Vorinostat, Cytarabine, and Etoposide in Treating Patients With Relapsed and/or Refractory Acute Leukemia or Myelodysplastic Syndromes or Myeloproliferative Disorders

Conditions

• Accelerated Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
• Adult Acute Basophilic Leukemia
• Adult Acute Eosinophilic Leukemia
• Adult Acute Megakaryoblastic Leukemia (M7)
• Adult Acute Minimally Differentiated Myeloid Leukemia (M0)
• Adult Acute Monoblastic Leukemia (M5a)
• Adult Acute Monocytic Leukemia (M5b)
• Adult Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia With Maturation (M2)
• Adult Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia Without Maturation (M1)
• Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With 11q23 (MLL) Abnormalities
• Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Inv(16)(p13;q22)
• Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(15;17)(q22;q12)
• Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(16;16)(p13;q22)
• Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(8;21)(q22;q22)
• Adult Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia (M4)
• Adult Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia (M3)
• Adult Erythroleukemia (M6a)
• Adult Pure Erythroid Leukemia (M6b)
• Atypical Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, BCR-ABL1 Negative
• Blastic Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
• Chronic Eosinophilic Leukemia
• Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia
• Chronic Neutrophilic Leukemia
• de Novo Myelodysplastic Syndromes
• Essential Thrombocythemia
• Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasm, Unclassifiable
• Polycythemia Vera
• Previously Treated Myelodysplastic Syndromes
• Primary Myelofibrosis
• Recurrent Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• Recurrent Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia
• Relapsing Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
• Secondary Acute Myeloid Leukemia
• Secondary Myelodysplastic Syndromes

Interventions

• DRUG: vorinostat
• DRUG: cytarabine
• DRUG: etoposide
• OTHER: pharmacological study
• OTHER: laboratory biomarker analysis

Sponsor

National Cancer Institute (NCI)