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CompletedNCT00008177Updated Nov 13, 2019

Radiolabeled Monoclonal Antibody Therapy, Fludarabine Phosphate, and Low-Dose Total-Body Irradiation Followed by Donor Stem Cell Transplant and Immunosuppression Therapy in Treating Older Patients With Advanced Acute Myeloid Leukemia or High-Risk Myelodysplastic Syndromes

A Phase 1 interventional study of iodine I 131 monoclonal antibody BC8 and total-body irradiation in Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Remission, Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With 11q23 (MLL) Abnormalities and Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Del(5q), sponsored by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 50 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-11-13.

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

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 1 year 5 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Jul 1999, registered Jan 2001).
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
79
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
50 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This phase I trial studies the side effects and best dose of iodine I 131 monoclonal antibody BC8 when given together with fludarabine phosphate and low-dose total-body irradiation followed by donor stem cell transplant and immunosuppression therapy in treating older patients with acute myeloid leukemia or high-risk myelodysplastic syndromes that cannot be controlled with treatment. Radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies, such as iodine I 131 monoclonal antibody BC8, can find cancer cells and carry cancer-killing substances to them. Giving chemotherapy, such as fludarabine phosphate, and total-body irradiation before a donor peripheral blood stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cancer or abnormal 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. Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can also make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving radiolabeled monoclonal antibody therapy together with fludarabine phosphate and total-body irradiation before the transplant together with cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil after the transplant may stop this from happening.

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PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine the maximum tolerated dose of radiation delivered via 131I-BC8 antibody (iodine I 131 monoclonal antibody BC8) when combined with the non-myeloablative regimen of fludarabine (fludarabine phosphate), 2 Gy total-body irradiation (TBI) + cyclosporine (CSP)/mycophenolate (MMF) in elderly patients with advanced acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or high risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS).

II. To determine the rates of donor chimerism resulting from this combined preparative regimen, and to correlate level of donor chimerism with estimated radiation doses delivered to hematopoietic tissues via antibody.

III. To determine, within the limits of a phase I study, disease response and duration of remission.

IV. To assess dose-limiting toxicity (DLT) at the estimated maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of 131I-BC8 (24 Gy) in order to gain more confidence that the DLT rate is acceptable at this level.

OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation study of iodine I 131 monoclonal antibody BC8.

CONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive iodine I 131 monoclonal antibody BC8 intravenously (IV) on day -12 and fludarabine phosphate IV on days -4 to -2. Patients undergo total-body irradiation on day 0.

TRANSPLANTATION: Patients undergo allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation on day 0.

IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive cyclosporine orally (PO) or IV twice daily (BID) on days -3 to 56 with taper to day 80 (for patients with a related donor) OR days -3 to 100 with taper to day 177 (for patients with an unrelated donor) in the absence of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Patients also receive mycophenolate mofetil PO or IV thrice daily (TID) on days 0 to 27 (for patients with a related donor) OR on days 0 to 40 with taper to day 96 (for patients with an unrelated donor) in the absence of GVHD.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 6, 9, and 12 months, every 6 months for 1 year, and then yearly thereafter.

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Conditions studied

  • Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Remission
  • 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)
  • Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia
  • de Novo Myelodysplastic Syndromes
  • Previously Treated Myelodysplastic Syndromes
  • Recurrent Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia
  • Refractory Anemia With Excess Blasts
  • Refractory Anemia With Excess Blasts in Transformation
  • Refractory Anemia With Ringed Sideroblasts
  • Refractory Cytopenia With Multilineage Dysplasia
  • Secondary Myelodysplastic Syndromes
  • Untreated Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia
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In context

Congenital Abnormalities

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This study's enrollment of 79 is above the median of 49 across 499 interventional studies indexed under Congenital Abnormalities.

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Lead sponsor

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is the lead sponsor of 546 studies on the registry; 79 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
50 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

