Clinical Trial: Registry of the German CLL Study Group

Study Status: Recruiting
Recruit Status: Recruiting
Study Type: Observational [Patient Registry]

Official Title: Registry of the German CLL Study Group Long Term Follow-up of Patients With CLL, B-PLL, T-PLL, SLL,T or NK-LGL, HCL and Richter's Transformation

Brief Summary: Long term follow-up of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), B-prolymphocytic leukemia (B-PLL), T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia (T-PLL), Small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL), T/Natural Killer large granular lymphocyte leukemia (T or NK-LGL), Hairy cell leukemia (HCL) and Richter's transformation

Detailed Summary:

The most frequent primary endpoint in phase III trials of CLL is progression-free survival (PFS). However, the most important endpoint is overall survival (OS) which is usually a secondary endpoint in such trials. The outcome after progression is critical and responses to second and subsequent therapies may differ between the trial arms. Therefore it is essential to assess OS in addition to PFS. In addition, late toxicities, such as myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) or acute myeloid leukemia (AML), Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated lymphoproliferative disease or Hodgkin's disease, late opportunistic infections and second malignancies, are increasingly seen and are likely to differ depending on the intensity of therapy. Moreover, meta-analysis of several phase III trials with long follow-periods are desirable. Similarly, valid analyses of biological disease characteristics in relation to outcome are depending on large collections of clinical data with mature follow-up.

The findings of the CLL8 study provide evidence that the addition of rituximab to chemotherapy with Fludarabine and Cyclophosphamide (FC) may prolong survival of patients with CLL. However, it also opens the question about whether applying such therapy might cause certain late toxicities and whether it improves longterm survival for patients with CLL. Moreover the outcome of subsequent therapies after various first line treatments with Fludarabine (F), FC, Bendamustine and Rituximab (BR) or Fludarabine, Cyclophosphamide and Rituximab (FCR) amongst others outside of clinical trials needs to be investigated further.

Recently published phase III trials in CLL showed median observation times ranging from 22 to 41 months, but most of the trials report observation times around 2 years only. For most of the phase III trials of the German CLL Study Group (GCLLSG) grea
Sponsor: German CLL Study Group

Current Primary Outcome: Overall Survival [ Time Frame: from date of registry entry until date of death, up to 12 years ]

Overall survival will be measured from date of registry entry until date of death


Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome:

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Information By: German CLL Study Group

Dates:
Date Received: February 26, 2015
Date Started: August 2013
Date Completion: December 2025
Last Updated: September 15, 2016
Last Verified: September 2016