Results of consecutive trials for children newly diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia from the Australian and New Zealand Children's Cancer Study Group
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2002
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O'Brien, T.
Russell, S.
Vowels, M.
Oswald, C.
Tiedemann, K.
Shaw, P.
Lockwood, L.
Teague, L.
Rice, M.
Marshall, G.
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Blood, 2002; 100(8):2708-2716
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Tracey A. O'Brien, Susan J. Russell, Marcus R. Vowels, Cecilia M. Oswald, Karin Tiedemann, Peter J. Shaw, Liane Lockwood, Lochie Teague, Michael Rice and Glenn M. Marshall
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Despite improvements in the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), approximately 50% of children die of the disease. Clinical trials in adult patients with AML indicate that idarubicin may have superior efficacy when compared to daunorubicin in the remission-induction phases of chemotherapy. We conducted consecutive clinical trials in children with newly diagnosed AML in which daunorubicin (group 1, n = 102) or idarubicin (group 2, n = 160) was used during the remission-induction (RI) and the early consolidation phases of chemotherapy. Idarubicin was given at a dose of either 10 mg/m2 (group 2A, n = 106) or 12 mg/m2 (group 2B, n = 53). A high rate of RI was achieved for all groups (95% group 1, 90% group 2A, 94% group 2B). There were no significant differences in 5-year event-free survival (EFS) or in overall survival (OS) when the 3 groups were compared (group 1: EFS 50%, OS 56%; group 2A: EFS 50%, OS 60%; group 2B: EFS 34%, OS 50%). RI deaths resulting from treatment toxicity were low---2% for group 1 and 5% for group 2. More gastrointestinal, pulmonary, and renal toxicity but fewer infections were observed in patients receiving idarubicin (P < .001, P = .04, P = .03, respectively). Following RI chemotherapy, all patients received 3 to 4 more courses of identical chemotherapy and then underwent either autologous (n = 156) or an allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) (n = 35). OS was higher in allogeneic BMT patients than in autologous BMT patients (79% vs 63%; P = .23). We conclude that daunorubicin is as effective as idarubicin for remission-induction therapy for childhood AML and has reduced toxicity.
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© 2002 by The American Society of Hematology.