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Phase I/II Study of Autologous Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation Followed by Nonmyeloablative Allogeneic PBSC Transplantation in Patients With Refractory or Relapsed Lymphoma

Alternate Title
Basic Trial Information
Objectives
Entry Criteria
Expected Enrollment
Outcomes
Outline
Trial Contact Information
Registry Information

Alternate Title

Peripheral Stem Transplantation in Treating Patients With Refractory or Relapsed Lymphoma

Basic Trial Information

PhaseTypeStatusAgeSponsorProtocol IDs
Phase II, Phase ITreatmentActive65 and underNCIFHCRC-1409.00
4903, NCI-G00-1776, NCT00005803

Objectives

Primary

  1. Assess engraftment of HLA-identical peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) allografts given after conditioning with total body irradiation with or without fludarabine and postgrafting immunosuppression with cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil in patients with refractory or relapsed lymphoma treated with initial autologous PBSC transplantation.
  2. Determine nonrelapsed mortality at day 100 in patients treated with this regimen.

Secondary

  1. Determine disease-free and overall survival of patients treated with this regimen.

Entry Criteria

Disease Characteristics:

  • Primary Hodgkin's or non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
    • Refractory or relapsed disease after standard chemotherapy
    • At high-risk of relapse with conventional autografting
    • Tumor detectable by radiograph or bone marrow biopsy


  • Must have an HLA-identical related donor or, at a minimum, a high likelihood of identifying an HLA-matched unrelated donor
    • Not identical twin
    • Age 12 and over


  • Grades 1.0 to 2.1 FHCRC matching allowed for unrelated donors who meet the following criteria:
    • Matched for HLA-A, B, C, DRB1 and DQB1 by high resolution typing
    • Only a single allele disparity will be allowed for HLA-A, B, or C as defined by high resolution typing


  • No preexisting donor immunoreactivity that would jeopardize donor hematopoietic cell engraftment as determined by institutional standard practice


  • No patient and donor pairs homozygous at a mismatched allele in the graft rejection vector (i.e., two-allele mismatch [the patient is A*0101 and the donor is A*0102])


  • G-CSF mobilized PBMC only will be allowed as a hematopoietic stem cell source on this protocol


Prior/Concurrent Therapy:

Biologic therapy:

  • No prior autologous stem cell transplantation using CD34-positive PBSC
  • No concurrent growth factors during mycophenolate mofetil administration

Chemotherapy:

  • See Disease Characteristics

Endocrine therapy:

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy:

  • At least 3 months since prior radiotherapy to the mediastinum

Surgery:

  • Not specified

Patient Characteristics:

Age:

  • 65 and under

Performance status:

  • Karnofsky 60-100%

Life expectancy:

  • At least 3 months
  • No life expectancy severely limited by disease other than lymphoma

Hematopoietic:

  • Not specified

Hepatic:

  • Not at high risk for veno-occlusive disease of the liver
  • Bilirubin no greater than 2.0 mg/dL
  • SGOT or SGPT no greater than 2 times normal

Renal:

  • Creatinine no greater than 2.0 mg/dL
  • Creatinine clearance at least 50 mL/min

Cardiovascular:

  • Cardiac ejection fraction at least 45% by MUGA or cardiac echo (for patients with a history of cardiac disease or anthracycline use)
  • No poorly controlled hypertension

Pulmonary:

  • DLCO at least 50% of predicted

Other:

  • HIV negative
  • Not pregnant
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 1 year after study participation
  • No donor or centers allowed who will exclusively donate marrow

Expected Enrollment

80

A total of 110 patients will be accrued for this study within 11 years.

Outcomes

Primary Outcome(s)

Engraftment of HLA-identical peripheral blood stem cell allografts
Non-relapse mortality at day 100

Outline

This is a multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to response to prior chemotherapy (sensitive vs resistant).

Patients who do not have autologous peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) stored receive mobilization on another protocol, then have PBSC collected and stored. Patients then proceed to conditioning and transplantation.

Patients may receive one of two conditioning regimens.

  • Regimen 1: Patients receive cyclophosphamide IV on days -6 and -5 followed by total body irradiation (TBI) twice a day on days -3 to -1.


  • Regimen 2: Patients receive carmustine IV over 3 hours on day -7, etoposide IV over 2 hours and cytarabine IV over 3 hours twice a day on days -6 to -3, and melphalan IV over 30 minutes on day -2.


After completion of conditioning therapy, all patients undergo reinfusion of autologous PBSC or syngeneic PBSC on day 0. Some patients may receive involved field irradiation to bulky disease after autologous PBSC reinfusion or syngeneic PBSC and before nonmyeloablative allograft.

Within 40-120 days after autologous or syngeneic PBSC transplantation, patients proceed to nonmyeloablative allograft. Cyclosporine administered orally twice daily on days -3 to 56 or days -3 to 100, then tapered until day 180. Some patients receive fludarabine IV over 30 minutes on days -4, -3, and -2. TBI is administered on day 0 followed by allogeneic PBSC infusion. Patients also receive oral mycophenolate mofetil twice a day beginning on day 0 and continuing until day 27 or three times a day or twice a day beginning on day 0 and continuing until day 28, then tapered on day 40 and discontinued after day 96.

Based on day 56 disease status, patients may receive donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) if there is evidence of disease progression and no evidence of graft-vs-host disease. DLI may be repeated every 65 days for up to 4 doses.

Patients are followed weekly for 3 months, at 4 and 6 months, every 6 months for 2 years, and then annually until 5 years after transplantation.

Trial Contact Information

Trial Lead Organizations

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

David Maloney, MD, PhD, Protocol chair
Ph: 206-667-5616
Email: dmaloney@fhcrc.org

Trial Sites

U.S.A.
Texas
  Dallas
 Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center
 Edward Agura, MD
Ph: 214-820-1800
 Email: edwarda@baylorhealth.edu
Utah
  Salt Lake City
 Huntsman Cancer Institute at University of Utah
 Michael Pulsipher, MD
Ph: 801-585-3229
 Email: michael.pulsipher@hsc.utah.edu
Washington
  Seattle
 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
 David Maloney, MD, PhD
Ph: 206-667-5616
 Email: dmaloney@fhcrc.org
 Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
 Clinical Trials Office - Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
Ph: 800-804-8824
 Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Seattle
 William Schubach, MD
Ph: 206-764-2265
800-329-8387
Germany
  Leipzig
 Universitaet Leipzig
 Dietger Niederwieser, MD
Ph: 49-341-971-3050
 Email: dietger@medizin.uni_leipzig.de

Registry Information
Official Title A Phase I/II Study of Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation Followed by Non-myeloablative Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation for Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Lymphoma - A Multi Center Trial
Trial Start Date 1999-09-02
Trial Completion Date 2010-09-02 (estimated)
Registered in ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00005803
Date Submitted to PDQ 2000-03-08
Information Last Verified 2009-02-01
NCI Grant/Contract Number CA15704, CA78902

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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