Conditions: Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Multilineage Dysplasia Following Myelodysplastic Syndrome Adult Acute Megakaryoblastic Leukemia (M7) Adult Acute Minimally Differentiated Myeloid Leukemia (M0) Adult Acute Monoblastic Leukemia (M5a) Adult Acute Monocytic Leukemia (M5b) Adult Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia With Maturation (M2) Adult Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia Without Maturation (M1) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia in Remission Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With 11q23 (MLL) Abnormalities Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Del(5q) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With Inv(16)(p13;q22) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(16;16)(p13;q22) Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia With t(8;21)(q22;q22) Adult Acute Myelomonocytic Leukemia (M4) Adult Erythroleukemia (M6a) Adult Pure Erythroid Leukemia (M6b) Secondary Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Allocation: NA | Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Enrollment: 17
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This phase II trial studies how well reduced intensity donor peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) transplant works in treating patients with de novo or secondary acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in remission. Giving low doses of chemotherapy, such as fludarabine phosphate, and total-body irradiation (TBI) before a donor PBSC transplant helps stop the growth of cancer cells. It may also stop the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. The donated stem cells may replace the patient's immune cells and help destroy any remaining cancer cells (graft-versus-tumor effect). Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can also make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Giving cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil after the transplant may stop this from happening

Detailed description:
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine if a one-year disease free survival of \>= 35% can be achieved among patients \>= 55 years old with de novo and secondary AML in first complete remission (CR1) who undergo nonmyeloablative hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) from human leukocyte antigen (HLA) identical related donors.

II. To determine if a day +200 nonrelapse related mortality of \< 15% can be achieved among patients \>= 55 years old with de novo and secondary AML in CR1 who undergo nonmyeloablative HSCT from HLA identical related donors.

OUTLINE:

CONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate intravenously (IV) on days -4 to -2 and undergo TBI on day 0.

TRANSPLANT: Patients undergo allogeneic PBSC transplant on day 0.

IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive cyclosporine (CSP) orally (PO) twice daily (BID) on days -3 to 56 with taper to day 77. Patients also receive mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) PO BID on days 0-27.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up on days 28, 56, and 84; months 6, 12, 18, and 24; and then yearly for 5 years.

Arms:
arm 1: CONDITIONING REGIMEN: Patients receive fludarabine phosphate IV on days -4 to -2 and undergo TBI on day 0.

TRANSPLANT: Patients undergo allogeneic PBSC transplant on day 0.

IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: Patients receive CSP PO BID on days -3 to 56 with taper to day 77. Patients also receive MMF PO BID on days 0-27.

Interventions: intervention 1: nonmyeloablative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation intervention 2: fludarabine phosphate intervention 3: total-body irradiation intervention 4: cyclosporine intervention 5: mycophenolate mofetil intervention 6: peripheral blood stem cell transplantation
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Undergo nonmyeloablative allogeneic PBSC transplant intervention 2: Given IV intervention 3: Undergo TBI intervention 4: Given PO intervention 5: Given PO intervention 6: Undergo nonmyeloablative allogeneic PBSC transplant

Protocol document: