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Donor T Cells After Donor Stem Cell Transplant in Treating Patients With Hematologic Malignancies

Pilot Study of Prophylactic Dose-Escalation Donor Lymphocyte Infusion After T Cell Depleted Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant in High Risk Patients With Hematologic Malignancies

Status
Completed
Phases
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT01839916
Enrollment
77
Registered
2013-04-25
Start date
2013-04-04
Completion date
2018-08-31
Last updated
2019-08-07

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

Conditions

Accelerated Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With 11q23 (MLL) Abnormalities, Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Del(5q), Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Inv(16)(p13;q22), Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(15;17)(q22;q12), Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(16;16)(p13;q22), Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(8;21)(q22;q22), Adult Nasal Type Extranodal NK/T-cell Lymphoma, Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma, Angioimmunoblastic T-cell Lymphoma, Blastic Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Childhood Burkitt Lymphoma, Childhood Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Childhood Diffuse Large Cell Lymphoma, Childhood Immunoblastic Large Cell Lymphoma, Childhood Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Childhood Nasal Type Extranodal NK/T-cell Lymphoma, Chronic Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Cutaneous B-cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, de Novo Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Extranodal Marginal Zone B-cell Lymphoma of Mucosa-associated Lymphoid Tissue, Hepatosplenic T-cell Lymphoma, Intraocular Lymphoma, Nodal Marginal Zone B-cell Lymphoma, Noncutaneous Extranodal Lymphoma, Peripheral T-cell Lymphoma, Post-transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder, Previously Treated Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Recurrent Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Recurrent Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Recurrent Adult Burkitt Lymphoma, Recurrent Adult Diffuse Large Cell Lymphoma, Recurrent Adult Diffuse Mixed Cell Lymphoma, Recurrent Adult Diffuse Small Cleaved Cell Lymphoma, Recurrent Adult Grade III Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis, Recurrent Adult Hodgkin Lymphoma, Recurrent Adult Immunoblastic Large Cell Lymphoma, Recurrent Adult Lymphoblastic Lymphoma, Recurrent Adult T-cell Leukemia/Lymphoma, Recurrent Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Recurrent Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Recurrent Childhood Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma, Recurrent Childhood Grade III Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis, Recurrent Childhood Large Cell Lymphoma, Recurrent Childhood Lymphoblastic Lymphoma, Recurrent Childhood Small Noncleaved Cell Lymphoma, Recurrent Cutaneous T-cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Recurrent Grade 1 Follicular Lymphoma, Recurrent Grade 2 Follicular Lymphoma, Recurrent Grade 3 Follicular Lymphoma, Recurrent Mantle Cell Lymphoma, Recurrent Marginal Zone Lymphoma, Recurrent Mycosis Fungoides/Sezary Syndrome, Recurrent/Refractory Childhood Hodgkin Lymphoma, Recurrent Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma, Refractory Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Refractory Hairy Cell Leukemia, Relapsing Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia, Secondary Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Small Intestine Lymphoma, Splenic Marginal Zone Lymphoma, T-cell Large Granular Lymphocyte Leukemia, Testicular Lymphoma, Waldenström Macroglobulinemia

Brief summary

This pilot phase II trial studies how well giving donor T cells after donor stem cell transplant works in treating patients with hematologic malignancies. In a donor stem cell transplant, the donated stem cells may replace the patient's immune cells and help destroy any remaining cancer cells (graft-versus-tumor effect). Giving an infusion of the donor's T cells (donor lymphocyte infusion) after the transplant may help increase this effect.

Detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine the feasibility of escalating dose regimen (EDR) donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) as measured by the proportion of patients who receive at least one DLI. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To assess progression free survival (PFS) at 2 years after stem cell transplant (SCT) for high-risk hematologic malignancies receiving T-cell depleted grafts followed by escalating dose regimen (EDR) prophylactic DLI compared to historical controls not receiving DLI. II. To assess the safety of EDR DLI for high-risk hematologic malignancies as measured by cumulative incidence of severe grade III-IV acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). III. To measure outcomes of grade II-IV acute GVHD, non-relapse mortality, overall survival and chronic GVHD of EDR DLI. IV. To assess the full donor chimerism rate in the CD3 compartment and immune reconstitution after EDR DLI. OUTLINE: Patients receive DLI intravenously (IV). Treatment repeats every 4-8 weeks for 5 doses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up periodically for 2 years.

