Donor Stem Cell Transplant in Treating Young Patients With Myelodysplastic Syndrome, Leukemia, Bone Marrow Failure Syndrome, or Severe Immunodeficiency Disease

Sponsor
University of California, San Francisco (Other)
Overall Status
Completed
CT.gov ID
NCT00295971
Collaborator
National Cancer Institute (NCI) (NIH)
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Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Giving chemotherapy and total body irradiation before a donor bone marrow transplant or peripheral blood stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cancer cells. It also helps stop the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. When the healthy stem cells from a donor 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. Giving antithymocyte globulin and removing the T cells from the donor cells before transplant may stop this from happening.

PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of donor T cells and antithymocyte globulin when given together with chemotherapy and total-body irradiation in treating young patients who are undergoing T-cell depleted donor stem cell transplant for myelodysplastic syndrome, leukemia, bone marrow failure syndrome, or severe immunodeficiency disease.

Condition or Disease Intervention/Treatment Phase
  • Biological: anti-thymocyte globulin
  • Biological: therapeutic allogeneic lymphocytes
  • Drug: fludarabine phosphate
  • Drug: thiotepa
  • Procedure: allogeneic bone marrow transplantation
  • Procedure: allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
  • Procedure: in vitro-treated peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
  • Radiation: total-body irradiation
Phase 1

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:
  • Determine the efficacy and toxicity of stem cell-enriched, T-cell-depleted, haplocompatible allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in children with high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes, high-risk leukemia, severe acquired or congenital cytopenias, or primary immunodeficiency diseases.

  • Determine the toxicity of a fludarabine and thiotepa-containing regimen in combination with lower doses of antithymocyte globulin in these patients.

  • Determine the engraftment rate in patients treated with this regimen.

  • Define T-cell reconstitution in these patients.

  • Determine the toxicity and effects of administering stem cell and T-cell boosts after transplantation on hematopoiesis and immune reconstitution in these patients.

OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation study of donor CD3+ cells and antithymocyte globulin (ATG).

  • Cytoreductive regimen: Patients undergo total body irradiation twice daily on days -9 to -7. Patients also receive fludarabine IV on days -6 to -2, thiotepa IV every 12 hours on day -6, and ATG IV on days -5 to -2.

  • Transplantation: Patients undergo CD34-enriched, T-cell-depleted, haplocompatible allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell or bone marrow transplantation on day 0.

  • Donor T-cell infusion:Patients with no active graft-vs-host disease and evidence of engraftment but low absolute CD34+ lymphocyte count at 12 weeks post transplant may receive donor CD3+ cells at 4-week intervals.

  • Donor stem cell boost: Patients with engraftment but either cytokine or transfusion dependent at 12 weeks post transplant may receive a boost of donor CD34+ cells.

Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses of donor CD3+ cells and ATG until the optimum is determined. The optimum dose is defined as the dose at which both engraftment and T-cell recovery occur, without dose-limiting toxicity, in ≥ 5 of 6 patients.

After the completion of study treatment, patients are followed periodically for 5 years and then every 5 years thereafter.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 21 patients will be accrued for this study.

Study Design

Study Type:
Interventional
Actual Enrollment :
21 participants
Allocation:
N/A
Intervention Model:
Single Group Assignment
Masking:
None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose:
Treatment
Official Title:
Stem Cell Enriched, T Cell Depleted Haplocompatible Peripheral Blood Transplantation for Children With Myelodysplastic Disease, Leukemia, Marrow Failure Syndromes, or Severe Immunodeficiency Diseases
Study Start Date :
Apr 1, 2005
Actual Primary Completion Date :
Dec 1, 2011
Actual Study Completion Date :
Dec 1, 2011

Arms and Interventions

Arm Intervention/Treatment
Experimental: Single arm of transplant

Receiving haplocompatible T cell depleted peripheral blood stem cell transplant

Biological: anti-thymocyte globulin

Biological: therapeutic allogeneic lymphocytes

Drug: fludarabine phosphate

Drug: thiotepa

Procedure: allogeneic bone marrow transplantation

Procedure: allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Procedure: in vitro-treated peripheral blood stem cell transplantation

Radiation: total-body irradiation

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

  1. Engraftment at 4 weeks post bone marrow transplantation through 100 days [100 days]

Secondary Outcome Measures

  1. Survival assessed monthly for 6 months, every 3 months for 2 years, every 6 months for 1 year, and then yearly for 5 years post transplantation [1 year]

  2. Disease-free survival and infection assessed monthly for 6 months, every 3 months for 2 years, every 6 months for 1 year, and then yearly for 5 years post transplantation [1 year]

  3. Graft-versus-host disease assessed monthly for 6 months, every 3 months for 2 years, every 6 months for 1 year, and then yearly for 5 years post transplantation [2 years]

  4. CD4 count in blood < 100/mm³ at 12 weeks [12 weeks]

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study:
1 Year to 17 Years
Sexes Eligible for Study:
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
No
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
  • Diagnosis of one of the following:

  • Acute lymphoblastic leukemia in ≥ 2nd remission or delayed remission induction

  • High-risk myelodysplastic syndromes

  • Refractory anemia with excess blasts (RAEB)

  • RAEB in transformation

  • Chronic myelogenous leukemia in second chronic phase

  • No accelerated phase (> 5% blasts in marrow)

  • Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia

  • Acute nonlymphoblastic leukemia in > 1st remission or induction failure and < 30% blasts in marrow

  • Severe aplastic anemia, defined as absolute neutrophil count < 500/mm^3 and platelet and/or red blood cell transfusion dependent

  • Unresponsive to immunosuppressive therapy

  • No Fanconi's anemia

  • Congenital marrow aplasias unresponsive to cytokines and transfusion dependent

  • Inherited immunodeficiency disease involving neutrophils or lymphocytes, including any of the following:

  • Chediak-Higashi disease

  • Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome

  • Combined immunodeficiency disease (Nezelof's)

  • Hyper IgM syndrome

  • No relapsed disease

  • Haplocompatible related donor, including parent, cousin, aunt, uncle, grandparent, half-sibling, or sibling (≥ 12 years of age), available

  • 2 or 3 HLA antigen mismatch

  • At least a 3 HLA antigen genotypic match

  • No closely matched related or unrelated donor available in sufficient time to do the transplant

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
  • No active hepatitis or cytomegalovirus infection

  • Cardiac ejection fraction ≥ 30%

  • Creatinine clearance ≥ 70 mL/min

  • DLCO ≥ 70% of predicted

  • No active infection

  • No HIV positivity

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
  • See Disease Characteristics

Contacts and Locations

Locations

Site City State Country Postal Code
1 UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center San Francisco California United States 94115
2 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Chapel Hill North Carolina United States 27599-7295

Sponsors and Collaborators

  • University of California, San Francisco
  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Investigators

  • Study Chair: Morton J. Cowan, MD, University of California, San Francisco

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.
Responsible Party:
Morton Cowan, Professor, University of California, San Francisco
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00295971
Other Study ID Numbers:
  • CDR0000462168
  • UCSF-01151
  • UCSF-H411-17122-07
First Posted:
Feb 24, 2006
Last Update Posted:
Nov 12, 2012
Last Verified:
Nov 1, 2012

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Nov 12, 2012