View clinical trials related to Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia.
Filter by:Background: - People who have some kinds of cancer can benefit from donated bone marrow stem cells. These stem cells help produce healthy bone marrow and slow or stop the spread of abnormal cells. However, stem cells transplants do not always work. Also, they may have serious side effects that can cause illness or death. The Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transplant Program is studying methods to make stem cell transplant procedures safer and more effective. Objectives: - To test a new procedure that may improve the success and decrease the side effects of stem cell transplants. Eligibility: - Individuals 10 to 75 years of age who have a life-threatening illness that may require a stem cell transplant. - Healthy siblings who are able to provide stem cells for transplant. Design: - Participants will be screened with a medical history, physical exam, and blood and urine tests. - Donor procedures: - Stem cell donors will start by having apheresis to donate white blood cells. - Donors will receive filgrastim shots for 5 days to help move stem cells into the blood for collection. - Donors will have another round of apheresis to donate the stem cells for transplant. - Recipient procedures: - Before the transplant, recipients will have radiation twice a day for 3 days and chemotherapy for 7 days. - After the radiation and chemotherapy, recipients will receive the stem cells provided by the donor. - After the transplant, recipients will receive the white blood cells provided by the donor. - Recipients will be monitored closely for 4 months to study the success of the transplant. They will have more followup visits at least yearly thereafter. - Recipients will have a research apheresis prior to transplant and at 3 months.
New conditioning regimens are still needed to maximize efficacy and limit treatment-related deaths of allogeneic transplantation for advanced hematologic malignancies. Over the past several years, the investigators have evaluated several new conditioning regimens that incorporate fludarabine, a novel immunosuppressant that has limited toxicity and that has synergistic activity with alkylating agents. Recent data have suggested that fludarabine may be used in combination with standard doses of oral or IV busulfan, thus reducing the toxicity previously observed with cyclophosphamide/ busulfan regimens.
This randomized pilot clinical trial studies how well giving prolonged infusion compared to standard infusion of cefepime hydrochloride works in treating patients with febrile neutropenia. Giving cefepime hydrochloride over a longer period of time may be more effective than giving cefepime hydrochloride over the standard time.
This study evaluated the safety and tolerability of using HSC835 in patients with hematological malignancies.
The goal of this clinical research study is to learn if giving a kind of immune cell called natural killer (NK) cells after chemotherapy will improve the response to a stem cell transplant in patients with CML. The safety of this treatment will also be studied.
The purpose of this study is to provide patients with imatinib resistant/intolerant chronic myeloid leukemia - in blast crisis, accelerated phase and chronic phase, who have been previously enrolled to CAMN107A2109 and benefit from the treatment, with access to nilotinib (AMN107) in Poland until such time as the treatment with this drug is financed by the National Health Found in Poland (via 'therapeutic program') or for a period of 18 months, whichever comes first.
The purpose of this study is to provide an opportunity for patients with malignancies or bone marrow failure states who lack a suitable sibling donor to undergo allogeneic hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation using cells from unrelated individuals or cord blood registries.
Background: - One way to treat certain cancers of the blood and immune system is to give a patient stem cells from the bone marrow of a donor whose genes are very similar but not identical to the patients. One problem with these transplants is that the new immune cells may not work as well in the recipient as they did in the donor. The result may be that the immune system will not work as well. This can increase the risk of severe infections and other complications. - Researchers are studying the use of drugs that lower hormone levels and may allow the immune system to recover in a way that improves white blood cell function. In this study they will be looking at the drug leuprolide, a drug that lowers estrogen or testosterone levels, to see if it might improve the function of the newly transplanted cells. Objectives: - To determine whether leuprolide improves immune system function after bone marrow transplant from a donor with similarities in their immune cells (matched to each other). - To evaluate the effectiveness of a nuclear medicine test with a radiotracer drug 3-deoxy-3 18F-fluorothymidine (FLT) in imaging studies. FLT will be used to image the immune system function in patients who have received bone marrow from the donor. Eligibility: - People between 15 (or as young as 9 in those who have gone through puberty) and 55 years of age. These patients must have acute myelogenous leukemia, acute lymphocytic leukemia, high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome, chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, or chronic myeloid leukemia. They must also be eligible for a bone marrow transplant. - Genetically similar donors for the patients who are eligible for a transplant. Design: - People taking part in the study will be screened with a physical examination, medical history, blood and urine tests, and imaging studies. Patients who are not in remission or who require a bone marrow donor search may receive chemotherapy first. - Donors will provide bone marrow for transplant according to standard bone marrow transplant (BMT) procedures. - All women and half of the men will receive regular leuprolide doses 2 weeks before BMT to suppress hormone function. - All recipients will receive 4 days of radiation followed by 2-4 days of chemotherapy before the bone marrow transplant (depending on age). Recipients will also receive other drugs to prevent transplant rejection and other complications of transplantation. - Recipients will be monitored in the hospital for 4 weeks after transplant with blood tests and other studies. - Some recipients will have an imaging study with FLT during the protocol. These imaging studies will take place before the transplant, on days 5 and 28 after transplant, and at a later time to be determined by the study researchers. - Following discharge, participants will be monitored closely for up to 6 months, with regular but less frequent followup visits for at least 5 years. Study-related medications, including vaccinations for the new immune system, will be provided by the National Institutes of Health during the hospital stay and after discharge.
The aim of this study is to demonstrate the safety and the efficacy of a combination of 2 treatments shown to have some efficacy in Chronic Phase Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CP CML) separately, but that have never been combined to date, and this combination is expected to substantially increase the molecular response rates.
This study will investigate if nilotinib provides an improved safety and efficacy profile over that seen in patients receiving Imatinib.