Active clinical trials for "Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma"

This study is to evaluate the safety of transplantation of two cord blood products, including toxicities in patients following high-dose, myeloablative chemotherapy for blood malignancies. It is also to determine if the use of two cord products results in an improvement in neutrophil engraftment.

The purpose of this study is to determine the safety and effectiveness of administering Wilms tumor gene 1 (WT1) cancer peptides. Cancer peptides are short pieces of protein that are made in a laboratory to be like the peptides that can be found in cancer. These peptides are intended to be given as a "vaccine" to activate the immune cells in a person to attack his/her cancer. These peptides are mixed with an oily substance called Montanide ISA-51 and a white cell growth factor called Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) which may help make the immune response stronger.

RATIONALE: Radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies can find cancer cells and carry cancer-killing substances to them without harming normal cells. This may be effective treatment for leukemia. PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the best dose of yttrium Y 90-labeled monoclonal antibody BU-12 in treating patients with advanced relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia or chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

This is a phase I trial in patients with relapsed or refractory leukemia of a human monoclonal antibody that kills B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The trial will study the safety, pharmacokinetics, and anti-tumor activity of the antibody given as a single agent and with vincristine.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the anti-tumor activity of 852A when used to treat certain hematologic malignancies not responding to standard treatment.

In this trial the investigators seek to determine if injecting cord blood cells directly into the bone marrow (intraosseous injection), rather than infusing them intravenously, can improve engraftment. The rational for doing this is that most hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) infused intravenously never reach the bone marrow, getting trapped by other organs, such as the lungs, instead. The potential advantage of intraosseous infusion is suggested by studies in rodents that have demonstrated that in HSC transplants where the cell dose is limiting intraosseous injection is a more effective route of administration. The safety of intraosseous injections, in general, is underscored by the vast experience using intraosseous injections for resuscitation of critically ill children. The safety of injecting HSCs intraosseously has been demonstrated in a clinical trial of transplanting bone marrow cells. To safeguard against problems that might result, if intraosseous infusion fails to improve engraftment in this trial, the investigators will integrate a recently introduced strategy proven to improve engraftment-the transplantation of two cord blood units. Transplanting two unrelated cord blood units by intravenous infusion has been shown to improve engraftment (although there is still room for improvement). In this trial one unit will be injected intraosseously and the other unit will be infused intravenously. This study is being conducted as a forerunner to a larger, multi-center trial. The investigators intend to enroll five patients over 1-2 years.

This phase I trial is studying the side effects and best dose of obatoclax mesylate when given together with vincristine sulfate, doxorubicin hydrochloride, and dexrazoxane hydrochloride in treating young patients with relapsed or refractory solid tumors, lymphoma, or leukemia. Obatoclax mesylate may stop the growth of cancer cells by blocking some of the proteins needed for cell growth and causing the cells to self-destruct. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as vincristine sulfate, doxorubicin hydrochloride, and dexrazoxane hydrochloride, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving obatoclax mesylate together with combination chemotherapy may kill more cancer cells.

RATIONALE: Giving chemotherapy and total-body irradiation (TBI) before a donor peripheral blood stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cancer cells and helps stop the patient's immune system from rejecting the donor's stem cells. When the healthy stem cells from a donor are infused into the patient they will help the patient's bone marrow make stem cells, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Giving colony-stimulating factors, such as filgrastim (G-CSF) and plerixafor, to the donor helps the stem cells move (mobilization) from the bone marrow to the blood so they can be collected and stored. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying giving plerixafor and filgrastim together for mobilization of donor peripheral blood stem cells before a peripheral blood stem cell transplant in treating patients with hematologic malignancies

This is an open-label, single arm phase 1 study to evaluate the dose-limiting toxicity, maximum tolerated dose, and recommended phase II dose of Clioquinol in patients with relapsed or refractory hematologic malignancies. The study will also characterize Cliquinol's safety, tolerability and pharmacodynamic effect.

This clinical trial studies etoposide, filgrastim and plerixafor in improving stem cell mobilization in patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Giving colony-stimulating factors, such as filgrastim, and plerixafor and etoposide together helps stem cells move from the patient's bone marrow to the blood so they can be collected and stored.