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Hematologic MalignancyPhase 2NCT01532635

A Two-Step Approach to Bone Marrow Transplant Using Cells From Two Partially-Matched Relatives

A Phase 2 study testing Total Body Irradiation (TBI), Donor Lymphocyte Infusion (DLI) and Cyclophosphamide (CY) in people with Hematologic Malignancy and Leukemia, run by Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University at 1 site in United States.

Terminated

Stopped early. The study ended before it was planned to and will not resume.

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Trial summary

This phase II clinical trial studies how well two donors stem cell transplant work in treating patients with high-risk hematologic malignancies. After receiving radiation to help further treat the disease, patients receive a dose of donors' T cells. T cells can fight infection and react against cancer cells. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
What is being tested?
Total Body Irradiation (TBI), Donor Lymphocyte Infusion (DLI) and Cyclophosphamide (CY)
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
4 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Mar 2012to May 2013
Phase
Phase 2
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Any patient with a hematologic malignancy with residual disease (morphological, cytogenetic, molecular, or radiographic) after treatment with 1 or more chemotherapy regimens in whom achievement of remission with additional chemoradiotherapy is felt to be unlikely or who is in 3rd or greater CR. Patients with marrow based diseases in which the marrow biopsy does not meet criteria for active disease (i.e. <5% blasts in acute leukemia) but who does not have full count recovery will be eligible for treatment on this high risk trial.
  • Patients must have two related donors that meet an acceptable scenario as described above.
  • Patients must adequate organ function:
  • LVEF of >= 50%
  • DLCO (adjusted for hemoglobin) >= 50% of predicted
  • Adequate liver function as defined by a serum bilirubin =< 1.8, AST or ALT < 2.5X upper limit of normal
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  • Creatinine clearance of >= 60 ml/min
  • Karnofsky Performance Status of > 80 % on the modified KPS tool (see Appendix A).
  • Patients must be willing to use contraception if they have childbearing potential.
  • Able to give informed consent

Who cannot join

  • Modified KPS of < 80%
  • >= 5 Comorbidity Points on the HCT-CI Index (See Appendix B)
  • Class I or II antibodies against donor HLA antigens
  • HIV positive
  • Active involvement of the central nervous system with malignancy
  • Psychiatric disorder that would preclude patients from signing an informed consent
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  • Pregnancy, or unwillingness to use contraception if they have child bearing potential
  • Patients with life expectancy of =< 6 months for reasons other than their underlying hematologic/oncologic disorder
  • Alemtuzumab treatment within 8 weeks of HSCT admission.
  • ATG level of >= 2 ugm/ml
  • Patients with active inflammatory processes (such as flair of an autoimmune disease) including T max > 101, or active tissue inflammation are excluded.
  • Inability to tolerate cyclophosphamide or undergo total body irradiation at the doses specified in the treatment plan.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • Thomas Jefferson University

    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19107

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About this study

Official title: A Two Step Approach to Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for High-Risk Hematologic Malignancies Using Two Related Donors

This phase II clinical trial studies how well two donors stem cell transplant work in treating patients with high-risk hematologic malignancies. After receiving radiation to help further treat the disease, patients receive a dose of donors' T cells. T cells can fight infection and react against cancer cells. Two days after donors' T cells are given, patients receive cyclophosphamide (CY) to help destroy the most active T cells that may cause tissue damage (called graft versus host disease or GVHD). Some of the less reactive T cells are not destroyed by CY and they remain in the patient to help fight infection. A few days after the CY is given, patients receive donors' stem cells to help their blood counts recover. Using two donors' stem cell transplant instead of one donor may be more effective in treating patients with high-risk disease and may prevent the disease from coming back.

Read the detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

  1. To assess 1 year relapse free survival in patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) using the Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) 2 step approach using 2 donors.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

  1. To assess the consistency and pace of engraftment. II. To assess the pace of T cell and B cell immune recovery in patients in each arm.

III. To assess regimen related toxicity, graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) incidence and severity, and overall survival.

IV. To assess the tolerance of the period of fever, diarrhea, and rash after the introduction of second donor and qualitatively compare it to prior patient groups or concurrent patient groups.

  1. To assess chimerism to ascertain whether one donor is emerging as dominant at regular intervals beginning at the time of engraftment.

VI. If dominance is observed, to compare the donors with regard to degree of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) mismatch, killer Ig-like receptor (KIR) types, cluster of differentiation (CD)34+ cell doses, infusion order, donor age, and donor alloreactivity points in an effort to identify potential biologic factors that predict for dominance. To determine if trends toward dominance occur in T cell, natural killer (NK) cell, or other cellular subsets prior to emerging in the graft as a whole.

VII. To assess if establishment of a dominant donor versus persistent chimerism of both donors is associated with a lower relapse rate.

VIII. To collect leukemia samples prior to transplant and after relapse whenever possible. To assess the overall degree of HLA-class I and class II expression on these paired samples. To test for loss of one or both HLA haplotypes in the relapsed tumor specimens. When observed, to correlate loss of one HLA haplotype with: a) receipt of a transplant capable of targeting only that haplotype; b) establishment of dominance in a 2 haplotype transplant such that the lost haplotype would be the primary target of the dominant donor; c) being the target of the donor predicted to be more alloreactive in a 2 haplotype transplant.

OUTLINE:

CONDITIONING: Patients undergo total-body irradiation (TBI) twice daily (BID) on days -9 to -6, undergo donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) on day -6, and receive cyclophosphamide intravenously (IV) over 2 hours on days -3 and -2.

TRANSPLANTATION: Patients undergo CD34+ selected allogeneic HSCT on day 0.

