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CompletedNCT03426969Updated Oct 14, 2020

Combination Chemotherapy, Total Body Irradiation, and Donor Blood Stem Cell Transplant in Treating Patients With Primary or Secondary Myelofibrosis

An Early Phase 1 interventional study of Cyclophosphamide and Filgrastim in Primary Myelofibrosis and Secondary Myelofibrosis, sponsored by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 70 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-10-14.

Sponsored by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center · Early Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was Sep 2020, 6 years 1 month ago, and no results have been posted to the registry.
Phase
Early Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
3
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 70 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

This early phase I trial studies the side effects of combination chemotherapy, total body irradiation, and donor blood stem cell transplant in treating patients with primary or secondary myelofibrosis. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as melphalan, fludarabine phosphate, cyclophosphamide, tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil, and filgrastim work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Radiation therapy uses high energy x-rays to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. Giving combination chemotherapy and total body irradiation before a donor blood stem cell transplant helps to stop the growth of cells in the bone marrow, including normal blood-forming cells (stem cells) and cancer 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.

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PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

I. To evaluate the safety and tolerability of reduced-intensity (FM) haploidentical hematopoietic cell transplantation (Haplo-HCT) followed by post-transplant cyclophosphamide (PTCy) in patients with advanced myelofibrosis (MF), as assessed by the evaluation of toxicities, including type, frequency, severity, attribution, time course and duration.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To summarize and evaluate hematologic (neutrophil and platelet) recovery. II. To estimate graft failure-free survival (GFS) at 100-days post-transplant. III. To estimate overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS) and cumulative incidence (CI) of relapse/progression, and non-relapse mortality (NRM) at 100-days, 1-year, and 2-year post transplant.

IV. To estimate the cumulative incidence of acute graft-versus-host disease (GvHD), grade II-IV, at 100-days post-transplant (per Keystone Consensus modification of the Glucksberg criteria).

V. To estimate the cumulative incidence of chronic GvHD at 1-year and 2-year post transplant (per National Institute of Health [NIH] Consensus Criteria).

VI. To characterize the severity and extent of acute and chronic GvHD.

OUTLINE:

Patients receive melphalan intravenously (IV) over 30 minutes on days -5, fludarabine phosphate IV over 1 hour on days -5 to -2. Patients undergo total body irradiation (TBI) on day -1 and hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HCT) on day 0. Patients then receive cyclophosphamide IV over 1-2 hours on days 3 and 4. Beginning on day 5, patients receive tacrolimus IV continuously for approximately 2 weeks, then orally (PO) for 6 months followed by a taper, mycophenolate mofetil PO thrice daily (TID) until day 100, and filgrastim subcutaneously (SC) daily from day 7 until continued until absolute neutrophil count (ANC) > 1,500/mm\^3 for 3 consecutive days. Treatment continues in the absence of disease progression or unexpected toxicity.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 1, 3, 6, 9, 12 and 24 months.

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Conditions studied

  • Primary Myelofibrosis
  • Secondary Myelofibrosis

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In context

Primary Myelofibrosis

625 studies on the registry are indexed under Primary Myelofibrosis; 124 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 3 is below the median of 43 across 489 interventional studies indexed under Primary Myelofibrosis.

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Lead sponsor

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is the lead sponsor of 3,047 studies on the registry; 578 are open to participants now.

Of its 612 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 409 (67%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 70 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

  • Diagnosis of primary or secondary Myelofibrosis with transplant indication by DIPSS-plus (> intermediate -1);
  • Age 18-70; patients >/= age 50 must have an comorbidity score (HCT-CI) \</= 4 (Sorror). The Principal Investigator is the final arbiter for comorbidity;
  • Patients can be in chronic phase (CP) with BM blast count \</= 10% or after progression to AML and achieved \</= 5% BM blasts (morphologic CR prior to transplant);
  • Lack of an HLA matched donor or need to proceed fast to transplantation when a patient does not have an immediately available matched unrelated donor (typed by high-resolution in the registry);
  • Performance status >/=70% (); patients > 50 years should have adequate cognitive function; any concerns regarding cognitive function should be addressed by a Geriatrician/Neurologist;
  • Adequate organ function: /AST/billirubin \</= 5X UNL, > 50mls/min (calculated with Cockroft-Gault formula); >/= 50%, DLCOc >/= 50%;
  • Prior treatment with JAK2 inhibitor therapy is not excluded. Patients on a JAK2 inhibitor may continue through conditioning until Day -3 then tapered at the discretion of the investigator.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion:

