Conditions: Low- or Intermediate-1-risk Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS)
Allocation:  | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 40
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of this study is to assess pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic characteristics of oral lenalidomide monotherapy administered to patients with Low- or Intermediate-1-risk Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS).

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Participants in the Pharmacokinetic Phase received a single 10 mg oral dose of lenalidomide on Day -7. During the Monotherapy Phase participants received 10 mg oral lenalidomide once daily. Erythroid responders could continue lenalidomide monotherapy in the absence of limiting toxicity, disease progression, or erythroid failure.

During the Combined Treatment Phase participants who were erythroid nonresponders and erythroid responders who had developed an erythroid relapse continued treatment with 10 mg lenalidomide in conjunction with recombinant human erythropoietin (rhu EPO) 40,000 units administered weekly by subcutaneous injection for 8 weeks. Responding patients could continue combined treatment. arm 2: Following the enrollment of the first 25 patients into the Monotherapy Phase, a second group of 15 patients with low- or intermediate-1-risk MDS not associated with a del 5q (non-del 5q) cytogenetic abnormality were enrolled to receive 15 mg of lenalidomide once daily. Erythroid responders could continue lenalidomide monotherapy in the absence of limiting toxicity, disease progression, or erythroid failure. During the Combined Treatment Phase participants who were erythroid nonresponders and erythroid responders who had developed an erythroid relapse continued treatment with 15 mg lenalidomide in conjunction with recombinant human erythropoietin (rhu EPO) 40,000 units administered weekly by subcutaneous injection for 8 weeks. Responding patients could continue combined treatment.

Interventions: intervention 1: Lenalidomide intervention 2: Recombinant human erythropoietin
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Lenalidomide 5-mg capsules for oral administration intervention 2: Recombinant human erythropoietin (rhu-EPO) subcutaneous injection of 40,000 units.

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