This trial is proposes to build on our experience and is designed to maximize early (day 3-14) and late (day 60-71) donor-derived natural killer (NK) cell expansion and function in vivo. The proposed platform will allow us the unique opportunity to compare in vivo function from a transplanted umbilical cord blood (UCB) source (presumed to contain NK progenitors requiring "education" in the recipient).
This single center study will determine the feasibility and safety of using a myeloablative conditioning regimen followed (on day 0) by transplantation with double T-cell depleted (TCD) umbilical cord blood (UCB) units where the unit with fewer mononuclear cells (MNCs)/kg will be selected for overnight IL-2 activation prior to infusion. Beginning on day +3, post transplant IL-2 will be administered thrice weekly, not on consecutive days, for a total of 6 doses to expand UCB derived progenitor cells. Post transplant immune suppression prophylaxis will not be administered with the intent to lessen toxicity and allow allogeneic NK cells to function longer providing better anti-leukemic therapy. However if either UCB unit has more than 5% T-cells, the patient will not receive either course of IL-2. Beginning on day +60 after transplantation, a second course of IL-2 will be administered thrice weekly, not on consecutive days, for a total of 6 doses with the purpose of enhancing the in vivo expansion and education of NK cells derived from engrafting UCB cells.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
3
On Day 8 pre-transplant, start hydration with allopurinol per standard of care.
On Days 7, 6 and 5 pre-transplant, 25 mg/m\^2 intravenously over 1 hour.
On Days 5, 4, 3, and 2 pre-transplant, 165 cGy times 2 (330 cGy daily, 1320 total dose) according to the University Of Minnesota Blood and Marrow Transplant Program total body irradiation (TBI) guidelines.
Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Disease Free Survival
The primary endpoint is a disease free survival at 3 months in patients with chemotherapy refractory AML after a double T-cell depleted (TCD) umbilical cord blood (UCB) transplantation where one TCD unit is activated overnight in IL-2 followed by the administration of two courses of IL-2 three times a week for 6 doses beginning on day +3 and on day +60 to expand UCB-derived NK cells in vivo.
Time frame: At 3 months
Incidence of Graft Failure
Incidence of graft failure defined as an absolute neutrophil count of less than 500/uL and a bone marrow that is less than 5% cellular (marrow aplasia)
Time frame: Day 42
Incidence of Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease
Time frame: Day 60
Transplant-Related Mortality
Time frame: Day 180 after Transplantation
Clinical Disease Response
Defined as leukemia clearance and complete remission. Patients will be followed for disease response for 1 year from transplantation unless: consent is withdrawal, patient is unevaluable - if a patient is not evaluable, follow only until the resolution or stabilization of treatment related toxicity, new anti-cancer treatment is started, patient is discharged to hospice (terminal) care.
Time frame: 1 Year from Transplantation
Duration of Survival
Time frame: 6 months after Transplantation.
Duration of Survival
Time frame: 1 year after Transplantation.
Duration of Survival
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On Days 7 and 6 pre-transplant, 60 mg/kg intravenously (IV) over 2 hours with a high volume fluid flush and mesna per institutional guidelines. Alternate Preparative Therapy For Patients Not Able To Receive TBI: Days 5, 4, 3 and 2 pre-transplant; 50 mg/kg/day IV over 2 hours.
Alternate Preparative Therapy for Patients Not Able to Receive Total Body Irradiation (TBI): Hydration therapy on Day 10 pre-transplant.
Alternate Preparative Therapy For Patients Not Able To Receive TBI: Days 9, 8, 7 and 6 pre-transplant; 0.8 mg/kg (1.1 mg/kg if \<12 kg) intravenously every 6 hours
Day 0: Two UCB units will compose the graft. The infusion of the first UCB unit should begin within 15 minutes, and no later than 30 minutes after arrival on the Unit. The UCB unit without IL-2 activation will be infused first, followed by the IL-2 activated unit. Both cords will be infused within 30-60 minutes of each other as deemed clinically safe by the BMT attending.
First Course of IL-2 (begin day +3) post-transplant: For patients ≥ 45 kg, IL-2 will be given at 9 million units every other day for a total of 6 doses subcutaneously. Patients weighing less than 45 kilograms, the IL-2 will be dosed at 5 million units/m\^2 every other day for a total of 6 doses. Second Course of IL-2 (day +60): Patients will receive a second course of IL-2 beginning on Day +60 post transplant to expand and educate the NK cells derived from the UCB graft source.
Time frame: 2 years after Transplantation.
Clinical Disease Response
Defined as leukemia clearance and complete remission. Patients will be followed for disease response for 2 years from transplantation unless: consent is withdrawal, patient is unevaluable - if a patient is not evaluable, follow only untilthe resolution or stabilization of treatment related toxicity, new anti-cancer treatment is started, patient is discharged to hospice (terminal) care.
Time frame: 2 Years from Transplantation