Rationale: Giving chemotherapy and total-body irradiation before a donor umbilical cord blood transplant helps stop the growth of cancer and abnormal cells and helps stop the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. When the healthy stem cells from the donor's umbilical cord blood are injected into the patient's bone marrow they may help make stem cells, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Purpose: This phase I/II trial is studying the side effects of donor umbilical cord blood transplant when given directly into the bone marrow and to see how well it works in treating patients with hematologic cancer.
Objectives: Primary * Determine the safety, in terms of infusional toxicity, of myeloablative unrelated donor double-unit umbilical cord blood (UCB) transplantation via intra-bone marrow injection (IBMI) in patients with advanced or high-risk hematologic malignancy. * Determine whether treatment with this regimen improves the time to neutrophil engraftment (compared to historical controls) in these patients. Secondary * Determine the incidence of sustained donor engraftment in patients treated with this regimen. * Determine the relative contribution of each UCB unit to initial and sustained donor engraftment in these patients. * Determine the incidence of grade II-IV and grade III-IV acute graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) and chronic GVHD in patients treated with this regimen. * Determine the incidence of day 100 and 180 transplant-related mortality in patients treated with this regimen. * Determine the probability of survival at 100 days and 1 year post-transplantation in these patients. Outline: This is a nonrandomized study. Patients receive a myeloablative conditioning regimen. Patients also receive immunosuppression, growth factor, and supportive care as in protocol MT2005-10 (NCT00309842). Patients receive 2 units of donor umbilical cord blood (UCB) by intra-bone marrow injection (IBMI) over 10 minutes each on day 0. If the IBMI procedure is not possible, then the UCB units are given intravenously (IV.) After completion of study therapy, patients are followed periodically for 5 years. Projected Accrual: A total of 36 patients will be accrued for this study.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
12
The graft will be given by slow injection into each posterior iliac crest.
Median Number of Days to Neutrophil Engraftment
Number of days to neutrophil recovery observed in recipients of two umbilical cord blood units (UCB)administered i.v. Neutrophil recovery is defined as first of 3 consecutive days with ANC (absolute neutrophil count) greater than or equal to 500/ul.
Time frame: Daily through Day 60 post transplant
Number of Patients Achieving Neutrophil Recovery
Number of patients with sustained neutrophil recovery with chimerism (evidence of engraftment of both cord blood transplants) at 6 months.
Time frame: 6 months
Number of Patients With Evidence of Engraftment.
Number of patients who received both cord blood units and achieved sustained donor engraftment
Time frame: 1 year
Number of Patients With Acute Graft-versus-host Disease (GVHD)
Number of patients who exhibited grade II-IV acute GVHD at 100 days post umbilical cord blood transplant.
Time frame: 100 days post transplant
Number of Patients With Transplant-related Mortality (TRM)
Number of patients who were deceased at days 100 and 180 from any cause other than relapse.
Time frame: Day 100 and Day 180
Number of Patients Surviving at Day 100 and 1 Year.
Overall survival of patients-Number of patients who were alive at Day 100 and 1 year post transplant.
Time frame: Day 100 and 1 year
Number of Patients With Grade III-IV Acute Graft-versus-host Disease (GVHD)
Number of umbilical cord blood transplant patients developing severe GVHD at 100 days post transplant.
Time frame: 100 days post transplant
Number of Patients With Chronic Graft-versus-host Disease (GVHD).
Number of umbilical cord blood transplant patients with limited and extensive chronic GVHD.
Time frame: 1 year post transplant
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