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CompletedNCT00053196Updated Jul 1, 2016

Donor Stem Cell Transplant in Treating Patients With Relapsed Hematologic Cancer

A Phase 2 interventional study of anti-thymocyte globulin and G-CSF in Leukemia, Lymphoma and Multiple Myeloma, sponsored by Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology. Completed at 12 sites in United States. Open to participants aged Up to 69 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-07-01.

Sponsored by Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
82
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
Up to 69 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

RATIONALE: Giving low doses of chemotherapy, such as fludarabine and busulfan, before a donor bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cancer cells. It also stops the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. The donated stem cells may replace the patient's immune system 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 immunosuppressive therapy after the transplant may stop this from happening.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well donor bone marrow or peripheral stem cell transplant works in treating patients with relapsed hematologic cancer after treatment with chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplant.

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OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine the feasibility of non-myeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation by demonstrating that the risk of treatment-related mortality during the first 6 months is an acceptable rate of less than 40% in patients with relapsed hematologic malignancies after prior high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation.
  • Determine the response rates (disease-specific partial and complete response) in patients treated with this regimen.
  • Determine the 6-month and 12-month probabilities of response in patients treated with this regimen.
  • Determine the distribution of time-to-progression in patients responding to this regimen.
  • Determine the percent donor chimerism in patients treated with this regimen.
  • Determine the risk of acute and chronic graft-vs-host disease in patients treated with this regimen.
  • Determine the toxic effects of this regimen in these patients.
  • Determine the disease-free and overall survival of patients treated with this regimen.

OUTLINE: This is an open-label study.

  • Preparative Regimen: Patients receive fludarabine IV over 30 minutes on days -7 to -3 and busulfan IV over 2 hours every 6 hours (for a total of 8 doses) on days -4 and -3.
  • Graft vs Host Disease (GVHD) Prophylaxis: Patients who have an HLA-identical donor receive oral (or IV if unable to tolerate oral administration) tacrolimus twice daily on days -1 to 90 followed by a taper\^* until day 150 and methotrexate IV on days 1, 3, and 6. Patients with a matched related or matched unrelated donor receive oral (or IV if unable to tolerate oral administration) tacrolimus twice daily on days -1 to 180 followed by a taper\^* as tolerated; methotrexate IV on days 1, 3, 6, and 11; oral mycophenolate mofetil twice daily on days -2 to 60 followed by a taper; and rabbit anti-thymocyte globulin IV over 4-6 hours on days -4 to -1 (for a total of 4 doses).

NOTE: *Tacrolimus may be tapered on days 60-90 if donor chimerism of CD3+ cells is less than 50% at day 60 or patient has progressive disease

  • Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation: Patients undergo allogeneic bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation on days 0 and 1. Patients then receive filgrastim (G-CSF) subcutaneously daily beginning on day 7 and continuing until blood counts recover.
  • Donor Lymphocyte Infusion (DLI): After day 180 (or day 210 for patients without an HLA-identical donor), patients with stable or progressive disease and no active GVHD may receive up to 3 DLIs every 8 weeks.

Patients are followed within 2-3 months, every 3 months for 2 years, and then every 6 months for 3 years.

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Conditions studied

  • Leukemia
  • Lymphoma
  • Multiple Myeloma
  • Plasma Cell Neoplasm
  • Myelodysplastic Syndromes
  • Myeloproliferative Neoplasms

