Clinical trial NCT00002790: Prevention of Graft-Versus-Host Disease in Patients With Hematologic Malignancies Who Are Receiving a Bone Marrow Transplant
Official title: A PHASE I/II STUDY OF RAPAMYCIN (SIROLIMUS) IN COMBINATION WITH METHOTREXATE (MTX) AND CYCLOSPORINE (CPS) IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING MARROW TRANSPLANTATION FROM RELATED DONORS MISMATCHED FOR ONE HLA ANTIGEN IN THE DIRECTION OF GRAFT-VERSUS-HOST DISEASE (GVHD)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: WITHDRAWN
Phase: PHASE1
PHASE2
Conditions: Graft Versus Host Disease
Leukemia
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Keywords: childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
chronic lymphocytic leukemia
adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia
adult acute myeloid leukemia
chronic myelogenous leukemia
childhood acute myeloid leukemia/other myeloid malignancies
myelodysplastic syndromes
graft versus host disease
childhood myelodysplastic syndromes
Lead sponsor: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
First posted: 2004-09-02
Enrollment: 0
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 13
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: RATIONALE: Bone marrow transplantation may be able to replace immune cells that were destroyed by chemotherapy used to kill tumor cells. Sometimes the transplanted cells can make an immune response against the body's normal tissues. Treatment with sirolimus, methotrexate, and cyclosporine may prevent this from happening.

PURPOSE: Phase I/II trial to study the effectiveness of sirolimus plus methotrexate and cyclosporine in preventing graft-versus-host disease in patients with hematologic malignancies who are receiving a bone marrow transplant.

Detailed description: OBJECTIVES: I. Estimate the maximum tolerated dose of rapamycin that can be safely combined with standard methotrexate/cyclosporine prophylaxis for graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) in patients with hematologic disorders who have received a bone marrow transplant from a related donor who is mismatched for 1 HLA-A, -B, or -DR antigen in the GVHD direction.

OUTLINE: This is a dose escalation study. Groups of 6-12 patients receive escalating doses of rapamycin until the maximum tolerated dose of rapamycin given in combination with methotrexate/cyclosporine is determined. All patients receive cyclosporine from the day prior to transplant until day 50 post-transplant; the dose is then tapered over 130 days. Methotrexate is given on days 1, 3, and 6 post-transplant. Rapamycin is given every other day, days 7-59. Bone marrow transplantation occurs on day 0. Patients may not receive concurrent therapy with agents that could interfere with rapamycin metabolism, intravenous lipids, FK506 or other immunosuppressive agents (prednisone allowed), NSAIDs, or other cytotoxic agents. Patients are followed at 6 months for 2 years, then annually.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: 12-36 patients will be accrued over 1-2.5 years.

Eligibility criteria: DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: See General Eligibility Criteria

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age: 13 and over Performance status: Not specified Hematopoietic: Not specified Hepatic: Not specified Renal: Creatinine no greater than 2.0 mg/dL Cardiovascular: No cardiac disease No clinically significant cardiac abnormality No ischemia No recent injury on EKG Other: No intolerance or unresponsiveness to rapamycin No hypersensitivity to macrolide antibiotics, e.g., erythromycin, azithromycin, clarithromycin No requirement for medications that may significantly affect rapamycin metabolism, i.e.: Carbamazepine Ketoconazole Primidone Cimetidine Nicardipine Rifampin Diltiazem Phenobarbital Valproic acid Erythromycin Phenytoin Verapamil No uncontrolled systemic infection No pregnant or nursing women Negative pregnancy test required of fertile women Effective contraception required of fertile patients during and for 3 months after study Able to tolerate less than 400 mL of liquid oral intake

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: At least 1 week since any investigational drug

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Study officials:
affiliation: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
name: H. Joachim Deeg, MD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
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