European Development of Clofarabine as Treatment for Older Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia Considered Unsuitable for Intensive Chemotherapy

Burnett, Alan Kenneth, Russell, N. H., Kell, J., Dennis, M., Milligan, D., Paolini, S., Yin, J., Culligan, D., Johnston, P., Murphy, J., McMullin, M. F., Hunter, A., Das-Gupta, E., Clark, R., Carr, R. and Hills, R. K. 2010. European Development of Clofarabine as Treatment for Older Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia Considered Unsuitable for Intensive Chemotherapy. Journal of Clinical Oncology 28 (14) , pp. 2389-2395. 10.1200/JCO.2009.26.4242

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Abstract

Purpose Treatment options for older patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who are not considered suitable for intensive chemotherapy are limited. We assessed the second-generation purine nucleoside analog, clofarabine, in two similar phase II studies in this group of patients. Patients and Methods Two consecutive studies, UWCM-001 and BIOV-121, recruited untreated older patients with AML to receive up to four or six 5-day courses of clofarabine. Patients in UWCM-001 were either older than 70 years or 60 to 69 years of age with poor performance status (WHO > 2) or with cardiac comorbidity. Patients in BIOV-121 were ≥ 65 years of age and deemed unsuitable for intensive chemotherapy. Results A total of 106 patients were treated in the two monotherapy studies. Median age was 71 years (range, 60 to 84 years), 30% had adverse-risk cytogenetics, and 36% had a WHO performance score ≥ 2. Forty-eight percent had a complete response (32% complete remission, 16% complete remission with incomplete peripheral blood count recovery), and 18% died within 30 days. Interestingly, response and overall survival were not inferior in the adverse cytogenetic risk group. The safety profile of clofarabine in these elderly patients with AML who were unsuitable for intensive chemotherapy was manageable and typical of a cytotoxic agent in patients with acute leukemia. Patients had similar prognostic characteristics to matched patients treated with low-dose cytarabine in the United Kingdom AML14 trial, but had significantly superior response and overall survival. Conclusion Clofarabine is active and generally well tolerated in this patient group. It is worthy of further evaluation in comparative trials and might be of particular use in patients with adverse cytogenetics.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer) R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology
Publisher:	American Society of Clinical Oncology
ISSN:	0732-183X
Last Modified:	25 Jun 2017 03:28
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/29408

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