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      Phase 2B trial of aminopterin in multiagent therapy for children with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

      Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology
      Adolescent, Aminopterin, adverse effects, pharmacokinetics, therapeutic use, Antidotes, Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic, Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols, Bone Diseases, chemically induced, Child, Child, Preschool, Drug Overdose, Erythrocytes, metabolism, Female, Fever, complications, etiology, Folic Acid Antagonists, Gastrointestinal Diseases, Humans, Leucovorin, Male, Methotrexate, Neurotoxicity Syndromes, Pilot Projects, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, drug therapy, genetics, Recurrence, Treatment Outcome

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          Aminopterin offers advantages over the related antifolate, methotrexate, including greater potency, complete bioavailability, and more consistent accumulation and metabolism by patients' blasts. This current trial was done to document the toxicity of the aminopterin within a multiagent therapeutic regimen for children with newly diagnosed ALL. Patients at high risk of relapse were non-randomly assigned to therapy including oral aminopterin 4 mg/m(2), in two doses 12 h apart, in place of methotrexate 100 mg/m(2) in four divided doses. Thirty-two patients, 22 with pre-B ALL and ten with T-lineage ALL, have been treated with aminopterin, with median follow up of 40 months. Hematologic, mucosal and hepatic toxicity has been tolerable and reversible. There have been no toxic deaths among patients in remission. During weekly AMT therapy, higher mean neutrophil counts were observed among patients who were wild type for polymorphisms in methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase and methionine synthase reductase. Aminopterin can be safely incorporated in multiagent therapy for patients with ALL, in place of systemic methotrexate, without causing excessive toxicity. These results support a larger trial comparing the efficacy and toxicity of aminopterin and methotrexate in therapy for patients with ALL.

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