This phase I/II trial studies the safety, side effects, and best dose of decitabine in combination with fludarabine, cytarabine, filgrastim, and idarubicin (FLAG-Ida) and total body irradiation (TBI) followed by a donor stem cell transplant in treating adult patients with cancers of blood-forming cells of the bone marrow (myeloid malignancies) that are at high risk of coming back after treatment (relapse). Cancers eligible for this trial are acute myeloid leukemia (AML), myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), and chronic myelomonocytic leukemia (CMML). Decitabine is in a class of medications called hypomethylation agents. It works by helping the bone marrow produce normal blood cells and by killing abnormal cells in the bone marrow. The FLAG-Ida regimen consists of the following drugs: fludarabine, cytarabine, filgrastim, and idarubicin. These are chemotherapy drugs that work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Filgrastim is in a class of medications called colony-stimulating factors. It works by helping the body make more neutrophils, a type of white blood cell. Radiation therapy uses high energy x-rays, particles, or radioactive seeds to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. TBI is radiation therapy to the entire body. Giving chemotherapy and TBI before a donor peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) transplant helps kill cancer cells in the body and helps make room in the patient's bone marrow for new blood-forming cells (stem cells) to grow. When the healthy stem cells from a donor are infused into a patient, they may help the patient's bone marrow make more healthy cells and platelets. Giving decitabine in combination with FLAG-Ida and TBI before donor PBSC transplant may work better than FLAG-Ida and TBI alone in treating adult patients with myeloid malignancies at high risk of relapse.
OUTLINE: This is a phase I, dose-escalation study of decitabine in combination with FLAG-Ida, TBI, and HCT followed by a phase II study. DONORS: Participants undergo apheresis for collection of PBSCs on study. PATIENTS: Patients receive decitabine intravenously (IV) daily over 1 hour on days -12 to -10, -14 to -10, -16 to -10, or -19 to -10, filgrastim subcutaneously (SC) daily on days -9 to -4, idarubicin IV over 60 minutes daily on days -8 to -6, fludarabine IV over 30 minutes daily on days -8 to -4, cytarabine IV over 2 hours daily on days -8 to -4, and undergo TBI twice daily (BID) on day -1 or 0 OR daily on days -1 and 0 in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients then undergo HCT (receive donor PBSCs via infusion) on day 0. Patients also undergo multi-gated acquisition (MUGA) scan or echocardiography (ECHO) during screening, chest X-rays and bone marrow aspiration and/or biopsy during screening and as clinically indicated, and collection of blood samples throughout the study. After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 6 months, 1 year, and 2 years.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
36
Given IV
Undergo bone marrow aspiration and/or biopsies
Undergo bone marrow aspiration and/or biopsies
Undergo chest X-rays
Given IV
Undergo ECHO
Given SC
Given IV
Given via infusion
Given IV
Undergo MUGA
Undergo apheresis
Undergo TBI
Undergo collection of blood
Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium
Seattle, Washington, United States
RECRUITINGNon-relapse mortality (Phase 1)
Will evaluate whether intensification of fludarabine, cytarabine, filgrastim, and idarubicin/reduced intensity conditioning with the potential sequential addition of 4 escalating doses of decitabine prior to allografting with 4 Gy total-body irradiation would be feasible with an acceptable rate of toxicity and non-relapse mortality within the first 100 days following allograft, where day -100 non-relapse mortality is meant to encompass various measures of "toxicity".
Time frame: At day 100
Disease-free survival (Phase 2)
Time frame: At 1 year
Rate of stem cell engraftment (Phase 1)
Will use exploratory, descriptive, and observational methods to 1) estimate the rates of stem cell engraftment.
Time frame: Up to day 80
Rate of donor chimerism (Phase 1)
Will use exploratory, descriptive, and observational methods to estimate donor chimerism.
Time frame: Up to day 80
Rates of grades II-IV acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) (Phase 1)
Will use exploratory, descriptive, and observational methods to estimate the rates of grades II-IV acute GVHD requiring systemic immunosuppressive treatment.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Rates of grades II-IV chronic GVHD (Phase 1)
Will use exploratory, descriptive, and observational methods to estimate the rates of grades II-IV chronic GVHD requiring systemic immunosuppressive treatment.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Disease response (Phase 1)
Will use exploratory, descriptive, and observational methods to estimate disease response.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
Duration of remission (Phase 1)
Will use exploratory, descriptive, and observational methods to estimate duration of remission.
Time frame: Up to 2 years
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