Bone Marrow Transplantation in Treating Patients With Leukemia, Myelodysplasia, or Lymphoblastic Lymphoma

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2005-02-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

RATIONALE: Bone marrow transplantation may be able to replace immune cells that were destroyed by chemotherapy or radiation therapy used to kill cancer cells. Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Eliminating the T cells from the donor cells before transplanting them may prevent this from happening.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase II/III trial to compare the effectiveness of conventional bone marrow transplantation with T cell-depleted bone marrow transplantation in treating patients who have leukemia, myelodysplasia, or lymphoblastic lymphoma.

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Virginia Commonwealth University
• Collaborator: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Treatments: Cyclophosphamide; Cyclosporine; Cyclosporins; Cytarabine; Methotrexate; Methylprednisolone; Methylprednisolone acetate; Methylprednisolone Hemisuccinate; Prednisolone; Prednisolone acetate; Prednisolone hemisuccinate; Prednisolone phosphate

Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: Pathologically confirmed acute myeloid leukemia Not in first complete remission with translocations t(8;21) unless failed first line induction therapy Not in first complete remission with translocations t(15;17) or 16q abnormality unless: Failed first line induction therapy OR Molecular evidence of disease Pathologically confirmed acute lymphoblastic lymphoma (ALL) Not in first complete remission OR High risk ALL in first complete remission defined as: Hypodiploidy OR Pseudodiploidy with translocations t(9,22), t(4;11), or t(8;14) OR Elevated WBC at presentation Greater than 100,000/mm3 if 6-12 months old Greater than 50,000/mm3 if 10-20 years old Greater than 20,000/mm3 if 21 or over OR Failed to achieve complete remission after 4 weeks of induction therapy Pathologically confirmed chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) not in blast crisis Pathologically confirmed undifferentiated leukemia or biphenotypic leukemia Pathologically confirmed juvenile CML with or without either 7q- or infantile monosomy 7 Leukocytosis with absolute monocytosis greater than 450 microliters AND Immature myeloid cells in peripheral blood circulation Less than 25% marrow blasts Myelodysplastic syndromes: Refractory anemia (RA) RA with ringed sideroblasts RA with excess blasts (RAEB) RAEB in transformation Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia Pathologically confirmed stage IV lymphoblastic lymphoma No active CNS or skin leukemic involvement No consenting suitably HLA-matched related donor available Consenting unrelated donor available

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 55 and under Performance status: Karnofsky 70-100% OR Lansky 60-100% Life expectancy: Not specified Hematopoietic: See Disease Characteristics Hepatic: Bilirubin less than 2.5 mg/dL SGOT less than 3 times upper limit of normal Renal: Creatinine within normal range OR Creatinine clearance greater than 60 mL/min Cardiovascular: Asymptomatic OR Left ventricular ejection fraction at rest greater than 40% and improves with exercise Pulmonary: Asymptomatic OR DLCO greater than 45% Other: Not pregnant or lactating HIV negative No uncontrolled viral, bacterial, or fungal infection

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy: No prior autologous or allogeneic bone marrow transplant Chemotherapy: See Disease Characteristics Endocrine therapy: Not specified Radiotherapy: No concurrent mediastinal radiation No prior radiation therapy that would preclude total body irradiation Surgery: Not specified