Busulfan, Melphalan, and Fludarabine With Peri-transplant Palifermin, Followed by a T-Cell Depleted Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant From HLA Matched or Mismatched Related or Unrelated Donors in Patients With Advanced Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) and Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Advanced Myelodysplastic Syndromes
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Acute Myeloid Leukemia focused on measuring Busulfan, Melphalan, Fludarabine, 08-008
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients should be < 65 years. Patients > or equal to 65 years will be accrued on a case by case basis after discussion and approval by the BMT Service.
- Patients may be of either gender or any ethnic background.
- Patients must have a Karnofsky or Lansky Performance Status > or equal to 70%.
Patients must have adequate organ function measured by:
* Cardiac: asymptomatic or if symptomatic then LVEF at rest must be > or equal to 50% and must improve with exercise.
Hepatic: < 3x ULN ALT and < 1.5 total serum bilirubin, unless there is congenital benign hyperbilirubinemia.
- Renal: serum creatinine < than or equal to 1.2 mg/dl or if serum creatinine is outside the normal range, then CrCl > 60-ml/min/1.73 m2
- Pulmonary: asymptomatic or if symptomatic, DLCO > 50% of predicted (corrected for hemoglobin)
- Each patient must be willing to participate as a research subject and must sign an informed consent form.
- Parent or legal guardians of patients who are minors will sign the informed consent form.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Active CNS or skin leukemic involvement
- Female patients who are pregnant or breast-feeding
- Active viral, bacterial or fungal infection
- Patient seropositive for HIV-I/II; HTLV -I/II
- Patients who have undergone a prior allogeneic or autologous stem cell transplant within the previous six months.
- Patients who have had a previous malignancy that is not in remission.
Sites / Locations
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Experimental
1
This is a single arm phase II trial to assess the efficacy (decrease the transplant related mortality) and safety of peri-transplant Palifermin in combination with a preparative regimen with busulfan, melphalan, fludarabine, and anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG), and a T cell depleted stem cell transplant from a histocompatible related or unrelated donor in patients with advanced MDS and AML evolved from MDS. The addition of Palifermin is to decrease the toxicity and the infection rate associated with this regimen and transplant type and to foster earlier immune reconstitution.