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Donor Stem Cell Transplant in Treating Patients With High-Risk Hematologic Cancer

Phase 2
Terminated
Conditions
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Lymphoma
Leukemia
Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Diseases
Interventions
Biological: alemtuzumab
Biological: graft-versus-tumor induction therapy
Biological: rituximab
Procedure: allogeneic bone marrow transplantation
Registration Number
NCT00818961
Lead Sponsor
Northside Hospital, Inc.
Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Giving low doses of chemotherapy before a donor 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). Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can also make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving a monoclonal antibody, such as alemtuzumab, before transplant and tacrolimus and methotrexate after transplant may stop this from happening.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying the side effects of donor stem cell transplant and to see how well it works in treating patients with high-risk hematologic cancer.

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

* To evaluate the safety and toxicity of a reduced-intensity conditioning regimen followed by allogeneic bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation from an HLA-matched unrelated donor in patients with high-risk hematologic malignancies.

* To evaluate engraftment by peripheral blood chimerism analysis.

* To determine the incidence and severity of acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease following the transplant.

* To examine the possibility of controlling hematologic malignancies by induction of a graft-versus-leukemia/tumor effect.

* To determine the disease-free survival, relapse, transplant-related mortality, and death from all causes.

OUTLINE:

* Reduced-intensity conditioning regimen: Patients receive 1 of 2 conditioning regimens according to diagnosis.

* Regimen 1 (acute leukemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, myeloproliferative syndrome, or chronic myelogenous leukemia): Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV over 30 minutes and busulfan IV over 3 hours on days -6 to -3 or orally 4 times daily on days -7 to -3.

* Regimen 2 (lymphoproliferative malignancies): Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV over 30 minutes and cyclophosphamide IV over 1 hour on days -5 to -3. Patients with CD20+ malignancies also receive rituximab IV over 4-6 hours on days -13, -6, 1, and 8.

* Transplantation: Patients undergo allogeneic bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation on day 0.

* Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis: Patients receive low-dose alemtuzumab subcutaneously on days -11 to -9 and tacrolimus IV over 24 hours beginning on day -3 and then orally twice daily beginning on day 14 and continuing until day 60, followed by a taper until day 180 in the absence of clinically significant GVHD. Patients also receive methotrexate on days 1, 3, and 6.

Patients who exhibit persistent mixed chimerism or disease relapse/progression despite full withdrawal of immunosuppression may receive up to 3 donor lymphocyte infusions.

Blood samples are taken on days 30, 60, and 100 and then every 4 weeks thereafter for chimerism studies by PCR analysis.

After completion of study therapy, patients are followed periodically for up to 60 months.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
TERMINATED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
36
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Hematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationalemtuzumabAll patients receive a hematopoietic stem cell transplant using one of two chemotherapy regimens based on donor type
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantationgraft-versus-tumor induction therapyAll patients receive a hematopoietic stem cell transplant using one of two chemotherapy regimens based on donor type
Hematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationrituximabAll patients receive a hematopoietic stem cell transplant using one of two chemotherapy regimens based on donor type
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantationallogeneic bone marrow transplantationAll patients receive a hematopoietic stem cell transplant using one of two chemotherapy regimens based on donor type
Hematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationbusulfanAll patients receive a hematopoietic stem cell transplant using one of two chemotherapy regimens based on donor type
Hematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationcyclophosphamideAll patients receive a hematopoietic stem cell transplant using one of two chemotherapy regimens based on donor type
Hematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationtacrolimusAll patients receive a hematopoietic stem cell transplant using one of two chemotherapy regimens based on donor type
Hematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationmethotrexateAll patients receive a hematopoietic stem cell transplant using one of two chemotherapy regimens based on donor type
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantationfludarabine phosphateAll patients receive a hematopoietic stem cell transplant using one of two chemotherapy regimens based on donor type
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Survival at Day 100100 day

Survival at Day 100

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Non-relapse Mortality at Day 100Day 100

patients are evaluable for their cause of death at Day 100

Overall Survival at 1 Year1 year

Evaluation of overall survival at 1 year (# of patients who are alive at 1 year post-transplant)

Non-relapse Mortality at 1 Year Post-transplant1 year

Number of patients who died of non-relapse causes at one year. this is in clusive of all patients who were transplanted on study even though only 10 patients died at by 1 year time point. This outcome will be referenced in the donor chimerism outcome. Only 26/36 patients were eligible for this time point as that is all that were alive.

Number of Patients Requiring the Use of Donor Leukocyte Infusion (DLI) for Early Mixed T-cell ChimerismDay 100

DLI is used for patients with mixed chimerism following transplant

Number of Patients Experiencing Grade 2-4 Acute Graft-versus-host Disease Post-transplantpatients were followed for 2 years

patients experiencing acute graft versus host disease post-transplant

Number of Patients Experiencing Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease>100 days post-transplant
Number of Patients Experiencing Veno-occlusive Disease (VOD) Post-transplant4 years

Patients will be evaluated up to 4 years post transplant

Complete Donor Chimerism2 years

Complete donor chimerism (defined as \>/= 95% donor cells in peripheral blood CD3+ and CD33+ was measured.

Neutrophil RecoveryDay 100

The number of patients experiencing neutrophil recovery post transplant

Platelet EngraftmentDay 100

The number of patients experiencing platelet engraftment post-transplant

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Blood and Marrow Transplant Group of Georgia

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Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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