Fludarabine Phosphate, Melphalan, and Low-Dose Total-Body Irradiation Followed by Donor Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplant in Treating Patients With Hematologic Malignancies

Last updated: September 16, 2019
Sponsor: Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Overall Status: Completed

Phase

2

Condition

Multiple Myeloma

Thrombosis

Non-hodgkin's Lymphoma

Treatment

N/A

Clinical Study ID

NCT01529827
I 177110
NCI-2011-03563
  • Ages 3-75
  • All Genders

Study Summary

This phase II trial studies how well giving fludarabine phosphate, melphalan, and low-dose total-body irradiation (TBI) followed by donor peripheral blood stem cell transplant (PBSCT) works in treating patients with hematologic malignancies. Giving chemotherapy drugs such as fludarabine phosphate and melphalan, and low-dose TBI before a donor PBSCT helps stop the growth of cancer and abnormal cells and helps stop the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. When the healthy stem cells from the 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 cell from a donor can make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), and methotrexate after transplant may stop this from happening

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Diagnosis of a histology documented hematologic malignancy or marrow disorder BONE MARROW FAILURE DISORDERS:

  • Acquired bone marrow failure disorders include aplastic anemia, paroxysmal nocturnalhemoglobinuria (PNH) * Primary allogeneic HSCT is appropriate for selected patientswith severe aplastic anemia; however, patients with aplastic anemia must have failedat least one cycle of standard immunosuppressive therapy with calcineurin inhibitorplus anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) if a fully matched donor is available * Patientswith PNH should not be eligible for a myeloablative HSCT

  • Hereditary bone marrow failure disorders include Diamond-Blackfan Anemia,Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome, Kostmann Syndrome, congenital AmegakaryocyticThrombocytopenia; Fanconi Anemia or related chromosomal breakage syndrome,Dyskeratosis Congenital are excluded from this study die to their poordeoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) repair capacity * Fanconi anemia or related chromosomalbreakage syndrome: positive chromosome breakage analysis using diepoxybutane (DEB) ormitomycin C if applicable * Dyskeratosis Congenita: diagnosis is supported by usingeither telomerase RNA component (TERC) gene mutation in autosomal dominantDyskeratosis Congenita or X-linked DKC1 gene mutation

  • Other non-malignant hematologic or immunologic disorders that require transplantation

  • Quantitative or qualitative congenital platelet disorders (including but not limitedto congenital amegakaryocytopenia, absent-radii syndrome, Glanzmann's thrombasthenia)
  • Quantitative or qualitative congenital neutrophil disorders (including but notlimited to chronic granulomatous disease, congenital neutropenia) *Congenital primaryimmunodeficiency syndrome, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, CD40 ligand deficiency, T-celldeficiencies) ACUTE LEUKEMIAS:
  • Subjects must be ineligible for or unable to receive a conventional myeloablativetransplantation

  • Resistant or recurrent disease after at least one standard combination chemotherapy ORfirst remission patients at high risk of relapse * Acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

  • antecedent myelodysplastic syndrome, secondary AML, high risk cytogeneticabnormalities or normal cytogenetics with high-risk molecular mutations (e.g.,fms-like tyrosine kinase3-internal tandem duplication [Flt3-ITD] mutation) * Acutelymphocytic leukemia (ALL)

  • high or standard risk ALL CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA (CML):

  • Chronic phase (intolerant or unresponsive to imatinib and/or other tyrosine kinaseinhibitors), second chronic phase or accelerated phase who are ineligible forconventional myeloablative transplantation MYELOPROLIFERATIVE AND MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME (MDS):

  • Myelofibrosis (with/without splenectomy) with intermediate to high risk features

  • Advanced polycythemia vera nor responding to standard therapy

  • MDS with lower International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS) score of intermediate (Int)-2 or higher

  • MDS with lower IPSS score Int-1 or less with severe clinical features such as severeneutropenia or thrombocytopenia or high risk chromosome abnormalities such as monosomy 7

  • Secondary MDS with any IPSS scores

  • Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE:

  • Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), low-grade non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) (recurrent orpersistent) fludarabine refractory or with less than 6 months duration or completeremission (CR) between courses of conventional therapy

  • Multiple myeloma (progressive disease after autologous stem cell transplant, tandemallogeneic transplant after prior autologous stem cell transplant)

  • Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (failed one standard regimen)

  • High grade NHL and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL)

  • Not eligible for conventional myeloablative HSCT OR failed autologous HSCT

  • First remission lymphoblastic lymphoma, or small, non-cleaved cell lymphoma or mantlecell lymphoma HODGKIN LYMPHOMA:

  • Received and failed front-line therapy

  • Failed or were not eligible for autologous transplantation DONOR: Permissible humanleukocyte antigen (HLA) matching: related donors

  • single antigen mismatch at HLA A, B, or DRB1; unrelated donors

  • a single antigen mismatch at HLA A, B, or C, +/- additional single allele levelmismatch at A, B, V or DRB1

  • Minimum goal for peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) dose is 2 x 10^6 CD34+ cells/kg ofrecipient weight; minimum goal for the marrow dose is 1 x 10^8 nucleated cells/kg ofrecipient weight

  • No serious uncontrolled psychiatric illness

  • No concomitant active malignancy that would be expected to require chemotherapy within 3 years of transplant (other than non-melanoma skin cancer)

  • Non-pregnant and non-nursing woman; (women or men with reproductive potential shouldagree to use an effective means of birth control)

  • Patients who have failed a prior autologous or allogeneic transplant are eligible;however, at least 90 days must have elapsed between the start of this reducedintensity conditioning regimen and the last transplant if patient had a priorautologous or myeloablative allogeneic bone marrow transplant (BMT)

