Biological Therapy in Treating Patients With Myelodysplastic Syndrome

NCT ID: NCT00005853

Last Updated: 2010-04-02

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE2

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

1999-12-31

Study Completion Date

2005-08-31

Brief Summary

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RATIONALE: Biological therapies use different ways to stimulate the immune system and stop cancer cells from growing. Combining different types of biological therapies may kill more cancer cells.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of biological therapy in treating patients who have myelodysplastic syndrome.

Detailed Description

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OBJECTIVES:

* Determine the frequency of hematologic responses in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome treated with anti-thymocyte globulin and tumor necrosis factor receptor IgG chimera.
* Correlate phenotypic, cytogenetic, and functional disease characteristics with treatment responses in these patients.
* Determine the safety of this treatment regimen in this patient population.

OUTLINE: Patients receive anti-thymocyte globulin IV over 8 hours daily for 4 days followed by tumor necrosis factor receptor IgG chimera subcutaneously twice weekly for 16 weeks.

Patients are followed at 8, 16, and 20 weeks.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 15 patients will be accrued for this study.

Conditions

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Leukemia Myelodysplastic Syndromes

Study Design

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Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Interventions

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anti-thymocyte globulin

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

etanercept

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Unwilling to proceed with transplantation
* No chronic myelomonocytic leukemia

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

* Any age

Performance status:

* Not specified

Life expectancy:

* Not specified

Hematopoietic:

* See Disease Characteristics

Hepatic:

* Not specified

Renal:

* Not specified

Other:

* No other severe disease that would preclude study
* No active severe infection (e.g., pneumonia or septicemia) or severe infections within the past 2 weeks

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

* See Disease Characteristics
* At least 4 weeks since prior hematopoietic growth factors
* No concurrent hematopoietic growth factors

Chemotherapy:

* At least 4 weeks since prior cytotoxic therapy
* No concurrent cytotoxic therapy

Endocrine therapy:

* Not specified

Radiation therapy:

* Not specified

Surgery:

* Not specified

Other:

* At least 4 weeks since prior immunomodulatory therapy
* No concurrent immunomodulatory therapy
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Principal Investigators

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H. Joachim Deeg, MD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Locations

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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Seattle, Washington, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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FHCRC-1478.00

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

NCI-G00-1793

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

CDR0000067878

Identifier Type: REGISTRY

Identifier Source: secondary_id

1478.00

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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