TY - JOUR
T1 - Fludarabine plus doxorubicin in previously treated chronic lymphocytic leukemia
AU - Robertson, L. E.
AU - O'Brien, S.
AU - Kantarjian, H.
AU - Koller, C.
AU - Beran, M.
AU - Andreeff, M.
AU - Lerner, S.
AU - Keating, M. J.
PY - 1995/6
Y1 - 1995/6
N2 - Based on the activity of fludarabine and doxorubicin in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), 30 patients received this combination. The median age of these patients was 61 years; median Zubrod performance status was one; median number of prior therapies was three; and median time to treatment was 53 months. Rai stage was 0 for two patients, I/II for 19 patients, and III/IV for nine patients. Prior treatment included fludarabine in 25 patients. In this regimen, fludarabine was administered as 30 mg/m2/d IV x 3 to 10 patients, 25 mg/m2/d IV x 4 to three patients, and to 17 patients as 30 mg/m2/d IV x 4. A 50 mg/m2 IV dose of doxorubicin was given to all patients. The first 17 patients received prednisone 30 mg/m2 x 5 days; however, this was discontinued due to other data demonstrating no therapeutic advantage and increased opportunistic infection!; when corticosteroids were added to fludarabine. Toxicity consisted primarily of infectious episodes pneumonia nine, bacteremia one, FUO seven, and minor infection five. Two deaths from pneumonia occurred. Standard guidelines for response were used with the addition of a nodular CR group. Despite prior treatment with fludarabine in the majority of patients, the response rate in the 29 evaluable patients was CR 3%, nodular CR 17%, PR 35%, fail 38% and early death 7%. This combination of fludarabine and doxorubicin is active against CLL and warrants further study.
AB - Based on the activity of fludarabine and doxorubicin in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), 30 patients received this combination. The median age of these patients was 61 years; median Zubrod performance status was one; median number of prior therapies was three; and median time to treatment was 53 months. Rai stage was 0 for two patients, I/II for 19 patients, and III/IV for nine patients. Prior treatment included fludarabine in 25 patients. In this regimen, fludarabine was administered as 30 mg/m2/d IV x 3 to 10 patients, 25 mg/m2/d IV x 4 to three patients, and to 17 patients as 30 mg/m2/d IV x 4. A 50 mg/m2 IV dose of doxorubicin was given to all patients. The first 17 patients received prednisone 30 mg/m2 x 5 days; however, this was discontinued due to other data demonstrating no therapeutic advantage and increased opportunistic infection!; when corticosteroids were added to fludarabine. Toxicity consisted primarily of infectious episodes pneumonia nine, bacteremia one, FUO seven, and minor infection five. Two deaths from pneumonia occurred. Standard guidelines for response were used with the addition of a nodular CR group. Despite prior treatment with fludarabine in the majority of patients, the response rate in the 29 evaluable patients was CR 3%, nodular CR 17%, PR 35%, fail 38% and early death 7%. This combination of fludarabine and doxorubicin is active against CLL and warrants further study.
KW - Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
KW - Doxorubicin
KW - Fludarabine
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M3 - Article
C2 - 7596181
AN - SCOPUS:0029036444
SN - 0887-6924
VL - 9
SP - 943
EP - 945
JO - Leukemia
JF - Leukemia
IS - 6
ER -