Status:

COMPLETED

Donor Stem Cell Transplant After Busulfan, Fludarabine, and Antithymocyte Globulin in Treating Patients With Hematologic Cancer or Myelodysplastic Syndrome

Lead Sponsor:

Asan Medical Center

Collaborating Sponsors:

Pusan National University Hospital

Conditions:

Leukemia

Myelodysplastic Syndromes

Eligibility:

All Genders

Up to 75 years

Phase:

PHASE2

Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Giving low doses of chemotherapy and antithymocyte globulin before a donor stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cancer and abnormal cells. It may also stop the patient's immune sys...

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES: * To evaluate the efficacy of HLA-haploidentical familial donor hematopoietic cell transplantation with a reduced-intensity conditioning regimen of busulfan, fludarabine phosphate, and an...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
  • Diagnosis of 1 of the following hematological malignancies:
  • Acute leukemia, including any of the following:
  • Refractory acute leukemia
  • Acute leukemia beyond first remission
  • Acute leukemia in first remission with intermediate to poor prognostic features as suggested by chromosomal findings
  • Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)
  • Second chronic phase
  • Accelerated phase
  • Blastic phase
  • Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)
  • High-risk MDS (refractory anemia with excess blasts \[RAEB\], RAEB in transformation, and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia) can be transplanted without prior therapy or after prior therapy failure with hypomethylating agents
  • Low-risk MDS can be considered for transplantation after prior therapy failure with immunosuppressive or hypomethylating agents
  • No willing, suitable HLA-matched donor in family or in donor registries
  • Patients with active hematologic malignancy, who are felt to be in urgent need of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation, can enroll without a search for HLA-matched unrelated donors
  • Related donor with HLA-haploidentical mismatch at 3 or less of 6 loci available
  • PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
  • Karnofsky performance status 70-100%
  • Bilirubin \< 2.0 mg/dL
  • Creatinine \< 2.0 mg/dL
  • AST \< 3 times upper limit of normal
  • Ejection fraction \> 40% by MUGA
  • PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
  • See Disease Characteristics

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    April 1 2008

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ACTUAL

    End Date :

    May 1 2011

    Estimated Enrollment :

    54 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT00732316

    Start Date

    April 1 2008

    End Date

    May 1 2011

    Last Update

    July 17 2012

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    Asan Medical Center - University of Ulsan College of Medicine

    Seoul, South Korea, 138-736

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