Study of Decitabine in Combination With Sequential Rapamycin or Ribavirin in High Risk AML Patients

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Trial end date: 2021-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To evaluate the response to chemotherapy with the drug decitabine combined with rapamycin in the treatment of relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia in patients of all ages, and in the treatment of newly diagnosed leukemia in those who are older than 65 when diagnosed.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Rochester
• Treatments: Azacitidine; Decitabine; Everolimus; Ribavirin; Sirolimus

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

4.1.1 Age >/= 18 4.1.2 Diagnosis of AML according to World Health Organization (WHO) criteria except acute promyelocytic leukemia AND 4.1.3 Refractory AML defined as failure to achieve Complete Remission (CR) after 2 cycles of induction chemotherapy or persistence of > 40% bone marrow blasts after one cycle of chemotherapy induction OR 4.1.4 Relapsed AML defined as any evidence of disease recurrence after achieving a documented first or greater Complete Remission (CR) OR 4.1.5 Relapsed AML after stem cell transplantation. 90 days (since stem cell infusion) must have elapsed between transplant and emergence of recurrent AML OR 4.1.6 Newly diagnosed AML in a patient >65 years old not considered fit for standard 7+ 3 chemotherapy or who declines such therapy after discussion of therapeutic options available.

4.1.7 Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status <3

Exclusion Criteria:

4.2.1 Abnormal renal function as evidenced by a calculated creatinine clearance ≤ 30 ml/min (Cockcroft-Gault formula (Appendix 2) 4.2.2 Abnormal liver function: Bilirubin >2.0 mg/dl, transaminase(s) more than 2.5x the upper limits of normal 4.2.3 Active systemic infection not responding to antibiotics 4.2.4 Known diagnosis of human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV) 4.2.5 Patients who are post-allogeneic transplantation should not have active Graft vs. Host Disease (GVHD) greater than grade 1 of skin at time of enrollment. They may have had donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) but not within 4 weeks of beginning the study.

4.2.6 Pregnant or breastfeeding female subjects 4.2.7 Known or suspected Central Nervous System (CNS) leukemia involvement; past involvement is not an exclusion.

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