Paclitaxel in Treating Patients With Refractory or Recurrent Acute Leukemia or Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2000-07-01
• 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.

PURPOSE: Phase I/II trial to study the effectiveness of paclitaxel in treating patients with refractory or recurrent acute leukemia or chronic myelogenous leukemia.

• Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research
• Treatments: Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel; Paclitaxel

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Histologically confirmed acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) of B-cell or T-cell type, or blast crisis of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) Must fulfill one of the following criteria: - Newly diagnosed, previously untreated AML or ALL in elderly patients (65 75) - First or subsequent relapse of AML or ALL after standard chemotherapy, autologous or allogeneic bone marrow transplantation, or high-dose treatment with peripheral blood stem cell support - AML or ALL that is refractory to standard chemotherapy (no complete remission achieved after 2 courses of conventional induction chemotherapy) - CML in blast crisis of any subtype (i.e., myelogenous or lymphoblastic) with or without previously known chronic phase No leukemic involvement of the central nervous system

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 18 to 75 Performance status: WHO 0-3 Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: Not specified Hepatic: Bilirubin less than 1.25 times upper limit of normal (ULN) Renal: Creatinine less than 1.25 times ULN Cardiovascular: No history of atrial or ventricular arrhythmias No history of congestive heart failure, even if medically controlled No history of documented myocardial infarction Neurologic: No motor or sensory neuropathy grade 2 or more No dementia or significantly altered mental status Other: HIV negative No active infection or other serious underlying medical condition No prior allergic reaction to a drug containing Cremophor EL No complete bowel obstruction Not pregnant or nursing Adequate contraception required of all fertile patients

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: No required concurrent cytoreductive treatment in addition to paclitaxel No concurrent growth factors or cytokine No concurrent immunotherapeutic drugs Chemotherapy: No prior paclitaxel or related compounds for a malignancy other that leukemia No required concurrent cytoreductive treatment in addition to paclitaxel Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: Not specified Surgery: Not specified