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CompletedNCT00028730Updated Dec 22, 2015

Total-Body Irradiation and Chemotherapy Followed By Donor Bone Marrow Transplant in Treating Young Patients With Hematologic Cancer

A Phase 2 interventional study of anti-thymocyte globulin and filgrastim in Leukemia, Lymphoma and Myelodysplastic Syndromes, sponsored by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged Up to 18 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2015-12-22.

Sponsored by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
25
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
Up to 18 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

RATIONALE: Giving chemotherapy and total body irradiation before a donor bone marrow transplant helps stop the growth of cancer and abnormal cells and helps 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. Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving antithymocyte globulin and removing the T cells from the donor cells before transplant may stop this from happening.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well total-body irradiation and chemotherapy followed by T-cell depleted donor bone marrow transplant works in treating young patients with hematologic cancer.

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OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine the efficacy of hyperfractionated total body irradiation, thiotepa, and cyclophosphamide followed by T-cell-depleted allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in children with acute myeloid leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, chronic myelogenous leukemia, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, or myelodysplastic syndromes.
  • Correlate the progenitor cell dose and dose of clonable T cells with the incidence and quality of engraftment, extent of chimerism, incidence and severity of acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease, characteristics of hematopoietic and immunologic reconstitution, and overall and disease-free survival at 2 years in patients treated with this regimen.

OUTLINE: Patients undergo total body irradiation three times daily on days -9 to -7 and twice on day -6. Patients receive thiotepa IV over 4 hours on days -5 and -4 and cyclophosphamide IV over 30 minutes on days -3 and -2. Patients who cannot receive cyclophosphamide, due to prior hemorrhagic cystitis or exposure to high-dose cyclophosphamide or ifosfamide, receive fludarabine IV over 30 minutes on days -5 to -1. Patients planning to receive family member HLA-mismatched or unrelated bone marrow transplantation receive horse anti-thymocyte globulin IV once daily on days -5 and -4. Patients undergo allogeneic T-cell-depleted bone marrow transplantation on day 0. Patients receive filgrastim (G-CSF) IV every 12 hours beginning on day 7 and continuing until blood counts recover.

Patients are followed every 2-4 weeks for the first 100 days post-transplantation, every 6 weeks for 6 months, every 3 months for 1 year, and then every 3-6 months until 2 years post-transplantation.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 50 patients (25 with HLA 6/6 antigen-matched related donors and 25 with HLA 5/6 antigen-matched related donors or HLA 5/6 or 6/6 antigen-matched unrelated donors) will be accrued for this study within 3 years.

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Conditions studied

  • Leukemia
  • Lymphoma
  • Myelodysplastic Syndromes
  • Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasms

Keywords

  • recurrent childhood lymphoblastic lymphoma
  • chronic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia
  • childhood acute myeloid leukemia in remission
  • childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission
  • secondary acute myeloid leukemia
  • de novo myelodysplastic syndromes
  • previously treated myelodysplastic syndromes
  • secondary myelodysplastic syndromes
  • recurrent childhood small noncleaved cell lymphoma
  • recurrent childhood large cell lymphoma
  • myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm, unclassifiable
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In context

Lymphoma

5,577 studies on the registry are indexed under Lymphoma; 824 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 25 is below the median of 40 across 4,507 interventional studies indexed under Lymphoma.

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Lead sponsor

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is the lead sponsor of 1,930 studies on the registry; 325 are open to participants now.

