Official Title: A Multicenter Study to Assess the Efficacy of 506U78 in Patients With Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Who Are Refractory to Fludarabine and Alkylator Therapy
Status: COMPLETED
Status Verified Date: 2002-01
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: False
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
Acronym: None
Brief Summary: RATIONALE Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die
PURPOSE Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of 506U78 in treating patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia that has not responded to fludarabine or alkylating agents
Detailed Description: OBJECTIVES I Determine the anticancer efficacy of 506U78 in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia refractory to fludarabine and alkylator therapy II Determine the safety including incidence of infection of this drug in these patients III Evaluate the pharmacokinetics of 506U78 and ara-G and assess the intracellular pharmacokinetics of ara-GTP in patients receiving multiple treatment courses at MD Anderson Cancer Center only IV Determine the response rate time to maximal response and duration of response in patients treated with this drug V Determine two-year survival and progression-free survival of patients treated with this drug
OUTLINE This is a multicenter study Patients are stratified according to cellular type of disease B cell vs T cell Patients receive 506U78 IV over 2 hours on days 1 3 and 5 Treatment repeats every 28 days for a maximum of 8 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity Patients are followed at 28 days and then every 2 months for 2 years until disease progression After disease progression patients are followed every 3 months for 2 years
PROJECTED ACCRUAL Approximately 14-100 patients will be accrued for this study