Venetoclax and Chemotherapy as Frontline Therapy in Older Patients and Patients With Relapsed/Refractory ALL
A Phase Ib Study of the Combination of Venetoclax With Chemotherapy as Frontline Therapy in Older Patients and Patients With Relapsed/Refractory Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
82 participants
Oct 30, 2017
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
This research study is studying a medication called Venetoclax and a chemotherapy regimen as a possible treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. The drugs involved in this study are: * Venetoclax * Standard Chemotherapy (which includes cyclophosphamide, vincristine, doxorubicin, dexamethasone, methotrexate, 6-mercaptopurine, etoposide, and cytarabine
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Interventions
Venetoclax is an inhibitor of Bcl-2. Bcl-2 is critical for keeping cancer cells alive. By inhibiting Bcl-2, venetoclax promotes cancer cell death.
Standard treatment of chemotherapy is administered
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NCT03319901