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Inclusion criteria

  • Patients with advanced AML defined as beyond first remission, primary refractory disease, or evolved from myelodysplastic or myeloproliferative syndromes; or patients with MDS expressed as refractory anemia with excess blasts (RAEB), refractory anemia with excess blasts in transformation (RAEBT [Note: classification removed under current World Health Organization [WHO] classification system]), refractory cytopenia with multilineage dysplasia (RCMD), RCMD with ringed sideroblasts (RCMD-RS), or chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML)
  • Patients in relapse must have documented cluster of differentiation (CD)45 expression by their myelodysplastic or leukemic cells to be studied and treated with 131I-labeled BC8 antibody; patients in remission do not require phenotyping and may have leukemia previously documented to be CD45 negative
  • Patients should have a circulating blast count of less than 10,000/mm\^3 (control with hydroxyurea or similar agent is allowed)
  • Patients must undergo a 24-hour urine collection with documented creatinine clearance > 50 ml/min
  • Bilirubin \< 2 times the upper limit of normal
  • Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) \< 2 times the upper limit of normal
  • Karnofsky score >= 70 or Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) =\< 2
  • Patients must have an expected survival of > 60 days and must be free of active infection
  • Patients must have a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-identical sibling donor or an HLA-matched unrelated donor who meets standard Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) and/or National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) criteria for peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) donation; related donors should be matched by molecular methods at the intermediate resolution level at HLA-A, B, C, and DRB1 according to Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) Standard Practice Guidelines and to the allele level at DQB1; unrelated donors should be identified using matching criteria that follows the FHCRC Standard Practice Guidelines limiting the study to eligible donors that are allele matched for HLA-A, B, C, DRB1, and DQB1 (grade 1), and accepting up to one allele mismatch as per standard practice grade 2.1 for HLA-A, B, or C; PBSC is the only permitted hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) source
  • DONOR: Donors must meet HLA matching criteria as outlined above as well as standard Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) and/or NMDP criteria for PBSC donation

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Circulating antibody against mouse immunoglobulin (human anti-mouse antibody [HAMA])
  • Prior radiation to maximally tolerated levels to any normal organ
  • Patients may not have symptomatic coronary artery disease and may not be on cardiac medications for anti-arrhythmic or inotropic effects
  • Inability to understand or give an informed consent
  • Patients who are seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
  • Perceived inability to tolerate diagnostic or therapeutic procedures, particularly treatment in radiation isolation
  • Patients who have previously undergone marrow or PBSC transplantation
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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Treatment ( I 131 BC8, chemotherapy, TBI, PBSCT, CSP, MMF)

    CONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive iodine I 131 monoclonal antibody BC8 IV on day -12 and fludarabine phosphate IV on days -4 to -2. Patients undergo total-body irradiation on day 0. TRANSPLANTATION: Patients undergo allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation on day 0. IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive cyclosporine PO or IV BID on days -3 to 56 with taper to day 80 (for patients with a related donor) OR days -3 to 100 with taper to day 177 (for patients with an unrelated donor) in the absence of GVHD. Patients also receive mycophenolate mofetil PO or IV TID on days 0 to 27 (for patients with a related donor) OR on days 0 to 40 with taper to day 96 (for patients with an unrelated donor) in the absence of GVHD.

    Radiation: iodine I 131 monoclonal antibody BC8 · Radiation: total-body irradiation · Procedure: allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation · Procedure: peripheral blood stem cell transplantation · Drug: fludarabine phosphate · Drug: cyclosporine · Drug: mycophenolate mofetil · Other: laboratory biomarker analysis

Interventions

  • Radiationiodine I 131 monoclonal antibody BC8

    Given IV

    Also known as: I 131 MOAB BC8, I 131 Monoclonal Antibody BC8, iodine I 131 MOAB BC8

  • Radiationtotal-body irradiation

    Undergo total-body irradiation

    Also known as: TBI

  • Procedureallogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

    Undergo allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation

  • Procedureperipheral blood stem cell transplantation

    Undergo allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation

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

  • Given IV

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

  • Given orally or IV

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

  • Given orally or IV

    Also known as: Cellcept, MMF

  • Otherlaboratory biomarker analysis

    Correlative studies

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Maximum tolerated dose of radiation delivered via 131I-BC8 antibody when combined with the nonmyeloablative regimen of fludarabine phosphate, TBI, and CSP/MMF

    Time frame: Up to day 100 following transplant

  2. Rates of donor chimerism resulting from this combined preparative regimen

    Correlated with estimated radiation doses delivered to hematopoietic tissues via antibody.

    Time frame: Up to day 84 following transplant

  3. Disease response

    Time frame: Up to 11 years

  4. Duration of remission

    Time frame: Up to 11 years

  5. incidence of DLT at the estimated MTD of 131I-BC8

    Time frame: Up to day 100 following transplant

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Study locations

1 site
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
    Seattle, Washington 98109, United States
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References and documents

Publications

  • Pagel JM, Gooley TA, Rajendran J, Fisher DR, Wilson WA, Sandmaier BM, Matthews DC, Deeg HJ, Gopal AK, Martin PJ, Storb RF, Press OW, Appelbaum FR. Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation after conditioning with 131I-anti-CD45 antibody plus fludarabine and low-dose total body irradiation for elderly patients with advanced acute myeloid leukemia or high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome. Blood. 2009 Dec 24;114(27):5444-53. doi: 10.1182/blood-2009-03-213298. Epub 2009 Sep 28. PubMed 19786617 ↗
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Nov 13, 2019, 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
NCT00008177
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Dec 12, 2003
Start date
Jul 27, 1999
Primary completion
Mar 21, 2009
Completion
Dec 15, 2010
Last update
Nov 13, 2019

Study contacts

Johnnie Orozco
principal investigator · Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
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