Long-term Follow-up After Adoptive Transfer of Genetically Modified Cell Products

Overview

Human gene therapy products are designed to achieve therapeutic effect through genetic modifications of human cells using retroviral or lentiviral vectors, resulting in permanent or long-acting changes in the human body. With this genetic modification comes risk of undesirable adverse events. Due to this risk, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Center for Biologics Evaluation and research (CBER) require long-term follow-up (15 years) of participants that receive investigational gene therapy products that meet defined criteria. This protocol will provide a mechanism by which to appropriately monitor participants that have received a genetically modified cellular product on a St. Jude initiated study.

This is a prospective, longitudinal, non-therapeutic study which includes routine assessment for long-term effects, as per FDA guidelines, after receipt of a gene therapy product on a St. Jude investigator-initiated clinical trial. There will be no group assignment, no use of placebo groups and no use of control subjects. Participants will enroll on this long-term follow-up study after completion of necessary follow-ups on the interventional clinical trial on which they received treatment with a genetically modified product, to complete a total of 15 years of follow-up post infusion. Assessments will include routine history, physical exam and blood sample procurement, in accordance with FDA guidance, for 15 years post infusion of the gene therapy product. Study evaluations may be performed by a local provider in conjunction with the St. Jude research team. In addition, standard clinical data related to the subject's prior gene therapy treatment will be reviewed. The data may include, but is not limited to: patient demographics, disease history, on-going disease status updates, gene therapy product and treatment characteristics, patient clinical status, post gene therapy disease directed therapies, relapse and death

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