Immunotherapy Using Cyclosporine, Interferon Gamma, and Interleukin-2 After High-Dose Myeloablative Chemotherapy With Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation in Treating Patients With Refractory or Relapsed Hodgkin's Lymphoma

NCT ID: NCT00070187

Last Updated: 2013-10-17

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE2/PHASE3

Total Enrollment

24 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2003-11-30

Brief Summary

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RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining chemotherapy with autologous stem cell transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more cancer cells. Giving immunotherapy using cyclosporine, interferon gamma, and interleukin-2 after stem cell transplantation may help the transplanted cells make an immune response and kill any remaining cancer cells. It is not yet known whether high-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplantation is more effective with or without immunotherapy.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase II/III trial is studying how well high-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplantation, cyclosporine, interferon gamma, and interleukin-2 works and compares it to high-dose chemotherapy followed by autologous stem cell transplantation only in treating patients with refractory or relapsed Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Detailed Description

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OBJECTIVES:

Primary

* Phase II

* Determine the feasibility and toxicity of immunotherapy comprising cyclosporine, interferon gamma, and interleukin-2 after high-dose myeloablative chemotherapy with autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) in patients with refractory or relapsed Hodgkin's lymphoma.

* Phase II part of the study was completed and should have proceeded to Phase III; however long delay occurred due to some proposed protocol changes to Phase III , so long that the study got permanently closed \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*
* Phase III

* Compare the event-free and overall survival of patients treated with vs without this immunotherapy regimen.

Secondary

* Determine the event-free and overall survival rates, toxic effects, and response rates to reinduction chemotherapy followed by hyperfractionated involved-field radiotherapy, high-dose chemotherapy comprising carmustine, etoposide, cytarabine, and melphalan, and ASCT in these patients.
* Correlate tumor biologic characteristics with response in patients treated with these regimens.
* Determine the effectiveness of this immunotherapy regimen in producing autologous graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) and auto-reactive cytotoxic T-lymphocyte activity in these patients.
* Correlate greater levels of autologous GVHD and in vitro cytolytic activity with improved event-free and overall survival in patients treated with these regimens.
* Determine whether treatment with immunotherapy can overcome the negative prognostic significance of p53 mutation and high serum levels of interleukin-10 and interleukin-2 receptor in these patients.
* Determine the genotoxicity of retrieval therapy and the incidence of hypermutability by longitudinal genotoxic biomonitoring in these patients.
* Correlate HLA class II invariant peptide (CLIP) expression in tumor cells with improved event-free and overall survival in patients treated with immunotherapy regimen.

OUTLINE: This is a nonrandomized, multicenter phase II study followed by a randomized, multicenter phase III study. Patients are stratified according to study phase (II vs III).

Patients receive 2 courses of salvage induction therapy on COG-AHOD00P1 or equivalent. Within 2-5 weeks after completion of salvage induction therapy, patients receive protocol therapy.

* Phase II: All patients receive the following treatment:

* Hyperfractionated involved-field radiotherapy: Patients who have completed prior salvage induction therapy and have not received full tissue tolerance from prior radiotherapy may receive hyperfractionated involved-field radiotherapy twice daily for 7 days.
* High-dose preparative regimen: Beginning within 7 days after radiotherapy, patients receive carmustine IV over 3 hours on day -6; etoposide IV over 1 hour and cytarabine IV over 1 hour on days -5 to -2; and melphalan IV over 30 minutes on day -1.
* Autologous stem cell transplantation: Patients undergo autologous bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation on day 0. Patients then receive filgrastim (G-CSF) subcutaneously (SC) or IV beginning on day 1 and continuing until blood counts recover.
* Immunotherapy: Patients receive cyclosporine IV twice daily beginning on day 0 and continuing until the completion of the course of interferon gamma and interleukin-2. When sufficiently recovered, patients also receive interferon gamma SC every other day for 10 doses. Beginning 2 days after the start of interferon gamma, patients also receive interleukin-2 SC once daily for 18 days.
* Phase III: Patients who respond to prior salvage induction therapy are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms. Patients who have progressive disease after 2 courses of prior salvage induction therapy are assigned to arm I.

* Arm I: Patients receive treatment as in phase II.
* Arm II: Patients receive treatment as in phase II without immunotherapy. In both phases, treatment continues in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Patients are followed at 1 year.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 156 patients (25 for phase II and 131 for phase III) will be accrued for this study within 5.4 years.

Conditions

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Lymphoma

Keywords

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recurrent adult Hodgkin lymphoma recurrent/refractory childhood Hodgkin lymphoma

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Hyperfractionated Involved-Field Radiotion-immunotherapy

Completed prior salvage induction therapy and have not received full tissue tolerance from prior radiotherapy may receive hyperfractionated involved-field radiotherapy twice daily for 7 days.

HIGH-DOSE PREPARATIVE REGIMEN: Beginning within 7 days after radiotherapy, carmustine IV over 3 hours on day -6; etoposide IV over 1 hour and cytarabine IV over 1 hour on days -5 to -2; and melphalan IV over 30 minutes on day -1.

ASCT: Autologous bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation on day 0. Filgrastim (oral or IV) beginning on day 1 and continuing until blood counts recover.

IMMUNOTHERAPY: Cyclosporine IV twice daily beginning on day 0 and continuing until the completion of the course of recombinant interferon gamma and interleukin-2. When sufficiently recovered, Aldesleukin once daily for 18 days.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

aldesleukin

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

Given IV

filgrastim

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

Given IV

recombinant interferon gamma

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

Given IV

carmustine

Intervention Type DRUG

Given IV

cyclosporine

Intervention Type DRUG

Given IV

cytarabine

Intervention Type DRUG

Given IV

etoposide

Intervention Type DRUG

Given IV

melphalan

Intervention Type DRUG

Given IV

autologous bone marrow transplantation

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

bone marrow ablation with stem cell support

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

peripheral blood stem cell transplantation

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Hyperfractionated Involved-Field Radiotion-no immunotherapy

Completed prior salvage induction therapy and have not received full tissue tolerance from prior radiotherapy may receive hyperfractionated involved-field radiotherapy twice daily for 7 days.

HIGH-DOSE PREPARATIVE REGIMEN: Beginning within 7 days after radiotherapy, carmustine IV over 3 hours on day -6; etoposide IV over 1 hour and cytarabine IV over 1 hour on days -5 to -2; and melphalan IV over 30 minutes on day -1.

ASCT: Autologous bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation on day 0. Filgrastim (oral or IV) beginning on day 1 and continuing until blood counts recover.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

filgrastim

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

Given IV

carmustine

Intervention Type DRUG

Given IV

cyclosporine

Intervention Type DRUG

Given IV

cytarabine

Intervention Type DRUG

Given IV

etoposide

Intervention Type DRUG

Given IV

melphalan

Intervention Type DRUG

Given IV

autologous bone marrow transplantation

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

bone marrow ablation with stem cell support

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

peripheral blood stem cell transplantation

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Interventions

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aldesleukin

Given IV

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

filgrastim

Given IV

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

recombinant interferon gamma

Given IV

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

carmustine

Given IV

Intervention Type DRUG

cyclosporine

Given IV

Intervention Type DRUG

cytarabine

Given IV

Intervention Type DRUG

etoposide

Given IV

Intervention Type DRUG

melphalan

Given IV

Intervention Type DRUG

autologous bone marrow transplantation

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

bone marrow ablation with stem cell support

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

peripheral blood stem cell transplantation

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Other Intervention Names

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Proleukin IL-2 recombinant human Interleukin 2 NSC # 373364 GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR r-metHuG-CSF G-CSF Neupogen NSC #614629 INTERFERON GAMMA-1b Actimmune gamma interferon immune interferon lymphocyte interferon rIFN-gamma T-interferon NSC #600662 BCNU BiCNU bischloronitrosourea NSC #40996 cycloporine Sandimmune Neoral Gengraf NSC #290193 cytosine arabinoside AraC Cytosar NSC #063878 VP-16 VePesid Etopophos NSC #141540 L-PHENYLANINE mustard L-PAM L-sarcolysin Alkeran NSC #008806

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

* Diagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma

* Histologically confirmed at original diagnosis AND at relapse or disease progression
* Relapsed or refractory to conventional therapy
* No recurrence without B symptoms or bulky disease at least 1 year after completion of minimal systemic therapy defined by either of the following:

* Stage IA/IIA with nodal disease previously treated with radiotherapy only
* Stage IA/IIA with nodal disease previously treated with less than 3 courses of standard dose chemotherapy
* Concurrently enrolled on the COG-AHOD00P1 salvage chemotherapy study OR received other appropriate salvage therapy (e.g., ifosfamide and vinorelbine)

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

* Under 30

Performance status

* ECOG 0-2 (for adults)
* Lansky 50-100% (for children)

Life expectancy

* At least 2 months

Hematopoietic

* Absolute neutrophil count at least 500/mm\^3

Hepatic

* Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 times normal
* SGPT less than 2.5 times normal

Renal

* Creatinine no greater than 1.5 times normal OR
* Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate at least 70 mL/min/1.73 m\^2

Cardiovascular

* Shortening fraction at least 27% by echocardiogram OR
* Ejection fraction at least 50% by MUGA

Pulmonary

* No evidence of dyspnea at rest
* No exercise intolerance
* DLCO at least 50% (patients 8 years of age and over)

Other

* Not pregnant or nursing
* Negative pregnancy test
* No concurrent serious illness

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

* Recovered from prior immunotherapy
* At least 1 week since prior antineoplastic biologic agents
* More than 1 week since prior growth factors
* No prior stem cell transplantation
* No other concurrent immunomodulating agents

Chemotherapy

* See Disease Characteristics
* More than 2 weeks since prior myelosuppressive chemotherapy (4 weeks for nitrosoureas) and recovered
* No other concurrent anticancer chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy

* No concurrent steroids, including dexamethasone as an antiemetic

Radiotherapy

* See Disease Characteristics
* Recovered from prior radiotherapy

Surgery

* Not specified

Other

* No concurrent participation in another COG therapeutic study
Maximum Eligible Age

30 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

Children's Oncology Group

NETWORK

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Allen R. Chen, MD, PhD, MHS

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

Sharon L. Gardner, MD

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

NYU Langone Health

Locations

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Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Site Status

Phoenix Children's Hospital

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Site Status

Arkansas Cancer Research Center at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Site Status

Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA

Los Angeles, California, United States

Site Status

Children's Hospital and Research Center - Oakland

Oakland, California, United States

Site Status

Children's Hospital of Orange County

Orange, California, United States

Site Status

Kaiser Permanente Medical Center - Oakland

Sacramento, California, United States

Site Status

Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Site Status

Children's National Medical Center

Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Site Status

University of Florida Shands Cancer Center

Gainesville, Florida, United States

Site Status

Nemours Children's Clinic

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Site Status

University of Miami Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center

Miami, Florida, United States

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Miami Children's Hospital

Miami, Florida, United States

Site Status

All Children's Hospital

St. Petersburg, Florida, United States

Site Status

St. Joseph's Cancer Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital

Tampa, Florida, United States

Site Status

Kaplan Cancer Center at St. Mary's Medical Center

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

Site Status

Emory University Hospital - Atlanta

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Site Status

Children's Memorial Hospital - Chicago

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Site Status

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Springfield, Illinois, United States

Site Status

Indiana University Cancer Center

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Site Status

St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Site Status

Kansas Masonic Cancer Research Institute at the University of Kansas Medical Center

Kansas City, Kansas, United States

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Kosair Children's Hospital

Louisville, Kentucky, United States

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Children's Hospital of New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Site Status

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

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Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Site Status

Hurley Medical Center

Flint, Michigan, United States

Site Status

Spectrum Health Cancer Care - Butterworth Campus

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Site Status

Van Elslander Cancer Center at St. John Hospital and Medical Center

Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, United States

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Children's Hospital of Minnesota - Minneapolis

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

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Fairview University Medical Center - University Campus

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

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Mayo Clinic Cancer Center

Rochester, Minnesota, United States

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University of Mississippi Medical Center

Jackson, Mississippi, United States

Site Status

Children's Mercy Hospital

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Site Status

Hackensack University Medical Center Cancer Center

Hackensack, New Jersey, United States

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Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Buffalo, New York, United States

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Mount Sinai Medical Center

New York, New York, United States

Site Status

Long Island Cancer Center at Stony Brook University Hospital

Stony Brook, New York, United States

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SUNY Upstate Medical University Hospital

Syracuse, New York, United States

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New York Medical College

Valhalla, New York, United States

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Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

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Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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Children's Medical Center - Dayton

Dayton, Ohio, United States

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Penn State Cancer Institute at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States

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Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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Hollings Cancer Center at Medical University of South Carolina

Charleston, South Carolina, United States

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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Memphis, Tennessee, United States

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Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

Amarillo, Texas, United States

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Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Dallas

Dallas, Texas, United States

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Cook Children's Medical Center - Fort Worth

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

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Covenant Children's Hospital

Lubbock, Texas, United States

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University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

San Antonio, Texas, United States

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Methodist Children's Hospital of South Texas

San Antonio, Texas, United States

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CCOP - Scott and White Hospital

Temple, Texas, United States

Site Status

Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters

Norfolk, Virginia, United States

Site Status

St. Vincent Hospital Regional Cancer Center

Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States

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Marshfield Clinic - Marshfield Center

Marshfield, Wisconsin, United States

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Midwest Children's Cancer Center

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

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Princess Margaret Hospital for Children

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

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Hopital Sainte Justine

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Site Status

Saskatoon Cancer Centre at the University of Saskatchewan

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Netherlands New Zealand Puerto Rico Switzerland United States Australia Canada

References

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Chen AR, Hutchison R, Hess A, et al.: Clinical outcomes of patients with recurrent/refractory Hodgkin disease receiving cyclosporine, interferon-, and interleukin-2 immunotherapy to induce auto-reactivity after autologous stem cell transplantation with BEAM: a COG study. [Abstract] Blood 110 (11): A-1896, 2007.

Reference Type RESULT

Other Identifiers

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CDR0000330135

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

COG-AHOD0121

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

AHOD0121

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id