Leridistim Compared With Filgrastim in Treating Older Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2000-08-01
• 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. Colony-stimulating factors such as leridistim and filgrastim increase the number of immune cells found in bone marrow or peripheral blood and may help a person's immune system recover from the side effects of chemotherapy.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to compare the effectiveness of leridistim with that of filgrastim to reduce side effects in older patients who are receiving cytarabine and daunorubicin for acute myeloid leukemia.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Treatments: Cytarabine; Daunorubicin; Lenograstim

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Induction phase: Cytologically proven de novo acute myeloid leukemia (not M3) Eligible to receive cytarabine and daunorubicin Circulating blast count no greater than 75,000/mL (hydroxyurea or leukapheresis allowed to decrease blast count) No blast transformation of chronic myelogenous leukemia No myelodysplastic syndrome or antecedent hematologic disorder longer than 6 months Post Induction Phase: Severe bone marrow aplasia (less than 5% blasts and less than 10% cellularity) No persistent leukemia after 2 induction courses

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 55 and over Performance status: Not specified Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: See Disease Characteristics Hepatic: Bilirubin no greater than 2.0 mg/dL Renal: Creatinine no greater than 2.0 mg/dL Cardiovascular: No significant cardiac disease No cardiac arrhythmia No uncontrolled hypertension No recent myocardial infarction or ischemia Other: No uncontrolled metabolic condition that would preclude study No psychiatric condition that would preclude study HIV negative Hepatitis B surface antigen negative No known hypersensitivity to corticosteroids, E. coli protein, interleukin-3, SC-55494, SC-68420, leridistim, milodistim, or filgrastim (G-CSF)

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: No prior interleukin-3, milodistim, SC-55494, SC-68420, or leridistim No prior peripheral blood stem cell or bone marrow transplantation No concurrent epoetin alfa or interleukin-11 Chemotherapy: See Disease Characteristics No prior chemotherapy Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: No prior radiotherapy Surgery: At least 2 weeks since prior surgery (except catheter placement or biopsy) Other: At least 3 weeks since prior investigational drug No other concurrent investigational drug