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Fludarabine Phosphate, Low-Dose Total Body Irradiation, and Donor Stem Cell Transplant in Treating Patients With Hematologic Malignancies or Kidney Cancer

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Inv(16)(p13;q22)
Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(15;17)(q22;q12)
Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Remission
Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Remission
Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With 11q23 (MLL) Abnormalities
Childhood Renal Cell Carcinoma
Chronic Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma
Recurrent Cutaneous T-cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Del(5q)
Interventions
Drug: fludarabine phosphate
Radiation: total-body irradiation
Procedure: nonmyeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Procedure: allogeneic bone marrow transplantation
Procedure: peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
Biological: therapeutic allogeneic lymphocytes
Drug: cyclosporine
Drug: mycophenolate mofetil
Other: pharmacological study
Other: laboratory biomarker analysis
Registration Number
NCT00005799
Lead Sponsor
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Brief Summary

This clinical trial studies fludarabine phosphate, low-dose total body irradiation, and donor stem cell transplant in treating patients with hematologic malignancies or kidney cancer. Giving chemotherapy drugs, such as fludarabine phosphate, and total-body irradiation before a donor peripheral blood stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cancer cells. It may also stop the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. The donated stem cells may replace the patient's immune cells and help destroy any remaining cancer cells (graft-versus-tumor effect). Giving an infusion of the donor's T cells (donor lymphocyte infusion) after the transplant may help increase this effect. Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can also make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving cyclosporine before the transplant and cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil after the transplant may stop this from happening.

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine whether stable allogeneic engraftment from unrelated hematopoietic stem cell donors can be safely established using a non-myeloablative conditioning regimen in patients with hematologic malignancies and renal cell carcinoma.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To evaluate whether donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) can be safely used in patients with mixed or full donor chimerism to eliminate persistent or progressive disease.

OUTLINE:

CONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate intravenously (IV) on days -4 to -2. Patients also undergo low-dose total-body irradiation (TBI) on day 0.

TRANSPLANTATION: Patients undergo allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) or bone marrow transplantation on day 0.

IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive cyclosporine orally (PO) twice daily (BID) on days -3 to 100 with taper to day 177 and mycophenolate mofetil PO BID on days 0-40 with taper to day 96. Patients with mixed chimerism, persistent or progressive disease, and no evidence of graft-versus-host disease and who have been off immunosuppression for at least 2 weeks undergo DLI over 30 minutes. DLI may be repeated every 65 days for up to 3 doses.

After completion of study treatment, patients are follow-up periodically for 5 years.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
55
Inclusion Criteria
  • Age > 50 years with hematologic malignancies treatable by allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) and all patients with B cell malignancies except those who may be cured by autologous stem cell transplantation (SCT)

  • Age =< 50 years of age with hematologic diseases treatable by allogeneic HSCT who through pre-existing medical conditions or prior therapy are considered to be of high risk for regimen related toxicity associated with a conventional transplant or those patients who refuse a conventional SCT; transplants must be approved for these inclusion criteria by both the participating institution's patient review committee such as the Patient Care Conference (PCC at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center [FHCRC]) and by the principal investigator

  • Patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma with the histologic subtypes of clear cell, papillary and medullary may be accepted regardless of age

  • The following diseases will be permitted although other diagnoses can be considered if approved by PCC or the participating institution's patient review committees and the principal investigator

    • Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) - must have received and failed frontline therapy
    • Multiple myeloma - must have received prior chemotherapy; consolidation of chemotherapy by autografting prior to nonmyeloablative HSCT is permitted
    • Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)/acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) - must be in complete remission and have received cytotoxic chemotherapy at some stage before transplant; patients with molecular or early relapse will be accepted providing a donor is available; patients with persistent or refractory disease will be considered on a case by case basis and transplants must be approved by the institution's patient review committees
    • Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) - patients will be accepted in chronic phase or accelerated phase; patients who have received prior autografts after high dose therapy or have undergone intensive chemotherapy for either peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) mobilization or treatment of advanced CML may be enrolled provided they are in complete remission (CR), chronic phase (CP) or accelerated phase (AP)
    • Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) - all patients with MDS will be eligible for this protocol; however, those patients with MDS and frank AML (> 30% blasts in bone marrow aspirate by morphology or flow cytometry) will require induction chemotherapy to obtain a complete remission (marrow blasts < 5%) and remain in complete remission at time of transplant
    • Renal cell carcinoma- must have evidence of disease not amenable to surgical cure or metastatic disease by radiological and histological criteria
  • DONOR: Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) matched unrelated donor; donors should be matched for HLA -A, -B, -C, -developmentally regulated ribonucleic acid (RNA) binding protein 1(DRB)1 and -class II, DQ beta 1 (DQB) 1; HLA -A and -B loci should be matched at least to the level of resolution; HLA -C, -DRB1, and -DQB1 should be typed at the highest level of resolution available at the time of donor selection; donor must consent to either a bone marrow harvest or PBSC mobilization with filgrastim (G-CSF) arranged through the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) or other donor centers

