Evaluating the Safety and Effectiveness of an Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplant (BMT CTN 0604)

Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute Clinical Trial

Official title:

A Multi-Center, Phase II Trial of Non-Myeloablative Conditioning (NST) and Transplantation of Umbilical Cord Blood (UCB) From Unrelated Donors in Patients With Hematologic Malignancies (BMT CTN #0604)

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00864227
• Other study ID #: BMTCTN0604
• Secondary ID: U01HL0692945U24C
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: December 2008
• Est. completion date: November 2013

Study information

• Verified date: December 2022
• Source: Medical College of Wisconsin
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

A bone marrow transplant, which is a type of stem cell transplant, is a treatment option for people with leukemia or lymphoma. Recently, stem cell transplants using umbilical cord blood have become a treatment option for people with these types of cancers. This study will evaluate the effectiveness of a stem cell transplant using umbilical cord blood, along with lower doses of chemotherapy, to treat people with leukemia or lymphoma.

Description:

Leukemia and lymphoma are types of blood cancers. Chemotherapy is a common treatment option for people with these types of cancers, but if the cancer does not respond well to chemotherapy, or if the cancer returns, people may need to consider other options. A bone marrow transplant, which is a type of stem cell transplant in which healthy bone marrow is donated to a patient by a related or unrelated donor, is commonly used to treat leukemia and lymphoma. Recently, stem cell transplants using umbilical cord blood have become a viable option to treat these types of cancers. Traditionally, umbilical cord blood, which is the blood left over in the placenta after a baby is born, has been disposed of with the placenta. However, over the past few years, doctors have begun to collect and freeze the umbilical cord blood cells so that they may be used in stem cell transplant procedures at a later time.

Typically, people who are undergoing a stem cell transplant receive high doses of chemotherapy before the transplant to prepare their bodies to accept the donor stem cells. In this study, participants will undergo a new type of stem cell transplant called a nonmyeloablative transplant, which is a reduced intensity method of transplantation that does not require high doses of chemotherapy. The purpose of the study is to examine the safety and effectiveness of a nonmyeloablative stem cell transplant that uses umbilical cord blood as a treatment option for people with leukemia or lymphoma.

This study will enroll people with leukemia or lymphoma. Participants will be admitted to the hospital and will first receive a type of chemotherapy called cyclophosphamide, which will be given intravenously on the sixth day before the transplant. In addition, another type of chemotherapy, fludarabine, will be given intravenously each day for 5 days before the transplant. Three days before the transplant, participants will receive cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), to help prevent the body from rejecting the stem cells and to help decrease the risk of developing a complication called graft-versus-host-disease (GVHD), which is an attack by the donor cells on the body's normal tissues. Some participants may receive tacrolimus instead of cyclosporine. After 6 days, participants will receive a small dose of radiation. The next day, participants will undergo the umbilical cord blood stem cell transplant.

Participants will remain in the hospital for approximately 2 to 3 months total, but possibly longer if there are complications. Beginning on the first day after the transplant, participants will receive daily injections of a growth factor called granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), which is a natural protein that increases the white blood cell count; G-CSF will be continued until a participant's white blood cell count is normal again. Participants will continue to receive MMF for 30 days and cyclosporine or tacrolimus for 180 days after the transplant. While participants are in the hospital, blood samples will be collected regularly to evaluate the response and possible side effects to treatment, including GVHD. If necessary, participants will receive platelet and red blood cell transfusions. At follow-up study visits 6 months and 1 year after the transplant, blood samples will be obtained. Study researchers will keep track of participants' medical condition through phone calls or mailings to participants and their doctors once a year for the rest of the participants' lives.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 54
• Est. completion date: November 2013
• Est. primary completion date: April 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 1 Year to 70 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participants must be 21 to 70 years old; participants 1 to 21 years old are also eligible if they are ineligible for BMT CTN #0501 (NCT00412360)

• Each unit must supply a minimum of 1.5 x 10^7/kg pre-cryopreserved nucleated cell dose

• Participants must have two partially human leucocyte antigen (HLA)-matched umbilical cord blood units. Each unit must match at a minimum of 4 of 6 at HLA-A, -B, -DRB1 loci with the recipient. This may include 0 to 2 antigen mismatches at each A or B (at the antigen level) or DRB1 (at the allele level) loci. Each unit must be a 4 to 6 HLA-A, B, and DRB1 antigen matched to each other, not necessarily at the same loci as with the recipient. All typing will be done using molecular typing. Though molecular level typing will be available, a match is defined at intermediate resolution for HLA-A and -B and at high resolution for -DRB1 for this study. An adult unrelated donor search is not required for a person to be eligible for this study if the clinical situation dictates an urgent transplant. Clinical urgency is defined as 6 to 8 weeks from referral to transplant center or low likelihood of finding a matched, unrelated donor.

• Must have received cytotoxic chemotherapy within 3 months of the consent date (measured from the start date of chemotherapy)

• Acute leukemias (includes T lymphoblastic lymphoma) in the second or subsequent complete remission (CR)

• Burkitt's lymphoma in the second or subsequent CR

• Lymphoma

• Patients with adequate physical function, as measured by the following:

• Heart: left ventricular ejection fraction at rest greater than 35%, or shortening fraction greater than 25%

• Liver: bilirubin less than or equal to 2.5 mg/dL and alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and alkaline phosphatase less than or equal to five times the upper limit of normal

• Kidney: serum creatinine within normal range for age, or if serum creatinine is outside the normal range for age, then kidney function (creatinine clearance or glomerular filtration rate (GFR) greater than 40 mL/min/1.73m^2

