Allogeneic Epstein Barr Virus-Specific Cytotoxic T-Lymphocytes in Treating Patients With Progressive, Relapsed, or Refractory Hodgkin's Lymphoma

December 17, 2013 updated by: Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

A Phase I Pilot Trial to Evaluate the Toxicity of Epstein-Barr Virus Specific T-Lymphocytes or Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells for the Treatment of Relapsed/Refractory Hodgkin's Disease

RATIONALE: Biological therapies use different ways to stimulate the immune system and stop cancer cells from growing. Donor white blood cells that are treated in the laboratory with Epstein-Barr virus may be effective treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma.

PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of allogeneic Epstein-Barr virus-specific cytotoxic T cells in treating patients who have progressive, relapsed, or refractory Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Study Overview

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine the toxicity of allogeneic Epstein Barr virus (EBV)-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (EBV CTL) in patients with progressive, relapsed, or refractory EBV-positive Hodgkin's lymphoma.
  • Detect alterations in the anti-EBV cellular immunity of patients treated with EBV CTL.

OUTLINE: Donors undergo leukapheresis. Epstein Barr virus-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (EBV CTL) are cultured in vitro.

Patients receive an infusion of EBV CTL over 10 minutes on day 0. The EBV CTL infusion is preceded by 3 doses of fludarabine. Patients then receive interleukin-2 injections for 12 days after the EBV CTL infusion.

Patients are followed weekly for 1.5 months, twice a month for 1.5 months, and then monthly for 3 months.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 9 patients will be accrued for this study.

Study Type

Interventional

Phase

  • Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Pennsylvania
      • Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States, 17033-0850
        • Penn State Cancer Institute at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 75 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically proven Hodgkin's lymphoma

    • Progressive, relapsed, or refractory disease after prior chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and/or stem cell transplantation
    • Epstein Barr virus (EBV) positive by immunohistochemical staining for LMP-1 or 2 OR the presence of EBV RNA (EBER)

  • Availability of an HLA identical or haploidentical donor for cytotoxic T-lymphocytes, meeting the following criteria:

    • EBV seropositive
    • HIV negative
    • HTLV-1 negative
    • Hepatitis B surface antigen and hepatitis B core antibody IgM negative
    • Hepatitis C antibody negative
    • Must share at least 1 HLA haplotype with donor

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

  • 18 to 75

Performance status:

  • Not specified

Life expectancy:

  • At least 8 weeks

Hematopoietic:

  • Not specified

Hepatic:

  • Bilirubin less than 2.0 mg/dL

  • SGOT/SGPT less than 2.5 times normal (unless liver metastases are present)

    • If there is liver involvement by disease, an obvious relationship between SGOT/SGPT and disease activity is required
  • No hepatic dysfunction causing moribundity

Renal:

  • Creatinine clearance greater than 50 mL/min
  • No renal dysfunction causing moribundity

Cardiovascular:

  • No cardiac dysfunction causing moribundity

Pulmonary:

  • No pulmonary dysfunction causing moribundity

Other:

  • No neurologic dysfunction causing moribundity
  • No history of severe transfusion reactions with blood products (including fetal calf serum)
  • Not pregnant

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

  • See Disease Characteristics

Chemotherapy:

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • No concurrent antimetabolites

Endocrine therapy:

  • Not specified

Radiotherapy:

  • See Disease Characteristics

Surgery:

  • Not specified

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Collaborators

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Investigators

  • Study Chair: Kenneth G. Lucas, MD, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

April 1, 2000

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 3, 2000

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 26, 2003

First Posted (Estimate)

January 27, 2003

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

December 18, 2013

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

December 17, 2013

Last Verified

May 1, 2005

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • CDR0000068109
  • PSCI-2003-257
  • UAB-0002
  • NCI-G00-1829

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

Clinical Trials on Lymphoma

Clinical Trials on aldesleukin

Search Similar Trials

Sponsors and Collaborators

Medical Conditions

Drug Interventions

CROs by country

CROs in Equatorial Guinea

Conditions

Rare Diseases

Drug Interventions

Dietary Supplements

Sponsor/Collaborators

Locations

Subscribe