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Trial reportBlood2011

Escalating intravenous methotrexate improves event-free survival in children with standard-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a report from the Children's Oncology Group.

Yousif Matloub, Bruce C Bostrom, Stephen P Hunger, Linda C Stork, Anne Angiolillo, Harland Sather, Mei La, Julie M Gastier-Foster, Nyla A Heerema, Scott Sailer and 9 more

Registry-linked trialAbstract readMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Blood, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00005945 (Escalating Dose Intravenous Methotrexate Without Leucovorin Rescue Versus Oral Methotrexate and Single Versus Double Delayed Intensification for Children With Standard Risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia), which is not on this map. Cited by 67 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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67citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT00005945 phase3completednot on this map

Escalating Dose Intravenous Methotrexate Without Leucovorin Rescue Versus Oral Methotrexate and Single Versus Double Delayed Intensification for Children With Standard Risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

TypeinterventionalSponsorChildren's Oncology GroupRan2000 to 2008Enrolled3,054ConditionsLeukemiaArmscyclophosphamide, cytarabine, daunorubicin hydrochloride, dexamethasone, doxorubicin hydrochloride
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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7 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors.

Yousif MatloubDivision of Hematology-Oncology, Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. yousif.matloub@uhhospitals.org
Bruce C Bostrom
Stephen P Hunger
Linda C Stork
Anne Angiolillo
Harland Sather
Mei La
Julie M Gastier-Foster
Nyla A Heerema
Scott Sailer
Patrick J Buckley
Blythe Thomson
Catherine Cole
James B Nachman
Gregory Reaman
Naomi Winick
William L Carroll
Meenakshi Devidas
Paul S Gaynon

Funding

COG FOREIGN ACCRUALU10CA098543 · NCI · NATIONAL CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION · PI ADAMSON, PETER C. · 2003 to 2013
$335.5M
Children's Oncology Group Statistics &Data Center GrantU10CA098413 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER · PI DEVIDAS, MEENAKSHI · 2003 to 2013
$67.5M
CHILDRENS CANCER STUDY GROUP CHAIRMAN'S GRANTU10CA013539 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI REAMAN, GREGORY H · 1985 to 2002
$43.1M
NCI NIH HHS CA-13539NCI NIH HHS CA-98413NCI NIH HHS CA-98543NCI NIH HHS U10 CA098413NCI NIH HHS U10 CA098543
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Children's Cancer Group-1991 selected 2 components from the Children's Cancer Group studies shown to be effective in high-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia and examined them in children with National Cancer Institute standard-risk acute B-precursor lymphoblastic leukemia. These were (1) vincristine and escalating IV methotrexate (MTX) without leucovorin rescue during the interim maintenance (IM) phases and (2) addition of a second delayed intensification (DI) phase. Eligible patients (n = 2078) were randomly assigned to regimens containing either oral (PO) MTX, PO mercaptopurine, dexamethasone, and vincristine or IV MTX during IM phases, and regimens with either single DI or double DI. Five-year event-free survival (EFS) and overall survival for patients on the PO MTX arms were 88.7% ± 1.4% and 96% ± 0.9% versus 92.6% ± 1.2% and 96.5% ± 0.8% for those on the IV MTX arms (P = .009, P = .66). Five-year EFS and overall survival for patients who received single DI were 90.9% ± 1.3% and 97.1% ± 0.8% versus 90.5% ± 1.3% and 95.4% ± 3.8% for those who received double DI (P = .71, P = .12). No advantage was found for a second DI; however, replacement of PO MTX, PO mercaptopurine, vincristine, and dexamethasone during IM with vincristine and escalating IV MTX improved EFS.

Indexed as

AlgorithmsAntineoplastic AgentsChildChild, PreschoolDisease-Free SurvivalDose-Response Relationship, DrugFemaleHumansInfantInjections, IntravenousMaleMedical OncologyMethotrexateNeoplasm StagingPrecursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-LymphomaRiskAntineoplastic AgentsMethotrexate

Identifiers

PMID21562038
PMCPMC3138679

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