Status:

COMPLETED

Total-Body Irradiation, Thiotepa, and Fludarabine in Treating Young Patients Who Are Undergoing a Donor Stem Cell Transplant for Hematologic Cancer

Lead Sponsor:

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Conditions:

Leukemia

Myelodysplastic Syndromes

Eligibility:

All Genders

Up to 20 years

Phase:

PHASE1

PHASE2

Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Chemotherapy, such as fludarabine and thiotepa, and radiation therapy may destroy cancerous blood-forming cells (stem cells) in the blood and bone marrow. Giving healthy stem cells from a d...

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES: Primary * Determine the safety of a conditioning regimen without anti-thymocyte globulin comprising total body irradiation, thiotepa, and fludarabine followed by CD34-positive-selected h...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
  • Diagnosis of a life-threatening hematologic malignancy, including any of the following:
  • Acute leukemia advanced beyond first remission
  • Acute leukemia in first remission\* with very high-risk prognostic features, including any of the following:
  • Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)
  • ALL or acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with 11q23 chromosomal abnormality
  • Hypodiploid ALL
  • Failed to achieve first remission within 1 month after induction therapy
  • Secondary AML
  • Myelodysplastic syndromes with International Prognostic Index score \> 1
  • Chronic myelogenous leukemia in accelerated or blast phase NOTE: \*Must be approved by PCC
  • Haploidentical family donor available
  • No suitable HLA-matched related or unrelated donor available
  • No related donor mismatched for a single HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1, or -DQB1 antigen available
  • PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
  • Age
  • Under 21
  • Performance status
  • Not specified
  • Life expectancy
  • At least 6 months
  • Hematopoietic
  • Not specified
  • Hepatic
  • SGPT and SGOT \< 2 times upper limit of normal (ULN)\*
  • Bilirubin \< 2 times ULN\* NOTE: \*Unless due to malignancy
  • Renal
  • Not specified
  • Cardiovascular
  • Ejection fraction ≥ 45%
  • Pulmonary
  • DLCO ≥ 60% of predicted
  • Other
  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception
  • HIV negative
  • PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
  • Biologic therapy
  • No second bone marrow transplantation, after a first regimen containing total body irradiation
  • No concurrent growth factors until day 21 post-transplantation
  • Chemotherapy
  • Not specified
  • Endocrine therapy
  • Not specified
  • Radiotherapy
  • See Biologic therapy
  • Surgery
  • Not specified

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    April 1 2003

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ESTIMATED

    End Date :

    July 1 2007

    Estimated Enrollment :

    20 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT00112567

    Start Date

    April 1 2003

    End Date

    July 1 2007

    Last Update

    September 21 2010

    Active Locations (2)

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    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

    Seattle, Washington, United States, 98104

    2

    Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

    Seattle, Washington, United States, 98109-1023