Keywords

  • refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia
  • prolymphocytic leukemia
  • recurrent adult Hodgkin lymphoma
  • stage I multiple myeloma
  • stage II multiple myeloma
  • stage III multiple myeloma
  • refractory multiple myeloma
  • previously treated myelodysplastic syndromes
  • recurrent adult diffuse large cell lymphoma
  • recurrent adult diffuse mixed cell lymphoma
  • recurrent adult diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma
  • recurrent adult Burkitt lymphoma
  • recurrent adult immunoblastic large cell lymphoma
  • recurrent grade 1 follicular lymphoma
  • recurrent grade 2 follicular lymphoma
  • recurrent grade 3 follicular lymphoma
  • secondary myelodysplastic syndromes
  • de novo myelodysplastic syndromes
  • recurrent adult acute myeloid leukemia
  • recurrent childhood acute myeloid leukemia
  • recurrent childhood large cell lymphoma
  • recurrent childhood lymphoblastic lymphoma
  • recurrent childhood small noncleaved cell lymphoma
  • recurrent/refractory childhood Hodgkin lymphoma
  • atypical chronic myeloid leukemia, BCR-ABL negative
  • myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm, unclassifiable
  • recurrent marginal zone lymphoma
  • recurrent small lymphocytic lymphoma
  • extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue
  • nodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma
  • splenic marginal zone lymphoma
  • adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(8;21)(q22;q22)
  • adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(16;16)(p13;q22)
  • adult acute myeloid leukemia with inv(16)(p13;q22)
  • adult acute myeloid leukemia with 11q23 (MLL) abnormalities
  • adult acute myeloid leukemia with t(15;17)(q22;q12)
  • childhood myelodysplastic syndromes
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In context

Lymphoma

5,578 studies on the registry are indexed under Lymphoma; 825 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 82 is above the median of 40 across 4,508 interventional studies indexed under Lymphoma.

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Lead sponsor

Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology is the lead sponsor of 499 studies on the registry; 27 are open to participants now.

Of its 6 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 6 (100%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
Up to 69 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically confirmed hematologic malignancy, including one of the following:

    • Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)

      • Absolute lymphocytosis greater than 5,000/mm\^3
      • Lymphocytes must appear morphologically mature with less than 55% prolymphocytes
      • Lymphocyte phenotype with expression of CD19 and CD5
    • Prolymphocytic leukemia (PLL)

      • Morphologically confirmed
      • Absolute lymphocytosis greater than 5,000/mm\^3
      • More than 55% prolymphocytes
    • Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma or Hodgkin's lymphoma

      • Any WHO histologic subtype allowed except mantle cell lymphoma
      • Core biopsies allowed if they contain adequate tissue for primary diagnosis and immunophenotyping
      • No bone marrow biopsy as the sole diagnostic means for follicular lymphoma
    • Multiple myeloma

      • Active disease requiring treatment
      • Durie-Salmon stage I, II, or III
    • Acute myeloid leukemia

      • Documented control (i.e., less than 10% bone marrow blasts and no circulating blasts)
    • Myelodysplastic syndromes

      • Documented disease by WHO criteria
  • Must have evidence of relapse/progression at least 6 months after prior high-dose chemotherapy with autologous hematopoietic stem cell support
  • Absence of CD23 expression for CLL or PLL allowed provided there is no morphologic evidence of mantle cell lymphoma
  • Availability of any of the following donor types:

    • HLA-identical sibling (6/6)
    • 9/10 matched related donor by high-resolution molecular typing at HLA A, B, C, DRB1, and DQB1 loci

      • Only a single mismatch at one class I or II allele allowed
    • 10/10 matched unrelated donor by high-resolution molecular typing at HLA A, B, C, DRB1, and DQB1 loci
  • No syngeneic donors

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

  • Under 70

Performance status

  • Not specified

Life expectancy

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic

  • See Disease Characteristics

Hepatic

  • Bilirubin no greater than 3 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • AST no greater than 3 times ULN

Renal

  • Creatinine clearance at least 40 mL/min

Cardiovascular

  • LVEF at least 30% by MUGA

Pulmonary

  • DLCO greater than 40%
  • No symptomatic pulmonary disease

Other

  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception
  • HIV negative
  • No uncontrolled diabetes mellitus
  • No active serious infection
  • No known hypersensitivity to E. coli-derived products

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

  • See Disease Characteristics

Chemotherapy

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • More than 4 weeks since prior chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy

  • More than 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy

Surgery

  • More than 4 weeks since prior surgery
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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Non myeloblative allogeneic transplant

    Non myeloblative allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation after prior autologous transplantation

    Biological: anti-thymocyte globulin · Biological: G-CSF · Drug: busulfan · Drug: fludarabine phosphate · Drug: methotrexate · Drug: mycophenolate mofetil · Drug: tacrolimus · Procedure: allogeneic cell transplantation · Drug: allopurinol

