Cord blood (CB) transplants are an option for patients lacking an HLA identical donor but are hampered by low cell dose, prolonged aplasia and high transplant related mortality. UM171, a novel and potent agonist of hematopoietic stem cell self renewal could solve this major limitation, allowing for CB's important qualities as lower risk of chronic GVHD and relapse to prevail. In previous trials (NCT02668315, NCT03913026, NCT04103879, and NCT03441958), the CB expansion protocol using the ECT-001-CB technology (UM171 molecule) has proven to be technically feasible and safe in adults. UM171 expanded CB was associated with a prompt (D+17), robust (98%) and durable neutrophil recovery. Amongst patients who received a single UM171 CB transplant with a median follow-up of 18 months, risk of TRM (10%), grade 3-4 acute GVHD (13%) and moderate-severe chronic GVHD (2%) was low at 1 year post-transplant. Incidence of severe viral and bacterial infections was reduced and immunosuppression could be discontinued in 77% of patients at 1 year. Thus, PFS and GRFS were very promising, 72% and 59% at 12 months, 69% and 53% at 24 months, respectively, in particular accounting for a large proportion of very high-risk patients. By a 10-fold increase of CB accessibility, ECT-001-CB allowed access to smaller, better HLA matched CBs. This new study seeks to test a similar strategy in a group of pediatric and young adult patients with high risk myeloid malignancies. 12 patients will be enrolled in the first stage of this 2-stage design protocol. If intervention is considered promising (\<= 3 relapses in the first 12 patients), this study will open multicenter and be extended to a second stage (16 additional patients for a total accrual 28).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
13
Single UM171-Expanded CB transplant (CD34+: 2.5-50x10\^5/kg, CD3+\>1x10\^6/kg)
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, New York, United States
Adverse events of ECT-001-CB
Incidence and severity of AEs according to the modified (for HSCT) CTCAE (v. 5.0)
Time frame: 100 days
Relapse
Incidence of relapse will be measured from time of transplant
Time frame: 1 year post-transplant
Leukemia-free survival
LFS will be measured from time of transplant until disease relapse, death or last follow-up
Time frame: 1- and 2-year post-transplant
Non-Relapse Mortality
NRM is defined as any death of any cause other than malignant relapse, occurring after the commencement of conditioning regimen that could be related to the transplantation procedure
Time frame: 1 year post-transplant
GVHD
Incidence of acute and chronic GVHD will be measured by NIH criteria
Time frame: 1- and 2-year post-transplant
Grade 3 Infections
Incidence and severity of infections requiring systemic therapy, e.g., invasive candidiasis, aspergillus, other invasive fungi, CMV, adenovirus, EBV, HHV-6, HSV, VZV, PCP, toxoplasmosis and mycobacterium
Time frame: 2-year post-transplant
Hematologic engraftment
Time to neutrophil engraftment (the first day of attainment of an absolute neutrophil count ≥0.5 x 10E9/L for 3 consecutive days. Time to ANC ≥ 0.1 x 10E9/L will also be documented) and time to platelet engraftment (first day of a sustained platelet count ≥ 50 x 10E9/L with no platelet transfusion in the preceding 7 days)
Time frame: 42 and 100 days
Pre-engraftment/engraftment syndrome
Incidence of pre-engraftment/engraftment syndrome requiring therapy
Time frame: 2-year post-transplant
Hospitalization events
Duration of transplant admission and number of days in hospital in 1st 100 days, and last day of fever (\>38°C) prior to engraftment
Time frame: 100 days
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