Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Children With Relapsed or Refractory Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia

• Status: Terminated
• Trial end date: 1969-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

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

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

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - EORTC
• Treatments: Cytarabine; Fludarabine; Fludarabine phosphate; Idarubicin

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Cytologically diagnosed relapsed or refractory acute lymphocytic leukemia previously treated with front line therapy FAB L1 or L2 Bone marrow relapse either isolated or associated with CNS or testicular relapse Bone marrow blast cells greater than 10% No isolated CNS relapse

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: Under 18 Performance status: WHO 0-2 Play-performance scale at least 60% Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: Not specified Hepatic: Bilirubin less than 2.5 times normal Renal: Creatinine less than 2.5 times normal Cardiovascular: No symptoms of cardiac failure No decline of ejection fraction by more than 20% of the lower limit of normal Shortening fraction at least 25% Other: No psychological, familial, sociological or geographical condition that would hamper compliance No uncontrolled infection

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: At least 6 months since prior autologous bone marrow transplantation No prior allogeneic bone marrow transplantation No concurrent treatment with other experimental drug