Reduced-Intensity Regimen Before Donor Bone Marrow Transplant in Treating Patients With Myelodysplastic Syndromes

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Leukemia, Myelodysplastic Syndromes, Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasms

In brief

RATIONALE: Photopheresis treats the patient's blood with drugs and ultraviolet light outside the body and kills the white blood cells. Giving photopheresis, pentostatin, and radiation therapy before a donor bone marrow or stem cell transplant helps stop the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. The donated stem cells may replace the patient's immune system and help destroy any remaining cancer cells (graft-versus-tumor effect). Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can also make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving pentostatin before transplant and cyclosporine or mycophenolate mofetil after transplant may stop this from happening. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving pentostatin together with photopheresis and total-body irradiation work before donor bone marrow transplant in treating patients with myelodysplastic syndromes.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT00045305
Run by
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group
People needed
17
Starts
2006-10-24
Expected to finish
2014-09-01
Last updated by the study team
2023-06-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

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Where it is running

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