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Phase I/II Study of Donor Lymphocyte Infusion in Patients With Persistent, Relapsed, or Progressing Malignancy After Nonmyeloablative Allogeneic Transplantation

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

Alternate Title

Donor Lymphocyte Infusion in Treating Patients With Persistent, Relapsed, or Progressing Cancer After Allogeneic Transplantation

Basic Trial Information

PhaseTypeStatusAgeSponsorProtocol IDs
Phase II, Phase ITreatmentActiveAny ageNCIFHCRC-1803.00
5606, NCT00068718

Objectives

Primary

  1. Determine the safety of donor lymphocyte infusion, in terms of the incidence of life-threatening graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), in patients with persistent, relapsed, or progressing malignancy after nonmyeloablative allogeneic transplantation.

Secondary

  1. Determine disease response and progression-free and overall survival of patients treated with this regimen.
  2. Determine chimerism in patients treated with this regimen.
  3. Determine the grade of GVHD and infections in patients treated with this regimen.

Entry Criteria

Disease Characteristics:

  • Persistent, relapsed, or progressing malignancy


  • Previously treated with a nonmyeloablative allogeneic transplantation from a related or unrelated donor comprising 2 Gy total body irradiation (TBI)-4 GY TBI or 2 GY TBI-4 GY TBI conditioning with or without fludarabine


  • Persistent donor CD3 cells (at least 5% donor CD3 cells by fluorescent in situ hybridization or variable number of tandem repeats)


  • Available leukapheresis product from the original donor of the hematopoietic cell transplantation (fresh unmodified or previously cryopreserved)


  • No current grade II to IV acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) or extensive chronic GVHD


Prior/Concurrent Therapy:

Biologic therapy

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • No concurrent imatinib mesylate or interferon alfa

Chemotherapy

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • At least 3 weeks since prior salvage chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy

  • Concurrent systemic steroids allowed provided patient can tolerate a taper to a dosage of no greater than 0.25 mg/kg/day within 1 to 2 weeks prior to study therapy without experiencing an increase in GVHD of at least 1 grade

Radiotherapy

  • See Disease Characteristics

Surgery

  • Not specified

Other

  • At least 2 weeks since prior immunosuppressive therapy (e.g., cyclosporine or mycophenolate mofetil) for nonadvanced malignancy (1 week for advanced malignancy)

Patient Characteristics:

Age

  • Any age

Performance status

  • Karnofsky 50-100%

Life expectancy

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic

  • See Disease Characteristics

Hepatic

  • Not specified

Renal

  • Not specified

Expected Enrollment

100

A total of 5-100 patients will be accrued for this study.

Outcomes

Primary Outcome(s)

Incidence of life threatening graft-vs-host disease (GVHD)

Secondary Outcome(s)

Disease response
Progression-free and overall survival
Acute and chronic GVHD
Chimerism
Infections

Outline

This is a multicenter, dose-escalation study.

Patients receive unirradiated (viable) donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) over 15-30 minutes on day 0. Patients may receive a second infusion after 4 weeks if no graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) develops and disease worsens, or after 8 weeks if disease status is unchanged and persistent donor T cells are documented.

To determine the safety of this regimen, all patients receive a standard initial dose of DLI and then, among patients requiring a second treatment, cohorts of 5-25 patients receive decreasing doses of DLI. Acceptable safety is determined by the regimen during which no more than 15% of patients experience morbid GVHD.

Patients are followed every 2 months for 6 months, every 6 months for 2 years, and then annually thereafter.

Trial Contact Information

Trial Lead Organizations

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Brenda Sandmaier, MD, Principal investigator
Ph: 206-667-4961

Trial Sites

U.S.A.
Oregon
  Portland
 Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health and Science University
 Clinical Trials Office - Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health and Science University
Ph: 503-494-1080
 Email: trials@ohsu.edu
Washington
  Seattle
 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
 Brenda Sandmaier, MD
Ph: 206-667-4961
 Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
 Clinical Trials Office - Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
Ph: 800-804-8824
 University of Washington School of Medicine
 Clinical Trials Office - University of Washington School of Medicine
Ph: 206-616-8289
 Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Seattle
 Thomas R. Chauncey, MD, PhD
Ph: 206-762-1010
Wisconsin
  Milwaukee
 Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center
 Clinical Trials Office - Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center
Ph: 414-805-4380
Germany
  Leipzig
 Universitaet Leipzig
 Dietger Niederwieser, MD
Ph: 49-341-971-3050
 Email: dietger@medizin.uni_leipzig.de
Italy
  Turin
 Azienda Sanitaria Ospedale San Giovanni Battista Molinette di Torino
 Benedetto Bruno, MD, PhD
Ph: 39-339-112-9064
 Email: benedetto.bruno@unito.it

Registry Information
Official Title Donor Lymphocyte Infusion for the Treatment of Malignancy After Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Using Nonmyeloablative Conditioning - A Multi-Center Trial
Trial Start Date 2003-05-22
Trial Completion Date 2011-05-22 (estimated)
Registered in ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00068718
Date Submitted to PDQ 2003-08-04
Information Last Verified 2009-07-05
NCI Grant/Contract Number 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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