CPI-613, Cytarabine, and Mitoxantrone Hydrochloride in Treating Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia or Granulocytic Sarcoma

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients must have histologically or cytologically documented relapsed and/or refractory acute myeloid leukemia or granulocytic sarcoma
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of =< 3
Expected survival > 3 months
Women of child-bearing potential (i.e., women who are pre-menopausal or not surgically sterile) must use accepted contraceptive methods (abstinence, intrauterine device [IUD], oral contraceptive or double barrier device), and must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 1 week prior to treatment initiation
Fertile men must practice effective contraceptive methods during the study period, unless documentation of infertility exists
Mentally competent, ability to understand and willingness to sign the informed consent form
No radiotherapy, treatment with cytotoxic agents (except CPI-613), treatment with biologic agents or any anti-cancer therapy within the 2 weeks prior to treatment with CPI-613; hydroxyurea and oral tyrosine kinase inhibitors being used without grade =< 2 toxicity can be taken until day 1 of therapy; patients must have fully recovered from the acute, non-hematological, non-infectious toxicities of any prior treatment with cytotoxic drugs, radiotherapy or other anti-cancer modalities (returned to baseline status as noted before most recent treatment); patients with persisting, non-hematologic, non-infectious toxicities from prior treatment =< grade 2 are eligible, but must be documented as such
Aspartate aminotransferase (AST)/serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) =< 3 x upper normal limit (UNL), alanine aminotransferase (ALT)/serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT) =< 3 x UNL (=< 5 x upper limit of normal [ULN] if liver metastases present)
Bilirubin =< 1.5 x UNL
Serum creatinine =< 1.5 mg/dL or 133 umol/L
International normalized ratio or INR must be < 1.5
Left ventricular ejection fraction (by transthoracic echocardiography [TTE], multigated acquisition scan [MUGA] or cardiac magnetic resonance imaging [MRI]) sufficient to safely administer mitoxantrone as determined by the treating physician

Exclusion Criteria:

Serious medical illness, such as significant cardiac disease (e.g. symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, myocardial infarction within the past 6 months, uncontrolled cardiac arrhythmia, pericardial disease or New York Heart Association class III or IV), or severe debilitating pulmonary disease, that would potentially increase patients' risk for toxicity
Patients with active central nervous system (CNS) or epidural tumor
Any active uncontrolled bleeding, and any patients with a bleeding diathesis (e.g., active peptic ulcer disease)
Pregnant women, or women of child-bearing potential not using reliable means of contraception
Lactating females
Fertile men unwilling to practice contraceptive methods during the study period
Life expectancy less than 3 months
Any condition or abnormality which may, in the opinion of the investigator, compromise the safety of patients
Unwilling or unable to follow protocol requirements
Patients with large and recurrent pleural or peritoneal effusions requiring frequent drainage (e.g. weekly); patients with any amount of clinically significant pericardial effusion
Active heart disease including myocardial infarction within previous 6 months, symptomatic coronary artery disease, uncontrolled arrhythmias, or symptomatic congestive heart failure
Evidence of ongoing, uncontrolled infection
Patients with known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection
Patients receiving any other standard or investigational treatment for their cancer, or any other investigational agent for any indication within the past 2 weeks prior to initiation of CPI-613 treatment (the use of Hydrea is allowed)
Patients who have received immunotherapy of any type within the past 4 weeks prior to initiation of CPI-613 treatment
Requirement for immediate palliative treatment of any kind including surgery
Patients that have received a chemotherapy regimen with stem cell support in the previous 6 months
A history of additional risk factors for torsade de pointes (e.g., clinically significant heart failure, hypokalemia, family history of long QT syndrome)