Liposome-encapsulated Daunorubicin-Cytarabine, Fludarabine Phosphate, Cytarabine, and Filgrastim in Treating Younger Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02642965 |
Recruitment Status :
Active, not recruiting
First Posted : December 30, 2015
Results First Posted : December 30, 2019
Last Update Posted : April 18, 2023
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Recurrent Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia Secondary Acute Myeloid Leukemia Therapy-Related Acute Myeloid Leukemia | Drug: Cytarabine Biological: Filgrastim Drug: Fludarabine Phosphate Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis Drug: Liposome-encapsulated Daunorubicin-Cytarabine Other: Pharmacological Study | Phase 1 Phase 2 |
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To determine a recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D) and the toxicities associated with liposome-encapsulated daunorubicin-cytarabine (CPX-351) in pediatric and young adult patients with relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
II. To estimate the response rate (complete remission [CR] plus complete remission with partial platelet recovery [CRp]) after CPX-351 (cycle 1) followed by fludarabine phosphate, cytarabine, and filgrastim (FLAG) (cycle 2) in children with AML in first relapse.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To estimate the response rate (CR + CRp + complete remission with incomplete blood count recovery [CRi]) after one cycle of CPX-351.
II. To describe the pharmacokinetics of plasma cytarabine and daunorubicin after CPX-351 administration to pediatric and young adult patients with relapsed/refractory AML.
TERTIARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To describe the response in biomarkers of cardiac injury to a single cycle of CPX-351.
II. To explore the effect of CPX-351 on novel biochemical and imaging markers of cardiotoxicity, including plasma micro ribonucleic acid (RNAs) (miRNA) and myocardial deformation.
III. To explore the role of rare coding variants as risk factors for anthracycline-induced cardiomyopathy.
OUTLINE:
COURSE 1: Patients receive cytarabine intrathecally (IT) on day 0 and at day 28-30 or up to 7 days prior to day 1 of course 2, and liposome-encapsulated daunorubicin-cytarabine intravenously (IV) over 90 minutes on days 1, 3, and 5. Patients without evidence of central nervous system (CNS) disease (CNS1) receive no further CNS-directed therapy in course 1. Patients with < 5 white blood cells per microliter of blood with blast cells (CNS2) disease may receive additional 4-6 doses of cytarabine IT twice weekly starting 48 hours after the third dose of liposome-encapsulated daunorubicin-cytarabine until CNS is clear at the discretion of the investigator. Patients meeting criteria for CR, CRp, and CRi may proceed to course 2.
COURSE 2: Patients receive filgrastim on days 1-5 and then on day 15 until blood count recovery, and fludarabine phosphate IV over 30 minutes and high-dose cytarabine IV over 1-3 hours once daily (QD) on days 1-5.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up periodically for 12 months, and then yearly for 5 years.
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 38 participants |
Allocation: | N/A |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | A Phase 1/2 Study of CPX-351 (NSC# 775341) Alone Followed by Fludarabine, Cytarabine, and G-CSF (FLAG) for Children With Relapsed Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) |
Actual Study Start Date : | April 25, 2016 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | December 31, 2018 |
Estimated Study Completion Date : | June 30, 2023 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Treatment (CPX-351 and FLAG)
COURSE 1: Patients receive cytarabine IT on day 0 and at day 28-30 or up to 7 days prior to day 1 of course 2, and liposome-encapsulated daunorubicin-cytarabine IV over 90 minutes on days 1, 3, and 5. Patients with CNS1 receive no further CNS-directed therapy in course 1. Patients with CNS2 disease may receive additional 4-6 doses of cytarabine IT twice weekly starting 48 hours after the third dose of liposome-encapsulated daunorubicin-cytarabine until CNS is clear at the discretion of the investigator. Patients meeting criteria for CR, CRp, and CRi may proceed to course 2. COURSE 2: Patients receive filgrastim on days 1-5 and then on day 15 until blood count recovery, and fludarabine phosphate IV over 30 minutes and high-dose cytarabine IV over 1-3 hours QD on days 1-5. |
Drug: Cytarabine
Given IT or IV
Other Names:
Biological: Filgrastim Given SC or IV
Other Names:
Drug: Fludarabine Phosphate Given IV
Other Names:
Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis Correlative studies Drug: Liposome-encapsulated Daunorubicin-Cytarabine Given IV
Other Names:
Other: Pharmacological Study Correlative studies |
- Number of Participants With a Dose-limiting Toxicity [ Time Frame: 28 days ]Number of patients in the dose-finding phase with a dose-limiting toxicity, graded using the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 5.0.
