Clinical trial NCT00002618: Combination Chemotherapy in Treating Pediatric Patients With Advanced-Stage Large Cell Lymphoma
Official title: A Phase III Study of Large Cell Lymphomas in Children and Adolescents: Comparison of APO vs APO + IDMTX/HDARA-C and Continuous vs Bolus Infusion of Doxorubicin
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE3
Conditions: Lymphoma
Keywords: childhood diffuse large cell lymphoma
childhood immunoblastic large cell lymphoma
AIDS-related peripheral/systemic lymphoma
AIDS-related diffuse large cell lymphoma
AIDS-related immunoblastic large cell lymphoma
AIDS-related diffuse mixed cell lymphoma
stage III childhood large cell lymphoma
stage IV childhood large cell lymphoma
Lead sponsor: Children's Oncology Group
Sponsor class: NETWORK
Collaborators: name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
First posted: 2004-07-29
Enrollment: 242
Sex: ALL
Maximum age (years): 21
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Giving the drugs in different doses may kill more cancer cells.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of chemotherapy with various combinations of drugs in treating pediatric patients with advanced-stage large cell lymphoma.

Detailed description: OBJECTIVES: I. Compare the event free survival of children with advanced stage large cell lymphoma treated with modified APO (doxorubicin/prednisone/vincristine/mercaptopurine) with or without intermediate-dose methotrexate/high dose cytarabine as maintenance therapy following induction therapy with APO. II. Characterize further the immunophenotypic and morphologic correlates of pediatric large cell lymphoma.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized, multicenter study. Patients are randomized to one of two treatment arms, except for those with CNS disease. These patients are assigned to arm II and receive whole brain irradiation on Regimen B. Arm I: Induction (Modified APO): Patients receive vincristine IV on days 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29, doxorubicin IV over 15 minutes on days 1 and 22, prednisone three times a day on days 1-28, and methotrexate intrathecally (IT) on days 1, 8, and 22. Patients in complete remission on day 43 proceed to maintenance, those in partial remission undergo biopsy then proceed to maintenance, and those with residual disease receive radiotherapy on regimen A concurrently with maintenance. Maintenance (day 1 is day 43 of Induction): Courses of intermediate dose methotrexate/leucovorin calcium and high dose cytarabine (ID MTX/CF/HD ARA-C) and modified APO alternate every 3 weeks. Patients receive a total of 15 courses (8 of ID MTX/CF/HD ARA-C and 7 of Modified APO). ID MTX/CF/HD ARA-C: Patients receive methotrexate IV over 24 hours on day 1, leucovorin calcium IV or orally every 6 hours on days 2 and 3, cytarabine IV over 48 hours on days 2 to 4, and methotrexate IT on day 1 of courses 1, 3, and 5. Filgrastim (G-CSF) is administered beginning on day 5 and continuing until blood counts recover. Modified APO: Patients receive vincristine IV on day 1, oral mercaptopurine on days 1-5, doxorubicin IV over 15 minutes on day 1, and oral prednisone three times a day on days 1-5. Arm II: Induction: Patients receive treatment as in arm I except that patients with CNS disease also receive methotrexate IT on days 15, 29, and 36. Maintenance (day 1 is day 43 of Induction): Modified APO: as in Arm I, with methotrexate administered on day 1 of courses 1, 3, and 5 (days 1-5 for patients with CNS disease). Courses repeat every 21 days for a total of 15 courses. Patients with CNS disease begin radiotherapy on Regimen B on week 2 of maintenance. Regimen A: Patients begin radiotherapy (5 days a week for 4.5 weeks) to residual tumor on day 1 of maintenance. Regimen B: Patients receive whole brain irradiation (5 days a week for 3.1 weeks) beginning on day 1 of maintenance. Patients are followed monthly for 6 months, every 3 months for 18 months, every 6 months for 3 years, and annually thereafter.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 242 patients will be accrued for this study over approximately 5.4 years.

Eligibility criteria: DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Previously untreated large cell lymphoma, including the following histologic designations: Rappaport classification Diffuse histiocytic Mixed lymphocytic-histiocytic Working Formulation classification Diffuse large cell, cleaved and/or noncleaved Immunoblastic Diffuse, mixed small and large cell Lukes-Collins classification Diffuse large cleaved Diffuse large noncleaved Immunoblastic T or B cell True histiocytic Updated Kiel classification Cytocentric large cell Centroblastic-centrocytic T-zone Lymphoepithelioid cell (Lennert's) Immunoblastic T or B cell Large cell anaplastic Pleomorphic Centroblastic-centrocytic, diffuse Malignant histiocytosis Murphy stage III/IV HIV-associated lymphoma eligible Any degree of bone marrow involvement eligible CNS disease eligible (such patients not randomized)

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: Under 22 Performance status: Not specified Hepatic: Not specified Renal: Not specified Other: Not pregnant or nursing Adequate contraception required of fertile patients

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: No prior therapy

Primary outcomes:
measure: Event free survival
timeFrame: Length of study
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Wichita
country: United States
facility: Via Christi Regional Medical Center-Saint Francis Campus
state: Kansas
city: New Orleans
country: United States
facility: MBCCOP - LSU Medical Center
state: Louisiana
city: Asheville
country: United States
facility: Memorial Mission Hospital
state: North Carolina
city: Charleston
country: United States
facility: Medical University of South Carolina
state: South Carolina
city: Dallas
country: United States
facility: Medical City Dallas Hospital
state: Texas
city: Lackland Air Force Base
country: United States
facility: San Antonio Military Pediatric Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
state: Texas
city: San Antonio
country: United States
facility: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
state: Texas
city: Charlottesville
country: United States
facility: Cancer Center, University of Virginia HSC
state: Virginia
city: San Juan
country: Puerto Rico
facility: University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine Medical Sciences Campus
city: Geneva
country: Switzerland
facility: Clinique de Pediatrie
Study officials:
affiliation: Medical University of South Carolina
name: Joseph H. Laver, MD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
References:
citation: Hutchison RE, Laver JH, Chang M, Muzzafar T, Desai S, Murphy S, Schwenn M, Shuster J, Link MP; Children's Oncology Group. Non-anaplastic peripheral t-cell lymphoma in childhood and adolescence: a Children's Oncology Group study. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2008 Jul;51(1):29-33. doi: 10.1002/pbc.21543.
citation: Hutchison RE, Finch C, Kepner J, Fuller C, Bowman P, Link M, Schwenn M, Laver J, Desai S, Barrett D, Murphy SB. Burkitt lymphoma is immunophenotypically different from Burkitt-like lymphoma in young persons. Ann Oncol. 2000;11 Suppl 1:35-8.
citation: Nasr MR, Laver JH, Chang M, Hutchison RE. Expression of anaplastic lymphoma kinase, tyrosine-phosphorylated STAT3, and associated factors in pediatric anaplastic large cell lymphoma: A report from the children's oncology group. Am J Clin Pathol. 2007 May;127(5):770-8. doi: 10.1309/FNY8Y4H6PK1V2MGE.
citation: Laver JH, Kraveka JM, Hutchison RE, Chang M, Kepner J, Schwenn M, Tarbell N, Desai S, Weitzman S, Weinstein HJ, Murphy SB. Advanced-stage large-cell lymphoma in children and adolescents: results of a randomized trial incorporating intermediate-dose methotrexate and high-dose cytarabine in the maintenance phase of the APO regimen: a Pediatric Oncology Group phase III trial. J Clin Oncol. 2005 Jan 20;23(3):541-7. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2005.11.075.