Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Children With Newly Diagnosed Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2009-02-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more cancer cells.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy in treating children who have newly diagnosed acute lymphocytic leukemia.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Children's Oncology Group
• Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Treatments: 6-Mercaptopurine; Asparaginase; Cyclophosphamide; Cytarabine; Daunorubicin; Dexamethasone; Leucovorin; Levoleucovorin; Mercaptopurine; Methotrexate; Thioguanine; Vincristine

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically newly diagnosed early B-cell or B-precursor or B-progenitor acute lymphocytic leukemia Prior registration on POG-9400, stratum 6 for induction therapy Average prognosis (neither very good nor very poor)

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: Children Performance status: Not specified Life expectancy:

Not specified Hematopoietic: Not specified Hepatic: Not specified Renal: Not specified Other: Not pregnant Fertile patients must use effective contraception

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: No prior therapy other than on POG-9400