Interventions

BIOLOGICALtherapeutic allogeneic lymphocytes

Given IV

OTHERlaboratory biomarker analysis

Correlative studies

Sponsors

National Cancer Institute (NCI)
CollaboratorNIH
University of Chicago
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
14 Years to 75 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* INCLUSION CRITERIA PRIOR TO TRANSPLANT: * The clinical trial will be offered to all high risk (defined 3 below) patients with hematologic malignancies who require stem cell transplants as part of their standard of care using matched related or unrelated donors * Patients with high risk myeloid or lymphoid malignancies at stem cell transplant following American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (ASBMT) criteria, including but not limited to conditions listed; these criteria apply BEFORE cyto-reductive therapy given within 28 days of planned conditioning: * Refractory acute myelogenous or lymphoid leukemia * Relapsed acute myelogenous or lymphoid leukemia * Myelodysplastic syndromes with 5% or more blasts * Chronic myelogenous leukemia in chronic phase 3 or more, blast phase presently, or second accelerated phase * Recurrent or refractory malignant lymphoma or Hodgkin's disease with less than a partial response at transplant * High risk chronic lymphocytic leukemia defined as no response or stable disease to the most recent treatment regimen * DONORS: Matched related or unrelated donor stem cell transplant (SCT) matched at human leukocyte antigen (HLA) A- B, C, and DRB1 by molecular methods; 7 of 8 matched donor acceptable for related donors * T-cell depletion with anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) (rabbit or horse) or at least 30 mg of alemtuzumab total in the conditioning regimen * Immune suppression; planned post-transplant immune suppression should include tacrolimus or cyclosporin monotherapy (i.e., calcineurin inhibitor or CN) for alemtuzumab regimens and a second immune suppressant for ATG treated patients; other agents may be used if CN intolerance or toxicity occurs post-transplant * Zubrod performance status (PS) 0-2 or equivalent Karnofsky PS * Eligible for allogeneic transplant in the treating physicians' judgment and by institutional standards * ELIGIBILITY TO RECEIVE DLI POST-TRANSPLANT: * Donor lymphocytes available or able to be collected * No evidence of disease by standard morphology; minimal residual disease or molecular evidence of disease will not exclude * Absolute neutrophil count \>= 500/μl * Platelet count \>= 20,000/μl without transfusion for 7 days * Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) and serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT) =\< 5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) * Bilirubin =\< 3 x ULN * No evidence of grade II or higher acute GVHD or chronic GVHD at initiation of first DLI * No systemic corticosteroids or immunosuppressive drugs (topical acceptable); replacement steroids for adrenal insufficiency are not excluded

Exclusion criteria

*

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Percentage of Patients Who Are Able to Receive at Least One DLI TreatmentUp to 2 years

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Progression Free Survival (PFS)2 yearsTime to relapse or death as a result of any cause was evaluated at 2 years and the progression free survival rate was reported.
Overall Survival (OS)At 2 yearsComputed using the Kaplan-Meier product-limit estimate and expressed as probabilities with a 95% CI.
Rate of Acute GVHD (aGVHD) With Any GradeAt 1 year and 2 yearEstimated by cumulative incidence method.
Rate of Chronic GVHD (cGVHD)At 1 year and 2 yearEstimated by cumulative incidence method.
Treatment-related MortalityAt 2 yearEstimated by cumulative incidence method. Cumulative incidence of treatment-related mortality with relapse of the original disease as the competing risk will be calculated.

Countries

United States

Participant flow

Participants by arm

ArmCount
Treatment (DLI)
Patients receive DLI IV. Treatment repeats every 4-8 weeks for 5 doses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. therapeutic allogeneic lymphocytes: Given IV laboratory biomarker analysis: Correlative studies
77
Total77

Withdrawals & dropouts

PeriodReasonFG000
Overall StudyDeath9
Overall StudyGraft Failure1
Overall StudyGVHD2
Overall StudyPhysician Decision17
Overall StudyRelapse12

Baseline characteristics

CharacteristicTreatment (DLI)
Age, Continuous53 years
Race (NIH/OMB)
American Indian or Alaska Native
0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Asian
3 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Black or African American
3 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
More than one race
0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Unknown or Not Reported
1 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
White
70 Participants
Sex: Female, Male
Female
26 Participants
Sex: Female, Male
Male
51 Participants

Adverse events

Event typeEG000
affected / at risk
deaths
Total, all-cause mortality
17 / 36
other
Total, other adverse events
1 / 36
serious
Total, serious adverse events
12 / 36

Outcome results

Primary

Percentage of Patients Who Are Able to Receive at Least One DLI Treatment

Time frame: Up to 2 years

ArmMeasureValue (COUNT_OF_PARTICIPANTS)
Treatment (DLI)Percentage of Patients Who Are Able to Receive at Least One DLI Treatment36 Participants
Secondary

Overall Survival (OS)

Computed using the Kaplan-Meier product-limit estimate and expressed as probabilities with a 95% CI.

Time frame: At 2 years

Population: Patients received at least one DLI Treatment.

ArmMeasureValue (NUMBER)
Treatment (DLI)Overall Survival (OS)59.7 percentage of patients
Secondary

Progression Free Survival (PFS)

Time to relapse or death as a result of any cause was evaluated at 2 years and the progression free survival rate was reported.

Time frame: 2 years

Population: Patients received at least one DLI Treatment.

ArmMeasureValue (NUMBER)
Treatment (DLI)Progression Free Survival (PFS)43 percentage of patients
Secondary

Rate of Acute GVHD (aGVHD) With Any Grade

Estimated by cumulative incidence method.

Time frame: At 1 year and 2 year

Population: Patients received at least one DLI Treatment.

ArmMeasureGroupValue (NUMBER)
Treatment (DLI)Rate of Acute GVHD (aGVHD) With Any GradeAt 1 year41.8 percentage of patients
Treatment (DLI)Rate of Acute GVHD (aGVHD) With Any GradeAt 2 year41.8 percentage of patients
Secondary

Rate of Chronic GVHD (cGVHD)

Estimated by cumulative incidence method.

Time frame: At 1 year and 2 year

Population: Patients received at least one DLI treatment.

ArmMeasureGroupValue (NUMBER)
Treatment (DLI)Rate of Chronic GVHD (cGVHD)At 1 year26.6 percentage of patients
Treatment (DLI)Rate of Chronic GVHD (cGVHD)At 2 year26.6 percentage of patients
Secondary

Treatment-related Mortality

Estimated by cumulative incidence method. Cumulative incidence of treatment-related mortality with relapse of the original disease as the competing risk will be calculated.

Time frame: At 2 year

Population: Patients received at least one DLI treatment.

ArmMeasureValue (NUMBER)
Treatment (DLI)Treatment-related Mortality12.1 percentage of patients

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Mar 1, 2026