• Lungs: forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), forced vital capacity (FVC), and carbon monoxide diffusing capacity (DLCO) greater than 50% predicted (corrected for hemoglobin). If unable to perform pulmonary function tests, then oxygen (O2) saturation must be greater than 92% on room air.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Have an HLA-matched, related, or 7 or 8/8 HLA allele matched (HLA-A, -B, -Cw, -DRB1) related donor able to donate

• Had an autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplant in the 3 months before study entry

• Pregnant or breastfeeding

• Evidence of HIV infection or known HIV positive serology

• Current uncontrolled bacterial, viral, or fungal infection (i.e., currently taking medication with evidence of progression of clinical symptoms or radiologic findings)

• Prior allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant

• History of primary idiopathic myelofibrosis

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Burkitt Lymphoma
• Leukemia
• Leukemia, Lymphoid
• Leukemia, Myeloid
• Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
• Lymphoma
• Lymphoma, B-Cell
• Lymphoma, Follicular
• Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse
• Precursor B-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma
• Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma

Intervention

Biological:
• Hematopoietic Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cell Transplantation
The transplant preparative regimen is listed below. The - sign is the number of days before the transplant. Fludarabine: 40 mg/m^2 intravenously (IV) on Days -6, -5, -4, -3, and -2 Cyclophosphamide: 50 mg/kg IV on Day -6 Total body irradiation: 200 centigray (cGy) on Day -1
• GVHD prophylaxis
GVHD prophylaxis regimen will consist of: Cyclosporine: beginning on Day -3 with the dose adjusted to maintain a level of 200-400 mg/mL MMF: 1 gram IV three times a day (TID) if greater than 50 kg, or 15 mg/kg IV TID if less than 50 kg beginning on Day -3; continued until Day 30 or 7 days after engraftment, whichever day is later Day 0 is the day of the infusion of the umbilical cord blood graft units, which will be obtained from partially HLA-matched unrelated donors. Beginning on Day 1, participants will receive G-CSF 5 mcg/kg/day until absolute neutrophil count (ANC) is greater than or equal to 2,000/mm^3 for three consecutive measurements, each on different days.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), Brigham & Women's Hospital	Boston	Massachusetts
United States	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), Massachusetts General Hospital	Boston	Massachusetts
United States	Medical University of South Carolina	Charleston	South Carolina
United States	Ohio State, Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital	Columbus	Ohio
United States	City of Hope National Medical Center	Duarte	California
United States	University of Florida College of Medicine, Shands	Gainesville	Florida
United States	University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics	Iowa City	Iowa
United States	University of Kansas Hospital	Kansas City	Kansas
United States	University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics	Madison	Wisconsin
United States	University of Minnesota	Minneapolis	Minnesota
United States	Weill Cornell Medical College, NY Presbyterian Hospital	New York	New York
United States	University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania
United States	Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia (MCV) Hospital	Richmond	Virginia
United States	Washington University, Barnes Jewish Hospital	Saint Louis	Missouri
United States	Texas Transplant Institute	San Antonio	Texas
United States	H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center	Tampa	Florida

Sponsors (5)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Medical College of Wisconsin	Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Marrow Donor Program

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

References & Publications (2)

Brunstein CG, Fuchs EJ, Carter SL, Karanes C, Costa LJ, Wu J, Devine SM, Wingard JR, Aljitawi OS, Cutler CS, Jagasia MH, Ballen KK, Eapen M, O'Donnell PV; Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network. Alternative donor transplantation after reduced — View Citation

Eapen M, O'Donnell P, Brunstein CG, Wu J, Barowski K, Mendizabal A, Fuchs EJ. Mismatched related and unrelated donors for allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation for adults with hematologic malignancies. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2014 Oct;20(10) — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Overall Survival at 180 Days From the Time of Transplant		Measured at Month 6 and Year 1
Secondary	Neutrophil Recovery	Neutrophil recovery is defined as achieving an absolute neutrophil count = 500/mm3 for three consecutive measurements on different days.	Measured at Days 28, 56, 90, and 100
Secondary	Primary Graft Failure	Primary graft failure is defined as < 5% donor chimerism on all measurements prior to and day-100.	Measured at Day 100
Secondary	Secondary Graft Failure	Secondary graft failure is defined initial recovery followed by neutropenia with < 5% donor chimerism.	Measured at Day 100
Secondary	Platelet Recovery to 20K	Platelet recovery is defined as the first day of a minimum of three consecutive measurements on different days such that the patient has achieved a platelet count >20,000/mm3 with no platelet transfusions in the preceding seven days.	Measured at Days 56, 90, and 100
Secondary	Donor Cell Engraftment	Marrow or Blood Sample. Donor cell engraftment is defined as donor chimerism = 5% on Day = 56 after transplantation. Chimerism should be evaluated on Days ~28, ~56, ~180, and ~365 after transplantation. Chimerism may be evaluated in whole blood or mononuclear fraction.	Measured at Day 56
Secondary	Acute Graft-versus-host Disease (GVHD)		Measured at Day 100
Secondary	Chronic GVHD		Measured at Year 1
Secondary	Progression-free Survival	Progression-free survival is defined as the minimum time interval to relapse/ recurrence/progression, to death or to last follow-up.	Measured at Year 1
Secondary	Treatment-related Mortality (TRM)		Measured at 6 months and 1 year
Secondary	Incidence of Infections	Number of participants that experienced at least one infection.	Measured at Year 1
Secondary	Platelet Recovery to 50K	Platelet recovery is defined as the first day of a minimum of three consecutive measurements on different days such that the patient has achieved a platelet count >50,000/mm3 with no platelet transfusions in the preceding seven days.	Measured at Days 56, 90, and 100

External Links

•   Blood and Marrow Transplant Clinical Trials Network Website
•   National Marrow Donor Program