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Pilot Trial of Clofarabine Added to Standard Busulfan and Fludarabine for Conditioning Prior to Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

A Pilot Trial of Clofarabine Added to Standard Busulfan and Fludarabine for Conditioning Prior to Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

Status
Terminated
Phases
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT01596699
Enrollment
16
Registered
2012-05-11
Start date
2012-05-24
Completion date
2019-06-30
Last updated
2020-02-26

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Bone Marrow Failure Syndrome, Congenital Immunodeficiency, Metabolic Disease, Myeloid Malignancy, Severe Immune Dysregulation, Transfusion-dependent Red Blood Cell (RBC) Defect

Keywords

conditioning, allogeneic, hematopoietic, cell, transplantation, HCT

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to find out what effects, good and/or bad, the addition of clofarabine, a new chemotherapy agent, to a standard busulfan and fludarabine conditioning treatment has. The study will also look at what causes some people to have high drug levels of these medications in their body compared to other people that may have low drug levels even if they all receive the same dose of medication.

Interventions

DRUGAlemtuzumab

0.5 mg/kg (max 15 mg or max 6 mg), IV, Day -12 to Day -10 pre-HCT

DRUGBusulfan

0.8 mg/kg/dose q6hrs or 1.1 mg/kg/dose q6hrs, IV, Day -9 to Day -6 pre-HCT

DRUGFludarabine

40 mg/m2 or 1.33 mg/kg, IV, Day -5 to Day -2 pre-HCT

DRUGClofarabine

10 mg/m2 or 0.33 mg/kg, IV, Day -5 to Day -2 pre-HCT

Sponsors

University of California, San Francisco
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
3 Months to 30 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Patients must be ≥ 3 months and ≤30 years of age. * Stratum A: Non-Malignant Diseases, including: * Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes * Hemoglobinopathies or transfusion-dependent red blood cell (RBC) defects * Congenital Immunodeficiencies * Metabolic Diseases known to be treatable with Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) (e.g. Hurler's) * Other Bone Marrow Stem Cell Defects (e.g. Osteopetrosis) * Severe Immune Dysregulation / Autoimmune Syndromes with at least transient prior response to immunosuppressive therapy * Stratum B: Myeloid Malignancies, including: * acute myeloid leukemia (AML), in greater than first clinical remission, or in CR1 but with detectable disease (≥0.1% Blasts by minimal residual disease (MRD) or Flow, or Positive Cytogenetics), or in CR1 but with a matched sibling Umbilical cord blood (UCB) donor. * Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) * Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) * Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), with detectable disease by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) * Patients must have a suitable donor based on the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) standard operating procedures (SOP). 10/10 (HLA-A, -B, -C, -DR, -DQ) matching will be done for related and adult unrelated donors; 8/8 (HLA-A, -B, -C, -DR) for umbilical cord blood donors. Patients with non-malignant diseases will generally be eligible only if they have a mismatched donor, or an accepted clinical reason to be considered high-risk for rejection. * Liver transaminases (aspartate aminotransferase (AST)/alanine aminotransferase (ALT)) and Direct Bilirubin less than twice the upper limit of normal within 2 weeks of admission. * Cardiac Shortening Fraction ≥27% within 4 weeks of admission. * Creatinine clearance by Schwartz formula, glomerular filtration rate (GFR) or 24 hr urine collection ≥50 cc/min/1.73 m2, within 4 weeks of admission. * Pulmonary diffusion capacity ≥50% of predicted corrected for anemia/lung volume within 4 weeks of admission. If unable to do Pulmonary function testing(PFTs), then no active lung disease by chest x-ray (CXR) and/or oxygen (O2) Saturation ≥90% on room air.