  • At least 2 weeks since prior chemotherapy, radiation treatment and/or surgery

  • Informed consent DONOR: Compatibility at the four most informative HLA loci: A, B, C and DRB1 are important for reducing the risk of GVHD and successful transplantoutcomes; the A, B, C and DRB1 loci comprise 8 possible alleles (a haplotype beinginherited from each parent); one additional locus, HLA-DQ, is also typed to ascertainhaplotypes and assist in the search for a compatible donor; however mismatching at DQ hasnot been shown to be associated with adverse outcomes; high resolution molecular typing (atthe allele level) is now the standard of care for unrelated donor searches and allowsgreater refinement of the search strategy DONOR: Matched related donor: a single antigen mismatch at A, B, or the DR transplant from a family member is associatedwith a higher risk of GVHD but similar overall survival when compared to full identity atthese 3 regions; related donor/recipient pairs must be matched at 5 of 6 HLA antigens (A,B, DRB1) DONOR: Unrelated Donor: When evaluating patients for unrelated donor transplant, the higher degree of matching, thelower risk of GvHD; the A, B, C, DRB1 and DQB1 loci, comprising 10 possible antigen (withalleles), will be typed for all unrelated transplants; given the higher risk of TRM inmismatched transplants, RIT is often the best way to mitigate the risk; data from theNational Marrow Donor Program makes it possible to estimate the risk of donor-recipient HLAmismatch at the allele or antigen level; the higher risk from HLA-mismatching must bebalanced against the clinical urgency and the patient's risk by the transplant team; atthis time, antigen level mismatches at DQB1 do not affect outcomes and will not be used formatching purposes for donor selection; thus, the matching required will be at the HLA A, B,C and DRB1 (8 loci); for this protocol, a single antigen mismatch at the HLA A, B, C, withor without additional single allele level mismatch may participate in this protocol forvoluntary unrelated donors (blood or marrow) DONOR: Donor must be healthy and havenon-reactive test results for all infectious disease assays as required by state andfederal regulations; donors who screen seropositive for hepatitis an/or syphilis must becleared by infectious disease consultation DONOR: Donor must have no uncontrolledcardiopulmonary, renal, endocrine, hepatic or psychiatric disease to render donation unsafeDONOR: The donor (or parent in minor) must give informed consent for peripheral blood stemcell collection or bone marrow collection DONOR: Syngeneic donors are not eligible DONOR:Donors who have poor peripheral venous access, may require central venous line placementfor stem cell apheresis

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Uncontrolled central nervous system (CNS) disease (for hematologic malignancies)

  • Karnofsky (adult) or Lansky (for =< 16 years) performance status < 50%

  • Diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO) < 40% predicted, correctedfor hemoglobin and/or alveolar ventilation

  • Left ventricular ejection fraction < 40% - Bilirubin >= 3 X upper limit of normal

  • Liver alkaline phosphatase >= 3 x upper limit of normal

  • Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) or serum glutamic pyruvate transaminase (SGPT) >= 3 x upper limit of normal

  • Child's class B and C liver failure

  • Calculated creatinine clearance < 40 cc/min by the modified Cockroft-Gault formula foradults or the Schwartz formula for pediatrics

  • Patients who have received maximally allowed doses (given in 2 Gy fractionations, orequivalent) of previous radiation therapy to various organs as follows: * Mediastinum:adult -40, pediatric (=<18 yrs) - 21 * Heart: adult 36, pediatric - 26 * Wholelung(s): adult - 12, pediatric - 10 * Small bowel: adult - 46, pediatric - 40 *Kidneys: adult - 12, pediatric - 10 * Whole liver: adult - 20, pediatric - 20 * Spinalcord: adult - 36, pediatric - 36 * Whole Brain: adult 30, pediatric - 30

  • Patients who previously have received a higher than allowed dose of radiation to asmall lung, liver, and brain volume, will be evaluated by the radiation oncologist todetermine if the patient is eligible for study

  • Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, active serious infection orother condition which, in the opinion of treating physician, would make this protocolunreasonably hazardous for the patient

  • Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive

  • Patients who in the opinion of the treating physician are unlikely to comply with therestrictions of allogeneic stem cell transplantation based on formal psychosocialscreening

  • Female of childbearing potential with a positive pregnancy test

Study Design

Total Participants: 94
Study Start date:
February 28, 2012
Estimated Completion Date:
August 29, 2019

Study Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine the transplant related mortality (TRM) of this reduced-intensity transplantation (RIT) combination, fludarabine (fludarabine phosphate), melphalan, and TBI in a patient population usually not eligible for a full a myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To evaluate clinical response, progression free survival (PFS) at one year, engraftment rate, and graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) incidence with the proposed RIT regimen across a variety of hematological conditions.

II. Correlative studies will include chimerism analysis by molecular analysis and evaluation of immune reconstitution by cytomegalovirus (CMV) dextramer analysis using flow cytometry.

OUTLINE: PREPARATIVE REGIMEN:

Patients receive fludarabine phosphate intravenously (IV) over 30 minutes on days -5 to -2 and melphalan IV over 30 minutes on day -2. Patients undergo low-dose TBI twice daily (BID) on day -1.

TRANSPLANTATION:

Patients undergo allogeneic PBSCT on day 0.

GvHD PROPHYLAXIS:

Patients receive tacrolimus IV or orally (PO) BID on days -1 to 100 with taper over 4-6 months, MMF PO or IV every 6-8 hours on days -1 to 60, and methotrexate IV over 15-30 minutes on days 1, 3, and 6. After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up periodically.

Connect with a study center

  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute

    Buffalo, New York 14263
    United States

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