Clinical Trial: Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation in Treating Patients With Multiple Myeloma or Other B-cell Cancers

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Unknown status
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Myeloblative Therapy With Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Patients With Multiple Myeloma and B-Cell Malignancies

Brief Summary:

RATIONALE: Peripheral stem cell transplantation may allow doctors to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more cancer cells.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of peripheral stem cell transplantation in treating patients who have multiple myeloma or other B-cell cancers.


Detailed Summary:

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine the safety and efficacy of myeloablative therapy with autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with multiple myeloma and other B-cell malignancies.
  • Determine the efficacy and pretransplantation prognostic factors associated with myeloablative therapy in these patients.
  • Determine engraftment kinetics of granulocytes and platelets, as well as blood product transfusion requirements following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

OUTLINE: Patients must have hematopoietic stem cell procurement completed prior to myeloablative therapy. Patients receive high dose chemotherapy with autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and supportive care. Melphalan is administered in one dose on day -1 at least 12 hours before stem cell infusion. Peripheral blood stem cells and/or bone marrow is reinfused on day 0. Filgrastim (G-CSF) or sargramostim (GM-CSF) is administered beginning on day 1 posttransplantation and continuing until blood counts recover.

Patients who are not candidates for tandem transplant may receive melphalan plus total body irradiation (TBI). Melphalan is administered IV on day -4. Total body irradiation is administered three times a day on days -3 and -2 and twice on day -1. At least 4 hours must elapse between each treatment. Hematopoietic stem cells are reinfused on day -1 upon completion of TBI or on day 0.

If patient is ineligible for melphalan plus TBI, the alternative single high dose regimen of melphalan plus cyclophosphamide is administered. Melphalan, for these patients, is given in two equal doses on day -4 followed by two consecutive days of cyclopho
Sponsor: Medical College of Wisconsin

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Information By: National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Dates:
Date Received: November 1, 1999
Date Started: September 1997
Date Completion:
Last Updated: January 3, 2014
Last Verified: October 2002