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Umbilical Cord Blood for Stem Cell Transplantation in Treating Young Patients With Malignant or Nonmalignant Diseases

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What is being tested

anti-thymocyte globulin

+ busulfan
+ cyclophosphamide
Biological
Drug
Radiation
Who is being recruted

Childhood Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
+5

+ Fanconi Anemia
+ Leukemia
Until 21 Years

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How is the trial designed

Treatment Study

Phase 2
Interventional
Study Start: September 2003

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Summary

Principal SponsorMilton S. Hershey Medical Center
Last updated: January 10, 2014
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Study start date: September 1, 2003Actual date on which the first participant was enrolled.

RATIONALE: Umbilical cord blood transplantation may be able to replace immune cells that were destroyed by chemotherapy or radiation therapy. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well umbilical cord blood works as a source of stem cells in treating patients with types of cancer as well as other diseases. OBJECTIVES: Primary * Determine the impact of the use of umbilical cord blood as a source of hematopoietic stem cells for children with life-threatening oncologic, hematologic, or genetic/metabolic disorders in need of a stem cell transplant. * Compare the incidence of graft-versus-host disease in patients receiving cord blood transplants in this study with historical data for unrelated donor stem cell transplants. * Compare the incidence of engraftment in patients receiving cord blood transplants in this study with historical data for unrelated donor stem cell transplants. OUTLINE: * Preparative therapy: Patients are treated on 1 of 4 preparative therapy regimens. * Regimen A: Patients undergo total body irradiation (TBI) two times daily on days -7 to -4. Patients receive cyclophosphamide IV over 30-60 minutes on days -3 and -2 and anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) IV over at least 6 hours on days -3 to -1. * Regimen B (patients who do not receive TBI): Patients receive oral busulfan 4 times daily on days -8 to -5, and ATG IV over at least 6 hours and melphalan IV over 15-20 minutes on days -4 to -2. * Regimen C (patients with Fanconi's anemia and related disorders): Patients undergo TBI on day -6. Patients receive ATG IV over at least 6 hours and methylprednisolone IV on days -5 to -1 and fludarabine IV over 30 minutes and cyclophosphamide IV over 30-60 minutes on days -5 to -2. * Regimen D: Patients receive oral or IV busulfan 4 times daily on days -9 to -5, ATG IV over at least 6 hours on days -5 to -3, and cyclophosphamide IV over 30-60 minutes on days -5 to -2. * Cord blood transplant: All patients undergo umbilical cord blood transplantation on day 0. * Graft-versus-host disease prophylaxis: Patients receive oral or IV cyclosporine twice daily beginning on day -1. Patients also receive methylprednisolone IV twice daily beginning on day 5 and continuing until at least day 28. PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 25 patients will be accrued for this study.

Official TitleThe Use Of Umbilical Cord Blood As A Source Of Hematopoietic Stem Cells 
Principal SponsorMilton S. Hershey Medical Center
Last updated: January 10, 2014
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Protocol

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
Design Details
25 patients to be enrolledTotal number of participants that the clinical trial aims to recruit.
Treatment Study
These studies test new ways to treat a disease, condition, or health issue. The goal is to see if a new drug, therapy, or approach works better or has fewer side effects than existing options.

How the effectiveness of the treatment is controlled
In a non placebo-controlled study, no participants receive an inert substance (placebo) to compare outcomes. Instead, all participants receive either the experimental treatment or an alternative treatment (often the Standard of Care). This method allows researchers to compare the effects of the experimental treatment with those of a different active intervention, rather than a placebo.

Other Options
Placebo-Controlled: A placebo is used to compare the effects of the experimental treatment with those of an inert substance, isolating the true treatment effect.

How the interventions assigned to participants is kept confidential
Everyone involved in the study knows which treatment is being given. This is typically used when it's not possible or necessary to hide the treatment details from participants or researchers.

