Bone Marrow Transplantation in Treating Patients With Acute Leukemia in First or Second Remission

NCT ID: NCT00002534

Last Updated: 2013-06-26

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: PHASE3
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 1993-05-31
• Study Completion Date: 2003-04-30

Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining chemotherapy with bone marrow transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more cancer cells.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of bone marrow transplantation using untreated or treated bone marrow in treating patients with acute leukemia in first or second remission.

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES: I. Compare the efficacy of T-cell-depleted vs unmodified allogeneic marrow rescue with regard to disease-free survival, post-transplantation leukemic relapse rate, incidence and severity of graft-versus-host disease, quality of engraftment and hematopoietic reconstitution, and immunoreconstitution following transplantation in patients with acute leukemia in first or second remission.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized study. Patients are stratified according to disease (acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) vs acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and age (20 and under vs over 20). Patients are randomized to one of two treatment arms. Patients under age 5 are nonrandomly assigned to Arm I and those over age 55 are nonrandomly assigned to Arm II. Arm I: Patients receive total body radiotherapy on days -7 through -4 followed by cyclophosphamide IV on days -3 and -2. Patients undergo allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (ABMT) IV over 2-4 hours on day 0. Patients also receive standard graft vs host disease prophylaxis with cyclosporine and methotrexate. Arm II: Patients receive total body radiotherapy on days -9 through -6, thiotepa IV on days -5 and -4, and cyclophosphamide as in Arm I. Patients undergo T-cell depleted ABMT IV over 15 minutes on day 0. Patients over age 15 receiving bone marrow from female donors over age 30 or from male donors of any age also receive graft rejection prophylaxis consisting of antithymocyte globulin IV over 6-8 hours on days -5 and -4 and oral methylprednisolone twice daily on days -5 and -4. Beginning 2 months following transplantation, adult patients with AML and a prior history of CNS disease, all adult patients with ALL, and all pediatric patients (ALL and ANLL) receive CNS leukemia prophylaxis with cytarabine intrathecally with the diagnostic lumbar puncture and then monthly for 5 months (1 year in patients with a prior history of CNS leukemia).

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 128 patients will be randomized. At an anticipated accrual rate of 35 patients/year, accrual is expected to be completed in 4 years.

Conditions

Leukemia

Study Design

• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT

Interventions

anti-thymocyte globulin

Intervention Type: BIOLOGICAL

cyclophosphamide

Intervention Type: DRUG

cytarabine

Intervention Type: DRUG

methylprednisolone

Intervention Type: DRUG

thiotepa

Intervention Type: DRUG

allogeneic bone marrow transplantation

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

in vitro-treated bone marrow transplantation

Intervention Type: PROCEDURE

low-LET electron therapy

Intervention Type: RADIATION

low-LET photon therapy

Intervention Type: RADIATION

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: Any age (5 to 55 to be eligible for randomization) Performance status: Karnofsky (or Lansky) 70-100% Life expectancy: Greater than 8 weeks Hematopoietic: See Disease Characteristics Hepatic: Bilirubin less than 1.5 mg/dl SGOT no greater than 3 times upper limit of normal (ULN) (both parameters stable for at least 4 weeks prior to transplantation) Renal: Creatinine less than 2 times ULN and stable for at least 4 weeks prior to transplantation OR Creatinine clearance at least 70 mL/min Cardiovascular: Fractional shortening greater than 28% on echocardiogram (23-28% if FS increases as a response to stress on supine bicycle ergometer) LVEF at least 50% on echocardiogram or MUGA Other: In good clinical condition at time of transplantation with no medical problems that would significantly increase the risk of the procedure No infection at time of transplantation Not pregnant or nursing

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: See Disease Characteristics

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NIH

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Principal Investigators

Farid Boulad, MD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Locations

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

CDR0000078464

Identifier Type: REGISTRY

Identifier Source: secondary_id

NCI-H93-0293

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

93-045

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id