high dose cytarabine, anthracycline/cytarabine, ifosfamide/etoposide, and clofarabine-containing regimens
Stem cell transplantation patients
- Planned to receive at least 1 myeloablative autologous or allogeneic HSCT
- For the purposes of this study, myeloablative autologous and allogeneic HSCT are those in which the conditioning regimen is predicted by the local Investigator to cause neutropenia for > 7 days
Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate (GFR) > 70 mL/min/1.73 m^2 OR serum creatinine based on age/gender as follows:
- 0.5 mg/dL (6 months to < 1 year of age)
- 0.6 mg/dL (1 to < 2 years of age)
- 0.8 mg/dL (2 to < 6 years of age)
- 1.0 mg/dL (6 to < 10 years of age)
- 1.2 mg/dL (10 to < 13 years of age)
- 1.5 mg/dL (male)/1.4 mg/dL (female) (13 to < 16 years of age)
- 1.7 mg/dL (male)/1.4 mg/dL (female) (>= 16 years of age)
- Patients must have a performance status corresponding to Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) scores of 0, 1, or 2; use Karnofsky for patients > 16 years of age and Lansky for patients =< 16 years of age
- All patients and/or their parents or legal guardians must sign a written informed consent
- All institutional, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and National Cancer Institute (NCI) requirements for human studies must be met
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients previously enrolled on the trial are not eligible; therefore, patients with AL who were on study during intensive chemotherapy are not eligible to be enrolled during the HSCT
- Patients with an allergy to quinolones
- Patients with chronic active arthritis
- Patients with a known pathologic prolongation of the corrected QT (QTc)
- Females who are pregnant or breast feeding
Patients being treated with antibacterial agents, other than any of the following:
- Cotrimoxazole or other agents including dapsone, atovaquone, and pentamidine administered for Pneumocystitis jiroveci (PCP) prophylaxis
- Topical antibiotics
- Central venous catheter antibiotic lock therapy
- Note: prophylactic antifungal therapy is NOT an exclusion criterion
- Patients currently enrolled on the ACCL1034 study are not eligible until they have completed the 90 day observation period of that study
Sites / Locations
- Arkansas Children's Hospital
- Southern California Permanente Medical Group
- City of Hope Medical Center
- Loma Linda University Medical Center
- Miller Children's Hospital
- Children's Hospital Los Angeles
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego
- University of California San Francisco Medical Center-Parnassus
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center
- Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children
- Children's National Medical Center
- Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University
- Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida
- Nemours Children's Clinic - Jacksonville
- Nemours Children's Hospital
- Nemours Children's Clinic - Pensacola
- All Children's Hospital
- Saint Mary's Hospital
- Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - Egleston
- Georgia Regents University
- University of Illinois
- Advocate Children's Hospital-Oak Lawn
- Riley Hospital for Children
- Saint Vincent Hospital and Health Services
- Blank Children's Hospital
- University of Kentucky
- Kosair Children's Hospital
- Tulane University Health Sciences Center
- Children's Hospital-Main Campus
- Ochsner Medical Center
- Sinai Hospital of Baltimore
- Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- C S Mott Children's Hospital
- Helen DeVos Children's Hospital at Spectrum Health
- Michigan State University - Breslin Cancer Center
- Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota - Minneapolis
- University of Mississippi Medical Center
- Saint John's Mercy Medical Center
- Children's Hospital and Medical Center of Omaha
- University of Nebraska Medical Center
- Nevada Cancer Research Foundation CCOP
- Hackensack University Medical Center
- Saint Peter's University Hospital
- UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital
- University of New Mexico Cancer Center
- Montefiore Medical Center
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute
- New York University Langone Medical Center
- Columbia University Medical Center
- University of Rochester
- Ny Cancer%
- Mission Hospital-Memorial Campus
- Wake Forest University Health Sciences
- Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- Nationwide Children's Hospital
- The Children's Medical Center of Dayton
- The Toledo Hospital/Toledo Children's Hospital
- University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
- Lehigh Valley Hospital - Muhlenberg
- Geisinger Medical Center
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
- Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
- Palmetto Health Richland
- Sanford USD Medical Center - Sioux Falls
- Driscoll Children's Hospital
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Brooke Army Medical Center
- Cook Children's Medical Center
- Baylor College of Medicine
- University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Methodist Children's Hospital of South Texas
- Childrens Hospital-King's Daughters
- Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital
- Madigan Army Medical Center
- Marshfield Clinic
- CancerCare Manitoba
- Janeway Child Health Centre
- McMaster Children's Hospital at Hamilton Health Sciences
- Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario at Kingston General Hospital
- Hospital for Sick Children
- The Montreal Children's Hospital of the MUHC
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Arm I (levofloxacin)
Arm II (standard of care)
Patients receive levofloxacin PO or IV over 60-90 minutes once or twice daily beginning on day 3 during 2 consecutive courses of chemotherapy or beginning on day -2 during HSCT and continuing until blood counts recover.
Patients receive established standard of care and receive chemotherapy or HSCT as patients in Arm I.