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K Scott Baker,
Stella M Davies,
Navneet S Majhail,
Anna Hassebroek,
John P Klein,
Karen K Ballen,
Carolyn L Bigelow,
Haydar A Frangoul,
Cheryl L Hardy,
Christopher Bredeson, [......],
Fausto Loberiza,
Dipnarine Maharaj,
Philip McCarthy,
Michelle Setterholm,
Stephen Spellman, Michael Trigg,
Richard T Maziarz,
Galen Switzer,
Stephanie J Lee,
J Douglas Rizzo
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ABSTRACT: Success of hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) can vary by race, but the impact of socioeconomic status (SES) is not known. To evaluate the role of race and SES, we studied 6207 unrelated-donor myeloablative (MA) HCT recipients transplanted between 1995 and 2004 for acute or chronic leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Patients were reported by transplant center to be White (n = 5253), African American (n = 368), Asian/Pacific-Islander (n = 141), or Hispanic (n = 445). Patient income was estimated from residential zip code at time of HCT. Cox regression analysis adjusting for other significant factors showed that African American (but not Asian or Hispanic) recipients had worse overall survival (OS) (relative-risk [RR] 1.47; 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.29-1.68, P < .001) compared to Whites. Treatment-related mortality (TRM) was higher in African Americans (RR 1.56; 95% CI 1.34-1.83, P < .001) and in Hispanics (RR 1.30; 95% CI 1.11-1.51, P = .001). Across all racial groups, patients with median incomes in the lowest quartile (<$34,700) had worse OS (RR 1.15; 95% CI 1.04-1.26, P = .005) and higher risks of TRM (RR 1.21; 1.07-1.36, P = .002). Inferior outcomes among African Americans are not fully explained by transplant-related factors or SES. Potential other mechanisms such as genetic polymorphisms that have an impact on drug metabolism or unmeasured comorbidities, socioeconomic factors, and health behaviors may be important. Low SES, regardless of race, has a negative impact on unrelated donor HCT outcomes.
Biology of blood and marrow transplantation: journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation 12/2009; 15(12):1543-54. · 3.15 Impact Factor
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Kirk R Schultz,
W Paul Bowman,
Alexander Aledo,
William B Slayton,
Harland Sather,
Meenakshi Devidas,
Chenguang Wang,
Stella M Davies,
Paul S Gaynon, Michael Trigg,
Robert Rutledge,
Laura Burden,
Dean Jorstad,
Andrew Carroll,
Nyla A Heerema,
Naomi Winick,
Michael J Borowitz,
Stephen P Hunger,
William L Carroll,
Bruce Camitta
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ABSTRACT: Imatinib mesylate is a targeted agent that may be used against Philadelphia chromosome-positive (Ph+) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), one of the highest risk pediatric ALL groups.
We evaluated whether imatinib (340 mg/m(2)/d) with an intensive chemotherapy regimen improved outcome in children ages 1 to 21 years with Ph+ ALL (N = 92) and compared toxicities to Ph- ALL patients (N = 65) given the same chemotherapy without imatinib. Exposure to imatinib was increased progressively in five patient cohorts that received imatinib from 42 (cohort 1; n = 7) to 280 continuous days (cohort 5; n = 50) before maintenance therapy. Patients with human leukocyte antigen (HLA) -identical sibling donors underwent blood and marrow transplantation (BMT) with imatinib given for 6 months following BMT.
Continuous imatinib exposure improved outcome in cohort 5 patients with a 3-year event-free survival (EFS) of 80% +/- 11% (95% CI, 64% to 90%), more than twice historical controls (35% +/- 4%; P < .0001). Three-year EFS was similar for patients in cohort 5 treated with chemotherapy plus imatinib (88% +/- 11%; 95% CI, 66% to 96%) or sibling donor BMT (57% +/- 22%; 95% CI, 30.4% to 76.1%). There were no significant toxicities associated with adding imatinib to intensive chemotherapy. The higher imatinib dosing in cohort 5 appears to improve survival by having an impact on the outcome of children with a higher burden of minimal residual disease after induction.