- Percentage of Responders (Complete Response or Complete Remission With Partial Platelet Recovery) After up to 2 Cycles [ Time Frame: Up to 8 weeks ]Best response (complete response or complete remission with partial platelet recovery) after up to 2 cycles of therapy, where response is assessed using the revised Acute Myeloid Leukemia International Working Group Criteria. Percentage of responders is calculated using the methods of Jung and Kim. 90% confidence interval is determined using the methods of Koyama and Chen.
- Percentage of Responders (Complete Response or Complete Remission With Partial or Incomplete Platelet Recovery) After First Cycle of Therapy [ Time Frame: Up to 4 weeks ]Response (complete response or complete remission with partial or incomplete platelet recovery) after first cycle of therapy, where response is assessed using the revised Acute Myeloid Leukemia International Working Group Criteria. Percentage of responders is calculated by the total of number of patients with complete response or complete remission with partial or incomplete platelet recovery divided by the number of patients evaluable for response after the first cycle. 95% confidence interval is determined using a binomial exact method.
- Liposome-encapsulated Daunorubicin Clearance [ Time Frame: Prior to infusion on day 5 and, 45 and 90 minutes post day 5 infusion of cycle 1 ]Geometric mean liposome-encapsulated daunorubicin clearance following IV infusion will be determined for patients in the dose-finding phase.
- Liposome-encapsulated Daunorubicin Volume of Distribution [ Time Frame: Prior to infusion on day 5 and, 45 and 90 minutes post day 5 infusion of cycle 1 ]Geometric mean liposome-encapsulated daunorubicin volume of distribution following IV infusion will be determined for patients in the dose-finding phase.
- Liposome-encapsulated Daunorubicin Time of Maximum Concentration [ Time Frame: Prior to infusion on day 5 and, 45 and 90 minutes post day 5 infusion of cycle 1 ]Median liposome-encapsulated daunorubicin time of maximum observed plasma concentration will be determined for patients in the dose-finding phase.
- Liposome-encapsulated Daunorubicin Area Under the Curve [ Time Frame: Prior to infusion on day 5 and, 45 and 90 minutes post day 5 infusion of cycle 1 ]Geometric mean liposome-encapsulated daunorubicin area under the plasma concentration-time curve from time zero to the time of the last quantifiable concentration will be determined for patients in the dose-finding phase.
- Liposome-encapsulated Cytarabine Clearance [ Time Frame: Prior to infusion on day 5 and, 45 and 90 minutes post day 5 infusion of cycle 1 ]Geometric mean liposome-encapsulated cytarabine clearance following IV infusion will be determined for patients in the dose-finding phase.
- Liposome-encapsulated Cytarabine Volume of Distribution [ Time Frame: Prior to infusion on day 5 and, 45 and 90 minutes post day 5 infusion of cycle 1 ]Geometric mean liposome-encapsulated cytarabine volume of distribution following IV infusion will be determined for patients in the dose-finding phase.
- Liposome-encapsulated Cytarabine Time of Maximum Concentration [ Time Frame: Prior to infusion on day 5 and, 45 and 90 minutes post day 5 infusion of cycle 1 ]Median liposome-encapsulated cytarabine time of maximum observed plasma concentration will be determined for patients in the dose-finding phase.
- Liposome-encapsulated Cytarabine Area Under the Curve [ Time Frame: Prior to infusion on day 5 and, 45 and 90 minutes post day 5 infusion of cycle 1 ]Geometric mean liposome-encapsulated cytarabine area under the plasma concentration-time curve from time zero to the time of the last quantifiable concentration will be determined for patients in the dose-finding phase.
- Length of Hospitalization Time [ Time Frame: Up to 1 year ]Descriptive statistics will be used to summarize length of hospitalization time.
- Time to Bone Marrow Count Recovery [ Time Frame: Up to 1 year ]Descriptive statistics will be used to summarize bone marrow count recovery.
- Time to Peripheral Blood Cell Count Recovery [ Time Frame: Up to 1 year ]Descriptive statistics will be used to summarize peripheral blood cell count recovery.
- Proportion of Patients Experiencing Toxicities [ Time Frame: Up to 8 weeks post-treatment ]Proportion of patients experiencing >= grade 3 non-hematologic toxicities, cardiac toxicities, and infections by National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 5.0.
- Change in Troponin Levels [ Time Frame: Baseline up to day 30 ]Spearman correlation coefficients will be used to correlate the post-treatment values of troponin with previous cumulative anthracycline dose prior to liposome-encapsulated daunorubicin-cytarabine, change in ejection fraction between pre- and post-liposome-encapsulated daunorubicin-cytarabine baseline assessed by echocardiogram before and after course 1, and change in global longitudinal strain.
