Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a group of heterogeneous malignancies derived from hematopoietic precursors. Patients older than 65 years can hardly benefit from standard intensive chemotherapy while having a poor toxicity tolerance, leading to a dismal prognosis. Currently, there is no satisfactory treatment modality for this high-risk patient population, which is an unmet clinical need. Venetoclax (ABT-199/GDC-0199, VEN) is a highly selective, oral B-cell lymphoma 2 (BCL-2) inhibitor that has shown activity in BCL-2- dependent leukemia and lymphoma cell lines, and has recently exerted encouraging therapeutic effect with manageable toxicity profile in the field of treatment of AML. Promising results have emerged in the combination of venetoclax and hypomethylating agents (HMA), decitabine or azacitidin (AZA), producing complete remission (CR) plus CR with incomplete hematologic recovery (CRi) rates of 74% and 66.7%, respectively, in previously untreated elderly AML patients. Homoharringtonine (HHT) is an alkaloid and has been used in Chinese patients with acute and chronic myeloid leukemia for more than 30 years. The add of HHT to the combination of cytarabin and aclarubicin or daunorubicin has been proved to improve CR rate and prognosis of AML patients. Moreover, HHT combined with low-dose cytarabine and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) has achieved durable efficacy in AML patients, either in the first-line or salvage setting. Interestingly, HHT has potent synergistic effects with VEN through reducing the expression of BCL-XL and MCL-1 in BCL-2 related pathways as previouly reported. This study aims at investigating the combination of HHT, VEN, AZA and G-CSF (HVAG) in the treatment of newly diagnosed elderly AML patients who are ineligible for intensive chemotherapy.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
100
HVAG regimen in a 28-day cycle HHT: d1-d7 1mg/m2; VEN: d1 100mg, d2 200mg, d3-d28 400mg; AZA: d1-d7 75mg/m2; G-CSF: d1-d7 300mg
Rate of complete remission (CR)
including Complete Remission with incomplete Platelet recovery (CRp) and Complete Remission with incomplete hematologic recovery (CRi)
Time frame: Up to 36 months
Event-free survival (EFS)
EFS is defined as the time from the date of randomization until the date of documented relapse or discontinuation of the treatment, or initiation of other anti-leukemic treatment or death from any cause, whichever occurs first
Time frame: Up to 36months
Relapse-free survival
Relapse-free survival (RFS) will be measured from time of CR to either leukemia relapse or death, whichever comes first. Leukemia relapse will be defined as bone marrow (BM) blasts 5% or higher (not attributable to regenerating BM), any circulating blasts (not attributable to regenerating BM or growth factors), or any extra-medullary blast foci as per Revised International Working Group (R-IWG) criteria.
Time frame: 36 months
Overall survival(OS)
Time frame: Up to 36 months
Safety and tolerability assessed by incidence and severity of adverse events
All grade ≥ 3 toxicities according to CTCAE (Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events) version 5 will be tabulated
Time frame: 36 months
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