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Filter by:This is a Phase 2, randomized, multicenter study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of KD025 in subjects with Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease (cGVHD) after at least 2 prior lines of systemic therapy
This study evaluates the use of Brimonidine tartrate nanoemulsion eye drop solution in the treatment of ocular Graft Verses Host Disease (oGVHD). Two thirds of participants will receive Brimonidine and one third will receive ophthalmic buffered saline (placebo).
The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy and safety of itacitinib in combination with corticosteroids as first-line treatment for moderate or severe chronic graft-versus-host disease (cGVHD).
This protocol serves as a mechanism to collect, store, and distribute bodily fluid and tissue samples obtained from Hematopoietic Cell Transplant (HCT) or novel immunotherapy patients and their donors at the Masonic Cancer Center in order to conduct correlative studies of the immune system, microbiota, and their interactions. Fluid (including but not limited to, blood, urine, saliva, cerebrospinal fluid, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid) sample log-in, processing, relabeling, and storage is performed by the Masonic Cancer Center (MCC) Translational Therapy Lab (TTL).
Allogeneic HSCT is potentially curative for numerous high risk hematologic malignancies and offers several advantages over traditional chemotherapy. First, higher doses of cytotoxic chemotherapy and/or irradiation can be given since patients are subsequently rescued from the severe myelosuppression induced by the pre-transplant conditioning regimen by the infusion of healthy hematopoietic stem cells. Second and perhaps more importantly, mature T cells contained in the graft are able to mount immune responses against residual cancer cells surviving the conditioning regimen due to major and/or minor MHC disparities between the donor and recipient. Unfortunately, the allo-immune responses driving the GVL effect are typically not specific for malignant cells. As a consequence, donor immune cells attack normal host tissues resulting in a process known as acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Acute GVHD is primarily T cell driven, usually occurs within the first few months after transplant, and results in skin rash, diarrhea, cholestatic liver damage, and, on occasion, acute lung injury.
Phase 1b: To evaluate the safety and tolerability of multiple ascending doses of efavaleukin alfa in subjects with steroid refractory chronic graft versus host disease (cGVHD). Phase 2: To evaluate the efficacy of efavaleukin alfa in subjects with steroid refractory cGVHD as measured by overall response rate (ORR) at 16 weeks according to the 2014 cGVHD NIH Consensus Criteria. Due to early termination, the Phase 2 portion of this study was not conducted.
Background: About half the people who have a hematopoietic stem cell transplant using donor cells get Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease (cGVHD). This is chronic graft versus host disease. Immune cells from the donor may see the body tissues in the person as foreign and attack, causing damage. The skin is the most commonly affected organ. Most cGVHD therapies have serious side effects. The cream ruxolitinib inhibits proteins that may play a role in cGVHD. Objective: To test the safety and effectiveness of topical ruxolitinib 1.5 percent cream in people with cGVHD of the skin. Eligibility: People ages 12 and older with epidermal skin cGVHD Design: Participants will be screened with: Medical history Physical exam Blood and urine tests Skin sample taken (biopsy) to confirm the diagnosis. At the baseline visit, participants will have: Skin disease measured with rulers, photographs, and tracing the outline of skin lesions To complete questionnaires about their symptoms Blood and urine tests Some participants will also have a skin biopsy, or total body photographs while they wear only underwear. Participants will get the ruxolitinib cream and a placebo cream to apply to 2 separate areas of disease. They will do this twice a day for 6 weeks, if they do not have serious side effects. Neither the study team nor the participant will know which area will get ruxolitinib cream and the placebo cream. Participants will write down: - When they apply the creams - Any side effects - Any medications they take Most participants will have 4 visits during the 6 weeks they use the creams. Some will have 3 visits and a phone call to see how they are doing. All participants will get a call 4-6 weeks after they stop. Visits include physical exams, blood tests, skin disease measurements, questionnaires, and photos.
The purpose of this study is to assess the impact and safety of itacitinib in combination with calcineurin inhibitor (CNI)-based interventions for the prophylaxis of graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD).
Acute or chronic graft versus host disease is still the major complication of stem cells transplantation regarding morbidity and mortality. Recently, high dose cyclophosphamide utilization early after post-transplantation (day+ 3 and +4) not only for patients with HLA- haploidentical donor but also for patients with Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)-compatible donor, showed a great control of graft versus host disease after transplantation, allowing to consider stopping immunosuppressive treatment after the transplantation (Neoral=cyclosporine, cell-cept=mycophenolate mofetil). Indeed, this step has already been completed in myeloablative transplantation in adult patients. This approach could enable to avoid in the end several complications related to long term immunosuppressive drugs administration, while promoting quicker immunity recovery.
This pilot clinical trial studies how well a gluten free diet works in preventing graft versus host disease in patients who are undergoing a donor stem cell transplant. Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can make an immune response against the body's normal cells (called graft versus host disease). A gluten free diet may decrease intestinal inflammation and graft versus host disease in patients who are undergoing a donor stem cell transplant.