Donor Umbilical Cord Blood Transplant in Treating Patients With Hematologic Cancer

Phase 2

Completed

Conditions: Recurrent Plasma Cell Myeloma
Refractory Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
Refractory Follicular Lymphoma
Recurrent Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Recurrent Mantle Cell Lymphoma
Recurrent Marginal Zone Lymphoma
Recurrent T-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Recurrent Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphoma
Myelodysplastic Syndrome
Myeloproliferative Neoplasm

Interventions: Procedure: Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Drug: Cyclophosphamide
Drug: Cyclosporine
Drug: Fludarabine Phosphate
Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Drug: Mycophenolate Mofetil
Radiation: Total-Body Irradiation
Procedure: Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation

Registration Number: NCT00723099

Lead Sponsor: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Brief Summary: This phase II trial is studying how well umbilical cord blood transplant from a donor works in treating patients with hematological cancer. Giving chemotherapy and total-body irradiation (TBI) before a donor umbilical cord blood transplant helps stop the growth of cancer and abnormal cells and helps stop the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. When the healthy stem cells from an unrelated donor, that do not exactly match the patient's blood, are infused into the patient they may help the patient's bone marrow make stem cells, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can make an immune response against the body's normal cells (called graft-versus-host disease). Giving cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil before and after transplant may stop this from happening.

Detailed Description: PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Estimate probability of one year survival.

II. Demonstrate equivalent or improved engraftment rates with a non-anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) based conditioning regimen. Patients will be considered graft failure/rejections provided they meet any of the criteria listed below:

* Absence of 3 consecutive days with neutrophils \>= 500/ul combined with host cluster of differentiation (CD)3 peripheral blood chimerism \>= 50% at day 42

* Absence of 3 consecutive days with neutrophils \>= 500/ul under any circumstances at day 55

* Death after day 28 with neutrophil count \< 100/ul without any evidence of engraftment (\< 5% donor CD3)

* Primary autologous count recovery with \< 5% donor CD3 peripheral blood chimerism at count recovery and without relapse

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Six month non-relapse mortality.

II. Overall incidence of graft failure/rejection. Patients will be considered graft failure/rejections provided they meet any of the criteria listed below:

* Absence of 3 consecutive days with neutrophils \>= 500/ul combined with host CD3 peripheral blood chimerism \>= 50% at day 42

* Absence of 3 consecutive days with neutrophils \>= 500/ul under any circumstances at day 55

* Death after day 28 with neutrophil count \< 100/ul without any evidence of engraftment (\< 5% donor CD3)

* Primary autologous count recovery with \< 5% donor CD3 peripheral blood chimerism at count recovery and without relapse

III. Kinetics of chimeric reconstitution.

IV. Incidence of neutrophil engraftment by day 42.

V. Incidence of platelet engraftment by six months.

VI. Incidence of grade II-IV and III-IV acute graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) at day 100.

VII. Incidence of one year chronic GvHD.

VIII. Incidence of clinically significant infections at 6 months, 1 year, 2 years.

IX. Probability of one and two year survival.

X. Incidence of one and two year relapse or disease progression.

XI. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) patients: Kinetics of immune reconstitution, with both functional and quantitative assays.

XII. FHCRC patients: Examination of possible immunologic factors leading to emergence of a dominant unit.

OUTLINE:

CONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate intravenously (IV) over 1 hour on days -6 to -2 and cyclophosphamide IV over 1-2 hours on day -6. Patients undergo a lower dose of total-body irradiation (TBI) on day -1.

UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANT: Patients undergo donor umbilical cord blood infusion on day 0.

IMMUNOSUPRESSIVE THERAPIES: Patients receive cyclosporine IV over 1 hour every 8-12 hours on days -3 to +180 and mycophenolate mofetil IV or orally (PO) every 8 hours on days 0 to +96.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed periodically for up to 2 years.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: COMPLETED

