Impact of Obesity on the Pharmacokinetics of Anticancer Therapy in Children With High Risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL)
OBJECTIVES:
- To compare the pharmacokinetics of prednisone/prednisolone, vincristine, and
daunorubicin hydrochloride among obese, middle-weight, and underweight children aged 10
to less than 20 years of age undergoing induction therapy for high-risk acute
lymphoblastic leukemia.
- To examine the relationship between the above parameters and response status as defined
by early response and induction failure.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to body mass index
(BMI) (≥ 95^th percentile [obese] vs 10^th to 95^th percentile [normal or at risk for
overweight] vs ≤ 10^th percentile [underweight]).
Patients receive anticancer therapy as prescribed by their treating clinicians. Patients
receive prednisone/prednisolone orally twice on either day 1 or day 8. Patients also receive
daunorubicin hydrochloride IV over 30 minutes and vincristine IV once on the same day.
Blood samples are obtained on either day 1 or day 8** of induction therapy for
pharmacokinetic analysis of prednisone, daunorubicin hydrochloride, and vincristine activity
levels.
Blood samples are analyzed via high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC),
ultrafiltration, a Nessler reaction, ELISA, and liquid chromatography using reverse-phase
chromatography, fluorescent detection, and solid-phase extraction.
Demographic information, including ethnicity, is also collected. Weight and height is
recorded at diagnosis and on the day pharmacokinetic assessment of vincristine, prednisone,
and daunorubicin hydrochloride begins.
NOTE: **Patients who are being sampled on day 8 of induction therapy and who have received
intravenous corticosteroid therapy in the first week of induction must have received at
least six oral prednisone/prednisolone doses prior to the morning prednisone/prednisolone
dose on day 8.
Observational
Time Perspective: Prospective
Pharmacokinetic parameters of prednisone/prednisolone
Two multiple comparisons (normal weight versus obese and normal weight versus underweight groups) will be conducted with a priori planned contrasts using the Bonferroni adjustment method.
Pre-dose, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2, 4, 6 to 8, 10 and 12 hours
No
Lillian Sung, MD, PhD
Study Chair
The Hospital for Sick Children
United States: Federal Government
ACCL0631
NCT00900445
June 2008
August 2009
Name | Location |
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Cancer Research Center of Hawaii | Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 |
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 |
Nemours Children's Clinic | Jacksonville, Florida 32207 |
St. Christopher's Hospital for Children | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19134-1095 |
Driscoll Children's Hospital | Corpus Christi, Texas 78466 |
East Tennessee Children's Hospital | Knoxville, Tennessee 37901 |
Overlook Hospital | Summit, New Jersey 07902-0220 |
Jonathan Jaques Children's Cancer Center at Miller Children's Hospital | Long Beach, California 90801 |
Nemours Children's Clinic - Orlando | Orlando, Florida 32806 |
Sacred Heart Cancer Center at Sacred Heart Hospital | Pensacola, Florida 32504 |
St. Joseph's Cancer Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital | Tampa, Florida 33607 |
Kaplan Cancer Center at St. Mary's Medical Center | West Palm Beach, Florida 33407 |
Alvin and Lois Lapidus Cancer Institute at Sinai Hospital | Baltimore, Maryland 21215 |
Wake Forest University Comprehensive Cancer Center | Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1096 |
Methodist Children's Hospital of South Texas | San Antonio, Texas 78229-3993 |
Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children | Wilmington, Delaware 19803 |
Lucille P. Markey Cancer Center at University of Kentucky | Lexington, Kentucky 40536-0093 |
Akron Children's Hospital | Akron, Ohio 44308-1062 |
Oklahoma University Cancer Institute | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104 |
Greenville Hospital Cancer Center | Greenville, South Carolina 29605 |