Exclusion criteria

* Fanconi Anemia * Dyskeratosis Congenita * A known syndrome with increased sensitivity to radiation or alkylating agents * Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease eligible for a non-myeloablative HCT Trial * A mismatched donor for whom ex vivo T-cell depletion of the donor stem cells is planned

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Number of Participants With Treatment-Related Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety and TolerabilityUp to 5 years on averageSevere Toxicity will be defined as death or Grade IV by NCI Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 4.0 pulmonary or hepatic failure (including moderate veno-occlusive disease(VOD) related to the transplant conditioning regimen within 100 days post-HCT. VOD will be defined by standard criteria. Patients must have Bilirubin \>2.0 plus Hepatomegaly and/or Right upper quadrant (RUQ) pain plus Weight gain \>5%.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Engraftment Rate of Patients With Non-malignant Diseases (Stratum A)Participants will have engraftment blood studies starting approximately Day 30 post hematopoietic stem cell transplant and then monthly until stable. Average study participation is approximately 5 years.Engraftment will be defined as the development of an Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC) \>500 for 3 consecutive days plus donor CD14/15 cells \>70%. The engraftment rate in the population used for historical control is 40%. If 3 patients in Stratum A experience graft rejection, this stratum will close early for failing to achieve superior engraftment compared to standard-of-care.
Mixed-donor Chimerism Rate of Patients With High-risk Myeloid Malignancies (Stratum B)Participants will have peripheral blood chimerism assessed at Day 100 post hematopoietic stem cell transplant and then monthly until stable.Full-donor chimerism will be defined by as ≥99% donor cells by Short Tandem Repeat (STR) analysis in all cell lines (CD3, CD14/15, and CD19) in peripheral blood. The historic control for Stratum B was determined using the 20 patients who were transplanted from 2005 - 2010 with Busulfan (BU)-based regimens and who retrospectively would have been eligible for the current trial. Of these 20 patients, at 100 days post-HCT, only 8 (40%) patients had full-donor chimerism. If 5 patients in Stratum B experienced mixed-donor chimerism at Day 100, we will close this stratum early for failing to achieve superior donor cell engraftment compared to standard-of-care.
Serum Concentrations and Potential for Drug-drug Interaction of Fludarabine and ClofarabinePharmacokinetics (PK) blood sampling Days -5 to -2 pre-hematopoietic stem cell transplant.Fludarabine and clofarabine drug levels and potential covariates influencing drug exposure such as renal function and genetic variants involved in drug metabolism, distribution, and activation will be analyzed using standard population pharmacokinetic methods using non-linear mixed effects modeling (NONMEM) software

Countries

United States

Participant flow

Participants by arm

ArmCount
Stratum A: Patients With Non-Malignancies
Alemtuzumab: 0.5 mg/kg (max 15 mg or max 6 mg), IV, Day -12 to Day -10 pre-HCT Busulfan: 0.8 mg/kg/dose q6hrs or 1.1 mg/kg/dose q6hrs, IV, Day -9 to Day -6 pre-HCT Fludarabine: 40 mg/m2 or 1.33 mg/kg, IV, Day -5 to Day -2 pre-HCT Clofarabine: 10 mg/m2 or 0.33 mg/kg, IV, Day -5 to Day -2 pre-HCT
10
Stratum B: Patients With Myeloid Malignancies
Busulfan: 0.8 mg/kg/dose q6hrs or 1.1 mg/kg/dose q6hrs, IV, Day -9 to Day -6 pre-HCT Fludarabine: 40 mg/m2 or 1.33 mg/kg, IV, Day -5 to Day -2 pre-HCT Clofarabine: 10 mg/m2 or 0.33 mg/kg, IV, Day -5 to Day -2 pre-HCT
6
Total16

Baseline characteristics

CharacteristicTotalStratum A: Patients With Non-MalignanciesStratum B: Patients With Myeloid Malignancies
Age, Customized
0-9 years old
16 Participants10 Participants6 Participants
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)
Hispanic or Latino
4 Participants4 Participants0 Participants
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)
Not Hispanic or Latino
12 Participants6 Participants6 Participants
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)
Unknown or Not Reported
0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
American Indian or Alaska Native
0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Asian
4 Participants2 Participants2 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Black or African American
1 Participants0 Participants1 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
More than one race
0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
0 Participants0 Participants0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Unknown or Not Reported
1 Participants1 Participants0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
White
10 Participants7 Participants3 Participants
Region of Enrollment
United States
16 participants10 participants6 participants
Sex: Female, Male
Female
4 Participants4 Participants0 Participants
Sex: Female, Male
Male
12 Participants6 Participants6 Participants

