This phase III trial studies how well cyclophosphamide, fludarabine phosphate, and total body radiation before donor stem cell transplant work in treating participants with blood disorders and blood cancers. Giving chemotherapy such as cyclophosphamide and fludarabine phosphate and total body radiation before a stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cells in the bone marrow. When the healthy cells from a donor are infused into the participant, they may help the patient's bone marrow make stem cells, red blood cells, and platelets. The donated cells may also replace the patient's immune cells and help destroy any remaining cancer cells.
Study sponsor and potential other locations can be found on ClinicalTrials.gov for NCT03480360.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To define the 100-day survival of patients being treated on this regimen.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. Time to marrow engraftment (defined as absolute neutrophil count > 500/mm^3 and platelets > 20,000/mcl for three consecutive days (count first day as engraftment).
II. Response to treatment at 100 days.
III. Response to treatment at one year.
IV. One year survival.
V. Treatment-related mortality in the first 100 days.
VI. Toxicities associated with this treatment regimen.
VII. Incidence of acute and chronic graft versus host disease (GVHD).
VIII. Donor-recipient chimerism following transplant at days 30, 60 and 90.
IX: To characterize the incidence, prevalence and function of immune checkpoint regulators (VISTA, CTLA-4, PD-1) during early immune recovery following an allogeneic stem cell transplant.
EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES:
I. In those patients experiencing GVHD, will define the myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) frequency and checkpoint regulator expression on MDSCs, peripheral blood mononuclear cells and myeloid subsets.
OUTLINE:
Participants receive cyclophosphamide intravenously (IV) over 30 minutes on days -6 and -5, fludarabine phosphate IV over 30 minutes on days -6 to -2, and undergo total body radiation once on day -1. Participants undergo allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant on day 0. Participants then receive cyclophosphamide IV over 90 minutes on days 3-4, tacrolimus orally (PO) or IV daily on days 5-180, and mycophenolate mofetil PO thrice daily (TID) on days 5-35 days after transplant for about 35 days. Participants also receive filgrastim subcutaneously (SC) on day 5 until absolute neutrophil count (ANC) > 1000/mcL for 3 days.
After completion of study treatment, participants are followed up for 30 days, weekly for 3 months, and then monthly for 1 year.
Lead OrganizationDartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center/Dartmouth Cancer Center
Principal InvestigatorKenneth R. Meehan