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Phase II Pilot Study of Fludarabine, Low-Dose Total Body Irradiation, and Allogeneic Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation Followed By Immunosuppression With Cyclosporine and Mycophenolate Mofetil and Donor Lymphocyte Infusion for Induction of Mixed Hematopoietic Chimerism in Older Patients With Chronic or Accelerated Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

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Basic Trial Information
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Entry Criteria
Expected Enrollment
Outcomes
Outline
Trial Contact Information
Registry Information

Alternate Title

Chemotherapy, Low-Dose Total-Body Irradiation, and Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation Followed By Chemotherapy and Donor Lymphocyte Infusion in Treating Older Patients With Chronic Myeloid Leukemia

Basic Trial Information

Phase
Type
Status
Age
Sponsor
Protocol IDs

Phase II


Treatment


Closed


66 to 74


NCI


FHCRC-1209.00
NCI-G97-1359, NCT00003145

Objectives

  1. Determine whether mixed hematopoietic chimerism can be safely established with fludarabine, low-dose total body irradiation, and allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation followed by immunosuppression with cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil and donor lymphocyte infusion in older patients with chronic or accelerated phase chronic myelogenous leukemia.
  2. Determine whether mixed chimerism can be converted to full donor hematopoietic chimerism with infusions of donor lymphocytes in these patients.

Entry Criteria

Disease Characteristics:

  • Histologically confirmed chronic myelogenous leukemia in first or second chronic or first accelerated phase


  • Philadelphia chromosome positive


  • Must have an HLA genotypically identical related donor (excluding identical twins)


  • Not in interferon-induced complete or partial cytogenetic remission


  • May be 65 years of age and under only if at high risk of regimen-related toxicity due to pre-existing chronic disease affecting liver, lungs, and heart OR at the discretion of the principal investigator


Prior/Concurrent Therapy:

Biologic therapy:

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • At least 1 month since prior interferon alfa

Chemotherapy:

  • Not specified

Endocrine therapy:

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy:

  • Not specified

Surgery:

  • Not specified

Patient Characteristics:

Age:

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • 66 to 74

Performance status:

  • Karnofsky 70-100% (Karnofsky 50-100% for patients age 65 and under)

Life expectancy:

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic:

  • Not specified

Hepatic:

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • Bilirubin no greater than 2 times upper limit of normal (ULN)*
  • SGOT and SGPT no greater than 2 times ULN (4 times ULN for patients age 65 and under)*

 [Note: * Unless due to malignancy]

Renal:

  • Renal failure allowed

Cardiovascular:

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • No poorly controlled hypertension
  • Ejection fraction at least 40% (for patients with a history of cardiac disease or anthracycline use)
  • No history of congestive heart failure (for patients age 65 and under)

Pulmonary:

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • DLCO at least 50% of predicted
  • No severe defects in pulmonary function testing*
  • No supplementary continuous oxygen*

 [Note: * For patients age 65 and under]

Other:

  • HIV negative
  • Not pregnant
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 12 months after study participation

Expected Enrollment

20

A total of 20 patients will be accrued for this study within 3 years.

Outcomes

Primary Outcome(s)

Efficacy and safety of establishing mixed chimerism using a non-lethal conditioning regimen
Success and safety of converting mixed chimerism to full donor chimerism using donor lymphocyte infusions

Outline

This is a pilot, multicenter study.

Patients receive fludarabine IV on days -4 to -2 and low-dose total body irradiation followed by allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation on day 0. Patients receive oral cyclosporine twice daily on days -3 to 56 followed by a taper. Patients also receive oral mycophenolate mofetil twice daily on days 0-27.

At least 2 weeks after completion of cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil, patients with persistent or progressive disease receive donor lymphocytes IV over 30 minutes. In the absence of active graft-versus-host disease, patients may receive a total of 3 donor lymphocyte infusions at increasing cell doses.

Patients are followed weekly until 90 days after the last donor cell infusion, monthly for 6 months, every 6 months for 2 years, and then annually for 3 years.

Trial Contact Information

Trial Lead Organizations

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Brenda Sandmaier, MD, Protocol chair
Ph: 206-288-1024

Registry Information
Official Title Induction of Mixed Hematopoietic Chimerism Using Fludarabine, Low-Dose TBI, PBSC Infusion and Post-Transplantation Immunosuppression With Cyclosporine and Mycophenolate Mofetil To Be Folllowed By Donor Lymphocyte Infusion in Older Patients With Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in Chronic and Accelerated Phases: A Multicenter Study
Trial Start Date 1997-11-17
Registered in ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00003145
Date Submitted to PDQ 1997-11-20
Information Last Verified 2005-08-20
NCI Grant/Contract Number CA18029, CA78902, CA15704

Note: The purpose of most clinical trials listed in this database is to test new cancer treatments, or new methods of diagnosing, screening, or preventing cancer. Because all potentially harmful side effects are not known before a trial is conducted, dose and schedule modifications may be required for participants if they develop side effects from the treatment or test. The therapy or test described in this clinical trial is intended for use by clinical oncologists in carefully structured settings, and may not prove to be more effective than standard treatment. A responsible investigator associated with this clinical trial should be consulted before using this protocol.

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