Combination Chemotherapy Followed by Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation in Treating Patients With Mantle Cell Lymphoma

Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation for Mantle Cell Lymphoma

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining more than one drug may kill more cancer cells. Peripheral stem cell transplantation may be able to replace immune cells that were destroyed by chemotherapy used to kill cancer cells.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy followed by donor peripheral stem cell transplantation in treating patients who have mantle cell lymphoma.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Lymphoma; Graft Versus Host Disease
• Intervention / Treatment: Drug: etoposide; Drug: cytarabine; Drug: melphalan; Drug: carmustine; Drug: tacrolimus; Drug: methotrexate; Drug: sargramostim; Procedure: transplant

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

• Determine the long term disease-free survival of patients with mantle cell lymphoma treated with etoposide, carmustine, melphalan, and cytarabine followed by allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell transplantation.
• Determine the incidence of molecular remissions in these patients treated with this regimen.
• Correlate the persistence of minimal residual disease with clinical outcome in these patients treated with this regimen.
• Determine the effect of donor lymphocytes in patients with progressive disease after treatment with this regimen.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.

Patients receive carmustine IV over 2 hours on day -6; etoposide IV over 3 hours and cytarabine IV over 1 hour every 12 hours on days -5 to -2 for a total of 8 doses; and melphalan IV over 20-30 minutes on day -1. Patients undergo allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) transplantation on day 0. Patients also receive tacrolimus IV continuously over 24 hours beginning on day -2 and then orally twice daily until day 120 and methotrexate IV over 30 minutes on days 1, 3, and 6 as graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis. Patients receive sargramostim (GM-CSF) IV or subcutaneously daily beginning on day 7 and continuing until blood counts recover.

Patients with no active GVHD who have persistent disease on day 150 or progressive disease at any time after PBSC transplantation receive donor lymphocytes IV over 2 hours. Patients may receive additional donor lymphocytes at least 8 weeks later if disease persists.

Patients are followed at 6 and 12 months posttransplantation and then annually for 4 years.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 4
• Phase: Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Alabama
    • Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35233-1996
      • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Birmingham
  • California
    • La Jolla, California, United States, 92093-0658
      • University of California San Diego Cancer Center
    • San Francisco, California, United States, 94121
      • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - San Francisco
    • San Francisco, California, United States, 94143-0128
      • UCSF Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute
  • Delaware
    • Wilmington, Delaware, United States, 19899
      • CCOP - Christiana Care Health Services
  • District of Columbia
    • Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20307-5000
      • Walter Reed Army Medical Center
    • Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20007
      • Lombardi Cancer Center
  • Florida
    • Miami Beach, Florida, United States, 33140
      • CCOP - Mount Sinai Medical Center
  • Illinois
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
      • University of Illinois at Chicago
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
      • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Chicago (Westside Hospital)
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637-1470
      • University of Chicago Cancer Research Center
  • Iowa
    • Iowa City, Iowa, United States, 52242-1009
      • Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Maine
    • Togus, Maine, United States, 04330
      • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Togus
  • Maryland
    • Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21201
      • Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland
  • Massachusetts
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115
      • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    • Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, 01655
      • University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center - University Campus
  • Minnesota
    • Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55417
      • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Minneapolis
    • Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55455
      • University of Minnesota Cancer Center
  • Missouri
    • Columbia, Missouri, United States, 65201
      • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Columbia (Truman Memorial)
    • Columbia, Missouri, United States, 65203
      • Ellis Fischel Cancer Center - Columbia
    • Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
      • Barnes-Jewish Hospital
  • Nebraska
    • Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68198-7680
      • University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • Nevada
    • Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, 89106
      • CCOP - Southern Nevada Cancer Research Foundation
  • New Hampshire
    • Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States, 03756-0002
      • Norris Cotton Cancer Center
  • New York
    • Buffalo, New York, United States, 14263-0001
      • Roswell Park Cancer Institute
    • Buffalo, New York, United States, 14215
      • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Buffalo
    • Manhasset, New York, United States, 11030
      • CCOP - North Shore University Hospital
    • Manhasset, New York, United States, 11030
      • North Shore University Hospital
    • New York, New York, United States, 10021
      • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
    • New York, New York, United States, 10021
      • New York Presbyterian Hospital - Cornell Campus
    • New York, New York, United States, 10029
      • Mount Sinai Medical Center, NY
    • Syracuse, New York, United States, 13210
      • State University of New York - Upstate Medical University
    • Syracuse, New York, United States, 13210
      • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Syracuse
    • Syracuse, New York, United States, 13217
      • CCOP - Syracuse Hematology-Oncology Associates of Central New York, P.C.
  • North Carolina
    • Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599-7295
      • Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC
    • Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27705
      • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Durham
    • Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27710
      • Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
    • Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, 27104-4241
      • CCOP - Southeast Cancer Control Consortium
    • Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, 27157-1082
      • Comprehensive Cancer Center at Wake Forest University
  • Ohio
    • Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210-1240
      • Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital - Ohio State University
  • Rhode Island
    • Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02903
      • Rhode Island Hospital
  • Tennessee
    • Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 38104
      • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Memphis
    • Memphis, Tennessee, United States, 38103
      • University of Tennessee Cancer Institute
  • Vermont
    • Bennington, Vermont, United States, 05201
      • Green Mountain Oncology Group
    • Burlington, Vermont, United States, 05401-3498
      • Vermont Cancer Center
    • White River Junction, Vermont, United States, 05009
      • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - White River Junction
  • Virginia
    • Richmond, Virginia, United States, 23298-0037
      • MBCCOP - Massey Cancer Center
    • Richmond, Virginia, United States, 23249
      • Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Richmond

