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Trial details imported from ClinicalTrials.gov

For full trial details, please see the original record at https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00222599




Registration number
NCT00222599
Ethics application status
Date submitted
28/01/2000
Date registered
27/01/2003
Date last updated
18/12/2013

Titles & IDs
Public title
Chemotherapy in Treating Patients With Newly Diagnosed Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Scientific title
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Trial 4: A Randomized Comparison of Chlorambucil, Fludarabine and Fludarabine Plus Cyclophosphamide
Secondary ID [1] 0 0
LRF-CLL4
Secondary ID [2] 0 0
CDR0000067454
Universal Trial Number (UTN)
Trial acronym
Linked study record

Health condition
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:
Condition category
Condition code

Intervention/exposure
Study type
Interventional
Description of intervention(s) / exposure
Comparator / control treatment
Control group

Outcomes

Eligibility
Key inclusion criteria
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

* Diagnosis of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) requiring therapy and meeting the following criteria:

* Previously untreated disease
* Peripheral blood morphology, excluding other leukemia and low-grade lymphoma in leukemic phase
* Cell markers: CD5+, CD23+, SmIg (weak), CD79b-, FMC7-
* Persistent lymphocytosis (greater than 10,000/mm^3)
* At least 40% bone marrow infiltration
* Stage 0 or I progressive disease indicated by at least one of the following:

* Persistent rise in lymphocyte count with doubling time less than 12 months
* Downward trend in hemoglobin and/or platelet count
* At least 50% increase in size of liver and/or spleen and/or lymph nodes
* Appearance of lymphadenopathy, hepatomegaly, or splenomegaly
* Constitutional symptoms caused by disease

* Pyrexia
* Night sweats
* Weight loss OR
* Stage II or III

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

* Not specified

Performance status:

* Not specified

Life expectancy:

* Not specified

Hematopoietic:

* See Disease Characteristics

Hepatic:

* Bilirubin no greater than 2 times upper limit of normal (ULN)*
* SGOT/SGPT no greater than 2 times ULN* NOTE: * Unless due to CLL

Renal:

* Creatinine clearance at least 30 mL/min

Other:

* No other cancer or life-threatening disease
* Not pregnant
* Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 6 months after study therapy

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

* Not specified

Chemotherapy

* Not specified

Endocrine therapy

* No concurrent corticosteroids (e.g., dexamethasone) as antiemetics

Radiotherapy

* Not specified

Surgery

* Not specified
Minimum age
No limit
Maximum age
No limit
Sex
Both males and females
Can healthy volunteers participate?
No
Key exclusion criteria

Study design
Purpose of the study
Treatment
Allocation to intervention
Randomised controlled trial
Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)
Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)
Masking / blinding
Blinded (masking used)
Who is / are masked / blinded?



Intervention assignment
Other design features
Phase
Phase 3
Type of endpoint/s
Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment
Recruitment status
Completed
Data analysis
Reason for early stopping/withdrawal
Other reasons
Date of first participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
1/10/1999
Date of last participant enrolment
Anticipated
Actual
Date of last data collection
Anticipated
Actual
1/07/2007
Sample size
Target
Accrual to date
Final
Recruitment in Australia
Recruitment state(s)

Funding & Sponsors
Primary sponsor type
Other
Name
Leukemia Research Fund
Address
Country

Ethics approval
Ethics application status

Summary
Brief summary
RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. It is not yet known which regimen of chemotherapy is more effective for chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying chlorambucil to see how well it works compared to fludarabine and cyclophosphamide or fludarabine alone in treating patients with newly diagnosed chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
Trial website
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00222599
Trial related presentations / publications
Public notes
This record is viewable in the ANZCTR as it had previously listed Australia and/or New Zealand as a recruitment site, however these sites have since been removed

Contacts
Principal investigator
Name 0 0
Daniel Catovsky, MD
Address 0 0
Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
Contact person for public queries
Name 0 0
Address 0 0
Country 0 0
Phone 0 0
Fax 0 0
Email 0 0
Contact person for scientific queries



Summary Results

For IPD and results data, please see https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00222599