Adverse events

Event typeEG000
affected / at risk
EG001
affected / at risk
deaths
Total, all-cause mortality
1 / 106 / 6
other
Total, other adverse events
10 / 106 / 6
serious
Total, serious adverse events
1 / 101 / 6

Outcome results

Primary

Number of Participants With Treatment-Related Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety and Tolerability

Severe Toxicity will be defined as death or Grade IV by NCI Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) version 4.0 pulmonary or hepatic failure (including moderate veno-occlusive disease(VOD) related to the transplant conditioning regimen within 100 days post-HCT. VOD will be defined by standard criteria. Patients must have Bilirubin \>2.0 plus Hepatomegaly and/or Right upper quadrant (RUQ) pain plus Weight gain \>5%.

Time frame: Up to 5 years on average

ArmMeasureGroupValue (NUMBER)
Stratum A: Patients With Non-MalignanciesNumber of Participants With Treatment-Related Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety and TolerabilityDeath1 participants
Stratum A: Patients With Non-MalignanciesNumber of Participants With Treatment-Related Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety and TolerabilityVeno-occlusive disease(VOD)1 participants
Stratum B: Patients With Myeloid MalignanciesNumber of Participants With Treatment-Related Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety and TolerabilityDeath0 participants
Stratum B: Patients With Myeloid MalignanciesNumber of Participants With Treatment-Related Adverse Events as a Measure of Safety and TolerabilityVeno-occlusive disease(VOD)1 participants
Secondary

Engraftment Rate of Patients With Non-malignant Diseases (Stratum A)

Engraftment will be defined as the development of an Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC) \>500 for 3 consecutive days plus donor CD14/15 cells \>70%. The engraftment rate in the population used for historical control is 40%. If 3 patients in Stratum A experience graft rejection, this stratum will close early for failing to achieve superior engraftment compared to standard-of-care.

Time frame: Participants will have engraftment blood studies starting approximately Day 30 post hematopoietic stem cell transplant and then monthly until stable. Average study participation is approximately 5 years.

Population: Three patients in Stratum A experienced graft rejection which met the criteria for failing to achieve superior engraftment compared to standard-of-care. One patient was not evaluable.

ArmMeasureValue (NUMBER)
Stratum A: Patients With Non-MalignanciesEngraftment Rate of Patients With Non-malignant Diseases (Stratum A)66.67 percentage of participants
Secondary

Mixed-donor Chimerism Rate of Patients With High-risk Myeloid Malignancies (Stratum B)

Full-donor chimerism will be defined by as ≥99% donor cells by Short Tandem Repeat (STR) analysis in all cell lines (CD3, CD14/15, and CD19) in peripheral blood. The historic control for Stratum B was determined using the 20 patients who were transplanted from 2005 - 2010 with Busulfan (BU)-based regimens and who retrospectively would have been eligible for the current trial. Of these 20 patients, at 100 days post-HCT, only 8 (40%) patients had full-donor chimerism. If 5 patients in Stratum B experienced mixed-donor chimerism at Day 100, we will close this stratum early for failing to achieve superior donor cell engraftment compared to standard-of-care.

Time frame: Participants will have peripheral blood chimerism assessed at Day 100 post hematopoietic stem cell transplant and then monthly until stable.

ArmMeasureValue (NUMBER)
Stratum A: Patients With Non-MalignanciesMixed-donor Chimerism Rate of Patients With High-risk Myeloid Malignancies (Stratum B)66.67 percentage of participants
Secondary

Serum Concentrations and Potential for Drug-drug Interaction of Fludarabine and Clofarabine

Fludarabine and clofarabine drug levels and potential covariates influencing drug exposure such as renal function and genetic variants involved in drug metabolism, distribution, and activation will be analyzed using standard population pharmacokinetic methods using non-linear mixed effects modeling (NONMEM) software

Time frame: Pharmacokinetics (PK) blood sampling Days -5 to -2 pre-hematopoietic stem cell transplant.

Population: PK Data not collected

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026