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CompletedNCT00006251Updated Jan 21, 2020

Fludarabine Phosphate, Low-Dose Total-Body Irradiation, and Donor Stem Cell Transplant Followed by Cyclosporine, Mycophenolate Mofetil, Donor Lymphocyte Infusion in Treating Patients With Hematopoietic Cancer

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of total-body irradiation and fludarabine phosphate in Acute Undifferentiated Leukemia, Adult Nasal Type Extranodal NK/T-cell Lymphoma and Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma, sponsored by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. Completed at 2 sites in 2 countries. Open to participants aged Up to 74 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-01-21.

Sponsored by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
21
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
Up to 74 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This clinical trial studies fludarabine phosphate, low-dose total-body irradiation, and donor stem cell transplant followed by cyclosporine, mycophenolate mofetil, and donor lymphocyte infusion in treating patients with hematopoietic cancer. Giving low doses of chemotherapy, such as fludarabine phosphate, and total body irradiation (TBI) before a donor peripheral blood stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cancer cells. It may also keep the patient's immune response from rejecting the donor's stem cells. 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. Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can also make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil after the transplant may stop this from happening.

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PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To estimate the risk of graft rejection associated with the addition of fludarabine (fludarabine phosphate) to a non-myeloablative conditioning regimen for patients with malignant diseases treatable by allogeneic stem cell transplantation and compare this rate to that observed among patients previously treated without fludarabine.

II. To estimate the rate of grade acute II/IV graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) and chronic GVHD in patients treated with low-dose total-body irradiation (TBI), fludarabine, peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) infusion and immunosuppression with cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil.

OUTLINE:

CONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate intravenously (IV) on days - 4 to -2 and undergo low-dose TBI on day 0. (Note: Patients who have had an autologous transplant within 90 days prior to day 0 will not receive fludarabine phosphate.)

PBSC INFUSION: Patients undergo allogeneic PBSC transplant on day 0.

IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive cyclosporine orally (PO) twice daily (BID) on days -3 to 35 with a taper to day 56. Patients receive mycophenolate mofetil PO BID on days 0-27.

POST TRANSPLANT DONOR LYMPHOCYTE INFUSION (DLI): Patients with stable mixed chimerism on day 56, and without evidence of GVHD, undergo DLI IV over 30 minutes on day 65. Patients without a complete response, full donor chimerism, and GVHD after 2 months undergo further DLI at higher cell numbers. Up to 6 DLIs may be given 65 days apart.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 4, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months and then annually thereafter.

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Conditions studied

  • Acute Undifferentiated Leukemia
  • Adult Nasal Type Extranodal NK/T-cell Lymphoma
  • Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma
  • Angioimmunoblastic T-cell Lymphoma
  • Childhood Burkitt Lymphoma
  • Childhood Diffuse Large Cell Lymphoma
  • Childhood Grade III Lymphomatoid Granulomatosis
  • Childhood Immunoblastic Large Cell Lymphoma
  • Childhood Myelodysplastic Syndromes
  • Childhood Nasal Type Extranodal NK/T-cell Lymphoma
  • Chronic Myelomonocytic 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
  • Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia
  • Mast Cell Leukemia
  • Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasm, Unclassifiable
  • Myeloid/NK-cell Acute Leukemia
  • Nodal Marginal Zone B-cell Lymphoma
  • Noncutaneous Extranodal Lymphoma
  • Peripheral T-cell Lymphoma
  • Post-transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder
  • Previously Treated Myelodysplastic Syndromes
  • Primary Systemic Amyloidosis
  • 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 Renal Cell Cancer
  • Recurrent Small Lymphocytic Lymphoma
  • Recurrent/Refractory Childhood Hodgkin Lymphoma
  • Refractory Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  • Refractory Hairy Cell Leukemia
  • Refractory Multiple Myeloma
  • Small Intestine Lymphoma
  • Splenic Marginal Zone Lymphoma
  • Stage II Multiple Myeloma
  • Stage III Multiple Myeloma
  • T-cell Large Granular Lymphocyte Leukemia
  • Testicular Lymphoma
  • Waldenström Macroglobulinemia
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In context

Leukemia, Biphenotypic, Acute

246 studies on the registry are indexed under Leukemia, Biphenotypic, Acute; 56 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 21 is below the median of 50 across 185 interventional studies indexed under Leukemia, Biphenotypic, Acute.

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Lead sponsor

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is the lead sponsor of 547 studies on the registry; 80 are open to participants now.

Of its 59 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 46 (78%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Up to 74 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Patients aged > 49 years and \< 75 years with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and multiple myeloma who are not eligible for a curative transplantation or who have failed prior autologous transplantation; patients with NHL and CLL must have failed prior therapy with an alkylating agent and/or fludarabine, or be at high risk of relapse; patients with multiple myeloma must have stage II or III disease and received prior chemotherapy
  • Patients \< 50 years of age with NHL, CLL or multiple myeloma at high risk of regimen related toxicity through prior autologous transplant or through pre-existing medical conditions
  • Patients \< 75 years of age with other malignant diseases treatable by allogeneic bone marrow transplant (BMT) whom through pre-existing chronic disease affecting kidneys, liver, lungs, and heart are considered to be at high risk for regimen related toxicity using standard high dose regimens; the following diseases are the likely candidates:

    • Myelodysplastic syndromes
    • Myeloproliferative syndromes
    • Acute Leukemia with \< 10% blasts
    • Amyloidosis
    • Hodgkin's disease
    • Renal cell carcinoma
  • Patients with other declining standard allografts may be approved for transplant following presentation and approval by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) chimerism group
  • DONOR:

    • Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genotypically or phenotypically identical related donor
    • Donor must consent to granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) administration and leukopheresis
    • Donor must have adequate veins for leukopheresis or agree to placement of central venous catheter (femoral, subclavian)
    • Age \< 75 years