- Change in N-terminal Pro B-type Natriuretic Peptide (NT-BNP) Levels [ Time Frame: Baseline up to day 30 ]Spearman correlation coefficients will be used to correlate the post-treatment values of NT-BNP with previous cumulative anthracycline dose prior to liposome-encapsulated daunorubicin-cytarabine, change in ejection fraction between pre- and post-liposome-encapsulated daunorubicin-cytarabine baseline assessed by echocardiogram before and after course 1, and change in in global longitudinal strain.
- Change in High Sensitive C-reactive Protein (HS-CRP) Levels [ Time Frame: Baseline up to day 30 ]Spearman correlation coefficients will be used to correlate the post-treatment values of HS-CRP with previous cumulative anthracycline dose prior to liposome-encapsulated daunorubicin-cytarabine, change in ejection fraction between pre- and post-liposome-encapsulated daunorubicin-cytarabine baseline assessed by echocardiogram before and after course 1, and change in in global longitudinal strain.
- Change in in Global Longitudinal Strain [ Time Frame: Baseline up to 28 days ]A paired t-test will be used to compare the mean global longitudinal strain between the pre-treatment (at relapse) baseline and post-course 1 echocardiogram.
- Change in Micro Ribonucleic Acid (miRNA) Using TaqMan miRNA Assays [ Time Frame: Baseline up to day 30 ]Plasma miR-29b and -499 fold change from pre-treatment baseline will be determined at each post-treatment time point using the delta-delta-Ct method. The relationship between 6-hour miR-29b and -499 expression and change in left ventricular global longitudinal strain between the pre-cycle and end of cycle 1 echocardiograms will be determined by calculating a Spearman correlation coefficient.

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 1 Year to 21 Years (Child, Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients must have had histologic verification of AML at original diagnosis
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Patient must have one of the following:
- Recurrent disease with >= 5% blasts in the bone marrow (M2/M3 bone marrow), with or without extramedullary disease.
- Recurrent disease with an absolute blast count greater than 1,000 per microliter in the peripheral blood with or without extramedullary disease
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To be eligible for the dose-finding phase: (the dose-finding phase completed in 12/2016)
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Relapsed patients
- Patients must be in first relapse, and
- Patients must not have received prior re-induction therapy
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Refractory patients
- Patients must not have received more than one attempt at remission induction, which may consist of up to two different therapy courses; Children Oncology Group (COG) AAML1031 de novo therapy including induction I and induction II is an example
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Treatment-related AML (t-AML)
- Patients must be previously untreated for secondary AML
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To be eligible for the phase 2 efficacy phase:
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Relapse patients:
- Patients must be in first marrow relapse, and
- Patients must not have received prior re-induction therapy; donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) is considered a re-induction attempt
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- Patients must have the status of CNS1 or CNS2 only, and no clinical signs or neurologic symptoms suggestive of CNS leukemia, such as cranial palsy
- Patients must have a performance status corresponding to an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) scores of 0, 1 or 2; use Karnofsky for patients > 16 years of age and Lansky for patients =< 16 years of age; Note: patients who are unable to walk because of paralysis, but who are up in a wheelchair, will be considered ambulatory for the purpose of assessing the performance score
- Patients must have recovered from the acute toxic effects of all prior chemotherapy, immunotherapy, stem cell transplant or radiotherapy prior to entering this study; all prior treatment-related toxicities must have resolved to =< grade 2 prior to enrollment
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Myelosuppressive chemotherapy: must not have received myelosuppressive chemotherapy within 3 weeks of entry onto this study (excluding hydroxyurea)
- Cytoreduction with hydroxyurea can be initiated and continued for up to 24 hours prior to the start of CPX-351
- Biologic (anti-neoplastic agent): at least 7 days since the completion of therapy with a biologic agent such as steroids, retinoids; Note: for agents that have known adverse events occurring beyond 7 days after administration (i.e. monoclonal antibodies), this period must be extended beyond the time during which acute adverse events are known to occur
- Radiation therapy (RT): >= 2 weeks for local palliative RT (small port); >= 6 months must have elapsed if prior craniospinal RT or if >= 50% radiation of pelvis; >= 6 weeks must have elapsed if other substantial bone marrow (BM) radiation; Note: patients must have received =< than 13.6 Gray (Gy) prior radiation to the mediastinum
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Stem cell transplant (SCT): no evidence of active graft vs. host disease for at least 4 weeks; for allogeneic SCT patients, >= 3 months must have elapsed since transplant
- Must have received no more than 1 prior autologous or allogeneic stem cell transplant.
