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Administrative data

NCT number NCT03689907
Other study ID # D18125
Secondary ID
Status Recruiting
Phase
First received
Last updated
Start date December 19, 2019
Est. completion date January 2025

Study information

Verified date May 2024
Source Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Contact Research Nurse
Phone (800) 639-6918
Email cancer.research.nurse@dartmouth.edu
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Allogeneic stem cell transplant (allo-SCT) is a common treatment for variety of blood cancers. To determine how much of your cells are from your donor after transplant, doctors complete a "chimerism analysis" or a test of your cells to look at the DNA. Chimerism testing helps doctors predict graft rejection or recurrence of disease. Doctors at NCCC do chimerism testing routinely and it is usually done between 30 and 100 days after transplantation. The researchers believe that analyzing chimerism sooner than 30 days after transplant may help identify problems earlier, get patients treatment sooner, and increase the chances of a successful transplant. The purpose of this study is to find out if doing chimerism testing earlier than the traditional approach is better for patient outcomes (about 14 days after transplantation rather than 30+ days). We hope the information gained from this study can be used to help prevent some post-transplant complications such as graft loss, graft-versus-host disease, or even relapse for future patients. Also, the researchers hope to learn more about chimerism testing of cells of patients with haploidentical donors (donors who are only a "half-match" - such as a parent or child of the recipient), because there have not been many chimerism analysis studies done in this population


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Recruiting
Enrollment 40
Est. completion date January 2025
Est. primary completion date December 2024
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - All patients will have been cleared by a Transplant Attending to undergo allogeneic stem cell transplant Exclusion Criteria: - Patients undergoing a second allogeneic stem cell transplant or beyond

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Other:
Chimerism Evaluation
Blood collection for chimerism evaluation will be performed on days +14/15-post transplant and +30-post transplant for each study participant.

Locations

Country Name City State
United States Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Norris Cotton Cancer Center Lebanon New Hampshire

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (17)

Antin JH, Childs R, Filipovich AH, Giralt S, Mackinnon S, Spitzer T, Weisdorf D. Establishment of complete and mixed donor chimerism after allogeneic lymphohematopoietic transplantation: recommendations from a workshop at the 2001 Tandem Meetings of the International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry and the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2001;7(9):473-85. doi: 10.1053/bbmt.2001.v7.pm11669214. — View Citation

Bashey A, Solomon SR. T-cell replete haploidentical donor transplantation using post-transplant CY: an emerging standard-of-care option for patients who lack an HLA-identical sibling donor. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2014 Aug;49(8):999-1008. doi: 10.1038/bmt.2014.62. Epub 2014 May 19. — View Citation

Breuer S, Preuner S, Fritsch G, Daxberger H, Koenig M, Poetschger U, Lawitschka A, Peters C, Mann G, Lion T, Matthes-Martin S. Early recipient chimerism testing in the T- and NK-cell lineages for risk assessment of graft rejection in pediatric patients undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Leukemia. 2012 Mar;26(3):509-19. doi: 10.1038/leu.2011.244. Epub 2011 Sep 16. — View Citation

Choi, YB et al. Does Day 14 Peripheral Blood Chimerism after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Predict Treatment Failure in Children with Non-Malignant Disease? BBMT 2016; 22: S310.

Fabricius WA, Ramanathan M. Review on Haploidentical Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Patients with Hematologic Malignancies. Adv Hematol. 2016;2016:5726132. doi: 10.1155/2016/5726132. Epub 2016 Feb 29. — View Citation

Farhan S, Bazydlo M, Neme K, Mikulandric N, Peres E, Janakiraman N. Chimerism in Myeloid Malignancies following Stem Cell Transplantation Using FluBu4 with and without Busulfan Pharmacokinetics versus BuCy. Adv Hematol. 2017;2017:8690416. doi: 10.1155/2017/8690416. Epub 2017 Nov 8. — View Citation

Huisman C, de Weger RA, de Vries L, Tilanus MG, Verdonck LF. Chimerism analysis within 6 months of allogeneic stem cell transplantation predicts relapse in acute myeloid leukemia. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2007 Mar;39(5):285-91. doi: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1705582. Epub 2007 Jan 29. — View Citation

Hussain, A et al. Lineage-Specific Chimerism and Incidence of Graft Failure Following T-Cell Replete Haploidentical Transplantation Using Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide in Eighty-Nine Consecutive Patients From a Single Center. Blood 2012; 120: 3030.

