Irradiated Donor Cells Following Stem Cell Transplant in Controlling Cancer in Patients With Hematologic Malignancies

Post-Transplant Use of Irradiated Haplo-Allogeneic Cells

This pilot clinical trial studies the side effects of irradiated donor cells following stem cell transplant in controlling cancer in patients with hematologic malignancies. Transfusion of irradiated donor cells (immune cells) from relatives may cause the patient's cancer to decrease in size and may help control cancer in patients receiving a stem cell transplant.

Study Overview

• Status: Terminated
• Conditions: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia; Mantle Cell Lymphoma; Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma; Myelodysplastic Syndrome; Plasma Cell Myeloma; Recurrent Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma; Refractory Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma; Minimal Residual Disease; Therapy-Related Acute Myeloid Leukemia; Therapy-Related Myelodysplastic Syndrome; Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Recipient; Recurrent Hematologic Malignancy; TP53 Gene Mutation; Refractory Mature T-Cell and NK-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma; Recurrent Mature T- and NK-Cell Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma; Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Remission; JAK2 Gene Mutation; Loss of Chromosome 17p; RAS Family Gene Mutation
• Intervention / Treatment: Procedure: Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; Biological: Irradiated Allogeneic Cells

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine the toxicity associated with the administration of irradiated haploidentical cells (IHC) to patients with high-risk hematologic malignancies.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine if there is evidence of disease response associated with IHC.

TERTIARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine if treatment with the irradiated cells induces an immune response targeting tumor associated epitopes.

OUTLINE: Patients are assigned to 1 of 2 cohorts.

COHORT I: Within 42 days after hematopoietic engraftment (both neutrophils and platelets) after autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT), patients receive initial treatment with IHC. Patients that do not have evidence of relapse or progressive disease may be treated every 8-12 weeks for up to 3 doses.

COHORT II: Patients with high-risk disease receive initial treatment with IHC within 70 days after hematopoietic engraftment (both neutrophils and platelets) after allogeneic HSCT. Patients being treated for relapsed disease may receive initial treatment with IHC any time after relapse is documented. Patients that do not have evidence of relapse or progressive disease may be treated every 8-12 weeks for up to 3 doses.

After completion of study treatment, patients will be followed up within 8 weeks.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 2
• Phase: Early Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • New Jersey
    • New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, 08903
      • Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 16 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient with disease (stage) eligible per cohort

• COHORT 1: patients undergoing high dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell rescue and ?high-risk? disease as defined below:

  • Diffuse large cell lymphoma or peripheral T cell lymphoma (including specified World Health Organization [WHO] subtypes) not in computed tomography (CT)-positron emission tomography (PET) complete remission at time of high dose therapy
  • Diffuse large cell lymphoma with ?double hit? or ?double expressor? features
  • Diffuse large cell lymphoma or peripheral T cell lymphoma (including WHO specified subtypes) refractory to standard induction therapy OR relapsing within 1 year of treatment OR in greater that second complete remission (CR)
  • Mantle cell lymphoma not in CR1

  • Multiple myeloma with ONE (or more) of the following high risk features:

    • Less than very good partial remission at time of high dose therapy
    • High Revised-International Staging System (R-ISS) (stage III ? 2 microglobulin >= 5.5 plus lactate dehydrogenase [LDH] > upper limit of normal [ULN] and/or del17p, t(4;14), t(14;16)) at time of diagnosis
    • Cytogenetics or fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) del17p

• COHORT 2: patients with high risk disease having undergone an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant from a 10/10 human leukocyte antigen (HLA) matched donor with one of the following disease subtypes:

  • Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in CR1 with high risk features (European Leukemia Network [ELN]) at presentation

    • Diagnostic sample with either t(6;9), t(9;22), 11q23, inv 3, -5, -7, del17p, complex cytogenetics, NPMwt-flt3ITD+, OR p53 mutation (mut); patients whose samples have mutations in RUNX1 or ASXL1 are also eligible (unless the patient has favorable cytogenetics)
  • AML in CR1 with measurable minimal residual disease (MRD) by molecular (e.g., myeloid mutation profile, polymerase chain reaction [PCR] for NPM1, core-binding factor [CBF], mixed lineage leukemia [MLL]) or flow cytometry
  • AML not in CR1 (including patients with morphologic CR but with incomplete recovery, CRi)
  • Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) with complex cytogenetics, 17p deletion or p53 mutation, or JAK2 or RAS mutation
  • Treatment-related MDS or AML
  • Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) not in CR1
  • ALL with MRD
  • Any hematologic malignancy relapsed or with persistent disease after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant
  • Multiple myeloma
  • Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) with chemoresistant disease at time of transplant
  • Any patient undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant and an anticipated rate of relapse > 80% based upon published data and for which there is consensus amongst the Hematologic Malignancies Tumor Study Group that enrollment is appropriate
• Availability of a genetic child, genetic parent or sibling as a potential HLA haploidentical donor
• Meets standard eligibility requirements for high dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell rescue (COHORT 1) or allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (COHORT 2) and has signed consent for those procedures
• DONOR: Donor must be related to patient and be partially (>= 3/6 antigen) HLA-matched

