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A Two Step Approach to Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Patients With Hematologic Malignancies-Increasing GVT Effects Without Increasing Toxicity

A Two Step Approach to Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Patients With Hematologic Malignancies-Increasing GVT Effects Without Increasing Toxicity

Status
Completed
Phases
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT03032783
Enrollment
51
Registered
2017-01-26
Start date
2017-01-31
Completion date
2025-12-02
Last updated
2026-01-29

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Conditions

Hematopoietic and Lymphoid Cell Neoplasm

Brief summary

This phase II trial studies the how well donor stem cell transplant works in treating patients with high risk hematologic malignancies. Giving total-body irradiation and chemotherapy before a donor stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cells in the bone marrow, including normal blood-forming cells (stem cells) and cancer cells. It may also stop the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. When the healthy stem cells from a 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. The donated stem cells may also replace the patient's immune cells and help destroy any remaining cancer cells.

Detailed description

Primary Objective: 1\. To assess 2 year probability of OS in high risk patients undergoing a myeloablative 2 step HSCT utilizing strategies to decrease relapse. Secondary Objective: 1. To assess relapse incidence at 2 years post-HSCT of patients undergoing treatment on this protocol. 2. To assess regimen related toxicity and GVHD incidence at 2 years post-HSCT and severity in patients undergoing treatment on this protocol. 3. To assess the consistency and pace of engraftment. 4. To assess the pace of T cell and B cell immune recovery.

Interventions

RADIATIONTotal-Body Irradiation

Undergo Total Body Irradiation

Undergo Donor Lymphocyte Infusion

DRUGCyclophosphamide

Given IV

DRUGTacrolimus

Given IV

DRUGMycophenolate Mofetil

Given IV

PROCEDUREAllogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Undergo Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Sponsors

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

This treatment is for patients with high risk hematologic malignancies. High risk is defined as: * Any patient with a hematologic malignancy in which allogeneic HSCT is pursued with the expectation of cure. Patients may have post-treatment residual disease, but the disease should be stable or minimally progressive and must be responsive to chemotherapy. * Any patient with an untreated hematologic malignancy in which allogeneic HSCT is thought to be the sole or the best option for cure and in Patients without morphologic evidence of disease but with high risk features which would predict for relapsed despite remission at HSCT such as adverse cytogenetics, 3rd or greater CR, or failure to recover peripheral blood counts to normal ranges. While these patients do not have detectable disease by current methods, like all patients they have non-detectable disease which in their case is highly aggressive. * Patients with uncommon diagnoses in which allogeneic HSCT is thought to be beneficial but are no comparable to the majority of patients on this protocol will not be counted in the statistical aims of the study and will be reported descriptively. The PI and at least one Co-I must document this exception in the study binder and the rationale for descriptive report. An example of a patient who may meet this criteria is someone with a malignancy that is an overlap of two different diagnoses or one whose malignancy is difficult to categorize. While this circumstance is expected to be rare, it will prevent patients with rare diagnoses to be treated off study and it will help maintain homogeneity of the study population. * Patients must have one related donor who is HLA mismatched in the GVHD direction at two or more HLA loci (except as described below) * Patients must have adequate organ function: * Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction (LVEF) of ≥50% * DLCO (adjusted for hemoglobin) ≥50% of predicted and FEV-1 ≥50% * Adequate liver function as defined by a serum bilirubin ≤1.8, Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) or alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 2.5 x Upper Limit of Normal (ULN) * Creatinine clearance of ≥ 60ml/min * Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) of ≥80% on the modified KPS tool (see Appendix) * Patients must be willing to use contraception if they have childbearing potential * Able to give informed consent * Age ≥ 18 years of age

Exclusion criteria

* Modified KPS of \<80% * \> 5 Comorbidity Points on the Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Co-Morbidity Index (HCT CI) (See Appendix) (Patients with greater than 5 points will be allowed for trial with approval of the PI and at least 1 Co-I not on the primary care team of the patient.) this is an adjustment to account for healthy patients who meet the spirit of this protocol but have histories that result in higher than HCT-CI 5 points. An example is a patient with a solid tumor malignancy in their remote history (adds 3 points to HCT-CI total) where the treatment for the malignancy occurred years to decades before and there has been complete recovery of toxicities. * Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) positive * Active involvement of the central nervous system with malignancy * Psychiatric disorder that would preclude patients from signing an informed consent * Pregnancy, or unwillingness to use contraception if they have childbearing potential * Patients with life expectancy of ≤ 6 months for reasons other than their underlying hematologic/oncologic disorder * Alemtuzumab treatment within 8 weeks of HSCT admission * ATG within 8 weeks of HSCT administration * Inability to tolerate cyclophosphamide or undergo total body irradiation at the doses specified in the treatment plan.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Overall Survival (OS)At two yearsWill be tested using an exact one-sided binomial test with alpha 0.05. The trial will be considered successful if the null hypothesis of 45% 2-year OS is rejected. In addition, the exact binomial 95% confidence interval for 2-year OS will be computed.

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Incidence of graft failureUp to 2 yearsShould be less than 10%
Incidence of non-relapse mortalityUp to 2 yearsShould be less than 20% at 100 days

Countries

United States

Contacts

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORUsama Gergis, MD

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University

Outcome results

None listed

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