  • Evidence of portal hypertension with varices, ascites, or hepatic encephalopathy;

    ->10% bone marrow blasts at transplant if no history of AML and >5% if had previous progression to AML;

  • positive; active or C;
  • Patients with active infections. The PI is the final arbiter of the eligibility;
  • Liver cirrhosis;
  • Prior CNS involvement by tumor cells;
  • Severe pulmonary hypertension (PHT) (On echo or right side cardiac catheterization);
  • History of another primary that has not been in remission for at least 3 years (the following are exempt from the 3-year limit: non-melanoma skin cancer, fully excised melanoma in situ [Stage 0], curatively treated localized prostate cancer, and cervical or breast carcinoma in situ on or a squamous intraepithelial lesion on PAP smear);
  • Positive Beta HCG test in a woman with child bearing potential defined as not for 12 months or no previous surgical sterilization;
  • Noncompliance - Inability or unwillingness to comply with medical recommendations regarding therapy or follow-up, including smoking tobacco. Smoking cessation is a standard teaching practice prior to admission for all patients undergoing stem cell transplant. Any patient who refuses to stop smoking prior to transplant will not be eligible for this study.
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Karnofsky performance status (KPS)

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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.

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

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.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

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Hepatitis B tests

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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.

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Biopsy and archival tissue

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Postmenopausal

Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).

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Study design

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

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Treatment (combination chemotherapy, TBI, HCT)

    Patients receive melphalan IV over 30 minutes on days -5, fludarabine phosphate IV over 1 hour on days -5 to -2. Patients undergo TBI on day -1 and HCT on day 0. Patients then receive cyclophosphamide IV over 1-2 hours on days 3 and 4. Beginning on day 5, patients receive tacrolimus IV continuously for approximately 2 weeks, then PO for 6 months followed by a taper, mycophenolate mofetil PO TID until day 100, and filgrastim SC daily from day 7 until continued until ANC \> 1,500/mm\^3 for 3 consecutive days. Treatment continues in the absence of disease progression or unexpected toxicity.

    Drug: Cyclophosphamide · Biological: Filgrastim · Drug: Fludarabine Phosphate · Procedure: Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation · Drug: Melphalan · Drug: Mycophenolate Mofetil · Drug: Tacrolimus · Radiation: Total-Body Irradiation

Interventions

  • Given IV

    Also known as: (-)-Cyclophosphamide, 2H-1,3,2-Oxazaphosphorine, 2-[bis(2-chloroethyl)amino]tetrahydro-, 2-oxide, monohydrate, Carloxan, Ciclofosfamida, Ciclofosfamide, Cicloxal, Clafen, Claphene, CP monohydrate, CTX, CYCLO-cell, Cycloblastin, Cycloblastine, Cyclophospham, Cyclophosphamid monohydrate, Cyclophosphamide Monohydrate, Cyclophosphamidum, Cyclophosphan, Cyclophosphane, Cyclophosphanum, Cyclostin, Cyclostine, Cytophosphan, Cytophosphane, Cytoxan, Fosfaseron, Genoxal, Genuxal, Ledoxina, Mitoxan, Neosar, Revimmune, Syklofosfamid, WR- 138719

  • BiologicalFilgrastim

    Given SC

    Also known as: G-CSF, Neupogen, r-metHuG-CSF, Recombinant Methionyl Human Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor, rG-CSF, Tevagrastim

