Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Children

Acute leukemia (AL) is the most common cancer in children. Despite the optimization of chemotherapy treatments and the development of supportive care, a certain number of LAs relapse and/or progress to death of the child. It therefore seems essential to try to better understand the physiopathology and the mechanisms of resistance to treatment of these diseases.

The CHIP-AML22 Master protocol has the overall aim of increasing the cure rate in newly diagnosed pediatric de novo AML patients, while avoiding unnecessary toxicity. The linked Quizartinib trial (CHIP-AML22/Quizartinib) is a phase II, single arm, open label, study on the safety, efficacy, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of quizartinib in combination with chemotherapy and as single-agent after high dose therapy in newly diagnosed pediatric AML patients with a FLT3-ITD mutation and NPM1 wild-type.

The CHIP-AML22 Master protocol has the overall aim of increasing the cure rate in newly diagnosed pediatric de novo AML patients, while avoiding unnecessary toxicity.

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) accounts for about 15% to 20% of childhood leukemia, but the death rate accounts for about 50%. About 20-30% of children with AML did not achieve complete response (CR) after 2 induction treatments, and about 30% of children with CR had relapse within 3 years (including recurrence after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation).Relapsed/refractory (R/R) AML is a major cause of treatment failure and refractory survival. Reinduction chemotherapy for R/R-AML to obtain CR again, followed by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, is the current treatment. At present, there is no recognized reinduction protocol, and the reinduction remission rate of R/R-AML varies greatly among different treatment regimens, ranging from 23 to 81%. Current guidelines recommend a new combination chemotherapy regimen consisting of new drugs without cross-resistance. This method selects sensitive chemotherapeutic drugs, and then forms a new combination chemotherapy regimen according to the characteristics of drugs, which is the choice of R/R-AML reinduction therapy.This study intends to conduct a clinical study on the individualized treatment of R/R AML patients through in vitro drug sensitivity test combined with patient transcriptomic characteristics.