| Inclusion Criteria: | 1) Patients with MDS, CMML or AML, who have failed prior therapy. Patients with MDS or CMML should have failed prior therapy with a hypomethylating agent and/or with lenalidomide. Patients with AML should have failed any prior induction therapy or have relapsed after prior therapy, or be previously untreated and unable or unwilling to receive conventional chemotherapy (e.g., patients age >/=65 years). Patients with MDS or CMML who received therapy with a hypomethylating agent and progress to AML are eligible at the time of diagnosis of AML regardless any prior therapy for AML. The WHO classification will be used for AML. Patients with MDS, CMML or AML who have received no prior therapy are eligible if not candidates to receive or refuse standard therapy.
2) Patients must have evidence of FLT3 activating mutations.
3) Age >/= 18 years
4) ECOG Performance Status </= 2
5) Adequate liver (bilirubin </= 2x ULN, ALT </= 2.5x ULN) and renal (creatinine </= 2x ULN) function
6) Patients must provide written informed consent.
7) Patients must have been off chemotherapy for 2 weeks prior to entering this study, unless there is evidence of rapidly progressive disease, and must have recovered from the toxic effects of that therapy to at least grade 1. Use of hydroxyurea for patients with rapidly proliferative disease is allowed before the start of study therapy and for the first four weeks on therapy.
8) Women of childbearing potential must practice contraception. Women considered not of childbearing potential include any of the following: no menses for at least 5 years or menses within 5 years but amenorrheic for at least 2 months and luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicular stimulating hormone (FSH) values within normal range (according to definition of postmenopausal for laboratory used) or bilateral oophorectomy or radiation castration and amenorrheic for at least 3 months. Females of childbearing potential: Recommendation is for 2 effective contraceptive methods during the study. Adequate forms of contraception are double barrier methods (condoms with spermicidal jelly or foam and diaphragm with spermicidal jelly or foam), oral, depo provera, or injectable contraceptives, intrauterine devices, and tubal ligation.
9) **continued from above: Male patients with female partners who are of childbearing potential: Recommendation is for male and partner to use at least 2 effective contraceptive methods, as described above, during the study.
10) Sexually active males should use a condom during intercourse while taking drug and for 3 months after stopping midostaurin medication. They should not father a child in this period. A condom is required to be used also by vasectomized men in order to prevent delivery of the drug via seminal fluid .
11) Negative urine or serum pregnancy test within 2 weeks. |