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Phase I/II Study of Alemtuzumab-Based Conditioning Followed By HLA-Matched Allogeneic Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation in Patients With Advanced Mycosis Fungoides/Sezary Syndrome

Alternate Title
Basic Trial Information
Objectives
Entry Criteria
Expected Enrollment
Outcomes
Outline
Trial Contact Information
Registry Information

Alternate Title

Alemtuzumab Followed by Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation in Treating Patients With Advanced Mycosis Fungoides/Sezary Syndrome

Basic Trial Information

Phase
Type
Status
Age
Sponsor
Protocol IDs

Phase II, Phase I


Treatment


Active


18 to 70


NHLBI


NHLBI-02-H-0250
NCT00047060

Special Category: NIH Clinical Center trial

Objectives

  1. Evaluate the ability of a conditioning regimen comprising alemtuzumab and fludarabine with or without cyclophosphamide to produce at least 80% sustained engraftment in patients with advanced mycosis fungoides/Sezary syndrome.
  2. Evaluate allogeneic graft-versus-tumor effects in mycosis fungoides/Sezary syndrome patients treated with a nonmyeloablative conditioning regimen followed by HLA-matched allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation.
  3. Determine the safety and toxicity of this regimen in these patients.
  4. Determine tumor response, disease-free survival, and overall survival of patients treated with this regimen.
  5. Determine the rate and extent of lymphocyte subset reconstitution in patients treated with this regimen.
  6. Determine transplant-related morbidity, including rates of acute and chronic graft-versus-host disease and infectious complications, and mortality in patients treated with this regimen.

Entry Criteria

Disease Characteristics:

  • One of the following diagnoses:
    • Histologically confirmed mycosis fungoides (MF)
      • Stage IIB, III, IVA, or IVB
      • Progressive disease after at least 1 treatment regimen
    • Sezary syndrome (SS)


  • Clinically or radiographically evaluable disease


  • Anticipated median survival of less than 5 years or debilitation as result of disease


  • Less than 25% of liver involved with metastatic tumor by CT scan


  • No CNS metastases by MRI


  • 6/6 HLA-matched family donor available


Prior/Concurrent Therapy:

Biologic therapy

  • Not specified

Chemotherapy

  • Not specified

Endocrine therapy

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy

  • Not specified

Surgery

  • Not specified

Other

  • At least 30 days since prior therapy for MF or SS

Patient Characteristics:

Age

  • 18 to 70

Performance status

  • ECOG 0-1

Life expectancy

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • At least 3 months

Hematopoietic

  • Not specified

Hepatic

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • Bilirubin no greater than 4 mg/dL
  • Transaminases no greater than 5 times upper limit of normal

Renal

  • Creatinine no greater than 2 mg/dL

Cardiovascular

  • LVEF at least 40%

Pulmonary

  • DLCO at least 60% of predicted

Other

  • HIV negative
  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • No major organ dysfunction or failure or major anticipated illness that would preclude transplantation
  • No psychiatric disorder or mental deficiency that would preclude study
  • No other malignancy within the past 5 years except basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer

Expected Enrollment

58

A total of 9-58 patients will be accrued for this study.

Outcomes

Primary Outcome(s)

Engraftment measured by donor-host chimerism in lymphoid and myeloid lines at days 15, 30, 45, 60, and 100
Response (complete [CR] and partial responses [PR] and stable [SD] or progressive disease [PD]) at days 30, 60, and 100

Secondary Outcome(s)

Immune reconstitution measured by lymphocyte subset analysis and T cell repertoire at days 15, 30, 45, 60, and 100
Safety measured by incidence and severity of post-transplant complications

Outline

Patients receive 1 of 2 nonmyeloablative conditioning regimens, depending on engraftment efficacy in prior patients.

  • Regimen A: Patients receive alemtuzumab IV over 2 hours on days -28, -27, -26, -24, -22, -19, -17, and -15 and fludarabine IV over 30 minutes on days -5 to -1.


  • Regimen B: Patients receive alemtuzumab and fludarabine as in regimen A plus cyclophosphamide IV over 1 hour on days -7 and -6.


Patients also receive graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis comprising oral cyclosporine twice a day beginning on day -4 and continuing until day 100.

Patients undergo allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation on day 0.

Donor T cell and myeloid chimerism will be evaluated and will guide decisions regarding donor lymphocyte infusions.

Patients are followed every 2 months for 6 months, every 3 months for 1.5 years, and then every 6 months for 3 years.

Trial Contact Information

Trial Lead Organizations

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Ramaprasad Srinivasan, MD, Protocol chair
Ph: 301-594-8396

Trial Sites

U.S.A.
Maryland
  Bethesda
 NIH - Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center
 Patient Recruitment
Ph: 800-411-1222

Registry Information
Official Title A Phase I/II Study Of HLA-Matched Mobilized Peripheral Blood Hematopoetic Stem Cell Transplantation For Advanced Mycosis Fungoides/Sezary Using NonMyeloablative Conditioning With Campath-1H
Trial Start Date 2002-07-30
Trial Completion Date 2012-12-28 (estimated)
Registered in ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00047060
Date Submitted to PDQ 2002-08-09
Information Last Verified 2008-11-30

Note: The purpose of most clinical trials listed in this database is to test new cancer treatments, or new methods of diagnosing, screening, or preventing cancer. Because all potentially harmful side effects are not known before a trial is conducted, dose and schedule modifications may be required for participants if they develop side effects from the treatment or test. The therapy or test described in this clinical trial is intended for use by clinical oncologists in carefully structured settings, and may not prove to be more effective than standard treatment. A responsible investigator associated with this clinical trial should be consulted before using this protocol.

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