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Trial reportJournal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology2012

Clofarabine plus cytarabine compared with cytarabine alone in older patients with relapsed or refractory acute myelogenous leukemia: results from the CLASSIC I Trial.

Stefan Faderl, Meir Wetzler, David Rizzieri, Gary Schiller, Madan Jagasia, Robert Stuart, Siddhartha Ganguly, David Avigan, Michael Craig, Robert Collins and 13 more

Registry-linked trialAbstract readClinical Trial, Phase IIIMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00317642 (A Phase III Randomized, Double-blind, Controlled Study Comparing Clofarabine and Cytarabine Versus Cytarabine Alone in Adult Patients 55 Years and Older With Acute Myelogenous Leukemia), which is not on this map. Cited by 76 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that 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.

NCT00317642 phase3completednot on this map

A Phase III Randomized, Double-blind, Controlled Study Comparing Clofarabine and Cytarabine Versus Cytarabine Alone in Adult Patients 55 Years and Older With Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) Who Have Relapsed or Are Refractory After Receiving up to Two Prior Induction Regimens

TypeinterventionalSponsorGenzyme, a Sanofi CompanyRan2006 to 2012Enrolled326ConditionsAcute Myelogenous LeukemiaArmsclofarabine (IV formulation), placebo, cytarabine
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

76 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

23 authors.

Stefan FaderlThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. sfaderl@mdanderson.org
Meir Wetzler
David Rizzieri
Gary Schiller
Madan Jagasia
Robert Stuart
Siddhartha Ganguly
David Avigan
Michael Craig
Robert Collins
Michael Maris
Tibor Kovacsovics
Stuart Goldberg
Karen Seiter
Parameswaran Hari
Jochen Greiner
Norbert Vey
Christian Recher
Farhad Ravandi
Eunice S Wang
Michael Vasconcelles
Dirk Huebner
Hagop M Kantarjian

Funding

Tumor Evolution and Metastasis ProgramP30CA016672 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Scott Kopetz · 1985 to 2026
$290.8M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA016672
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo compare the receipt of clofarabine plus cytarabine (Clo+Ara-C arm) with cytarabine (Ara-C arm) in patients ≥ 55 years old with refractory or relapsed acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). PATIENTS AND

methodsPatients were randomly assigned to receive either clofarabine (Clo) 40 mg/m(2) or a placebo followed by Ara-C 1 g/m(2) for five consecutive days. The primary end point was overall survival (OS). Secondary end points included event-free survival (EFS), 4-month EFS, overall remission rate (ORR; complete remission [CR] plus CR with incomplete peripheral blood count recovery), disease-free survival (DFS), duration of remission (DOR), and safety.

resultsAmong 320 patients with confirmed AML (median age, 67 years), the median OS was 6.6 months in the Clo+Ara-C arm and 6.3 months in the Ara-C arm (hazard ratio [HR], 1.00; 95% CI, 0.78 to 1.28; P = 1.00). The ORR was 46.9% in the Clo+Ara-C arm (35.2% CR) versus 22.9% in the Ara-C arm (17.8% CR; P < .01). EFS (HR: 0.63; 95% CI, 0.49 to 0.80; P < .01) and 4-month EFS (37.7% v 16.6%; P < .01) favored the Clo+Ara-C arm compared with Ara-C arm, respectively. DFS and DOR were similar in both arms. Overall 30-day mortality was 16% and 5% for CLO+Ara-C and Ara-C arms, respectively. In the Clo+Ara-C and Ara-C arms, the most common grade 3 to 4 toxicities were febrile neutropenia (47% v 35%, respectively), hypokalemia (18% v 11%, respectively), thrombocytopenia (16% v 17%, respectively), pneumonia (14% v 10%, respectively), anemia (13% v 0%, respectively), neutropenia (11% v 9%, respectively), increased AST (11% v 2%, respectively), and increased ALT (10% v 3%, respectively).

conclusionAlthough the primary end point of OS did not differ between arms, Clo+Ara-C significantly improved response rates and EFS. Study follow-up continues, and the role of clofarabine in the treatment of adult patients with AML continues to be investigated.

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Identifiers

PMID22585697
PMCPMC4874149

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