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Group I (observation): Patients with full donor chimerism and no evidence of MRD continue to undergo clinical monitoring for acute and chronic graft-vs-host disease and relapse until 3 years post-transplant. Patients undergo repeat chimerism testing at 12 and 24 months post-transplant.

Group II (intervention): Patients undergo withdrawal of immunosuppression and receive donor lymphocyte infusions between days 60-365 post-transplant (or until full donor chimerism is achieved). Patients also undergo clinical monitoring and repeat chimerism testing as in group I.

Intervention will involve fast withdrawal of immunosuppression and DLI until full donor chimerism is achieved.

Withdrawal of immunosuppression and donor lymphocyte infusion

Biljana Horn, M.D.

There is no curative therapy once acute leukemia patients relapse after transplant. Patients who develop clinically significant graft versus host disease (GVHD) have a lower rate of relapse than those who do not develop GVHD. We are initiating this study of post-transplant fast withdrawal of immunosuppression and donor lymphocyte infusions, with a goal of achieving full donor chimerism in children with hematologic malignancies. If our hypothesis that full donor chimerism results in leukemia-free survival is correct, using immune modulation to achieve full donor chimerism should decrease relapse rate and thus increase survival. The goal of this Phase II study is to identify if achieving full donor chimerism in whole blood CD3+ and leukemia-specific (CD14/15+, CD19+, CD33+ and CD34+) subset may decrease the risk of relapse of patients undergoing allogeneic transplant for hematologic malignancy.

The goal of this Phase II study is to identify if achieving full donor chimerism in whole blood, CD3+, and leukemia-specific subset (CD3+, CD14/15+, CD19+, CD33+ and CD34+ subset) may decrease the risk of relapse of patients undergoing allogeneic transplant for hematologic malignancy.

We estimate that total of 50 recipient patients will need to be enrolled. Of these 50 recipient patients an observation group and an intervention group will be formed. We want to enroll 25 recipient patients in the intervention group, this group will receive study intervention and their outcomes will be the focus of statistical analysis for this study. Intervention will involve fast withdrawal of immunosuppression following transplant and donor lymphocyte infusion (DLI) until full donor chimerism is achieved. Chimerism is a genetic test that measures the proportion of donor's and recipient's cells in blood or bone marrow. Twenty five patients will undergo fast withdrawal of immunosuppression and 33 -50% of them (8-13) will undergo DLI following fast withdrawal of immunosuppression.

Patients will have peripheral blood (PB) chimerism tested upon engraftment. A confirmatory test from PB and bone marrow (BM) will be done on day 45±7. Minimal residual disease (MRD) will be examined by immunoflow, FISH, cytogenetics or PCR. Patients with positive MRD will be on a faster schedule of immune intervention than patients with negative MRD. Interventions will be carried on until 1 year post transplant. If confirmatory testing shows no evidence of MRD and full donor chimerism is present in all subsets, the patient will be part of the "observation" group and be observed until 2 years post transplant. Chimerism will be repeated at 12 and 24 months post transplant. If the patient has mixed chimerism on both confirmatory tests (PB and BM), the patient will be part of the "intervention" group and fast withdrawal of immunosuppression will be initiated. If the patient has mixed chimerism on one of the confirmatory tests (PB or BM), the test will be repeated in 2 weeks and the patient will proceed with either observation or intervention, based on the result of the repeated test. Patients will be followed for the incidence of acute and chronic Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) and relapse until 2 years post transplant. The study will be considered successful if the relapse rate at 2 years post transplant is ≤20% for the entire study or ≤ 40% for the intervention group.

A Study of Withdrawal of Immunosuppression and Donor Lymphocyte Infusions Following Allogeneic Transplant for Pediatric Hematologic Malignancies

A Phase II Study of Preemptive Fast Withdrawal of Immunosuppression and Donor Lymphocyte Infusions for Achieving Complete Donor Chimerism Following Allogeneic Transplant for Pediatric Hematologic Malignancies

Definition of relapse was \>5 % blasts in bone marrow

Definition and diagnostic criteria of aGVHD according to: 1994 Consensus Conference on Acute GVHD Grading. Przepiorka D1, Weisdorf D, Martin P, Klingemann HG, Beatty P, Hows J, Thomas ED. Bone Marrow Transplant. 1995 Jun;15(6):825-8.

In this system, patients are divided into one of four grades (I-IV) depending on the degree, or stage, of involvement in three organs. The skin is staged with percent body surface involved, the liver is staged with degree of bilirubin elevation, and the gastrointestinal tract is staged with amount of diarrhea.

Diagnostic criteria of cGVHD from: Filipovich AH, Weisdorf D, Pavletic S et al. National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Project on Criteria for Clinical Trials in Chronic Graft-versus-host disease: I Diagnosis and Staging Working Group Report. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 2005;11:945-955.

The diagnosis of chronic GVHD requires the following:

1) Distinction from acute GVHD; 2) Presence of at least 1 diagnostic clinical sign of chronic GVHD or presence of at least 1 distinctive manifestation confirmed by pertinent biopsy or other relevant tests; 3) Exclusion of other possible diagnoses.

Scoring of organ manifestations requires careful assessment of signs, symptoms, laboratory values, and other study results. A clinical scoring system (0-3) is used for evaluation of the involvement of individual organs and sites. Global assessment of severity (mild, moderate, or severe) is derived by combining organ- and site-specific scores.

Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital

University of California, San Francisco

Due to the severity of illness in this patient population, this study collected and reported Adverse Events only if at least possibly related to study participation, and only in patients undergoing study intervention (intervention arm).

Group I: Observation

Group II (intervention): Patients undergo withdrawal of immunosuppression and receive donor lymphocyte infusions between days 60-365 post-transplant (or until full donor chimerism is achieved). Patients also undergo clinical monitoring and repeat chimerism testing as in group I.

Withdrawal of immunosuppression and donor lymphocyte infusion: Intervention will involve fast withdrawal of immunosuppression and DLI until full donor chimerism is achieved.

Group II: Intervention

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Age, Continuous

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United States

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Biljana Horn

Relapse at 2 Years Post-transplant.

2 Years Post-transplant Survival.

The Incidence of Acute Graft Versus Host Disease (aGVHD).

The Incidence of Chronic GVHD (cGVHD).

The number of patients who relapsed after 2-year primary endpoint. To assess a potential for late relapse-rate in the intervention arm only, patients in the intervention arm were provided additional follow-up until 3-yrs post transplant. The criterion for relapse was \>5% blasts in bone marrow.

surviving patients in the intervention arm who had not relapsed as of 24 months were followed for an additional 12 months (until 3 years post-transplant)

Late Relapses

Number of months post-transplant until late relapse, in intervention patients relapsing after the 2-year primary study endpoint. Relapse defined as \>5% blasts in bone marrow

intervention patients who relapsed after the 2 year primary study endpoint

Time Until Late Relapse

Overall Study

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