Status:

COMPLETED

5-azacytidine Treatment Versus 5-azacytidine Followed by Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation in Elderly Patients With Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS)

Lead Sponsor:

Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

Conditions:

Myelodysplastic Syndrome

Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia

Eligibility:

All Genders

55-70 years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

5-azacytidine treatment prolongs survival in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), but does not cure the disease. Allogeneic stem cell transplantation is a curative treatment option but is ass...

Detailed Description

5-azacytidine treatment prolongs survival in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), but does not cure the disease. Allogeneic stem cell transplantation is a curative treatment option but is ass...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patients with proven de novo or therapy-related MDS / CMML (WBC \<13 GPT/l)according to FAB and risk profile according to IPSS: intermediate II- risk or high-risk or intermediate I with high-risk cytogenetic (according to IPSS, taking into account that IPSS, however, was not validated for t- MDS), patients with secondary AML (according to WHO) and blasts ≤ 30 % (= RAEB-t according to FAB)
  • Previously untreated or maximal 1 cycle of 5-azacytidine (Vidaza®)
  • Male or Female; Age 55 - 70 years
  • Understand and voluntarily sign an informed consent form
  • ECOG performance status of ≤ 2 at study entry
  • Adequate renal and liver function: creatinine and bilirubin \< 3 x the upper limit of normal
  • Sufficient cardiac function (ejection fraction \> 30 %)

Exclusion

  • Blasts \> 30 % in bone marrow at time of diagnosis
  • Central nervous involvement
  • Severe irreversible renal, hepatic, pulmonary or cardiac disease, such as
  • Total bilirubin, SGPT or SGOT ≥ 3 times upper the normal level
  • Left ventricular ejection fraction \< 30 %
  • Creatinine clearance \< 30 ml/min
  • DLCO \< 35 % and/or receiving supplementary continuous oxygen
  • Pregnant or breastfeeding female subject
  • Patients with a life-expectancy of less than six months because of another debilitating disease
  • Serious psychiatric or psychological disorders
  • Uncontrolled invasive fungal infection at time of registration
  • Known positive for HIV or acute infectious hepatitis, type A, B or C
  • Participation in another study with ongoing use of unlicensed investigational product from 28 days before study enrollment until the end of the study

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

July 1 2011

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

July 1 2021

Estimated Enrollment :

191 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT01404741

Start Date

July 1 2011

End Date

July 1 2021

Last Update

October 27 2023

Active Locations (17)

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1

Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin

Berlin, Germany

2

Uniklinikum Bonn

Bonn, Germany

3

Universität zu Köln

Cologne, Germany

4

Universitätsklinikum Dresden

Dresden, Germany, 01307