Imatinib plus intensive chemotherapy improved 3-year EFS in children and adolescents with Ph+ ALL, with no appreciable increase in toxicity. BMT plus imatinib offered no advantage over BMT alone. Additional follow-up is required to determine the impact of this treatment on long-term EFS and determine whether chemotherapy plus imatinib can replace BMT.
Journal of Clinical Oncology 10/2009; 27(31):5175-81. · 18.37 Impact Factor
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Anna M Butturini,
Frederick J Dorey,
Beverly J Lange,
David W Henry,
Paul S Gaynon,
Cecilia Fu,
Janet Franklin,
Stuart E Siegel,
Nita L Seibel,
Paul C Rogers,
Harland Sather, Michael Trigg,
W Archie Bleyer,
William L Carroll
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ABSTRACT: To evaluate the effect of obesity (defined as a body mass index > 95th percentile for age and sex at diagnosis) on outcome of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
We retrospectively analyzed data from 4,260 patients with newly diagnosed ALL enrolled from 1988 to 1995 onto five concurrent Children's Cancer Group studies. Results were verified in a second cohort of 1,733 patients enrolled onto a sixth study from 1996 to 2002.
The 1988 to 1995 cohort included 343 obese and 3,971 nonobese patients. The 5-year event-free survival rate and risk of relapse in obese versus nonobese patients were 72% +/- 2.4% v 77% +/- 0.6% (P = .02) and 26 +/- 2.4 v 20 +/- 0.6 (P = .02), respectively. After adjusting for other prognostic variables, obesity's hazard ratios (HRs) of events and relapses were 1.36 (95% CI, 1.04 to 1.77; P = .021) and 1.29 (95% CI, 1.02 to 1.56; P = .04), respectively. The effect of obesity was prominent in the 1,003 patients > or = 10 years old at diagnosis; in this subset, obesity's adjusted HRs of events and relapses were 1.5 (95% CI, 1.1 to 2.1; P = .009) and 1.5 (95% CI, 1.2 to 2.1; P = .013), respectively. In a second cohort of 1,160 patients 10 years old, obesity's adjusted HRs of events and relapses were 1.42 (95% CI, 1.03 to 1.96; P = .032) and 1.65 (95% CI, 1.13 to 2.41; P = .009), respectively. The effect of obesity on outcome was unrelated to changes in chemotherapy doses, length of intervals between chemotherapy cycles, or incidence and severity of therapy-related toxicity.
Obesity at diagnosis independently predicts likelihood of relapse and cure in preteenagers and adolescents with ALL.
Journal of Clinical Oncology 06/2007; 25(15):2063-9. · 18.37 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The prognosis for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) has improved dramatically over the past quarter of a century. Despite improvements in the treatment of childhood ALL, relapse still occurs in 20%-30% of patients. Although many of these relapses occur in the "standard-risk" patients, approximately 10% of these patients present at diagnosis with clinical and biological features that identify them as having a very high risk of relapse. Children (2 months to 21 years) with > or =1 ultra-high-risk feature (UHRF) of ALL in first remission treated on a frontline Children's Cancer Group (CCG) ALL study with a matched family allogeneic donor were eligible for study entry onto CCG-1921 and an allogeneic bone marrow transplant (AlloBMT). Each patient received fractionated total body irradiation (1200 cGy) and cyclophosphamide (120 mg/kg) conditioning therapy followed by unmobilized BM from a matched family donor. Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis consisted of methotrexate and cyclosporin. Twenty-nine patients with a median age of 8.7 years with UHRF ALL in first complete remission (CR1) received an AlloBMT from a family member. The incidence of grade II-IV acute GVHD was 20.7% and the incidence of chronic GVHD was 3.7%. AlloBMT conditioning regimen was well tolerated and only 1 patient (3%) had treatment-related mortality. Ten patients (35%) died due to progressive disease. The 5-year event-free survival (EFS) for all patients was 58.6% and patients without cytogenetic abnormalities had a 5-year EFS of 77.8%. The 5-year EFS rates for infants and non-infants were 20.0% and 66.7% (log-rank test, P = .01), respectively. Patients with Philadelphia chromosome-positive ALL had a 5-year EFS of 66.7%. The children with UHRF of ALL may benefit from AlloBMT in CR1, especially patients with primary induction failure and Philadelphia chromosome-positive ALL. Randomized prospective cooperative group studies are required to establish the role of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation versus intensive chemotherapy in children with UHRF ALL in CR1.
Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 03/2007; 13(2):218-27. · 3.87 Impact Factor
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Mohammad Jarrar,
Paul S Gaynon,
Antonia P Periclou,
Cecilia Fu,
Richard E Harris,
Daniel Stram,
Arnold Altman,
Bruce Bostrom,
John Breneman,
David Steele, Michael Trigg,
Theodore Zipf,
Vassilios I Avramis
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ABSTRACT: Re-induction outcomes vary for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and marrow relapse. We explored possible relationships among asparaginase (ASNase) activity levels, asparagine (ASN) depletion, anti-ASNase antibody titers, and response to re-induction therapy in children and adolescents with ALL and an 'early' first marrow relapse.
After appropriate informed consent, we enrolled children and adolescents 1-21 years old with ALL and first marrow relapse within 12 months of completion of primary therapy. Induction therapy included intramuscular pegylated ASNase on Days 2 and 16. We assessed ASNase activity, anti-ASNase antibody titers against native and pegylated (E. coli) ASNase, and amino acid levels of asparagine (ASN) and glutamine (GLN) on Days 0, 14, and 35 of re-induction.
Ninety-three patients were at least partially assessable. Among 21 patients with M1 marrow status at Day 35, the median Day 14 ASN level was <1 microM. This is significantly lower than the median Day 14 ASN level of 4 microM in the group of patients with M3 marrow at Day 35. Neither Day 0 nor Day 35 antibody titers predicted ASNase enzymatic activity level on Day 14. Surprisingly, Day 14 ASNase activity did not predict serum ASN level on Day 14. However, Day 0 and Day 35 anti-native ASNase antibody titers, and Day 0 anti-PEG ASNase antibody titers correlated positively with Day 14 serum ASN levels as one might expect from neutralizing antibody. Day 35 anti-PEG ASNase antibody titers did not.
Patients with greater ASN depletion were more likely to achieve second remission in the context of six-drug therapy.
Pediatric Blood & Cancer 09/2006; 47(2):141-6. · 1.89 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: We assessed the outcome of children with Down syndrome (DS) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) receiving contemporary risk-based therapy by evaluating clinical and biologic features and outcome of children with ALL, with or without DS, enrolled in Children's Cancer Group (CCG) protocols between 1983 and 1995. Comparison of characteristics of children with ALL with (ALL-DS; n = 179) or without (ALL-NDS; n = 8268) DS showed no differences in initial white blood cell (WBC) count, central nervous system disease, and risk group. Children with ALL-DS did not present with unfavorable translocations and were older than 1 year of age at diagnosis with ALL. Event-free (56% vs 74%; P < .001) and disease-free (55% vs 73%; P < .001) survival at 10 years was significantly lower in the standard-risk ALL-DS population compared with ALL-NDS, but not in high-risk ALL-DS population (event-free survival, 62% vs 59%; P = .9; disease-free survival, 64% vs 59%; P = .9), and these differences persisted regardless of treatment era (early era [1983-1989] vs recent era [1989-1995]). Multivariate analysis revealed that presence of DS demonstrated an independent significant adverse prognostic effect for the standard-risk population, but not for the high-risk patients. These results suggest that intensification of therapy for patients with ALL-DS is needed to maintain outcome comparable with those of ALL-NDS patients.
Blood 12/2005; 106(13):4043-9. · 9.90 Impact Factor
