Affiliation:
1. From the Division of Hematology, University of Southern California Medical School and Norris Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA; the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; Instituto de Enfermedades, Neoplásicas, Lima, Peru; the University of Rochester School of Medicine, Rochester, NY; and Aronex Pharmaceuticals, Inc, The Woodlands, TX.
Abstract
Abstract
A novel intravenous liposomal formulation of all-transretinoic acid (ATRA) was evaluated in 69 patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL): 32 new diagnoses, 35 relapses, and 2 oral ATRA failures. Liposomal ATRA (90 mg/m2) was administered every other day until complete remission (CR) or a maximum of 56 days. Treatment following CR was liposomal ATRA with or without chemotherapy. In an intent-to-treat (ITT) analysis of all patients, CR rates were 62%, 70%, and 20% in newly diagnosed, group 1 first relapses (ATRA naive or off oral ATRA more than or equal to 1 year), or group 2 relapses (second or subsequent relapse or first relapses off oral ATRA less than 1 year), respectively. In 56 evaluable patients (receiving 4 or more doses), CR rates for the same groups were 87% (20 of 23), 78% (14 of 18), and 23% (3 of 13). Remission failure in newly diagnosed patients was not from resistant disease. Several patients in CR became polymerase chain reaction (PCR) negative for promyelocytic leukemia/retinoic acid receptor-alpha (PML/RARα) after liposomal ATRA alone. Toxicity was generally mild, most commonly headaches (67.5%). Eighteen patients (26%) had ATRA syndrome develop during induction. One-year survival of ITT patients was 62%, 56%, and 20% for newly diagnosed, group 1, and group 2, respectively. The medium duration of CR has not yet been reached and was 18 and 5.5 months in the same groups. These results demonstrate that liposomal ATRA is effective in inducing CR in newly diagnosed or group 1 APL patients. It provides a reliable dosage of ATRA for patients with APL unable to swallow or absorb medications and can induce molecular remissions without chemotherapy.
Publisher
American Society of Hematology
Subject
Cell Biology,Hematology,Immunology,Biochemistry
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