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 73

Inclusion Criteria

Patients > 70 may be considered if performance status > 80% or Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) =< 1 and comorbidity score < 3; these patients must be discussed with the principal investigator (PI), Rachel Salit prior to enrollment
Adequate cardiac function defined as absence of decompensated congestive heart failure, or uncontrolled arrhythmia and:
- Left ventricular ejection fraction >= 35% or
- Fractional shortening > 22%
Adequate pulmonary function defined as diffusion capacity of carbon monoxide (DLCO) > 30% predicted, and absence of oxygen (O2) requirements
Adequate hepatic function; patients with clinical or laboratory evidence of liver disease will be evaluated for the cause of liver disease, its clinical severity in terms of liver function, histology, and the degree of portal hypertension; patients with fulminant liver failure, cirrhosis with evidence of portal hypertension or bridging fibrosis, alcoholic hepatitis, esophageal varices, a history of bleeding esophageal varices, hepatic encephalopathy, or correctable hepatic synthetic dysfunction evidenced by prolongation of the prothrombin time, ascites related to portal hypertension, bacterial or fungal abscess, biliary obstruction, chronic viral hepatitis with total serum bilirubin > 3 mg/dL, and symptomatic biliary disease will be excluded
Adequate renal function defined as creatinine =< 2.0 mg/dl (adults) or creatinine clearance > 40 ml/min (pediatrics)
All adults with a creatinine > 1.2 or a history of renal dysfunction must have estimated creatinine clearance > 40 ml/min
Performance status score: Karnofsky (for adults) >= 60 or ECOG 0-2; Lansky (for children) score >= 50
If recent mold infection, e.g., Aspergillus, must be cleared by infectious disease
Second hematopoietic cell transplant: Must be >= 3 months after prior myeloablative transplant
Patients who have received < 2 cycles of multiagent chemotherapy and patients who have received no multiagent chemotherapy within the 3 months previous to umbilical cord blood transplant (UCBT) as well as patients experiencing graft failure following previous allogeneic transplant
Acute myeloid leukemia/acute lymphoblastic leukemia, including biphenotypic acute leukemia or mixed-lineage leukemia: Must have < 5% morphologic marrow blasts in an evaluable marrow (> 25% of normal cellularity for age) collected less than one month prior to start of conditioning; patients persistently aplastic for greater than one month since completing last chemotherapy are also eligible with the approval of the PI or designee
Chronic myelogenous leukemia: All types, except refractory blast crisis; chronic phase patients must have failed or been intolerant to Gleevec or other tyrosine kinase inhibitors; at time of transplant, patients must have < 5% blasts in an evaluable marrow (> 25% of normal cellularity for age) by morphology within the bone marrow
Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS): Any subtype; morphologic blasts must be less than 5% in an evaluable marrow (> 25% of normal cellularity for age); if blasts are 5% or more, patient requires induction chemotherapy pre-transplant to reduce blast count to less than 5%; patients who have a hypocellular marrow in the absence of excess blasts that is related to the underlying disease or as a result of treatment for MDS may also be eligible with the approval of the PI or designee
Large-cell lymphoma and aggressive T-cell lymphoma: With chemotherapy sensitive disease that has failed autologous transplant or patients who are ineligible for an autologous transplant; chemotherapy sensitive disease is defined as >= 50% reduction in the size of the tumor with the chemotherapy regimen immediately preceding transplant
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL): Must be refractory to fludarabine (fludarabine phosphate) or fail to have a complete or partial response after therapy with a regimen containing fludarabine (or another nucleoside analog, e.g. cladribine [2-CDA], pentostatin) or experience disease relapse within 12 months after completing therapy with a regimen containing fludarabine (or another nucleoside analog)
Hodgkin disease: Must have received and failed frontline therapy
Follicular lymphoma, marginal zone B-cell lymphoma, lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma, mantle-cell lymphoma, and indolent T-cell lymphomas: Must have progressed with the most recent remission duration being < 6 months; patients with bulky disease should be considered for debulking chemotherapy before transplant; patients with refractory disease are eligible, unless they have bulky disease and an estimated tumor doubling time of less than one month
Multiple myeloma: Must have received prior chemotherapy; consolidation of chemotherapy by autografting prior to nonmyeloablative hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT) is permitted
Myeloproliferative syndromes
DONOR: Cord blood (CB) donor selection will be based on institutional guidelines and in general should be selected to optimize both human leukocyte antigen (HLA) match and cell dose; additionally, CB grafts shall consist of one or two CB donors based on, but not exclusively determined by, cell dose (total nucleated cell [TNC]/kg and CD34/kg), HLA matching and disease status and indication for transplant; attending preference will be allowed for single versus double unit as well as the degree of mismatching based on patient specific factors, as long as the following minimum criteria are met:
- HLA matching
  - Minimum requirement: The CB graft(s) must be matched at a minimum at 4/6 HLA-A, B, DRB1 loci with the recipient. Therefore 0-2 mismatches at the A or B or DRB1 loci based on intermediate resolution A, B antigen and DRB1 allele typing for determination of HLA-match is allowed
  - HLA-matching determined by high-resolution typing is allowed per institutional guidelines as long as the minimum criteria are met
- Selection of two CB units is mandatory when a single cord blood unit does not meet the following criteria:
  - Match grade 6/6; TNC Dose >= 2.5 x 10^7/kg
  - Match grade 5/6 or 4/6; TNC dose >= 4.0 (+/- 0.5) x 10^7/kg
- If two CB units are used, the total cell dose of the combined units must be at least 3.0 x 10^7 TNC per kilogram recipient weight based on pre-cryopreservation numbers, with each CB unit containing a MINIMUM of 1.5 x 10^7 TNC/kg
- The minimum recommended CD34/kg cell dose should be 2 x 10^5 CD34/kg, total dose from a single or combined double
- The unmanipulated CB unit(s) will be Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed or will be obtained under a separate investigational new drug (IND), such as the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) Protocol 10-CBA conducted under BB IND-7555 or another IND sponsored by (1) a participating institution or (2) an investigator at FHCRC or one of the participating institutions
- FHCRC only: Up to 5% of cord blood product, when ready for infusion, may be withheld for research purposes as long as thresholds for infused TNC dose are met; threshold for double unit transplantation is >= 3.0 x 10^7/kg; these products will be used to conduct studies involving the immunobiology of double cord transplantation and kinetics of engraftment