- Patients must be off all systemic immunosuppressive therapy for at least 2 weeks, excluding hydrocortisone for physiologic cortisol replacement
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Intrathecal cytotoxic therapy:
- No waiting period is required for patients having received intrathecal cytarabine, methotrexate, and/or hydrocortisone
- At least 14 days must have elapsed since receiving liposomal cytarabine (DepoCyte) by intrathecal injection
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Growth factors:
- Patients must not have received growth factors for 7 days prior to CPX-351
- Patients must not have received pegfilgrastim for 14 days prior to CPX-351
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Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate (GFR) >= 70 mL/min/1.73 m^2 or a serum creatinine based on age/gender as follows:
- Age 1 to < 2 years: maximum serum creatinine 0.6 mg/dL (males and females)
- Age 2 to < 6 years: maximum serum creatinine 0.8 mg/dL (males and females)
- Age 6 to < 10 years: maximum serum creatinine 1.0 mg/dL (males and females)
- Age 10 to < 13 years: maximum serum creatinine 1.2 mg/dL (males and females)
- Age 13 to < 16 years: maximum serum creatinine 1.5 mg/dL (males) and 1.4 mg/dL (females)
- Age >= 16 years: maximum serum creatinine 1.7 mg/dL (males) and 1.4 mg/dL (females)
- Direct bilirubin < 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) for age and institution
- Serum glutamate pyruvate (SGPT) (alanine aminotransferase [ALT]) =< 3.0 x upper limit of normal (ULN) for age and institution (unless it is related to leukemic involvement)
- Shortening fraction of >= 27% by echocardiogram, or
- Ejection fraction of >= 50% by radionuclide angiogram or echocardiogram
- Corrected QT (using Bazett's formula [QTcB]) interval < 500 msecs
- Patients with seizure disorder may be enrolled if on anticonvulsants and if seizures are well controlled
- Central nervous system (CNS) toxicity =< grade 2
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Patients with a known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are eligible, if they meet all of the following conditions:
- No history of HIV complications with the exception of cluster of differentiation (CD)4 count < 200 cells/mm^3
- No antiretroviral therapy with overlapping toxicity such as myelosuppression
- HIV viral loads below the limit of detection
- No history of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART)-resistant HIV
- All patients and/or their parents or legal guardians must sign a written informed consent
- All institutional, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and National Cancer Institute (NCI) requirements for human studies must be met
Exclusion Criteria:
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Patients who have received > 450 mg/m^2 daunorubicin equivalents; patients who relapse after receiving AAML0531/AAML1031 therapy will be eligible for this study, provided they have not received any additional anthracyclines; NOTE: for the purposes of determining eligibility for this protocol, the following cardiotoxicity multipliers will be used to determine daunorubicin equivalents:
- Doxorubicin (doxorubicin hydrochloride): 1
- Mitoxantrone: 3
- Idarubicin: 3
- Epirubicin: 0.5
- Patients who are currently receiving another investigational drug
- Patients receiving medications for treatment of left ventricular systolic dysfunction
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Patients with any of the following diagnoses:
- Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL)
- Down syndrome
- Fanconi anemia, Kostmann syndrome, Shwachman syndrome or any other known bone marrow failure syndrome
- Wilson's disease and any other disorder of copper metabolism
- Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML)
- Patients with documented active, uncontrolled infection at the time of study entry
- Patients with known active hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections
- Patients with prior allergy to daunorubicin and/or cytarabine
- Female patients who are pregnant are ineligible
- Lactating females are not eligible
- Female patients of childbearing potential are not eligible unless a negative pregnancy test result has been obtained
- Sexually active patients of reproductive potential are not eligible unless they have agreed to use an effective contraceptive method for the duration of their study participation and for 6 months after the last dose of chemotherapy

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02642965

Principal Investigator: | Todd M Cooper | Children's Oncology Group |
Documents provided by Children's Oncology Group:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Children's Oncology Group |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT02642965 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
AAML1421 NCI-2015-01917 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) ) AAML1421 PAAML1421_R02PAPP01 s16-00955 AAML1421 ( Other Identifier: Children's Oncology Group ) AAML1421 ( Other Identifier: CTEP ) U10CA180886 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract ) |
First Posted: | December 30, 2015 Key Record Dates |
Results First Posted: | December 30, 2019 |
Last Update Posted: | April 18, 2023 |
Last Verified: | April 2023 |
Leukemia Leukemia, Myeloid Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute Neoplasms by Histologic Type Neoplasms Cytarabine Fludarabine Fludarabine phosphate Daunorubicin Lenograstim Antineoplastic Agents Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic |
Antimetabolites Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Immunosuppressive Agents Immunologic Factors Physiological Effects of Drugs Antiviral Agents Anti-Infective Agents Adjuvants, Immunologic Antibiotics, Antineoplastic Topoisomerase II Inhibitors Topoisomerase Inhibitors Enzyme Inhibitors |