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Exclusion Criteria
  • Patients with rapidly progressive intermediate or high grade NHL

  • Renal cell carcinoma patients with expected survival of less than 6 months

    • Bulky disease resulting in severely limited performance status (< 70%)
    • Any vertebral instability
  • Any active central nervous system (CNS) involvement with disease

  • Fertile men or women unwilling to use contraceptive techniques during and for 12 months following treatment

  • Females who are pregnant

  • Patients with non-hematological tumors

  • Cardiac ejection fraction < 30%

  • Diffusion capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO) < 30% and/or receiving supplementary continuous oxygen

  • Significant elevation of bilirubin and transaminases should be discussed at participating institutions' patient review committees in a case by case basis; evidence of synthetic dysfunction or severe cirrhosis will result in patient exclusion

  • Karnofsky score < 50 (except renal cell carcinoma [RCC])

  • Patients with poorly controlled hypertension on multiple antihypertensives

  • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive patients

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Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Treatment (chemotherapy, TBI, HSCT)total-body irradiationCONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV on days -4 to -2. Patients also undergo low-dose TBI on day 0. TRANSPLANTATION: Patients undergo allogeneic PBSC or bone marrow transplantation on day 0. IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive cyclosporine PO BID on days -3 to 100 with taper to day 177 and mycophenolate mofetil PO BID on days 0-40 with taper to day 96. Patients with mixed chimerism, persistent or progressive disease, and no evidence of graft-versus-host disease and who have been off immunosuppression for at least 2 weeks undergo DLI over 30 minutes. DLI may be repeated every 65 days for up to 3 doses.
Treatment (chemotherapy, TBI, HSCT)nonmyeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantationCONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV on days -4 to -2. Patients also undergo low-dose TBI on day 0. TRANSPLANTATION: Patients undergo allogeneic PBSC or bone marrow transplantation on day 0. IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive cyclosporine PO BID on days -3 to 100 with taper to day 177 and mycophenolate mofetil PO BID on days 0-40 with taper to day 96. Patients with mixed chimerism, persistent or progressive disease, and no evidence of graft-versus-host disease and who have been off immunosuppression for at least 2 weeks undergo DLI over 30 minutes. DLI may be repeated every 65 days for up to 3 doses.
Treatment (chemotherapy, TBI, HSCT)allogeneic bone marrow transplantationCONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV on days -4 to -2. Patients also undergo low-dose TBI on day 0. TRANSPLANTATION: Patients undergo allogeneic PBSC or bone marrow transplantation on day 0. IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive cyclosporine PO BID on days -3 to 100 with taper to day 177 and mycophenolate mofetil PO BID on days 0-40 with taper to day 96. Patients with mixed chimerism, persistent or progressive disease, and no evidence of graft-versus-host disease and who have been off immunosuppression for at least 2 weeks undergo DLI over 30 minutes. DLI may be repeated every 65 days for up to 3 doses.
Treatment (chemotherapy, TBI, HSCT)peripheral blood stem cell transplantationCONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV on days -4 to -2. Patients also undergo low-dose TBI on day 0. TRANSPLANTATION: Patients undergo allogeneic PBSC or bone marrow transplantation on day 0. IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive cyclosporine PO BID on days -3 to 100 with taper to day 177 and mycophenolate mofetil PO BID on days 0-40 with taper to day 96. Patients with mixed chimerism, persistent or progressive disease, and no evidence of graft-versus-host disease and who have been off immunosuppression for at least 2 weeks undergo DLI over 30 minutes. DLI may be repeated every 65 days for up to 3 doses.
Treatment (chemotherapy, TBI, HSCT)therapeutic allogeneic lymphocytesCONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV on days -4 to -2. Patients also undergo low-dose TBI on day 0. TRANSPLANTATION: Patients undergo allogeneic PBSC or bone marrow transplantation on day 0. IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive cyclosporine PO BID on days -3 to 100 with taper to day 177 and mycophenolate mofetil PO BID on days 0-40 with taper to day 96. Patients with mixed chimerism, persistent or progressive disease, and no evidence of graft-versus-host disease and who have been off immunosuppression for at least 2 weeks undergo DLI over 30 minutes. DLI may be repeated every 65 days for up to 3 doses.
Treatment (chemotherapy, TBI, HSCT)pharmacological studyCONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV on days -4 to -2. Patients also undergo low-dose TBI on day 0. TRANSPLANTATION: Patients undergo allogeneic PBSC or bone marrow transplantation on day 0. IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive cyclosporine PO BID on days -3 to 100 with taper to day 177 and mycophenolate mofetil PO BID on days 0-40 with taper to day 96. Patients with mixed chimerism, persistent or progressive disease, and no evidence of graft-versus-host disease and who have been off immunosuppression for at least 2 weeks undergo DLI over 30 minutes. DLI may be repeated every 65 days for up to 3 doses.
Treatment (chemotherapy, TBI, HSCT)laboratory biomarker analysisCONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV on days -4 to -2. Patients also undergo low-dose TBI on day 0. TRANSPLANTATION: Patients undergo allogeneic PBSC or bone marrow transplantation on day 0. IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive cyclosporine PO BID on days -3 to 100 with taper to day 177 and mycophenolate mofetil PO BID on days 0-40 with taper to day 96. Patients with mixed chimerism, persistent or progressive disease, and no evidence of graft-versus-host disease and who have been off immunosuppression for at least 2 weeks undergo DLI over 30 minutes. DLI may be repeated every 65 days for up to 3 doses.
Treatment (chemotherapy, TBI, HSCT)fludarabine phosphateCONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV on days -4 to -2. Patients also undergo low-dose TBI on day 0. TRANSPLANTATION: Patients undergo allogeneic PBSC or bone marrow transplantation on day 0. IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive cyclosporine PO BID on days -3 to 100 with taper to day 177 and mycophenolate mofetil PO BID on days 0-40 with taper to day 96. Patients with mixed chimerism, persistent or progressive disease, and no evidence of graft-versus-host disease and who have been off immunosuppression for at least 2 weeks undergo DLI over 30 minutes. DLI may be repeated every 65 days for up to 3 doses.
Treatment (chemotherapy, TBI, HSCT)mycophenolate mofetilCONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV on days -4 to -2. Patients also undergo low-dose TBI on day 0. TRANSPLANTATION: Patients undergo allogeneic PBSC or bone marrow transplantation on day 0. IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive cyclosporine PO BID on days -3 to 100 with taper to day 177 and mycophenolate mofetil PO BID on days 0-40 with taper to day 96. Patients with mixed chimerism, persistent or progressive disease, and no evidence of graft-versus-host disease and who have been off immunosuppression for at least 2 weeks undergo DLI over 30 minutes. DLI may be repeated every 65 days for up to 3 doses.
Treatment (chemotherapy, TBI, HSCT)cyclosporineCONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV on days -4 to -2. Patients also undergo low-dose TBI on day 0. TRANSPLANTATION: Patients undergo allogeneic PBSC or bone marrow transplantation on day 0. IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive cyclosporine PO BID on days -3 to 100 with taper to day 177 and mycophenolate mofetil PO BID on days 0-40 with taper to day 96. Patients with mixed chimerism, persistent or progressive disease, and no evidence of graft-versus-host disease and who have been off immunosuppression for at least 2 weeks undergo DLI over 30 minutes. DLI may be repeated every 65 days for up to 3 doses.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Establishment of an allograft as defined by stable mixed chimerism or full donor chimerismAt day 56

