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Disease-Specific High-Dose Conditioning Regimens in Treating Patients Undergoing T-cell Depleted Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation for Hematologic Malignancies or Other Lethal Hematologic Disorders

Trial Status: complete

This phase II trial studies how well disease-specific high-dose conditioning regimens work in treating patients undergoing T-cell depleted peripheral blood stem cell transplant for hematologic malignancies or other lethal hematologic disorders. Giving high doses of chemotherapy and total body irradiation before a donor peripheral blood 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 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.