Busulfan, Melphalan, and Antithymocyte Globulin Followed By Umbilical Cord Blood Transplant in Treating Young Patients With Refractory or Relapsed Malignant Solid Tumors

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

A Phase I Study to Examine the Toxicity of Killer IG-Like Receptor (KIR) Mismatched Umbilical Cord Blood for Pediatric Patients With Malignant Solid Tumors

RATIONALE: Giving chemotherapy before a donor umbilical cord blood stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of tumor cells. It also helps stop the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells when they do not exactly match the patient's blood. The donated stem cells may replace the patient's immune cells and help destroy any remaining tumor cells (graft-versus-tumor effect). Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can also make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving cyclosporine and methylprednisolone after the transplant may stop this from happening.

PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effects of busulfan, melphalan, and antithymocyte globulin followed by umbilical cord blood transplant in treating young patients with refractory or relapsed malignant solid tumors.

Study Overview

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Examine the impact of the use of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR)-mismatched umbilical cord blood as a source of hematopoietic stem cells, after busulfan, melphalan, and anti-thymocyte globulin in pediatric patients with relapsed or refractory solid tumors.
  • Determine the toxicity of this regimen, in terms of incidence of grade 3-4 acute graft-versus-host disease, donor/host chimerism, and cellular immunity against tumor cell lines, in these patients.

OUTLINE:

  • Transplantation: Patients receive busulfan orally or IV every 6 hours on days -8 to -5, anti-thymocyte globulin IV over 6 hours on days -4 to -1, and melphalan IV over 15-20 minutes on days -4 to -2. Patients undergo allogeneic umbilical cord blood stem cell infusion on day 0. Patients receive sargramostim (GM-CSF) subcutaneously beginning on day 7 and continuing until blood counts recover.
  • Graft-vs-host disease prophylaxis: Patients receive cyclosporine IV over 1 hour or orally twice daily on days -1 to 180 and methylprednisolone IV or orally once or twice daily on days 5 - 49.

Blood samples are collected periodically for immunophenotyping and flow cytometric analysis (including interferon gamma and other TH1 and TH2 cytokines).

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed periodically.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 20 patients will be accrued for this study.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

20

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

No older than 21 years (Child, Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Diagnosis of malignant solid tumor

  • Relapsed or refractory disease

    • No isolated local recurrence of disease (in the site of the primary tumor) > 1 year after completing therapy
  • No brain tumors or brain metastases

  • Unrelated cord blood donor available

    • May be HLA 6/6 matched (HLA-A, -B, -DR) OR mismatched for 1, 2, or 3 of these HLA loci, but must be mismatched for HLA-C group as indicated by their following killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) group specificity:

      • KIR2DL1

        • Cw 2
        • Cw 0307
        • Cw 4, 5, 6
        • Cw 0707, 0709
        • Cw 1204, 1205
        • All other Cw 15 alleles
        • Cw 1602
        • Cw 17
        • Cw 18

      • KIR2DL2

        • Cw 1
        • All other Cw 3 alleles
        • All other Cw 7 alleles
        • Cw 8
        • Cw 1202, 1203, 1206
        • Cw 1301
        • Cw 1402, 1403
        • Cw 1507
        • Cw 1601, 1604
  • Cord blood specimen must have ≥ 1 x 10^7 nucleated cells/kg patient ideal body weight

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

  • ECOG performance status (PS) 0-2 OR Lansky PS 70-100%
  • Cardiac ejection fraction ≥ 50%
  • Creatinine clearance ≥ 50%
  • Bilirubin ≤ 3.0 mg/dL
  • DLCO ≥ 70% OR O_2 saturation ≥ 95% on room air

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

  • Prior autologous stem cell transplantation allowed

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
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Safety
Incidence of graft-versus-host disease

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Donor/host chimerism status
Immune function post-transplant

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Investigators

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

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

May 1, 2004

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

February 15, 2007

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 15, 2007

First Posted (Estimate)

February 19, 2007

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

December 18, 2013

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

December 17, 2013

Last Verified

June 1, 2007

More Information

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Keywords

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Other Study ID Numbers

  • CDR0000529361
  • PSCI-18589

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