Status:

COMPLETED

Early Administration of ATG Followed by Cyclophosphamide, Busulfan and Fludarabine Before a Donor Stem Cell Transplant in Patients With Hematological Cancer

Lead Sponsor:

Northside Hospital, Inc.

Collaborating Sponsors:

Blood and Marrow Transplant Group of Georgia

Conditions:

Myeloproliferative Disorders

Kidney Cancer

Eligibility:

All Genders

Up to 75 years

Phase:

PHASE2

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 cell...

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES: * To assess the percentage of patients with hematological malignancies or renal cell carcinoma who achieve \> 90% donor T-cell chimerism at 30 days after treatment with reduced-intensity ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
  • Histologically confirmed diagnosis of one of the following:
  • Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML)
  • Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)- and/or BCR-ABL-positive disease
  • In chronic or accelerated phase
  • Suboptimal response to imatinib mesylate (i.e., no hematologic complete response by 3 months, no major cytogenetic response by 6 months, or no complete cytogenetic response by 1 year)
  • CML in blastic transformation allowed provided patient achieved complete remission (CR) or second chronic phase after treatment with imatinib mesylate or chemotherapy
  • Chronic lymphocytic leukemia meeting one of the following criteria:
  • Rai stage III or IV disease
  • Rai stage I or II disease that failed standard therapy (i.e., disease is progressing after ≥ 1 course of standard therapy)
  • Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) meeting one of the following criteria:
  • Indolent NHL
  • Clinical stage III or IV disease or bulky stage II disease (i.e., ≥ one lymphoid mass \> 5 cm in ≥ one dimension)
  • Relapsed after primary therapy OR is refractory to therapy
  • Aggressive NHL
  • Is not considered curable with standard chemotherapy or autologous stem cell transplantation (i.e., relapsed after autologous stem cell transplantation)
  • Chemotherapy-responsive disease
  • Multiple myeloma
  • Durie-Salmon stage II or III disease
  • Durie Salmon stage I disease allowed provided β2 microglobulin level \> 3 mg/dL
  • Acute myeloid leukemia or acute lymphocytic leukemia
  • In CR (defined as \< 5% blasts in bone marrow and no circulating blasts) AND has any of the following poor prognostic features:
  • WBC \> 100,000/mm\^3 at presentation
  • In second or greater remission
  • Adverse-risk cytogenetics (i.e., Ph1-positive, 11q23 translocation, -5, -7, complex translocations, or other recognized adverse-risk cytogenetics)
  • Renal cell carcinoma
  • Stage IV disease
  • Clear cell morphology
  • Myelodysplastic syndromes
  • Bone marrow blasts ≤ 10% on last bone marrow biopsy prior to transplantation
  • Myeloproliferative disease
  • Anticipated life expectancy on conventional therapy \< 10 years
  • No uncomplicated essential thrombocythemia or primary polycythemia
  • Hodgkin lymphoma
  • Relapsed after ≥ 1 standard-dose chemotherapy regimen
  • Not considered curable by autologous stem cell transplantation
  • No clinical evidence of active CNS involvement
  • Previously treated leptomeningeal disease allowed provided CSF cytology is negative at the time of assessment for transplantation
  • Available 6/6 allele match (i.e., HLA-A, B, DRβ1)matched related donor
  • PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
  • ECOG performance status (PS) 0-2 OR Karnofsky PS 60-100%
  • Bilirubin \< 3 times normal (unless abnormality due to malignancy)
  • AST and ALT \< 3 times normal (unless abnormality due to malignancy)
  • Creatinine ≤ 2.0 mg/dL
  • LVEF ≥ 40% by MUGA or ECHO
  • DLCO ≥ 40% of predicted
  • FEV-1 ≥ 50% of predicted
  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception
  • Deemed to be an appropriate candidate for allogeneic SCT
  • No evidence of myocardial infarction within the past 6 months
  • No psychological or social condition that may interfere with study participation
  • No serious uncontrolled localized or active systemic infection
  • No second malignancy within the past 3 years except for completely excised nonmelanotic skin cancer or in situ carcinoma of the cervix
  • No chronic inflammatory disorder requiring the continued use of glucocorticoids or other immunosuppressive medications
  • No known HIV positivity
  • No hypersensitivity to E. coli-derived proteins

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    April 1 2007

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ACTUAL

    End Date :

    May 1 2012

    Estimated Enrollment :

    24 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT00787761

    Start Date

    April 1 2007

    End Date

    May 1 2012

    Last Update

    October 1 2012

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    Blood and Marrow Transplant Group of Georgia

    Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30342