Koreth J, Kim HT, Nikiforow S, Milford EL, Armand P, Cutler C, Glotzbecker B, Ho VT, Antin JH, Soiffer RJ, Ritz J, Alyea EP 3rd. Donor chimerism early after reduced-intensity conditioning hematopoietic stem cell transplantation predicts relapse and survival. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2014 Oct;20(10):1516-21. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2014.05.025. Epub 2014 Jun 4. — View Citation

Legrand, F et al. Chimerism Analysis after Haploidentical Stem Cell Transplantation: Is It Necessary for All Patients? Blood 2016; 128: 3417.

Mathur, A and Malhotra, H. Haploidentical Stem Cell Transplantation: A Mini Review. J Stem Cell Res Ther 2017; 2(2): 00056.

Mattsson J, Ringden O, Storb R. Graft failure after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2008 Jan;14(1 Suppl 1):165-70. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2007.10.025. Erratum In: Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2008 Nov;14(11):1317-8. — View Citation

Miura Y, Tanaka J, Toubai T, Tsutsumi Y, Kato N, Hirate D, Kaji M, Sugita J, Shigematsu A, Iwao N, Ota S, Masauzi N, Fukuhara T, Kasai M, Asaka M, Imamura M. Analysis of donor-type chimerism in lineage-specific cell populations after allogeneic myeloablative and non-myeloablative stem cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2006 May;37(9):837-43. doi: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1705352. — View Citation

Moscardo F, Sanz J, Senent L, Cantero S, de la Rubia J, Montesinos P, Planelles D, Lorenzo I, Cervera J, Palau J, Sanz MA, Sanz GF. Impact of hematopoietic chimerism at day +14 on engraftment after unrelated donor umbilical cord blood transplantation for hematologic malignancies. Haematologica. 2009 Jun;94(6):827-32. doi: 10.3324/haematol.2008.000935. — View Citation

Parmesar K, Raj K. Haploidentical Stem Cell Transplantation in Adult Haematological Malignancies. Adv Hematol. 2016;2016:3905907. doi: 10.1155/2016/3905907. Epub 2016 May 30. — View Citation

Passweg JR, Baldomero H, Bader P, Bonini C, Duarte RF, Dufour C, Gennery A, Kroger N, Kuball J, Lanza F, Montoto S, Nagler A, Snowden JA, Styczynski J, Mohty M. Use of haploidentical stem cell transplantation continues to increase: the 2015 European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplant activity survey report. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2017 Jun;52(6):811-817. doi: 10.1038/bmt.2017.34. Epub 2017 Mar 13. — View Citation

Reshef R, Hexner EO, Loren AW, Frey NV, Stadtmauer EA, Luger SM, Mangan JK, Gill SI, Vassilev P, Lafferty KA, Smith J, Van Deerlin VM, Mick R, Porter DL. Early donor chimerism levels predict relapse and survival after allogeneic stem cell transplantation with reduced-intensity conditioning. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2014 Nov;20(11):1758-66. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2014.07.003. Epub 2014 Jul 10. — View Citation

* Note: There are 17 references in allClick here to view all references

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Characterize early lineage-specific chimerism profiles in allogeneic stem-cell transplant recipients Our method of chimerism analysis is dependent on baseline DNA samples of pre-transplant donor and recipient, then serial assessment of polymorphic short tandem repeats (STRs) to specifically characterize the source (donor vs recipient) of DNA extracted from our patients' leukocytes at day +14/15 after allogeneic stem cell transplant. First, DNA is extracted from the buffy coat layer of an EDTA blood sample, then PCR reactions using STR markers are prepared, and the differently sized fluorescent PCR products are then assessed on a genetic analyzer. An assessment of the relative amounts of donor and recipient chimerism can then be determined from the analyzer output, based on peak height and area. The discreet leukocyte lineages are then isolated by cell separation, and DNA is isolated from these purified fractions and assessed as for whole blood. 14 or 15 days post-transplant
Secondary Correlate early chimersim profiles with donor chimerism Day +14/15-post transplant absolute neutrophil count and absolute lymphocyte count will be compared to the Day +30-post transplant lineage-specific chimerism profile to determine if there is a correlation between early lineage chimerism and full donor chimerism. Day +30-post transplant