Study of Fludarabine Based Conditioning for Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation for Myelofibrosis

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Myelofibrosis

In brief

Stem cell transplantation is used to treat may types of diseases. There a 2 types of transplants, conventional (very intense) and reduced intensity-non-myeloablative, also called mini-transplants. This study proposes to use a conditioning regimen for allogeneic transplantation along with a reduced intensity transplant. Conditioning regiment is the name for the combination of chemotherapy drugs that is given to patients before receiving a transplantation of donor stem cells. It is hoped that the regimen designed for this study proves to be less toxic and has an equal or better anticancer effect than the regimens that are normally used. The regimen being used is a combination of two chemotherapy drugs, fludarabine and melphalan. This regimen has been studied in recipients of matched sibling transplants and in recipients of alternative donor stem cells in other hematologic malignancies. Those subjects, who receive stem cells from an unrelated donor, will also receive and additional drug called ATG or anti thymocyte globulin. ATG suppresses the immune system, thus reducing the chances for the recipient rejecting the transplant (graft). The purpose of this study is to observe if reduced intensity transplants can be used to allow engraftment or "take" of the donor's bone marrow. Studies conducted in the past show this type of transplant is much less toxic than traditional bone marrow transplants. Reduced intensity transplants may be better tolerated by patients who may experience serious side effects from standard (very intense) stem cell transplant. The study has been recently amended to follow all subjects for survival.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT00572897
Run by: John Mascarenhas
People needed: 66
Starts: 2007-08-01
Expected to finish: 2015-06-15
Last updated by the study team: 2017-05-15

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Patients with the following disease: Idiopathic myelofibrosis, or spent PV-, or ET-related myelofibrosis in chronic phase (<20% blast cells in the bone marrow) with Lille score >1 at any time, or platelet <100K.
Age 18-65 years.
ECOG performance status < 3.
Life expectancy >3 months.
Adequate cardiac function, normal LVEF ≥ 45% by MUGA or echocardiogram and adequate pulmonary function DLCO ≥ 50% of predicted.
Serum creatinine < 1.1 x the upper limit of normal (ULN) or Creatinine Clearance >50 ml/min.
Serum bilirubin < 2.0 mg/dl, SGPT <2.5 x upper limit of normal
No evidence of chronic active hepatitis or cirrhosis
HIV-negative
Patient is not pregnant
Patient or guardian able to sign informed consent.
Patients with >20% myeloblasts in the blood or marrow, extramedullary blast cell proliferation or large foci of blasts in bone marrow biopsy specimens are not eligible.
Pretransplant splenectomy: MMM patients with variable degrees of splenomegaly, or splenectomized, are eligible to be enrolled. Any decision of having a patient splenectomized prior to transplant will be made in each center prior to enrolling the patient in the study.
Patients should be off treatment with investigational for at least 4 weeks and have recovered from all toxicities.

You may not qualify if…

Pregnancy
HIV positive
> 20% myeloblasts in the peripheral blood or bone marrow
LVEF < 45%
DLCO < 50% of predicted
ECOG performance status ≥ 3
Chronic active hepatitis or cirrhosis
Chronic renal insufficiency

Where it is running

University of Illinois at Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States
Johns Hopkins — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Roswell Park Cancer Institute — Buffalo, New York, United States
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai — New York, New York, United States
Weill Cornell Medical College — New York, New York, United States
Ohio State Univesity — Columbus, Ohio, United States
University of Utah — Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Princess Margaret Hospital — Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo — Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
University of Florence — Florence, IL, Italy
University of San Martino — San Martino, Italy
Regionala etikprovningsnamnden Goteborg — Gothenburg, Sweden

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