combination chemotherapy, peripheral stem cell transplantation, and biological therapy in treating patients with solid tumors or lymphoma

Conditions: Lymphoma; Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific; Unspecified Childhood Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific

Summary: rationale: drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. combining chemotherapy with peripheral stem cell transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more tumor cells. biological therapies such as interleukin-2 use different ways to stimulate the immune system and stop cancer cells from growing. purpose: phase ii trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy, peripheral stem cell transplantation, and interleukin-2 in treating patients who have solid tumors or lymphoma.

objectives: * determine the toxicity of sargramostim (gm-csf) and filgrastim (g-csf)-mobilized interleukin-2(il-2)-incubated autologous peripheral blood stem cells and sequential il-2 in patients with solid tumors or lymphoma. * determine the ability of cyclophosphamide and paclitaxel followed by gm-csf and g-csf to mobilize adequate numbers of cd34+ cells and immune cells in these patients. * determine the time to neutrophil and platelet engraftment in patients treated with this regimen. * determine the overall and disease-free survival of patients treated with this regimen. outline: patients receive cyclophosphamide iv over 1-2 hours on day 1 and paclitaxel iv over 4 hours on day 2. patients also receive sargramostim (gm-csf) subcutaneously (sc) alone on days 3-9 and gm-csf and filgrastim (g-csf) sc beginning on day 10 and continuing until leukapheresis is completed. patients receive high-dose chemotherapy comprising oral busulfan every 6 hours on days -8 to -6, melphalan iv on days -5 and -4, and thiotepa iv on days -3 and -2. autologous peripheral blood stem cells (pbsc) are treated ex vivo with interleukin-2 (il-2) on day -1. patients undergo il-2-treated autologous pbsc transplantation on day 0. beginning 4 hours after pbsc transplantation, patients receive il-2 iv continuously for 5 days. il-2 therapy repeats every 7 days for 4 courses. patients are followed on days 60-80, every 6 months for 2 years, and then annually thereafter. projected accrual: a total of 20 patients will be accrued for this study within 3 years.

Eligibility criteria:
disease characteristics: * diagnosis of solid tumor, hodgkin's lymphoma, or b-cell non-hodgkin's lymphoma * eligible for autologous stem cell transplantation * no pleural effusion, pericardial effusion, or ascites * no t-cell lymphoma patient characteristics: age: * under 57 performance status: * karnofsky 80-100% life expectancy: * not specified hematopoietic: * not specified hepatic: * bilirubin no greater than 1.5 mg/dl (unless due to gilbert's disease) * sgot or sgpt no greater than 2 times upper limit of normal * hepatitis b and c negative renal: * creatinine no greater than 2.0 mg/dl or * creatinine clearance at least 60 ml/min cardiovascular: * lvef at least 50% * no congestive heart disease * no history of myocardial infarction within the past year * no coronary artery disease * no history of arrhythmia pulmonary: * diffusion capacity (corrected) at least 60% * fev_1 at least 65% of predicted other: * hiv negative * no history of seizures * no mental disorders requiring medication (e.g., haloperidol) * no active connective tissue disease * no other malignancy within the past 5 years except basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer or any carcinoma in situ * no allergy to gentamicin * no hypersensitivity to e. coli-derived preparations * no history of severe allergy to sargramostim (gm-csf) or filgrastim (g-csf) * no systemic infection * not pregnant prior concurrent therapy: biologic therapy: * see disease characteristics chemotherapy: * not specified endocrine therapy: * no concurrent corticosteroid therapy radiotherapy: * not specified surgery: * not specified other: * no contrast dye for 3 weeks after completion of interleukin-2 therapy

Keywords: stage i adult hodgkin lymphoma stage ii adult hodgkin lymphoma stage iii adult hodgkin lymphoma stage iv adult hodgkin lymphoma recurrent adult hodgkin lymphoma unspecified childhood solid tumor, protocol specific unspecified adult solid tumor, protocol specific stage ii childhood hodgkin lymphoma stage i childhood hodgkin lymphoma stage iii childhood hodgkin lymphoma stage iv childhood hodgkin lymphoma recurrent/refractory childhood hodgkin lymphoma stage i grade 1 follicular lymphoma stage i grade 2 follicular lymphoma stage i grade 3 follicular lymphoma stage i adult diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma stage i adult diffuse mixed cell lymphoma stage i adult diffuse large cell lymphoma stage i adult immunoblastic large cell lymphoma stage i adult lymphoblastic lymphoma stage i adult burkitt lymphoma stage iii grade 1 follicular lymphoma stage iii grade 2 follicular lymphoma stage iii grade 3 follicular lymphoma stage iii adult diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma stage iii adult diffuse mixed cell lymphoma stage iii adult diffuse large cell lymphoma stage iii adult immunoblastic large cell lymphoma stage iii adult lymphoblastic lymphoma stage iii adult burkitt lymphoma stage iv grade 1 follicular lymphoma stage iv grade 2 follicular lymphoma stage iv grade 3 follicular lymphoma stage iv adult diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma stage iv adult diffuse mixed cell lymphoma stage iv adult diffuse large cell lymphoma stage iv adult immunoblastic large cell lymphoma stage iv adult lymphoblastic lymphoma stage iv adult burkitt lymphoma recurrent grade 1 follicular lymphoma recurrent grade 2 follicular lymphoma recurrent grade 3 follicular lymphoma recurrent adult diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma recurrent adult diffuse mixed cell lymphoma recurrent adult diffuse large cell lymphoma recurrent adult immunoblastic large cell lymphoma recurrent adult lymphoblastic lymphoma recurrent adult burkitt lymphoma stage i childhood small noncleaved cell lymphoma stage i childhood large cell lymphoma stage ii childhood small noncleaved cell lymphoma stage ii childhood large cell lymphoma stage iii childhood small noncleaved cell lymphoma stage iii childhood large cell lymphoma stage iv childhood small noncleaved cell lymphoma stage iv childhood large cell lymphoma recurrent childhood small noncleaved cell lymphoma recurrent childhood large cell lymphoma stage i mantle cell lymphoma contiguous stage ii grade 1 follicular lymphoma contiguous stage ii grade 2 follicular lymphoma contiguous stage ii grade 3 follicular lymphoma contiguous stage ii adult diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma contiguous stage ii mantle cell lymphoma contiguous stage ii adult diffuse mixed cell lymphoma contiguous stage ii adult immunoblastic large cell lymphoma contiguous stage ii adult diffuse large cell lymphoma contiguous stage ii adult burkitt lymphoma contiguous stage ii adult lymphoblastic lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii grade 1 follicular lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii grade 2 follicular lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii grade 3 follicular lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii adult diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii mantle cell lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii adult diffuse mixed cell lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii adult immunoblastic large cell lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii adult diffuse large cell lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii adult burkitt lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii adult lymphoblastic lymphoma stage iii mantle cell lymphoma stage iv mantle cell lymphoma recurrent mantle cell lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii small lymphocytic lymphoma noncontiguous stage ii marginal zone lymphoma recurrent marginal zone lymphoma recurrent small lymphocytic lymphoma stage i marginal zone lymphoma stage i small lymphocytic lymphoma stage iii small lymphocytic lymphoma stage iii marginal zone lymphoma stage iv small lymphocytic lymphoma stage iv marginal zone lymphoma contiguous stage ii marginal zone lymphoma contiguous stage ii small lymphocytic lymphoma extranodal marginal zone b-cell lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue nodal marginal zone b-cell lymphoma splenic marginal zone lymphoma