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: No older than 59 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

1. Documentation of Disease

   1. Histologically documented mantle cell lymphoma of any stage (needle or core biopsy is not acceptable as the sole means of diagnosis) with at least one of the following confirmatory tests indicative of diagnosis:

      • Immunophenotype with expression of CD5 and CD19 and absence of CD23
      • Cytogenetic analysis with presence of t(11;14)
      • Overexpression of cyclin D1
      • Rearrangement of BCL1 gene
   2. Rebiopsy of a node at relapse is recommended but not required.
   3. Bone marrow biopsy required for pretreatment evaluation. Bilateral biopsies are not required.
2. Identification of HLA-Matched sibling donor - The sibling donor must meet eligibility criteria outlined in section 5.0

3. Prior Therapy

   1. Patients who have failed initial therapy are eligible (without any of the poor prognostic characteristics listed in the protocol). Failure to initial treatment is defined as one of the following:

      • Failure to achieve clinical complete remission after treatment with an anthracycline-containing regimen
      • Disease recurrence after initial treatment (with an anthracycline-containing regimen)

   2. Patients in first remission must have one of the following poor prognostic characteristics:

      • International Prognostic Index (IPI) score > 1. IPI risk factors include the following: age > 60 (not eligible for this protocol); performance status > 1; LDH > normal; presence of > 1 extranodal sites; and stage III/IV disease
      • Blastic variant of mantle cell lymphoma (regardless of IPI score)
      • Complex karyotypes (i.e., cytogenetic abnormalities different from or in addition to t(11;14) (regardless of IPI score)
      • Proliferative index > 10% (regardless of IPI score)
      • Presence of p53 mutations
   3. Patients who have received more than two chemotherapy regimens are ineligible. Patients who have undergone a prior bone marrow transplant are not eligible.
4. Age < 60 years
5. No active CNS lymphoma
6. DLCO ≥ 40% and no symptomatic pulmonary disease
7. No HIV infection
8. Non-pregnant and non-nursing. Treatment under this protocol would expose an unborn child to significant risks. Women and men of reproductive potential should agree to use an effective means of birth control.

9. Initial required laboratory values

   • bilirubin < 2 mg/dl
   • AST ≤ 3 x upper limit of normal (ULN)
   • ALT ≤ 3 x ULN
   • serum creatinine < 2 mg/dl
   • u-HCG or serum HCG negative (if patient of childbearing potential)

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm

Intervention / Treatment

Experimental: chemotherapy + stem cell transplantation; Patients receive carmustine, etoposide, cytarabine and melphalan on day -1. Patients undergo allogeneic peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) transplantation on day 0. Patients also receive tacrolimus on day -2 and then orally twice daily until day 120 and methotrexate on days 1, 3, and 6 as graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) prophylaxis. Patients receive sargramostim daily beginning on day 7 and continuing until blood counts recover. Patients with no active GVHD who have persistent disease on day 150 or progressive disease at any time after PBSC transplantation receive donor lymphocytes IV over 2 hours. Patients may receive additional donor lymphocytes at least 8 weeks later if disease persists. Patients are followed at 6 and 12 months post-transplantation and then annually for 4 years.

Drug: etoposide; IV; Drug: cytarabine; IV; Drug: melphalan; IV; Drug: carmustine; IV; Drug: tacrolimus; IV; Drug: methotrexate; IV; Drug: sargramostim; IV; Procedure: transplant

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
disease free survival	up to 5 years post-transplant

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
• Collaborators: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Investigators: Study Chair: Koen Van Besien, MD, University of Chicago

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: November 1, 2000
• Primary Completion (Actual): February 1, 2003
• Study Completion (Actual): February 1, 2003

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 6, 2000
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 26, 2003
• First Posted (Estimate): January 27, 2003

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): July 19, 2016
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 15, 2016
• Last Verified: July 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: stage III mantle cell lymphoma; stage IV mantle cell lymphoma; recurrent mantle cell lymphoma; contiguous stage II mantle cell lymphoma; noncontiguous stage II mantle cell lymphoma; stage I mantle cell lymphoma; graft versus host disease
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Immune System Diseases; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Neoplasms; Lymphoproliferative Disorders; Lymphatic Diseases; Immunoproliferative Disorders; Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin; Lymphoma; Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell; Graft vs Host Disease; Physiological Effects of Drugs; Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action; Anti-Infective Agents; Antiviral Agents; Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors; Enzyme Inhibitors; Antirheumatic Agents; Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic; Antimetabolites; Antineoplastic Agents; Immunosuppressive Agents; Immunologic Factors; Antineoplastic Agents, Alkylating; Alkylating Agents; Myeloablative Agonists; Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic; Topoisomerase II Inhibitors; Topoisomerase Inhibitors; Dermatologic Agents; Reproductive Control Agents; Abortifacient Agents, Nonsteroidal; Abortifacient Agents; Folic Acid Antagonists; Calcineurin Inhibitors; Etoposide; Melphalan; Cytarabine; Methotrexate; Tacrolimus; Carmustine; Sargramostim
• Other Study ID Numbers: CALGB-59908; U10CA031946 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract); CLB-59908; CDR0000068324 (Registry Identifier: NCI Physician Data Query)