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Filter by:RATIONALE: Studying a diagnostic biomarker test in blood samples from patients who have undergone a donor stem cell transplant for cancer may help doctors plan treatment. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying an immunologic diagnostic blood test to see how well it works in predicting side-effects in patients with hematologic cancer or other disorders who have undergone a donor stem cell transplant.
A Phase II study of temsirolimus in combination with standard chemotherapy (irinotecan; cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin and etoposide (CAE); cisplatin and etoposide (HiPE) and topotecan (TPT) followed by and additional six courses of induction chemotherapy and then intensification with autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The first five courses of induction chemotherapy will also evaluate the feasibility of combining weekly temsirolimus with these standard chemotherapy combinations. This will be followed by 16 months of oral maintenance therapy with eight months of 13-cis-retinoic acid and then eight months of oral topotecan.
The purpose of this study is to determine the safety and toxicity and feasibility of double umbilical cord blood transplantation (DUCBT) in patients with selected malignant and non-malignant, and to quantify the percentage and donor sources of mixed donor chimerism following DUCBT in patients with selected malignant and non-malignant disorders.
RATIONALE: A personalized Internet-based program may help improve fatigue, depression, and quality of life in long-term survivors of stem cell transplant. It is not yet known whether an Internet-based program is more effective with or without telephone-based problem-solving training. PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying how well an Internet-based program works with or without telephone-based problem-solving training in helping long-term survivors of hematopoietic stem cell transplant cope with late complications
This trial is studying how well iodine I 131 metaiodobenzylguanidine together with combination chemotherapy works in treating patients who are undergoing an autologous peripheral stem cell for high risk or relapsed neuroblastoma.
RATIONALE: Ondansetron may help lessen or prevent nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing stem cell transplant. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well ondansetron works in preventing nausea and vomiting in patients undergoing stem cell transplant.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity of tandem HDCT/ASCR in children with high-risk neuroblastoma. In the present study, a single arm trial of tandem HDCT/ASCR will be carried out. In the present study, the investigators will investigate whether tandem HDCT/ASCR might improve the survival of patients with high-risk neuroblastoma with acceptable toxicity.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of reduced-intensity allogeneic stem cell transplantation (RIST) with RIC regimen in children with neuroblastoma who have failed a prior autologous stem cell transplantation. The investigators will investigate the potential of RIC regimen in inducing antitumor response if the present protocol will indeed reduce the early TRM and allow for sustained donor chimerism.
Children with primary resistant or relapsed neuroblastoma who do not achieve remission with conventional chemotherapy have extremely dismal prognosis. A novel treatment strategy combining tumor targeted radioisotope treatment with metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) and immunotherapeutic effect of haploidentical stem cell transplantation (haploSCT) followed by low-dose donor lymphocyte infusions will be piloted. The use of the isotope is aimed to decrease pre-transplant tumour burden. Reduced intensity conditioning containing Fludarabine, Thiotepa and Melfalan will enable sustained engraftment as well as will serve as additional anti-tumor treatment. A prompt natural killer (NK)-cell mediated tumour control may be achieved by haploidentical stem cell transplantation. The investigators hypothesize that tumour cells potentially evading NK-cell mediated immunity may be targeted by infused donor T-cells and eliminated by either MHC-dependent manner or through a bystander effect. The possible graft versus tumor effect will be evaluated in children with therapy resistant neuroblastoma.
RATIONALE: Dasatinib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Drugs in chemotherapy, such as ifosfamide, carboplatin, and etoposide, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving dasatinib together with ifosfamide, carboplatin, and etoposide may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase I/II trial is studying the side effects and best dose of dasatinib when given together with ifosfamide, carboplatin, and etoposide and to see how well they work in treating young patients with metastatic or recurrent malignant solid tumors.