GVHD PROPHYLAXIS: Patients receive tacrolimus IV or orally (PO) beginning on day -1 with taper beginning on day 42 and mycophenolate mofetil IV or PO BID on days -1 to 28.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up for 1 year, and then periodically thereafter.

Being tested
Total Body Irradiation (TBI), Donor Lymphocyte Infusion (DLI), Cyclophosphamide (CY), Tacrolimus, Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF)
Keywords
hematologic malignancy, leukemia, Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, ALL, Acute myelogenous leukemia, AML, Chronic lymphocytic leukemia, CLL, lymphoma, hodgkin's lymphoma, non-hodgkin's lymphoma, myeloma, allogeneic stem cell transplant, TJU 2-step, Hematopoietic stem cell transplant, HSCT, bone marrow transplant, Cyclophosphamide, MMF, Mycophenolate Mofetil
Medical subject headings
Hematologic Neoplasms, Leukemia, Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute, Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell, Lymphoma, Hodgkin Disease, Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Total Body Irradiation (TBI)Radiation

    Also called TBI, radiotherapy

    TBI twice daily for 4 days and occurs 6 to 9 days prior to the transplant. Total radiation dose is 12 Gy.

  • Donor Lymphocyte Infusion (DLI)Biological

    Also called DLI, T cell infusion

    DLI given 6 days prior to transplant (HSCT).

  • Cyclophosphamide (CY)Drug

    Also called CY, Endoxan, Cytoxan, Neosar

    Cyclophosphamide given once daily at 60 mg/kg on days 2 and 3 prior to transplant (HSCT).

  • TacrolimusDrug

    Also called FK-506, fujimycin, Prograf, Advagraf

    Tacrolimus is started the day before the transplant and stops a few months after transplant.

  • Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF)Drug

    Also called MMF, CellCept, Myfortic

    MMF is started the day before transplant and stops a few weeks after transplant.

  • Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT)Biological

    Also called HSCT, stem cell transplant, CliniMACS

    CD34+ selected Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT) is performed using donor cells from two related donors.

    The CliniMACS® Plus Instrument will be used for the selection of human CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells.

Study groups in NCT01532635
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Allogeneic HSCT Using Two Related DonorsExperimentalCONDITIONING: Patients undergo TBI BID on days -9 to -6, undergo DLI on day -6, and receive cyclophosphamide IV over 2 hours on days -3 and -2. TRANSPLANTATION: Patients undergo CD34+ selected allogeneic HSCT on day 0. GVHD PROPHYLAXIS: Patients receive tacrolimus IV or PO beginning on day -1 with taper beginning on day 42 and mycophenolate mofetil IV or PO BID on days -1 to 28.
Receives: Radiation: Total Body Irradiation (TBI); Biological: Donor Lymphocyte Infusion (DLI); Drug: Cyclophosphamide (CY); Drug: Tacrolimus; Drug: Mycophenolate Mofetil (MMF); Biological: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT)

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. One Year Relapse-Free Survival

    To assess one year relapse-free survival (RFS) in patients undergoing HSCT (hematopoietic stem cell transplantation) using the TJU 2 step-approach with two donors.

    Survival will be estimated by the Kaplan-Meier method. All estimates of rates will be presented with corresponding confidence intervals. For 1 year RFS rates, the method of Atkinson and Brown will be used to allow for the two-stage design; otherwise the method of Conover.

    Measured: 1 year

Secondary outcomes (8)
  1. Chimerism Assessment

    To assess chimerism to ascertain whether one donor is emerging as dominant at regular intervals beginning at the time of engraftment.

    Measured: 1 year

  2. Assessment of Dominance

    If dominance is observed, to compare the 2 donors with regard to degree of HLA mismatch, KIR types, CD 34+ cell doses, infusion order, donor age, and donor alloreactivity points in an effort to identify potential biologic factors that predict for dominance. To determine if trends toward dominance occur in T cell, NK cell, or other cellular subsets prior to emerging in the graft as a whole.

    Measured: 1 year

  3. Relapse Rates

    To assess if establishment of a dominant donor versus persistent chimerism of both donors is associated with a lower relapse rate.

    Measured: 1 year

  4. Engraftment

    To assess the consistency and pace of engraftment of both donors.

    Measured: 1 year

  5. Immune Reconstitution

    Assess T and B cell Reconstitution

    Measured: 1 year

  6. Non-relapse Morbidity and Mortality

    Assessment of regimen related toxicity, GVHD incidence and severity, and overall survival.

    Measured: 1 year

  7. Tolerance of DLI

    Assessment of the tolerance of the period of fever, diarrhea, and rash after the introduction of second donor and qualitatively compare it to prior patient groups or concurrent patient groups

    Measured: 2-6 days prior to transplant

  8. Assessment for Tumor Escape Mechanisms

    To test for loss of one or both HLA haplotypes in patients who relapse post-transplant and examine the relapse in the context of the characteristics of the 2 donors

    Measured: 1 year post transplant

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted14 Feb 2012 (estimated)
  2. Study startMar 2012
  3. Primary completionFeb 2013
  4. Study completionMay 2013

Why it stopped: Slow accrual

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
4 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT01532635
Sponsor's protocol ID
11D.570
Other IDs
2011-101, JT 1832
Status last verified
May 2025
First submitted
6 Feb 2012
Last updated
4 May 2025
Data monitoring committee
Yes

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing Total Body Irradiation (TBI), Donor Lymphocyte Infusion (DLI) and Cyclophosphamide (CY) in people with Hematologic Malignancy and Leukemia, run by Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 10 inclusion and 12 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: stopped early, as of the sponsor's last update on 4 May 2025. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 10 Nov 2014). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

One Year Relapse-Free Survival (time frame: 1 year). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 4 May 2025.

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