Active clinical trials for "Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma"

The trial is to determine if a difference exists in the way that adolescents and young adults metabolize the chemotherapy agent vincristine compared to younger children.

The use of imatinib in combination with chemotherapy is now considered as the gold standard for the treatment of Ph+ ALL. The complete remission (CR) rate is 90% versus 20% to 40% with chemotherapy alone. The combination of imatinib, vincristine and dexamethasone is a well tolerated regimen in aged patients and is also associated with a high CR rate of 80% to 90% in patient aged 55 years and over. 2. Dasatinib is indicated as first line therapy in Ph+ ALL. Results from the EWALLPH-01 are supporting the use of dasatinib in combination with low-intensity chemotherapy. A new EWALL-PH-02 study combining nilotinib in combination with low-intensity chemotherapy is currently initiated within the EWALL centers. 3. The EWALL-PH-01 trial is now closed after the recruitment of 71 patients. The activation of the EWALL-PH-02 trial is expected for Q1 2012. Based on the recruitment of the EWALL-PH-01 study it could be anticipated that 50 to 100 patients aged more than 55 years will be diagnosed during this 6 months period of time. In addition, all the EWALL centers are not participating to the EWALL-PH-02 study and thus these centers could be offered to treat patient following the EWALL backbone in addition to imatinib. 4. A minimum data set will be defined in order to collect the data of the patients treated following the EWALL-PH imatinib study. The main recommendation is to follow as close as possible the procedures of the EWALL-PH-01 trial (mutation analysis, MRD follow-up) in order to have a comparable data set. This imatinib treated cohort of patients would be of particular importance in order to better define the potential benefit of using one TKI compared to one other. From the end of the EWALL-PH-01 study recruitment to the initiation of the EWALL-PH-02 study, patients were treated following the common backbone schedule in combination with imatinib or others TKI. Patients not included in clinical trials for other reasons were also offered a treatment with the combination of TKIs and backbone low-intensity chemotherapy. The goal of this observatory retrospective and prospective is to describe the efficacy and the tolerance of the combination of tyrosine kinase inhibitors in combination with low intensity chemotherapy (EWALL backbone) in patients with Ph+ ALL aged 55 years and over.

This is a non-interventional, long-term follow-up study in subjects who received ApoGraft in study ApoGraft-01. Up to 12 subjects who completed ApoGraft-01 study will be offered to participate in this follow-up study. Subjects who completed ApoGraft-01 study and have signed informed consent for this follow-up study will be eligible to enroll. Subject will attend in-clinic visits up to 2 years post transplantation, and will undergo the following evaluations: acute and chronic graft versus host disease (GvHD) assessments, survival status (overall, relapse-free), disease status (disease relapse/recurrence), physical examination, safety laboratory and concomitant medication use.

The clinical application and effect of ATG based myeloablative conditioning regimen after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in adult patients with aggressive T-cell lymphomas.

A 5 day course of fludarabine and cytarabine (FA) will be administered followed by full intensity conditioning regimen (Bucy) in the setting of allogeneic stem cell transplantation (SCT). The purpose of this study is to explore the antileukemic, immunosuppressive effects and safety of FA as the backbone of a conditioning regiment for the treatment of patients with high-risk, recurrent or refractory acute Leukemia and advanced myelodysplastic syndrome.

Results of actual treatment in ALL are not optimal. New prognostic factors, which may determine clinical & molecular response are required. Hyper-CVAD is an internationally accepted schema for such patients. The objective of this pilot study is to evaluate polymorphisms regarding RFC (reduced folate carrier) and MTHFR enzyme, which may affect the function of these proteins, and therefore the intracellular bioavailability of methotrexate. Also, the expression levels of hENT1 and dCK will be evaluated, since such genes codify for citarabine intracellular transport and activation, respectively. Clinical characteristics will be tabulated and analyzed for responders & non-responders patients. Uni- & multivariate analysis will be done to evaluate factors influencing on response and survival.

Identification of alterations potentially involved in the complex mechanisms of leukemogenesis and at the identification and validation of novel biological factors which may serve as predictors of drug-response and drug-resistance or which may be suitable for targeted therapy.

Emerging results suggest that a cure rate of nearly 90 percent will be attained in the near future. The advance was attributed to stringent application of prognostic factors for risk factor-directed therapy. Early response to treatment has greater prognostic strength than does any other biologic or clinical feature tested to dates. The measurement of minimal residual disease(MRD) affords a level of sensitivity and specificity that cannot be attained through traditional microscopic morphologic assessments. In Taiwan, detection for the most recurrent fusion genes and the MRD were not commonly available, the TPOG(Taiwan Pediatric Oncology Group) used clinical features, immunophenotypes, and cytogenetics to do risk group classifications and protocol assignment. A successful rate of 60-70% has been reached. In order to improve the cure rate of ALL in Taiwan, this project aims at establishing the methods for better risk classifications and establishing MRD detection for risk-directed therapy for childhood ALL in Taiwan.Intrinsic and acquired resistances to multiple anticancer agents represent major obstacles and accounts for 10-20% of treatment failure in the developed countries nowadays. Recent progress using DNA microarray identified differential expression level of the genes known to implicate in cell cycle control, DNA repair and apoptosis in different subsets of ALL patients, which were found to be related to drug response. Genetic polymorphisms in the genes of drug-metabolizing enzymes, drug transporters or drug targets, can influence the efficacy or toxicity of antileukemic agents. Specific genotype might be important in determining the pharmacokinetic effects of one population or disease subtype from that in others. Recently, the expression profiles of relatively few microRNAs (miRNAs) (~200 genes), was noted to accurately classify human cancers. These informations hinted that expression of the genes in the leukemic cells might serve as additional risk factors for treatment stratification. Specific aims and goals: to establish better risk factors classification and use MRD to monitor early response to treatment. to establish the expression profiles of 12 genes associated with drug resistance to unravel the pharmacogenetic background of pediatric ALL in Taiwan, so that will help refine the therapy dose, achieve a better drug effect and avoid acute or chronic toxicity. microRNA expression profiles in childhood ALL in Taiwan

To detect IKZF-1 deletion mutations in patients with ALL. To study the impact of IKZF-1 deletion mutation on therapy of ALL. To study the correlation between IKZF-1 deletion mutations and BCR-ABL.

it's a prospective study aiming to improve quality of life of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia suffering from oral mucositis, receiving courses of methotrexate chemotherapy , by measuring vitamin D in those patients before induction therapy and the change in its level during treatment, that associated with methotrexate-induced oral mucositis, taking in consideration serum level of methotrexate, so we may have assiotiation between vitamin D difficiency and oral mucositis . at the end we can have preventive interventions to protect against this harmful side effect.