Interventions

  • Biologicalanti-thymocyte globulin

    2.5mg/kg/day IV infusion over 6 hrs x 4 doses Days -4 to -1 (for MUD and 9/10 related donor transplants only)

  • BiologicalG-CSF

    5 ug/kg/day subQ injection Day 7 until ANC\> 1000/uL for 3 consec days

    Also known as: filgrastim

  • Drugbusulfan

    0.8mg/kg IV infusion over 2 hrs q 6 hrs x 8 doses Days -4 thru -3

  • Drugfludarabine phosphate

    30 mg/sq m/day IVBP over 30 min Days -7 thru -3

  • Drugmethotrexate

    5 mg/sq m/day IV infusion Days 1, 3, \& 6 for HLA-identical donor transplants and Days 1, 3, 6, \& 11 for MUD \& 9/10 related donor transplants

  • Drugmycophenolate mofetil

    15mg/kg PO bid Day -2 to Day 60, then taper as tolerated (for MUD and 9/10 related donor transplants only)

  • Drugtacrolimus

    target serum level is 5-10 ng/mL. Start with 0.03mg/kg PO bid Day -1 to Day 90, then taper thru Day 150 for HLA identical donor transplants and Day -1 to Day 180 then taper for MUD and 9/10 related donor transplants

  • Procedureallogeneic cell transplantation

    2,000,000-8,000,000 CD34+ cells total via infusion Days 0 and 1

  • Drugallopurinol

    300 mg/day PO Days -8 thru -1

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Treatment-related mortality

    Time frame: 6 months post transplant

Secondary outcomes

  1. Per cent donor chimerism

    Time frame: 30, 60, 90, 180 days post transplant

  2. Disease-free survival

    Time frame: 12 months up to 5 years post study entry

  3. Graft-versus-host disease incidence

    Time frame: 6 months post transplant

  4. Response Rates

    Time frame: 6 and 12 months

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Study locations

12 sites
  • Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center
    La Jolla, California 92093-0658, United States
  • Beebe Medical Center
    Lewes, Delaware 19958, United States
  • CCOP - Christiana Care Health Services
    Newark, Delaware 19713, United States
  • St. Francis Hospital
    Wilmington, Delaware 19805, United States
  • Union Hospital Cancer Center at Union Hospital
    Elkton MD, Maryland 21921, United States
  • Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital
    St Louis, Missouri 63110, United States
  • Cancer Institute of New Jersey at the Cooper University Hospital - Voorhees
    Voorhees, New Jersey 08043, United States
  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute
    Buffalo, New York 14263-0001, United States
  • Wake Forest University Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1096, United States
  • Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute at Ohio State University
    Columbus, Ohio 43210-1240, United States
  • Western Pennsylvania Cancer Institute at Western Pennsylvania Hospital
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15224-1791, United States
  • Massey Cancer Center at Virginia Commonwealth University
    Richmond, Virginia 23298-0037, United States
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References and documents

Publications

  • Bashey A, Owzar K, Johnson JL, Edwards PS, Kelly M, Baxter-Lowe LA, Devine S, Farag S, Hurd D, Ball E, McCarthy P, Lister J, Shea TC, Linker C. Reduced-intensity conditioning allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for patients with hematologic malignancies who relapse following autologous transplantation: a multi-institutional prospective study from the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB trial 100002). Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2011 Apr;17(4):558-65. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2010.07.015. Epub 2010 Jul 30. PubMed 20674758 ↗
  • Bashey A, Owzar K, Johnson JL, et al.: Reduced-intensity allogeneic transplantation after failure of autologous transplantation: a prospective multi-center CALGB study. [Abstract] Blood 108 (11): A-3122, 2006.
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jul 1, 2016, 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
NCT00053196
Lead sponsor
Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
Collaborators
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jan 28, 2003
Start date
Dec 2002
Primary completion
Nov 2006
Completion
Aug 2010
Last update
Jul 1, 2016

Study contacts

Asad Bashey, MD, PhD
study chair · University of California, San Diego

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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