  • Given IV

    Also known as: 2-F-ara-AMP, 9H-Purin-6-amine, 2-fluoro-9-(5-O-phosphono-.beta.-D-arabinofuranosyl)-, Beneflur, Fludara, SH T 586

  • ProcedureHematopoietic Cell Transplantation

    Undergo HCT

    Also known as: HCT, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, HSCT, Stem Cell Transplant, stem cell transplantation

  • Given IV

    Also known as: Alanine Nitrogen Mustard, CB-3025, L-PAM, L-Phenylalanine Mustard, L-sarcolysin, L-Sarcolysin Phenylalanine mustard, L-Sarcolysine, Melphalanum, Phenylalanine Mustard, Phenylalanine nitrogen mustard, Sarcoclorin, Sarkolysin, WR-19813

  • Given PO

    Also known as: Cellcept, MMF

  • IV or PO

    Also known as: FK 506, Fujimycin, Hecoria, Prograf, Protopic

  • RadiationTotal-Body Irradiation

    Undergo TBI

    Also known as: TBI, TOTAL BODY IRRADIATION, Whole Body Irradiation, Whole-Body Irradiation

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of adverse events

    Observed toxicities will be tabulated and summarized in terms of type (organ affected or laboratory determination), severity, time of onset, duration, probable association with the study regimen and reversibility or outcome.

    Time frame: Up to day +100 post-hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Overall survival

    Estimated will be calculated using the Kaplan-Meier product-limit method. Distributions will be compared using the log-rank test. Cox proportional hazards regression will be used to assess the association between survival endpoints and clinical and disease covariates of interest.

    Time frame: Up to 24 months

  2. Progression-free survival

    Estimated will be calculated using the Kaplan-Meier product-limit method. Distributions will be compared using the log-rank test. Cox proportional hazards regression will be used to assess the association between survival endpoints and clinical and disease covariates of interest.

    Time frame: Up to 24 months

  3. Graft failure-free survival

    Estimates will be calculated using the Kaplan-Meier product-limit method. Distributions will be compared using the log-rank test. Cox proportional hazards regression will be used to assess the association between survival endpoints and clinical and disease covariates of interest.

    Time frame: Up to 24 months

  4. Time to neutrophil recovery

    Will be estimated using the Kaplan-Meier product-limit method. Distributions will be compared using the log-rank test. Cox proportional hazards regression will be used to assess the association between survival endpoints and clinical and disease covariates of interest.

    Time frame: Up to 24 months

  5. Time to platelet recovery

    Will be estimated using the Kaplan-Meier product-limit method. Distributions will be compared using the log-rank test. Cox proportional hazards regression will be used to assess the association between survival endpoints and clinical and disease covariates of interest.

    Time frame: Up to 24 months

  6. Non-relapse mortality (NRM)

    The cumulative incidence of relapse/progression with a competing risk of NRM will be estimated in a competing risks framework. Analyses to assess the association between the cumulative incidence of the above parameters and clinical and disease covariates of interest will be performed using the method of Fine and Gray.

    Time frame: Up to 24 months

  7. Acute graft versus host disease (GvHD)

    Will be estimated in a competing risks framework with competing risks of relapse and NRM. Analyses to assess the association between the cumulative incidence of the above parameters and clinical and disease covariates of interest will be performed using the method of Fine and Gray.

    Time frame: Up to 24 months

  8. Chronic GvHD

    Will be estimated in a competing risks framework with competing risks of relapse and NRM. Analyses to assess the association between the cumulative incidence of the above parameters and clinical and disease covariates of interest will be performed using the method of Fine and Gray.

    Time frame: Up to 24 months

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Study locations

1 site
  • M D Anderson Cancer Center
    Houston, Texas 77030, United States
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References and documents

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Oct 14, 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
NCT03426969
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Feb 8, 2018
Start date
Jan 31, 2018
Primary completion
Sep 21, 2020
Completion
Sep 21, 2020
Last update
Oct 14, 2020

Study contacts

Stefan O Ciurea
principal investigator · M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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