Exclusion Criteria

Patients with an available 5-6/6 HLA-A, B, DRB1 matched sibling donor
Pregnancy or breastfeeding
Evidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or known HIV positive serology
Uncontrolled viral or bacterial infection at the time of study enrollment
Active or recent (prior 6 month) invasive fungal infection without infectious disease (ID) consult and approval
Active central nervous system malignancy
Patients who have received >= 2 cycles of multiagent chemotherapy within the 3 months previous to UCBT; patients who have had previous autologous transplant within 12 months of UCBT are excluded regardless of history of recent treatment
DONOR: Any cord blood units with < 1.5 x 10^7 total nucleated cells per kilogram recipient weight
DONOR: Any cord blood units without the full maternal testing and negative results for hepatitis A, B, C, HIV, and human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV-1) viruses; any additional available virology results on the unit itself will be reviewed but are not mandated, complete or always available; cord blood units are presumed to be cytomegalovirus (CMV) negative regardless of serologic testing due to passive transmission of maternal CMV antibodies

Study & Design

Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Treatment (chemotherapy, transplant)	Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation	CONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV over 1 hour on days -6 to -2 and cyclophosphamide IV over 1-2 hours on day -6. Patients undergo a lower dose of TBI on day -1. UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANT: Patients undergo donor umbilical cord blood infusion on day 0. IMMUNOSUPRESSIVE THERAPIES: Patients receive cyclosporine IV over 1 hour every 8-12 hours on days 0 to +180 and mycophenolate mofetil IV or PO every 8 hours on days -3 to +96.
Treatment (chemotherapy, transplant)	Cyclophosphamide	CONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV over 1 hour on days -6 to -2 and cyclophosphamide IV over 1-2 hours on day -6. Patients undergo a lower dose of TBI on day -1. UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANT: Patients undergo donor umbilical cord blood infusion on day 0. IMMUNOSUPRESSIVE THERAPIES: Patients receive cyclosporine IV over 1 hour every 8-12 hours on days 0 to +180 and mycophenolate mofetil IV or PO every 8 hours on days -3 to +96.
Treatment (chemotherapy, transplant)	Cyclosporine	CONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV over 1 hour on days -6 to -2 and cyclophosphamide IV over 1-2 hours on day -6. Patients undergo a lower dose of TBI on day -1. UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANT: Patients undergo donor umbilical cord blood infusion on day 0. IMMUNOSUPRESSIVE THERAPIES: Patients receive cyclosporine IV over 1 hour every 8-12 hours on days 0 to +180 and mycophenolate mofetil IV or PO every 8 hours on days -3 to +96.
Treatment (chemotherapy, transplant)	Fludarabine Phosphate	CONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV over 1 hour on days -6 to -2 and cyclophosphamide IV over 1-2 hours on day -6. Patients undergo a lower dose of TBI on day -1. UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANT: Patients undergo donor umbilical cord blood infusion on day 0. IMMUNOSUPRESSIVE THERAPIES: Patients receive cyclosporine IV over 1 hour every 8-12 hours on days 0 to +180 and mycophenolate mofetil IV or PO every 8 hours on days -3 to +96.