Other Ways to Mask Information
Single-blind: Participants do not know which treatment they are receiving, but researchers do.
Double-blind: Neither participants nor researchers know which treatment is given.
Triple-blind: Participants, researchers, and outcome assessors do not know which treatment is given.
Quadruple-blind: Participants, researchers, outcome assessors, and care providers all do not know which treatment is given.

Eligibility

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria: person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Conditions
Criteria
Any sexBiological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.
Until 21 YearsRange of ages for which participants are eligible to join.
Healthy volunteers not allowedIf individuals who are healthy and do not have the condition being studied can participate.
Conditions
Pathology
Childhood Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis
Fanconi Anemia
Leukemia
Lymphoma
Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Neuroblastoma
Sarcoma
Unspecified Childhood Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: * Diagnosis of malignant or non-malignant disease, including but not limited to any of the following: * Acute myeloid leukemia or acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) with resistant disease beyond first clinical remission (CR) * ALL in first CR at high-risk because of 1 of the following factors: * Hypoploidy * Pseudodiploidy with translocations t(9;22), t(4;11), or t(8;14) * Elevated WBC at diagnosis as follows: * \> 100,000/mm\^3 for patients 6-12 months of age * \> 50,000/mm\^3 for patients 10-20 years of age * \> 20,000/mm\^3 for patients 21 years of age * Burkitt's lymphoma/leukemia * Chronic myelogenous leukemia in first chronic phase or beyond * Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia * Advanced stage or relapsed lymphoma * Advanced stage or relapsed solid tumors, including any of the following: * Neuroblastoma * Ewing's sarcoma * Rhabdomyosarcoma * Myelodysplastic syndromes, excluding patients with grade 3 or 4 myelofibrosis * Familial erythrophagocytic histiocytosis * Histiocytosis unresponsive to medical management * Inborn errors of metabolism * Langerhans cell histiocytosis unresponsive to medical management * Immune deficiencies, including: * Severe combined immune deficiency * Wiskott-Aldrich * Hemoglobinopathies, including sickle cell disease and thalassemia * Severe aplastic anemia * Fanconi's anemia * Metabolic storage diseases * Unrelated cord blood donor must be HLA-identical OR may be mismatched for 1, 2, or 3 HLA-loci (A, B, DR) * No other existing HLA-identical related donor available at the time of transplantation PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: Age * 21 and under Performance status * Not specified Life expectancy * Not specified Hematopoietic * See Disease Characteristics Hepatic * Not specified Renal * Not specified PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: Biologic therapy * Not specified Chemotherapy * Not specified Endocrine therapy * Not specified Radiotherapy * Not specified Surgery * Not specified

Study Plan

Find out more about all the medication administered in this study, their detailed description and what they involve.
Treatment Groups
Study Objectives
4 intervention groups 

are designated in this study

This study does not include a placebo group 

Treatment Groups
Group I
Experimental
Patients undergo total body irradiation (TBI) two times daily on days -7 to -4. Patients receive cyclophosphamide IV over 30-60 minutes on days -3 and -2 and anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) IV over at least 6 hours on days -3 to -1.
Group II
Experimental
Patients receive oral busulfan 4 times daily on days -8 to -5, and ATG IV over at least 6 hours and melphalan IV over 15-20 minutes on days -4 to -2.
Group III
Experimental
Patients undergo TBI on day -6. Patients receive ATG IV over at least 6 hours and methylprednisolone IV on days -5 to -1 and fludarabine IV over 30 minutes and cyclophosphamide IV over 30-60 minutes on days -5 to -2.
Group IV
Experimental
Patients receive oral or IV busulfan 4 times daily on days -9 to -5, ATG IV over at least 6 hours on days -5 to -3, and cyclophosphamide IV over 30-60 minutes on days -5 to -2.
Study Objectives
Primary Objectives

Study Centers

These are the hospitals, clinics, or research facilities where the trial is being conducted. You can find the location closest to you and its status.
This study has 1 location
Recruiting
Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute at Milton S. Hershey Medical CenterHershey, United StatesSee the location
SuspendedOne Study Center