Status:

COMPLETED

Azacitidine Maintenance Therapy After Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation (Allo BMT)

Lead Sponsor:

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Collaborating Sponsors:

Celgene Corporation

Conditions:

Myelodysplastic Syndrome

Leukemia

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-75 years

Phase:

PHASE1

Brief Summary

Primary Objective: -To determine the dose and schedule combination of 5-Azacitidine, when used as maintenance treatment after allogeneic transplantation for high-risk AML / MDS. Secondary Objective:...

Detailed Description

Azacitidine is a drug that is designed to block certain genes in cancer cells whose job is to stop the function of the tumor-fighting genes. By blocking the "bad" genes, the tumor-fighting genes may b...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patients with a diagnosis of AML (WHO classification: \>=20% blasts in the bone marrow and / or peripheral blood), or MDS (IPSS intermediate-2 or higher) that at the time of allogeneic transplantation were in.
  • Induction Failure, relapsed disease or second or greater remission.
  • Patients in first complete remission that required more than 2 cycles of treatment to achieve the remission.
  • Donor: HLA-compatible related (HLA-A, -B, -DRB1 matched or with one-antigen mismatch) or
  • HLA-compatible unrelated (HLA-A, -B, -C and -DRB1 matched or with one-antigen mismatch)
  • Age 18 to 75 years and
  • Left ventricular ejection fraction \>40% and
  • FEV1, FVC and DLCO \>40% and
  • Serum creatinine \<1.6 mg/dL and
  • Serum bilirubin \< 1.6 mg/dL and
  • SGPT \< 3 X upper limit of normal and
  • All patients and donors or guardian should be able to understand and sign informed consent.
  • Women of childbearing potential (any female who has experienced menarche, and who has not undergone surgical sterilization or is not post-menopausal) must have a negative serum pregnancy test.

Exclusion

  • HIV positive
  • AML or MDS in first complete remission (defined as: bone marrow with less than 6% blasts, no circulating blasts, and a platelet count greater than 100,000 /mm\^3.)
  • Active uncontrolled infection
  • Pregnancy or breastfeeding

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

October 1 2005

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

August 1 2010

Estimated Enrollment :

90 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00350818

Start Date

October 1 2005

End Date

August 1 2010

Last Update

July 30 2012

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UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, Texas, United States, 77030