Therapy Optimisation for the Treatment of Hairy Cell Leukemia
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An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Cladribine s.c. injection, HCL treatment.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Hairy Cell Leukemia. Basic parameters: 18 years — 90 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Germany
- Next step
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Overview
The trial will test the effectiveness and toxicity of subcutaneous treatment with one cycle of cladribine in patients with hairy cell leukemia requiring treatment. They have to be untreated so far or may be pretreated with alpha-interferon.
Detailed description
Evaluation of remission status will take place 4 months after treatment. In addition, it will be tested whether patients with non-optimal response will have a benefit from a second cycle of cladribine.
Non-optimal response is: patients with detectable residual disease; achievement of partial remission or detectable residual infiltration in the bone marrow.
Interventions
- Drug Cladribine s.c. injection, HCL treatment
Patients with hairy cell leukemia and the need for treatment are given cladribine 0.14 mg/kg for 5 consecutive days as a s. c bolus injection
Primary outcome measures
- Determination of the rate of complete remissions after one cycle with subcutaneous cladribine [Time frame: 4 months after treatment]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Rate of complete remissions in patient who still have detectable residual disease [Time frame: 4 months after treatment]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Patients with histologically verified hairy cell leukemia
- Presence of hairy cells in the bone marrow and peripheral blood detected by positive TRAP staining and / or co expression if cell surface antigens cluster of differentiation (CD) 19/CD25 or CD19/CD103 (b-ly7)
- No previous cytostatic treatment (splenectomy or interferon treatment are allowed)
- Need for treatment
- Age at least 18 years old
- General state of health according to WHO 0-2
- Current histology, not older than 6 months
- Written consent by patient
Exclusion criteria
- Patients not fulfilling inclusion criteria above
- Hairy cell leukemia variants (HCL-V): presence of lymphoid cells in bone marrow and / or peripheral blood, which have an intermediate morphology between hairy cells and prolymphocytes (negative TRAP staining and co- expression of CD19/CD103 without CD25
- Pretreatment with purine analogues or other chemotherapeutics
- Concomitant corticosteroid therapy
- Severe dysfunction of the heart (NYHA III or IV), the lung (WHO-Grade III or IV), the liver, except due to lymphoma (bilirubin > 2 mg/dl, alkaline phosphatase, glutamate-oxalacetate transaminase and glutamate-pyruvate transaminase > 2 x upper limit of normal), the kidneys (creatinin > 2 mg/dl or creatinine clearance < 50 ml/min), central nervous system diseases including psychoses.
- Proven HIV infection
- Active Hepatitis
- Other florid infections
- Anamnesis / diagnosis of other malignant disease (other than non-melanoma associated skin tumours or stage 0 in situ carcinoma of the cervix)
- Pregnant or lactating women
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Germany · 76 centers
- Community based hemato-oncology medical office — Ansbach
- Community based hemato-oncology medical office — Aschaffenburg
- Rhön-Saale-Klinik gGmbH — Bad Neustadt an der Saale
- Community based hemato-oncology medical office — Berlin
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin — Berlin
- Community based hemato-oncology medical office — Bremen
- Community based hemato-oncology medical office — Celle
- Community based hemato-oncology medical office — Cottbus
- … and 68 more centers
Identifiers
NCT: NCT02131753 · NHL 3-2004