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Treatment of refractory acute leukemia with timed sequential chemotherapy using topotecan followed by etoposide + mitoxantrone (T-EM) and correlation with topoisomerase II levels.

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:A phase I/II clinical study evaluated 17 patients with refractory/recurrent acute leukemia treated with 1.5 mg/m2/day topotecan on days 1-3 followed by etoposide (100 mg/m2/day)+mitoxantrone (10 mg/m2/day) on days 4, 5 and 9, 10. Timed sequential chemotherapy using the topoisomerase I-inhibitor topotecan before the topoisomerase II-inhibitors, etoposide+mitoxantrone (T-EM) treatment is proposed to induce topoisomerase II protein levels and potentiate the cytotoxic activity of the topoisomerase II-directed drugs. Fourteen patients had refractory and three had recurrent acute leukemia. The majority of patients were heavily pre-treated with greater than three re-induction chemotherapy regimens. Ten patients responded to T-EM treatment (59%). Four of seventeen (24%) had a complete remission and one had a partial remission. Four additional patients (24%) who scored complete leukemia clearance had no evidence of disease with complete white and red blood cell recovery but with platelet counts less than 100,000. The lack of platelet recovery in one patient having a partial response was scored as a partial leukemia clearance. The toxicity profile included major non-hematological toxicity including grade 3 mucositis (29%) and neutropenic fever (65%). Paired measurements of intracellular levels of topoisomerase II isoforms alpha and beta in leukemia blast cells (bone marrow) collected before (day 0) and after topotecan treatment (day 4) showed that a relative increase of topoisomerase IIalpha (Topo IIalpha) > or = 40% strongly correlated with response after T-EM treatment. Increased Topo IIalpha levels also corresponded to increased DNA fragmentation. Two patients who had an increase of Topo IIalpha of 20-25% had either a PR or PLC while patients with a < 10% increase showed no response to T-EM treatment. We conclude that timed sequential chemotherapy using topotecan followed by etoposide+mitoxantrone is an effective regimen for patients with refractory acute leukemia, and demonstrate Topo IIalpha protein level increases after topotecan treatment.

journal_name

Leuk Lymphoma

journal_title

Leukemia & lymphoma

authors

Mainwaring MG,Rimsza LM,Chen SF,Gomez SP,Weeks FW,Reddy V,Lynch J,May WS,Kahn S,Moreb J,Leather H,Braylan R,Rowe TC,Fieniewicz KJ,Wingard JR

doi

10.1080/10428190290021339

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-05-01 00:00:00

pages

989-99

issue

eissn

1042-8194

issn

1029-2403

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Treatment of refractory acute leukemia with timed sequential chemotherapy using topotecan followed by etoposide + mitoxantrone (T-EM) and correlation with topoisomerase II levels.