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Trial reportPediatric blood & cancer2015

Phase II/III trial of a pre-transplant farnesyl transferase inhibitor in juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia: a report from the Children's Oncology Group.

Elliot Stieglitz, Ashley F Ward, Robert B Gerbing, Todd A Alonzo, Robert J Arceci, Y Lucy Liu, Peter D Emanuel, Brigitte C Widemann, Jennifer W Cheng, Nalini Jayaprakash and 5 more

Open access · greenAbstract readClinical Trial, Phase IIClinical Trial, Phase IIIMulticenter Study
In one paragraph

Trial report in Pediatric blood & cancer, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  14. Current Treatment of Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021
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  17. The role of cholesterol metabolism in leukemia.Blood science (Baltimore, Md.) · 2019
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  18. [Advances in the treatment of juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 11 institutions in 2 countries.

Elliot StieglitzDepartment of Pediatrics, Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine and Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco, California.
Ashley F Ward
Robert B Gerbing
Todd A Alonzo
Robert J Arceci
Y Lucy Liu
Peter D Emanuel
Brigitte C Widemann
Jennifer W Cheng
Nalini Jayaprakash
Frank M Balis
Robert P Castleberry
Nancy J Bunin
Mignon L Loh
Todd M Cooper
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · USChildren's Oncology Group · USNational Cancer Institute · USUniversity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences · USAflac (United States) · USPennsylvania Hospital · USUCSF Benioff Children's Hospital · USUCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center · USUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · USUniversity of Arizona · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

NCTN BIQSFP ANBL1531 (NRT)U10CA180886 · NCI · PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE · PI Douglas S. Hawkins · 2014 to 2026
$390.6M
COG FOREIGN ACCRUALU10CA098543 · NCI · NATIONAL CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION · PI ADAMSON, PETER C. · 2003 to 2013
$335.5M
Therapies for patients with rare tumors and genetic tumor predispositionZIASC010354 · NCI · DIVISION OF CLINICAL SCIENCES - NCI · PI WIDEMANN, BRIGITTE · 2009 to 2025
$19.2M
Research Training in Childhood CancerT32CA128583 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Eric Alejandro Sweet-Cordero · 2007 to 2026
$6.0M
North American Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia ProjectR01CA095621 · NCI · UNIV OF ARKANSAS FOR MED SCIS · PI EMANUEL, PETER D · 2003 to 2007
$1.6M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA095621NCI NIH HHS T32 CA128583NCI NIH HHS U10 CA098543NCI NIH HHS U10 CA180886
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundJuvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) is not durably responsive to chemotherapy, and approximately 50% of patients relapse after hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT). Here we report the activity and acute toxicity of the farnesyl transferase inhibitor tipifarnib, the response rate to 13-cis retinoic acid (CRA) in combination with cytoreductive chemotherapy, and survival following HSCT in children with JMML. PROCEDURE: Eighty-five patients with newly diagnosed JMML were enrolled on AAML0122 between 2001 and 2006. Forty-seven consented to receive tipifarnib in a phase II window before proceeding to a phase III trial of CRA in combination with fludarabine and cytarabine followed by HSCT and maintenance CRA. Thirty-eight patients enrolled only in the phase III trial.

resultsOverall response rate was 51% after tipifarnib and 68% after fludarabine/cytarabine/CRA. Tipifarnib did not increase pre-transplant toxicities. Forty-six percent of the 44 patients who received protocol compliant HSCT relapsed. Five-year overall survival was 55 ± 11% and event-free survival was 41 ± 11%, with no significant difference between patients who did or did not receive tipifarnib.

conclusionsAdministration of tipifarnib in the window setting followed by HSCT in patients with newly diagnosed JMML was safe and yielded a 51% initial response rate as a single agent, but failed to reduce relapse rates or improve long-term overall survival.

Indexed as

AdultAgedAged, 80 and overAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsChildChild, PreschoolCytarabineDisease-Free SurvivalEnzyme InhibitorsFarnesyl-Diphosphate FarnesyltransferaseFemaleHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationHumansInfantIsotretinoinLeukemia, Myelomonocytic, JuvenileCytarabineEnzyme InhibitorsFarnesyl-Diphosphate FarnesyltransferasefludarabineIsotretinoinQuinolonestipifarnibVidarabine13-cis retinoic acidfarnesyl transferase inhibitorhematopoietic stem cell transplantjuvenile myelomonocytic leukemiatipifarnib

Identifiers

PMID25704135
PMCPMC4339233
OpenAlexW2153571501

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