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Maintenance Low Dose 5'-Azacitidine Post T Cell Depleted Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation for Patients With Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Acute Myelogenous Leukemia With High Risk for Post-Transplant Relapse

A Single Arm Phase II Trial of Maintenance Low Dose 5'-Azacitidine Post T Cell Depleted Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation for Patients With Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Acute Myelogenous Leukemia With High Risk for Post-Transplant Relapse

Status
Completed
Phases
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT01995578
Enrollment
32
Registered
2013-11-26
Start date
2013-12-31
Completion date
2023-09-27
Last updated
2024-05-22

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

Conditions

Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML), Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

Keywords

5'-Azacitidine, Stem cell transplant, 13-192

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to learn if 5'-Azacitidine will help to lower the risk of the disease coming back after a stem cell transplant in patients with MDS and AML. This study will also be looking at the side effects of this medicine. 5'-Azacitidine is an FDA approved drug for treatment of MDS and AML, as well as patients whose disease came back after transplant, where it helped going into remission. It is unclear if 5'-Azacitidine can prevent the disease from coming back after transplant. This study will help show if getting 5'-Azacitidine soon after transplant can lower the risk of your disease coming back.

Interventions

DRUGlow dose 5'-azacitidine

5'-azacitadine will be given at a low dose of 32mg/m2 S.C for 5 days every 28 days (a cycle). Dose de-escalation will be permitted for hematologic and non- hematologic toxicities. Patients will start taking the study drug between days 60-120 post TCD allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant and up to a year post-transplant or until there is a toxicity that requires cessation of therapy. Therefore patients will get between 8-10 cycles. Patients who come off-study for reasons unrelated to toxicities before completing 4 cycles will be replaced Since most cases of relapse occur early post transplant, in the first year, this is the most appropriate time to intervene. Treatment will start as soon as possible.

Sponsors

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

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

Inclusion criteria

Patients who have undergone T cell depleted allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation at MSKCC for: * De novo myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS): IPSS-1 with poor risk cytogenetics or higher IPSS. * Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) in first remission that required more than 1 cycle of treatment to achieve remission or with the following cytogenetic abnormalities: FLT3 mutation, deletion/monosomy of chromosome 5 or 7, MLL gene rearrangement, or more than or equal to 3 cytogenetics abnormalities. Also patients in second or greater remission. * Patients with Secondary MDS/AML. * Patients will be considered eligible for the study if after transplant they achieved hematologic (\<5% blasts) and cytogenetic remission. * Patients will be eligible to enter the study between 60-120 days post transplant. * Age: pediatrics and adults patients - 1 year old-75 years old. * Karnofsky performance status \>=60% for patients \>16yo and Lansky performance status \>=60% for patients ≤16yo * Stable blood counts (ANC\>1000/uL, Hb\>8gr/dL, Plt\>50,000/ uL) not supported by transfusions. * Renal: Serum creatinine \<1.5 ULN * Hepatic: \<3xULN ALT and \<1.5 total serum bilirubin, unless there is congenital benign hyperbilirubinemia. * Cardiac: Adequate cardiac function measured by LVEF\>50%. If asymptomatic, pretransplant echocardiogram is adequate. If symptomatic, echocardiogram needs to be repeated. * Each patient must be willing to participate as a research subject and must sign an informed consent form.

Exclusion criteria

Patients will be excluded from the trial if at time of enrollment: * Active uncontrolled bacterial, fungal or viral infection. * Evidence of uncontrolled graft-versus-host disease. * Pulmonary: new onset hypoxia * Known or suspected hypersensitivity to 5'-azacitadine or mannitol. * Evidence of residual disease either by increased blasts count (\>5%) or persistence of previous known cytogenetics abnormalities. * Peripheral blood neutrophil chimerism: less than 95% donor.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Relapse Rate2 yearsRelapse of MDS or AML will be analyzed as to type and genetic origin of the leukemic cells. These will be defined by morphologic and/or cytogenetic criteria: an increasing number of blasts in the marrow over 5%, by presence of circulating blasts, or by presence of blasts in any extramedullary site as well as presence of previous cytogenetic abnormalities. Other studies assessing for MRD, FACS and FISH assays will be evaluated but would not be considered disease relapse if positive since they are experimental.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Overall Survival2 yearsKaplan-Meier methodology will be used to compare overall survival.
Number of Participants Evaluated for Treatment Safety2 yearsThe safety will be described by tabulating the number of transfusions, frequencies of bleeding and serious infections, and the use of G-CSF support.

Countries

United States

Participant flow

Participants by arm

ArmCount
Low Dose 5'-Azacitidine
This is a single arm phase II trial to assess the efficacy and confirm the safety of maintenance therapy with 5'-azacitadine compared to historical control after TCD allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant for patients with MDS and AML who are at high risk of relapse.
32
Total32

Baseline characteristics

CharacteristicLow Dose 5'-Azacitidine
Age, Continuous60 years
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)
Hispanic or Latino
2 Participants
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)
Not Hispanic or Latino
30 Participants
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)
Unknown or Not Reported
0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
American Indian or Alaska Native
0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Asian
0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
Black or African American
2 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
0 Participants
Race (NIH/OMB)
White
30 Participants
Region of Enrollment
United States
32 Participants
Sex: Female, Male
Female
15 Participants
Sex: Female, Male
Male
17 Participants

Adverse events

Event typeEG000
affected / at risk
deaths
Total, all-cause mortality
12 / 32
other
Total, other adverse events
29 / 32
serious
Total, serious adverse events
10 / 32

Outcome results

Primary

Relapse Rate

Relapse of MDS or AML will be analyzed as to type and genetic origin of the leukemic cells. These will be defined by morphologic and/or cytogenetic criteria: an increasing number of blasts in the marrow over 5%, by presence of circulating blasts, or by presence of blasts in any extramedullary site as well as presence of previous cytogenetic abnormalities. Other studies assessing for MRD, FACS and FISH assays will be evaluated but would not be considered disease relapse if positive since they are experimental.

Time frame: 2 years

ArmMeasureCategoryValue (COUNT_OF_PARTICIPANTS)
Low Dose 5'-AzacitidineRelapse RateProgression Free20 Participants
Low Dose 5'-AzacitidineRelapse RateComplete Response2 Participants
Low Dose 5'-AzacitidineRelapse RateNot Entered10 Participants
Secondary

Number of Participants Evaluated for Treatment Safety

The safety will be described by tabulating the number of transfusions, frequencies of bleeding and serious infections, and the use of G-CSF support.

Time frame: 2 years

ArmMeasureValue (COUNT_OF_PARTICIPANTS)
Low Dose 5'-AzacitidineNumber of Participants Evaluated for Treatment Safety32 Participants
Secondary

Overall Survival

Kaplan-Meier methodology will be used to compare overall survival.

Time frame: 2 years

ArmMeasureCategoryValue (COUNT_OF_PARTICIPANTS)
Low Dose 5'-AzacitidineOverall SurvivalAlive20 Participants
Low Dose 5'-AzacitidineOverall SurvivalDead12 Participants

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