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Trial reportBlood advances2023

Aspacytarabine for the treatment of patients with AML unfit for intensive chemotherapy: a phase 2 study.

Jessica K Altman, Tsila Zuckerman, Jamie Koprivnikar, James McCloskey, Vamsi Kota, Michael Keng, Olga Frankfurt, Yasmin Abaza, Dale L Bixby, Ashkan Emadi and 16 more

Registry-linked trialOpen access · goldAbstract readClinical Trial, Phase II
In one paragraph

Trial report in Blood advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03435848 (A Phase 2b Open-Label, Single Arm, Multi-Center Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of BST-236 as a Single Agent in Adults With Newly-Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia), which is not on this map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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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

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NCT03435848 phase2completednot on this map

A Phase 2b Open-Label, Single Arm, Multi-Center Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of BST-236 as a Single Agent in Adults With Newly-Diagnosed Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Not Eligible for Standard Induction Therapy

TypeinterventionalSponsorBioSight Ltd.Ran2018 to 2023Enrolled66ConditionsAcute Myeloid LeukemiaArmsBST-236
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

26 authors at 16 institutions in 2 countries.

Jessica K AltmanRobert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.ORCID 0000-0003-1987-1896
Tsila ZuckermanDepartment of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.
Jamie KoprivnikarJohn Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ.
James McCloskeyJohn Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ.
Vamsi KotaGeorgia Cancer Center, Augusta University, Augusta, GA.
Michael KengUniversity of Virginia Cancer Center-Charlottesville, Charlottesville, VA.
Olga FrankfurtRobert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
Yasmin AbazaRobert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
Dale L BixbyUniversity of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ann Arbor, MI.
Ashkan EmadiUniversity of Maryland School of Medicine, College Park, MD.ORCID 0000-0003-3769-3210
Micah BurchBaylor Scott & White Research Institute, Dallas, TX.
Bhavana BhatnagarArthur G James Cancer Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.ORCID 0000-0002-4869-0712
Selina M LugerAbramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Mary-Elizabeth PercivalUniversity of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA.
Ofir WolachDepartment of Hematology, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel.
Michael CraigInternal Medicine, Hematology-Oncology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.
Chezi GanzelShaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-1722-4807
Gail RobozDepartment of Hematology/Oncology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City, NY.ORCID 0000-0002-0384-3658
Itai LeviSoroka University Medical Center, Beersheba, Israel.
Anna GourevitchSoroka University Medical Center, Beersheba, Israel.
Liat FlaishonBiosight Ltd, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Shoshi TesslerBiosight Ltd, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Chen BlumbergBiosight Ltd, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Stela GengrinovitchBiosight Ltd, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Ruth Ben YakarBiosight Ltd, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Jacob M RoweRappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
Northwestern University · USHackensack University Medical Center · USAugusta University Health · USBaylor Medical Center at Garland · USCornell University · USRabin Medical Center · ILRambam Health Care Campus · ILShaare Zedek Medical Center · ILTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology · ILThe Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute · USUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore · USUniversity of Michigan · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · USUniversity of Virginia Cancer CenterUniversity of Washington · USWest Virginia University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-dose cytarabine is associated with gastrointestinal and cerebellar toxicity, precluding its use for older or unfit patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Aspacytarabine, an inactive prodrug of cytarabine, was evaluated as monotherapy in a phase 2b study of patients unfit for intensive chemotherapy (NCT03435848). Sixty-five patients with AML were treated with aspacytarabine 4.5 g/m2 per day (equimolar to 3 g/m2 per day cytarabine) for 6 doses per treatment. The median age was 75 years; 60.6% of patients had de novo AML, 28.8% had AML secondary to myelodysplastic syndrome, and 10.6% had therapy-related AML. Overall, 36.9% achieved complete remission (CR) with full count recovery. CR rates in patients with secondary AML, patients with prior treatment with hypomethylating agents, and patients with TP53 mutation were 26.7%, 25%, and 36%, respectively. Median overall survival was 9 months (range, 6-15.9) and was not reached among responders. Hematologic recovery was observed in all responding patients by day 26 without prolonged cytopenias. Adverse events typically precluding the use of high-dose cytarabine in older or unfit patients were not observed. These data suggest that aspacytarabine may be an effective regimen with a reduction in the attendant toxicities associated with high-dose cytarabine, an important consideration when treating AML and other hematologic disorders that use high-dose cytarabine. This trial was registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov as #NCT03435848.

Indexed as

Leukemia, Myeloid, AcuteMyelodysplastic SyndromesAgedAntineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy ProtocolsCytarabineHumansRemission InductionCytarabine

Identifiers

PMID37903324
PMCPMC10758705
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