• DONOR: Donor must meet all Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Blood Services requirements for hematopoietic stem cell donation including:

  • Age >= 18 years old;
  • Normal hemogram (white blood cells [WBC] 4.0-10.0 x 10^3/mm^3; platelet count 150,000 to 440,000/mm^3 ; hemoglobin/hematocrit; 12.5-18 g/dl, 38 to 54%
  • Not pregnant or lactating;
  • Not human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1, HIV-2, hepatitis C virus (HCV), hepatitis B core or human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV)-I/II seropositive; hepatitis B surface antigen (HB S ag) (-); meet other infectious disease screening criteria utilized by RWJ Blood Services;
  • No uncontrolled infections, other medical or psychological/social conditions, or medications that might increase the likelihood of patient or donor adverse effects or poor outcomes;
  • Meet other blood bank criteria for blood product donation (as determined by RWJ Blood Center screening history and laboratory studies)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Non-English speaking person
• Patients undergoing haploidentical allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplants are not eligible; patients undergoing < 10/10 HLA allele matched allogeneic transplant are not eligible
• Pregnant women
• DONOR: Non-English speaking person
• DONOR: Pregnant women

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Non-Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Cohort I (initial IHC within 42 days); Within 42 days after hematopoietic engraftment (both neutrophils and platelets) after autologous HSCT, patients receive initial treatment with IHC. Patients that do not have evidence of relapse or progressive disease may be treated every 8-12 weeks for up to 3 doses.	Procedure: Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; Receive IHC; Other Names: Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation; HSC; HSCT; allogeneic stem cell transplantation; Biological: Irradiated Allogeneic Cells; Correlative studies
Experimental: Cohort II (initial IHC within 70 days or after relapse); Patients with high-risk disease receive initial treatment with IHC within 70 days after hematopoietic engraftment (both neutrophils and platelets) after allogeneic HSCT. Patients being treated for relapsed disease may receive initial treatment with IHC any time after relapse is documented. Patients that do not have evidence of relapse or progressive disease may be treated every 8-12 weeks for up to 3 doses.	Procedure: Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; Receive IHC; Other Names: Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation; HSC; HSCT; allogeneic stem cell transplantation; Biological: Irradiated Allogeneic Cells; Correlative studies

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of Participants Who Received Irradiated Haploidentical Cells (IHC) With Disease Response	Per Response Evaluation Criteria In Solid Tumors Criteria (RECIST v1.0) for target lesions and assessed by MRI: Complete Response (CR), Disappearance of all target lesions; Partial Response (PR), >=30% decrease in the sum of the longest diameter of target lesions; Overall Response (OR) = CR + PR	Up to 8 weeks after last protocol treatment
the Number of Participants With Toxicities Associated With Administration of Irradiated Haploidentical Cells (IHC) Evaluated According to Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) Version 4.0	The anticipated/projected IHC-associated toxicities of greatest concern include: short-term toxicities- constitutional/systemic adverse events including fevers, hypotension, pulmonary infiltrates; long-term toxicities: autoimmune effects, graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), graft rejection. Toxicity will be measured by occurrence of any experimental treatment-related adverse events (AE) up to 12 weeks of completion of therapy. The CTCAE version 4.0 will be utilized for the description and grading of the AE. All symptoms, signs, or diseases assessed as experimental treatment-related will be captu	Up to 12 weeks of completion of therapy

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Induction of Host T Cells Reactive With Tumor Associated Epitopes	It will be determined if treatment with the irradiated cells induces an immune response targeting tumor associated epitopes.	Up to 8 weeks after last protocol treatment

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
• Collaborators: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Roger Strair, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): October 26, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 30, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): September 22, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: August 24, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 1, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): September 5, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): June 26, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 23, 2023
• Last Verified: June 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Cardiovascular Diseases; Vascular Diseases; Immune System Diseases; Neoplasms by Histologic Type; Lymphoproliferative Disorders; Lymphatic Diseases; Immunoproliferative Disorders; Neoplasms by Site; Disease Attributes; Disease; Bone Marrow Diseases; Hematologic Diseases; Hemorrhagic Disorders; Hemostatic Disorders; Paraproteinemias; Blood Protein Disorders; Neoplastic Processes; Neoplasms, Plasma Cell; Precancerous Conditions; Leukemia, Lymphoid; Neoplasms; Lymphoma; Lymphoma, B-Cell; Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse; Syndrome; Myelodysplastic Syndromes; Hematologic Neoplasms; Multiple Myeloma; Leukemia; Leukemia, Myeloid; Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute; Recurrence; Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin; Preleukemia; Lymphoma, Mantle-Cell; Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma; Lymphoma, T-Cell; Neoplasm, Residual
• Other Study ID Numbers: 011702 (Other Identifier: Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey); P30CA072720 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract); Pro20170000537; NCI-2017-01537 (Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program))

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: Yes
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No