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Fludarabine and Rituximab With or Without Lenalidomide or Cyclophosphamide in Treating Patients With Symptomatic Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia


 

Objectives: Investigators are comparing progression-free survival with four different chemoimmunotherapy combinations to decide which of the four regimens, if any, to take forward into a randomized, phase III trial.

Key entry or exclusion criteria: Patients must have symptomatic disease; lower-risk or high-risk permitted.

Locations: 281 sites.

Goal: 405 patients.

Study sponsor: Cancer and Leukemia Group B in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute, Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, NCIC Clinical Trials Group, and Southwest Oncology Group.

Link for more information: clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT00602459

NIH clinical trials identifier: NCT00602459

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