Conditions: Adult Acute Megakaryoblastic Leukemia (M7) Adult Acute Minimally Differentiated Myeloid Leukemia (M0) Adult Acute Monoblastic Leukemia (M5a) Adult Acute Monocytic Leukemia (M5b) Adult Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia With Maturation (M2) Adult Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia Without Maturation (M1) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With 11q23 (MLL) Abnormalities Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Del(5q) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Inv(16)(p13;q22) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(16;16)(p13;q22) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(8;21)(q22;q22) Adult Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia (M4) Adult Erythroleukemia (M6a) Adult Pure Erythroid Leukemia (M6b) Recurrent Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 19
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This phase II trial is studying how well AKT inhibitor MK-2206 works in treating patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML). AKT inhibitor MK-2206 may stop the growth of cancer cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth.

Detailed description:
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Determine the proportion of patients achieving Morphologic Complete Response (CR), Morphologic CR with incomplete count recovery (CRp) or Partial Response (PR) as best response within 3 cycles of therapy with MK-2206.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Describe the disease-free survival of patients that achieve CR/CRp.

II. Determine the toxicity profile of single-agent MK-2206 in this patient population.

III. To determine the biologic effects of MK-2206 on leukemia cells.

OUTLINE:

Patients receive AKT inhibitor MK-2206 orally (PO) once weekly. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 12 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up periodically.

Arms:
arm 1: Akt inhibitor MK2206 200 mg orally once a week for each 28 day treatment cycle

Interventions: intervention 1: Akt inhibitor MK2206 intervention 2: laboratory biomarker analysis
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: 200 mg orally (PO) once weekly. Treatment repeats every 28 days for up to 12 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. intervention 2: Correlative studies

Protocol document: