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Biological Therapy in Treating Patients With Advanced Myelodysplastic Syndrome, Acute or Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, or Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Who Are Undergoing Stem Cell Transplantation
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.

First Received on January 24, 2003.   Last Updated on July 7, 2011   History of Changes
Sponsor: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Information provided by: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00052520
  Purpose

RATIONALE: Biological therapies, including immunotherapy, can potentially be used to stimulate the immune system and stop cancer cells from growing. Immunotherapy given to patients who have undergone donor stem cell transplantation may be a way to eradicate remaining cancer cells. PURPOSE: This phase I/II trial is studying the side effects of biological therapy and to see how well it works in treating patients with advanced myelodysplastic syndrome, chronic myeloid leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia, or acute lymphoblastic leukemia


Condition Intervention Phase
Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With 11q23 (MLL) Abnormalities
Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Inv(16)(p13;q22)
Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(15;17)(q22;q12)
Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(16;16)(p13;q22)
Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(8;21)(q22;q22)
B-cell Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
B-cell Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Childhood Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
Childhood Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Recurrent Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Recurrent Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Recurrent Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Recurrent Childhood Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Refractory Anemia With Excess Blasts
Refractory Anemia With Excess Blasts in Transformation
Relapsing Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
Secondary Acute Myeloid Leukemia
T-cell Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
T-cell Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Biological: therapeutic allogeneic lymphocytes
Biological: aldesleukin
Procedure: peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
Procedure: allogeneic bone marrow transplantation
Other: laboratory biomarker analysis
Genetic: gene expression analysis
Other: immunologic technique
Other: flow cytometry
Genetic: polymerase chain reaction
Genetic: cytogenetic analysis
Other: staining method
Phase I
Phase II

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Endpoint Classification: Safety Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: Phase I & II Study of Adoptive Immunotherapy With CD8+ WT1-Specific CTL Clones for Patients With Advanced MDS, CML, AML or ALL After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant

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Further study details as provided by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • Aplasia [ Time Frame: Post infusion of T-Cells ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • Safety and toxicity by Common Toxicity Criteria [ Time Frame: At 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • Hematopoietic suppression (neutropenia, lymphopenia, thrombocytopenia, anemia) [ Time Frame: Post infusion of T-Cells ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
  • Grade 3 or 4 renal dysfunction as assessed by CTC 3.0 [ Time Frame: Post infusion of T-Cells ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
  • Grade 3 or 4 toxicity in any organ system as assessed by CTC 3.0 [ Time Frame: Post Infusion of T-Cells ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
  • Response rate and remission duration [ Time Frame: Post infusion of T-Cells ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • In vivo persistence of transferred T cells and migration to the bone marrow by multimer staining and T-cell receptor analysis [ Time Frame: Periodically up to 2 years or until no detectable clones ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
  • Antileukemic activity by clinical response (bone marrow and peripheral blood analysis) [ Time Frame: Periodically up to 2 years ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Estimated Enrollment: 35
Study Start Date: September 2002
Estimated Primary Completion Date: September 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Treatment
See Detailed Description
Biological: therapeutic allogeneic lymphocytes
Given IV
Other Name: ALLOLYMPH
Biological: aldesleukin
Given SC
Other Names:
  • IL-2
  • Proleukin
  • recombinant human interleukin-2
  • recombinant interleukin-2
Procedure: peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
Undergo transplantation
Other Names:
  • PBPC transplantation
  • PBSC transplantation
  • peripheral blood progenitor cell transplantation
  • transplantation, peripheral blood stem cell
Procedure: allogeneic bone marrow transplantation
Undergo transplantation
Other Names:
  • bone marrow therapy, allogeneic
  • bone marrow therapy, allogenic
  • transplantation, allogeneic bone marrow
  • transplantation, allogenic bone marrow
Other: laboratory biomarker analysis
Correlative studies
Genetic: gene expression analysis
Correlative studies
Other: immunologic technique
Correlative studies
Other Names:
  • immunological laboratory methods
  • laboratory methods, immunological
Other: flow cytometry
Correlative studies
Genetic: polymerase chain reaction
Correlative studies
Other Name: PCR
Genetic: cytogenetic analysis
Correlative studies
Other: staining method
Correlative studies
Other Name: Staining

Detailed Description:

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine the safety and potential toxicities associated with infusing donor CD8+ CTL clones specific for WT1 in patients who have relapsed or at a high risk of relapse post transplant for MDS, CML, AML, or ALL. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine the in vivo persistence of transferred T cells and assess migration to the bone marrow, a predominant site of leukemic relapse. II. To determine if adoptively transferred WT1-specific T cells mediate antileukemic activity. OUTLINE: Donors undergo leukapheresis for stem cell harvest to generate CD8-positive Wilms' tumor (WT1) gene-specific cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) clones at the time of allogeneic stem cell transplantation. After post-transplantation hematopoietic recovery, patients receive treatment for either highest-risk disease (prophylactically) or relapsed disease. Highest-risk disease group: Patients receive CD8-positive Wilms' tumor (WT1) gene-specific CTL clones IV over 1-2 hours on days 0, 14, and 28. Beginning 2-4 hours after CTL infusion, patients receive interleukin-2 subcutaneously twice daily on days 28-42 in the absence of unacceptable toxicity. Relapsed-disease group: Some patients with evidence of leukemic relapse may receive standard salvage chemotherapy prior to donor CTL infusions and then receive CD8-positive Wilms' tumor (WT1) gene-specific CTL clones and interleukin-2 as in the highest-risk group. Patients in both groups who have progressive disease after complete or partial response to therapy may be eligible for retreatment with CD8-positive Wilms' tumor (WT1) gene-specific CTL clones. After completion of study treatment, patients are followed every 3 months for 2 years.

  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   up to 75 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria: - Eligibility for Enrollment: - a. i) Pre-transplant: Patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for RAEB, RAEB-t, CML beyond chronic phase, AML beyond first remission, Philadelphia chromosome (BCR-ABL)-positive ALL at any stage, any ALL beyond first remission, primary refractory AML or ALL, therapy-related AML at any stage, or acute leukemia at any stage arising in a patient with an antecedent diagnosis of a myelodysplastic or myeloproliferative syndrome (including chronic myelomonocytic leukemia, CML, polycythemia vera, essential thrombocytosis, and agnogenic myeloid metaplasia with myelofibrosis); ii) Post-transplant: Patients who have relapsed after transplant (morphologic, flow cytometric, cytogenetic and molecular relapse) can be offered enrollment on the protocol and may undergo therapy if it is considered possible to control their disease while waiting for the generation of study therapy - Eligibility for Enrollment: - b. Patients and donors must both express an HLA-allele for which it is possible to generate WT1-specific clones for - Eligibility for Enrollment: - c. Patients must be able to provide blood and bone marrow samples required for this protocol - Eligibility for Prophylactic Treatment with CD8+ CTL After Transplant (Highest Risk Subgroup): At time of planned treatment, CD8+ CTL specific for WT1 must have been generated and have completed Quality Control (QC) testing - Eligibility for Prophylactic Treatment with CD8+ CTL After Transplant (Highest Risk Subgroup): - a. Patients must have had > 5% morphologic blasts detectable in bone marrow or peripheral blood just prior to or at the time of transplant - Eligibility for Prophylactic Treatment with CD8+ CTL After Transplant (Highest Risk Subgroup): - b. Patients must have evidence of post transplant recovery of normal hematopoiesis (ANC > 500/mm^3) for at least 7 days prior to the initiation of CTL infusions - Eligibility for Prophylactic Treatment with CD8+ CTL After Transplant (Highest Risk Subgroup): - c. Patients on immunosuppressive therapy for GVHD are eligible for treatment if not receiving corticosteroids or if the dose of corticosteroids can be tapered to =< the equivalent of 0.5 mg/kg/day of prednisone; the patient's syndromes have to remain stable and unlikely to increase to stage III or IV acute GVHD or chronic GVHD is unlikely to progress following the change in immunosuppressive therapy, after an appropriate monitoring period, as deemed by the patients treating physician and the principal investigator - Eligibility for Treatment with CD8+ CTL at the Time of Relapse after Transplant (All Others): At time of planned treatment, CD8+ CTL specific for WT1 must have been generated and have completed Quality Control (QC) testing - Eligibility for Treatment with CD8+ CTL at the Time of Relapse after Transplant (All Others): - a. Patients must have evidence of recurrent disease post transplant, this includes patients with the following: - i) Morphologic relapse defined as one or more of the following: Abnormal peripheral blasts in absence of growth factor therapy; Abnormal bone marrow blasts > 5% of nucleated cells; Extramedullary chloroma or granulocytic sarcoma - ii) Flow cytometric relapse defined as: The appearance in the peripheral blood or bone marrow of cells with an abnormal; immunophenotype detected by flow cytometry that is consistent with leukemia recurrence - iii) Cytogenetic relapse defined as: The appearance in one or more metaphases from bone marrow or peripheral blood cells of either a non-constitutional cytogenetic abnormality identified in at least one cytogenetic study performed prior to transplant or a new abnormality known to be associated with leukemia; (For CML) An increase in the number of Ph+ metaphases from bone marrow or peripheral blood between two consecutive samples after engraftment, or; An increase in the percentage of BCR/ABL+ cells by FISH between two consecutive samples after engraftment - iv) Molecular relapse defined as: One or more positive PCR assays for the presence of clonotypic immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) or T cell receptor (TCR) gene rearrangement in patients transplanted for B-or T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, respectively; One or more positive post transplant RT-PCR assays for the presence of BCR-ABL mRNA fusion transcripts in patients transplanted for Philadelphia chromosome (BCRABL)-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia; (For CML) A PCR assay of BM or PBMC positive for the presence of the BCR/ABL mRNA fusion transcript that quantitatively increases by greater than one order of magnitude on a subsequent sample - Eligibility for Treatment with CD8+ CTL at the Time of Relapse after Transplant (All Others): - b. Patients on immunosuppressive therapy for GVHD at the time of relapse are eligible for treatment if not receiving corticosteroids or if the dose of corticosteroids can be tapered to < the equivalent of 0.5 mg/kg/day of prednisone. The patient's symptoms have to remain stable and unlikely to increase to stage III or IV acute GVHD or chronic GVHD is unlikely to progress following the change in immunosuppressive therapy, after an appropriate monitoring period, as deemed by the patients treating physician and the principal investigator - DONOR: Both the patient and donor must have an HLA-allele which it is possible to generate WT1-specific clones for - DONOR: If a separate leukapheresis via peripheral intravenous access can be arranged, the stem cell donor will undergo leukapheresis to provide the required PBMC no sooner than 2 weeks before or after the stem cell mobilization and harvest - DONOR: If a separate leukapheresis is not possible, a portion of the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from the donor's peripheral blood stem cell harvest may potentially be used to generate WT1-specific CTL clones; the feasibility of this option will depend upon the minimal cell dose required for transplantation and the presence of an excess harvest yield and the possibility of generating CTL from this product - DONOR: Some donors will be asked to provide both a separate leukapheresis and a portion of the peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from the donor's peripheral blood stem cell harvest - DONOR: Leukapheresis donors must be age 18 or older Exclusion Criteria: - Patients for whom CD8+ CTL clones specific for WT1 have not been generated in time for planned infusion (these patients can potentially be treated later if CTL become available); Also we will exclude patients whose malignant cells do not over express WT-1, based on direct analysis of a bone marrow sample with > 50% blasts or of leukemia cells isolated for expression analysis - Patients with Karnofsky performance status or Lansky play score =< 30% - Patients with current stage III or IV GVHD unresponsive to therapy or requiring therapy with anti-CD3 mAb, prednisone > 0.5 mg/kg/day (or corticosteroid equivalent), or other treatments resulting in the ablation or inactivation of T cells (such as other anti-T cell monoclonal antibodies); although the concurrent use of cyclosporine, FK506, or MMF is not strictly an exclusion criteria, attempts should be made to discontinue it if possible - Patients requiring concurrent therapy with hydroxyurea or other agents that may interfere with the function or survival of infused CTL clones - Patients with a preexisting nonhematopoietic organ toxicity that is deemed by the principal investigator to place the patient at unacceptable risk for treatment on the protocol - Patients with graft rejection or failure - DONOR: Medical conditions precluding either leukapheresis or blood donation may include but are not limited to: Inadequate age or weight (leukapheresis donors must be age 18 or older, other criteria per physician discretion); Active infection, with or without antibiotic treatment; Recent hepatitis exposure, hepatitis A or B antigenemia, or hepatitis C antibody positivity; Pregnancy or nursing; HIV or HTLV infection; Severe cardiovascular disease (e.g., uncontrolled hypertension, recent MI, or unstable angina)

  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00052520

Locations
United States, Washington
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
Seattle, Washington, United States, 98109
Sponsors and Collaborators
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Gunnar Ragnarsson Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
  More Information

No publications provided

Responsible Party: Ragnarsson, Gunnar, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00052520     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: 1655.00, NCI-2009-01471, P01CA018029
Study First Received: January 24, 2003
Last Updated: July 7, 2011
Health Authority: United States: Food and Drug Administration

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Congenital Abnormalities
Anemia
Anemia, Refractory
Anemia, Refractory, with Excess of Blasts
Leukemia
Leukemia, Lymphoid
Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma
Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
Leukemia, Myeloid
Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Preleukemia
Anemia, Aplastic
Hematologic Diseases
Bone Marrow Diseases
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Myeloproliferative Disorders
Precancerous Conditions
Aldesleukin
Interleukin-2
Antineoplastic Agents
Therapeutic Uses
Pharmacologic Actions
Analgesics, Non-Narcotic
Analgesics

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