Engraftment will be assessed separately among patients who receive bone marrow and patients who receive PBSC. Patients with low-risk and high-risk disease will be assessed separately.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Disease-free survivalUp to 200 days

Will be summarized.

Disease-related mortalityBefore day 200

Will be summarized.

RelapseAssessed up to 5 years

Will be summarized.

Incidence of grades 2-4 acute GVHD after DLIUntil day 90

Examined and reported in a descriptive manner and confidence intervals will be presented for all estimates. Analyses will be conducted separately among the low- and high-risk groups.

Incidence of grades 2-4 chronic extensive GVHD after DLIAssessed up to 5 years

Examined and reported in a descriptive manner and confidence intervals will be presented for all estimates. Analyses will be conducted separately among the low- and high-risk groups.

Dose of CD3+ required to convert mixed to full lymphoid chimerasDay 84 post-transplant

Examined and reported in a descriptive manner and confidence intervals will be presented for all estimates. Analyses will be conducted separately among the low- and high-risk groups.

Incidence of myelosuppressionGreater than 2 days after initial PBSC infusion

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) less than 500/ul for more than 2 days, platelets less than 20,000/ul for more than 2 days. Examined and reported in a descriptive manner and confidence intervals will be presented for all estimates. Analyses will be conducted separately among the low- and high-risk groups.

Incidence of aplasia after DLIGreater than 2 days after initial PBSC infusion

Examined and reported in a descriptive manner and confidence intervals will be presented for all estimates. Analyses will be conducted separately among the low- and high-risk groups.

Response of malignancy to DLIAssessed up to 5 years

Examined and reported in a descriptive manner and confidence intervals will be presented for all estimates. Analyses will be conducted separately among the low- and high-risk groups.

Incidence of grades 2-4 acute GVHD after PBSC infusionUp to day 177

Examined and reported in a descriptive manner and confidence intervals will be presented for all estimates. Analyses will be conducted separately among the low- and high-risk groups.

Incidence of infectionsAssessed up to 5 years

Examined and reported in a descriptive manner and confidence intervals will be presented for all estimates. Analyses will be conducted separately among the low- and high-risk groups.

Trial Locations

Locations (7)

Universitaet Leipzig

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Leipzig, Germany

City of Hope Medical Center

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Duarte, California, United States

Stanford University Hospitals and Clinics

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Stanford, California, United States

Huntsman Cancer Institute/University of Utah

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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium

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Seattle, Washington, United States

University of Colorado

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Denver, Colorado, United States

Baylor University Medical Center

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Dallas, Texas, United States

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