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The objective of this study is to determine the incidence of complete and partial response and the duration of response in patients with recurrent or resistant Hodgkin's disease (HD) treated with sequential administration of oral 6-Thioguanin (6-TG) after IV Methotrexate (MTX).
The purpose of this study is to obtain chemical information from part of your body without a biopsy. This is done using a technique called magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) which is similar to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) except that signals are detected from the chemicals (spectroscopy) naturally present in your body using radio waves. To receive this information from your body, small loops of wire (surface coils), placed near the tissue of interest, may be used to more effectively detect signals that come from the chemicals in your body. The investigators may use a second radio channel simultaneously, which will allow us to obtain greater chemical information (decoupling). The results may also help us to understand how this study can be used to help other patients with your condition.
The purpose of this study is to understand how to help survivors of bone marrow transplant and stem cell transplant (BMT/SCT) with emotional distress. BMT/SCT has become a more common type of treatment for cancer or hematological disorder (blood disease). For this reason, there is concern that adjustment after treatment may be difficult for many persons. We have found that about 25% of BMT/SCT survivors still feel anxious and distressed about their illness and its treatment after at least one year following transplant. This study is one of the first to study the impact of counseling on BMT/SCT survivors. The study is being carried out at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Mount Sinai Medical Center, and Hackensack University Medical Center.
Currently, there is no accurate way of predicting the occurrence of Graft vs Host Disease (GvHD) or infection. The purpose of this study is to analyze blood with the ImmuKnow® Assay to see if doctors can detect which patients are at risk for GvHD and for getting an infection before they occur.
The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrences of respiratory symptoms risk factors and abnormalities in lung function in young children (3-6 years old) with hemato-oncologic diseases at presentation (before treatment) and up to 3 years follow-up (study period).
Predicting response to chemotherapy in patients with Hodgkin's disease or lymphoma high-grade malignant de novo or recurrence. The non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and high-grade Hodgkin's disease may show resistance to chemotherapy, regardless of their initial extension. The failure of treatment is most often correlated with an incomplete answer or lack of response to chemotherapy as a result chemoresistance. This drug, which may involve the gene MDR1 (multidrug resistance) encoding the protein PGP, can be studied in vivo by MIBI scan. The MIBI is behind a tracer perfusionnel used routinely to explore myocardial perfusion, but it has other characteristics of fixing, which can be used in oncological imaging (fixation by glial tumors of high grade).Prospective Study, which includes conducting a tomoscintigraphie 30 minutes after injection of 20 mCi of 99mTc-MIBI in initial stock or relapse of high-grade lymphoma and Hodgkin's disease any stage (I-IV). Fixing the MIBI is compared with morphological abnormalities detected by CT and the setting of lesions by 18FDG. Patients will be treated in a traditional way, without changes in treatment protocols used in routine. Patients with a negative MIBI scan, will be watched with particular attention in order to detect insufficient response to chemotherapy. The only change, the care of patients, only for the achievement of an initial consideration of non-invasive imaging, further, which is the tomoscintigraphie the MIBI. Of the tumor samples, will be evaluated by immunohistochemistry, the expression of PGP and the MRP1 (two proteins associated with the drug). On blood, may be carried out genotyping of MDR1, MRP1 and MRP2 to the patient.
The purpose of this study is to find the highest safe dose of Iodine-131 Tositumomab (Bexxar®) that can be given to patients who have relapsed/refractory Hodgkin's lymphoma, what side effects these patients get when they take Bexxar® and if Bexxar® is effective in treating relapsed/refractory Hodgkin's lymphoma. Bexxar® works by delivering doses of radiation to cancer cells.
The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy and safety of transplanting StemEx® in patients with certain hematological malignancies. For these patients, it is suggested that StemEx® can improve upon the outcome of transplanting a single, unmanipulated cord blood unit by significantly increasing the number of stem/progenitor cells available to the patient.
Cytokine-induced killer ( CIK ) cells have been shown by our lab to be cytolytic against both autologous and allogeneic acute myeloid leukemia ( AML ) cells. Large scale expansion of CIK cells has also been shown to be feasible in healthy allogeneic stem cell donors as well as in patients undergoing mobilization for autologous transplant. Donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) has been shown to be active against some haematological malignancies including CML, AML, MDS,NHL and Hodgkin's disease. These donor lymphocytes can be further activated in vitro to become CIK cells. At least 2 other centers in the world have given allogeneic CIK cells for patients relapsing post allogeneic transplant for a variety of haematological malignancies. These early reports have demonstrated feasibility, absence of increased GVHD and possible efficacy in some cases. We are proposing a Phase I /II study on the feasibility / efficacy of immunotherapy with allogeneic CIK cells for patients who relapse after allogeneic marrow transplant for their haematological malignancies. These patients have to be either refractory to conventional donor lymphocyte infusion, or need a larger number of donor lymphocyte than could be provided by unmanipulated donor lymphocytes. Donor lymphocytes will be collected and cultured in GMP facilities to maturity, then infused into patients. This will be given in graded doses at 4 weekly intervals and continued on in the absence of GVHD till remission is achieved or disease progression occurs. Patients may receive various forms of chemotherapy appropriate to the clinical condition in each case before the allogeneic CIK infusion. Efficacy will be assessed by comparing the response to allogeneic CIK infusion vs that to due to conventional DLI, ie response to the two different treatment using DLI response as the comparator. We expect about 10 such cases to be done over the next 3 years. Significant statistics is unlikely to be generated but observation and description of the response can generate useful information for presence or not of the efficacy of such a treatment. If clinical efficacy and superiority over conventional DLI is demonstrated, then future allogeneic CIK may take the place of DLI in this group of poor prognosis patients who relapse after allogeneic transplant .