Treatment (chemotherapy, transplant)	Laboratory Biomarker Analysis	CONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV over 1 hour on days -6 to -2 and cyclophosphamide IV over 1-2 hours on day -6. Patients undergo a lower dose of TBI on day -1. UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANT: Patients undergo donor umbilical cord blood infusion on day 0. IMMUNOSUPRESSIVE THERAPIES: Patients receive cyclosporine IV over 1 hour every 8-12 hours on days 0 to +180 and mycophenolate mofetil IV or PO every 8 hours on days -3 to +96.
Treatment (chemotherapy, transplant)	Mycophenolate Mofetil	CONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV over 1 hour on days -6 to -2 and cyclophosphamide IV over 1-2 hours on day -6. Patients undergo a lower dose of TBI on day -1. UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANT: Patients undergo donor umbilical cord blood infusion on day 0. IMMUNOSUPRESSIVE THERAPIES: Patients receive cyclosporine IV over 1 hour every 8-12 hours on days 0 to +180 and mycophenolate mofetil IV or PO every 8 hours on days -3 to +96.
Treatment (chemotherapy, transplant)	Total-Body Irradiation	CONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV over 1 hour on days -6 to -2 and cyclophosphamide IV over 1-2 hours on day -6. Patients undergo a lower dose of TBI on day -1. UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANT: Patients undergo donor umbilical cord blood infusion on day 0. IMMUNOSUPRESSIVE THERAPIES: Patients receive cyclosporine IV over 1 hour every 8-12 hours on days 0 to +180 and mycophenolate mofetil IV or PO every 8 hours on days -3 to +96.
Treatment (chemotherapy, transplant)	Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation	CONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV over 1 hour on days -6 to -2 and cyclophosphamide IV over 1-2 hours on day -6. Patients undergo a lower dose of TBI on day -1. UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD TRANSPLANT: Patients undergo donor umbilical cord blood infusion on day 0. IMMUNOSUPRESSIVE THERAPIES: Patients receive cyclosporine IV over 1 hour every 8-12 hours on days 0 to +180 and mycophenolate mofetil IV or PO every 8 hours on days -3 to +96.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Overall Survival	At 1 year	Kaplan-Meier and cumulative incidence estimates will be used.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Time to Platelet Engraftment of > 20,000 Cells Per mm3	By 6 months	median and range
Percent of Patients With Non-relapse Mortality	1 year	Kaplan-Meier and cumulative incidence estimates
Median Time to ANC > 500	By day 55
Number of Participants With Graft Failure/Rejection	By day 55	descriptive
Percent of Patients With Grade II-IV Acute Graft Versus Host Disease	By day 100	Chi-square test was used to determine percent of grade II-IV GVHD using Glucksberg criteria
Percent of Patients With Acute GVHD Grades III-IV	100 days	Fischer's exact test was used to determined percent of patients with acute grade III-IV GVHD by Glucksberg criteria
Percent of Patients With Chronic GVHD	At 2 years	Kaplan-Meier and cumulative incidence estimates will be used to measure percent of patients with chronic GVHD by NIH consensus criteria.

Trial Locations

Locations (6): University of Colorado Hospital
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Aurora, Colorado, United States
Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Colorado Blood Cancer Institute
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Denver, Colorado, United States
VA Puget Sound Health Care System
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Seattle, Washington, United States
Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
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Seattle, Washington, United States
LDS Hospital
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States