Of its 129 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 66 (51%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Up to 18 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • One of the following diagnoses:

    • Histologically confirmed good-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in first remission with an HLA-compatible related donor

      • Ineligible for unrelated bone marrow transplantation unless failed first-line induction chemotherapy or have molecular evidence of disease at time of transplantation
    • Histologically confirmed high-risk AML in first remission

      • High risk defined by cytogenetics, biphenotypic and undifferentiated leukemia phenotype, secondary AML, or AML after myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS)
      • Eligible for related or unrelated donor transplantation
    • Histologically confirmed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or lymphoblastic lymphoma (LL) in first remission with high risk for relapse or in second or third remission

      • High risk for relapse defined by hypodiploidy, pseudodiploidy with translocations t(9;22) or infant t(4;11), or failure to achieve remission after four weeks of induction therapy
      • Eligible for related or unrelated donor transplantation
    • Histologically confirmed chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) in at least first chronic phase or acceleration with an HLA-compatible related donor
    • Histologically confirmed CML in first chronic phase if failed conventional therapy or in at least second chronic phase or acceleration with an HLA-compatible unrelated donor
    • Histologically confirmed non-Hodgkin's lymphoma beyond first complete remission or primary induction failure and tumors that are chemosensitive defined as at least 50% reduction in mass size

      • Eligible for related or unrelated donor transplantation
    • Histologically confirmed MDS with intermediate or high-risk disease defined by International Prognostic Scoring System and paroxysmal nocturnal hematuria

      • Eligible for related or unrelated donor transplantation
  • Treatment-related MDS or leukemia allowed if primary malignancy (e.g., neuroblastoma or Ewing's sarcoma) at low risk of recurrence
  • No AML, ALL, or LL in relapse or greater than third remission
  • No CML in blast crisis defined as more than 30% blasts plus promyelocytes
  • No active CNS involvement
  • History of leukemia cutis allowed
  • HLA compatible donor available

    • 5/6 or 6/6 HLA antigen matched related or unrelated

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

  • 18 and under

Performance status:

  • Karnofsky 70-100% OR
  • Lansky 50-100%

Life expectancy:

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic:

  • See Disease Characteristics

Hepatic:

  • Bilirubin no greater than 2.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • AST no greater than 3 times ULN (unless liver involvement is present)

Renal:

  • Creatinine normal OR
  • Creatinine clearance greater than 60 mL/min

Cardiovascular:

  • LVEF at least 50% at rest (if less than 50% at rest, must increase with exercise)

Pulmonary:

  • Asymptomatic with no prior risk features OR
  • DLCO greater than 40% predicted (corrected for hemoglobin) if symptomatic

Other:

  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception
  • HIV I/II negative
  • No uncontrolled viral, bacterial, or fungal infection
  • No known hypersensitivity to bovine proteins

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

  • See Disease Characterisitics

Chemotherapy:

  • See Disease Characteristics

Endocrine therapy:

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy:

  • No prior radiotherapy that would preclude total body irradiation dose

Surgery:

  • Not specified
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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
25 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Pts < than or = 18 years with lymphohematopoietic disorders

    This is a phase II, single-center study to evaluate a cytoreductive regimen of hyperfractionated TBI, thiotepa and cyclophosphamide (HFTBI/thio/cy) followed by infusions of SBA-E- T-cell depleted marrow in pediatric leukemia recipients of either HLA-identical or HLA-1Ag non-identical related or unrelated donors.

    Biological: anti-thymocyte globulin · Biological: filgrastim · Drug: cyclophosphamide · Drug: fludarabine phosphate · Drug: thiotepa · Procedure: allogeneic bone marrow transplantation · Radiation: radiation therapy

Interventions

  • Biologicalanti-thymocyte globulin
  • Biologicalfilgrastim
  • Drugcyclophosphamide
  • Drugfludarabine phosphate
  • Drugthiotepa
  • Procedureallogeneic bone marrow transplantation
  • Radiationradiation therapy
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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Minimal transplantation related mortality

    Time frame: 2 years

  2. High disease-free survival at 2 years

    Time frame: 2 years

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Study locations

1 site
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
    New York, New York 10021, United States
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Dec 22, 2015, 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
NCT00028730
Lead sponsor
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Collaborators
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jan 27, 2003
Start date
Aug 2001
Primary completion
Jul 2006
Completion
Jun 2008
Last update
Dec 22, 2015

Study contacts

Nancy A. Kernan, MD
study chair · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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