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Eligible for a high-priority curative transplant
  • Patients with rapidly progressive aggressive NHL unless in minimal disease state
  • Active central nervous system (CNS) involvement with disease
  • Fertile men or women unwilling to use techniques during and for 12 months following treatment
  • Females who are pregnant
  • Patients who are (HIV) positive
  • Cardiac \< 40%
  • Severe defects in pulmonary function testing (defects are currently categorized as mild, moderate and severe) as defined by the pulmonary consultant, or receiving supplementary continuous oxygen
  • Total > 2 x the
  • Serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase () and serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT) 4 x the upper limit of normal
  • score \< 50
  • Patients with poorly controlled hypertension
  • Patients with renal failure are eligible, however patients with renal compromise (serum creatinine greater than 2.0) will likely have further compromise in renal function and may require hemodialysis (which may be permanent) due to the need to maintain adequate serum cyclosporine levels
  • DONOR:

    • Identical twin
    • Age less than 12 years
    • Pregnancy
    • Infection with HIV
    • Inability to achieve adequate venous access
    • Known allergy to G-CSF
    • Current serious systemic illness
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(9)

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Allogeneic and autologous transplant

Stem cell (bone marrow) transplants. Allogeneic uses cells from a donor; autologous uses your own cells, collected earlier and given back.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

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HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

LVEF (left ventricular ejection fraction)

The share of blood the heart’s main pumping chamber (the left ventricle) pushes out with each beat, measured by an echocardiogram (heart ultrasound) or a MUGA scan. About 50–70% is normal.

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

Karnofsky performance status (KPS)

A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
21 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Treatment (fludarabine phosphate, TBI, PBSC transplant, DLI)

    CONDITIONING REGIMEN : Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV on days - 4 to -2 and undergo low-dose TBI on day 0. (Note: Patients who have had an autologous transplant within 90 days prior to day 0 will not receive fludarabine phosphate.) PBSC INFUSION: Patients undergo allogeneic PBSC transplant on day 0. IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive cyclosporine PO BID on days -3 to 35 with a taper to day 56. Patients receive mycophenolate mofetil PO BID on days 0-27. POST TRANSPLANT DLI: Patients with stable mixed chimerism on day 56, and without evidence of GVHD, undergo DLI IV over 30 minutes on day 65. Patients without a complete response, full donor chimerism, and GVHD after 2 months undergo further DLI at higher cell numbers. Up to 6 DLIs may be given 65 days apart.

    Radiation: total-body irradiation · Drug: fludarabine phosphate · Drug: cyclosporine · Drug: mycophenolate mofetil · Procedure: nonmyeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation · Biological: donor lymphocytes · Procedure: peripheral blood stem cell transplantation · Other: laboratory biomarker analysis

Interventions

  • Radiationtotal-body irradiation

    Undergo TBI

    Also known as: TBI

  • Given IV

    Also known as: 2-F-ara-AMP, Beneflur, Fludara

  • Given PO

    Also known as: ciclosporin, cyclosporin, cyclosporin A, CYSP, Sandimmune

  • Given PO

    Also known as: Cellcept, MMF

  • Procedurenonmyeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

    Undergo allogeneic PBSC transplant

  • Undergo DLI

  • Procedureperipheral blood stem cell transplantation

    Undergo allogeneic PBSC transplant

    Also known as: PBPC transplantation, PBSC transplantation, peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation, transplantation, peripheral blood stem cell

  • Otherlaboratory biomarker analysis

    Correlative studies

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Risk of graft rejection defined as the absence of detectable peripheral blood donor T cells with the addition of fludarabine phosphate

    Time frame: Up to day 56

  2. Incidence of acute grade II/IV GVHD

    Time frame: Up to day 90 after the last DLI

  3. Incidence of chronic GVHD

    Time frame: Up to 24 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Incidence of myelosuppression (ANC < 500/ul for > 2 days, platelets < 20,000/ul for > 2 days) after initial PBSC infusion

    Time frame: Up to day 56

  2. Response of malignancy to DLI

    Time frame: Up to 24 months

  3. Incidence of aplasia after DLI

    Time frame: Up to 24 months

  4. Dose of CD3+ cells required to convert mixed to full lymphoid chimeras

    Time frame: Up to 24 months

  5. Incidence of non-relapse mortality

    Time frame: Up to 24 months

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Study locations

2 sites
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
    Seattle, Washington 98109, United States
  • University of Torino
    Torino, 10126, Italy
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References and documents

Publications

  • Cooper JP, Storer BE, Granot N, Gyurkocza B, Sorror ML, Chauncey TR, Shizuru J, Franke GN, Maris MB, Boyer M, Bruno B, Sahebi F, Langston AA, Hari P, Agura ED, Lykke Petersen S, Maziarz RT, Bethge W, Asch J, Gutman JA, Olesen G, Yeager AM, Hubel K, Hogan WJ, Maloney DG, Mielcarek M, Martin PJ, Flowers MED, Georges GE, Woolfrey AE, Deeg JH, Scott BL, McDonald GB, Storb R, Sandmaier BM. Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation with non-myeloablative conditioning for patients with hematologic malignancies: Improved outcomes over two decades. Haematologica. 2021 Jun 1;106(6):1599-1607. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2020.248187. PubMed 32499241 ↗
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Timeline

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Registered
Sep 11, 2000
First posted
Jun 9, 2004
Start
May 2000
Primary completionActual
Sep 2005
Last update
Jan 21, 2020
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No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jan 21, 2020, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT00006251
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jun 9, 2004
Start date
May 2000
Primary completion
Sep 2005
Last update
Jan 21, 2020

Study contacts

David Maloney
principal investigator · Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
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