HSCT for Patients With Fanconi Anemia Using Risk-Adjusted Chemotherapy (RAFA) RAFA

What's the purpose of this trial?

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the use of lower doses of busulfan and the elimination of cyclosporine will further reduce transplant-related side effects for patients with Fanconi Anemia (FA).

This trial is currently open and accepting patients.

What will happen during the trial?

Patients will undergo a transplant utilizing mis-matched related or matched unrelated donors following a preparative regimen of busulfan, fludarabine, anti-thymocyte globulin and cyclophosphamide.

The trial proposed is a three arm phase II treatment protocol designed to investigate the safety and efficacy of risk-adjusted chemotherapy-based cytoreductive regimen plus a CD34+ selected T-cell depleted peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) stem cell transplant for the treatment of patients with Fanconi anemia and severe hematologic disease. Candidates for this trial will include patients with Fanconi anemia presenting with severe marrow failure (transfusion dependent) or myelodysplastic syndrome, or acute myelogenous leukemia for whom an allogeneic stem cell transplant is indicated.

You may be able to join this trial if you:

The following criteria is a partial list of reasons why patients may be eligible to participate in this clinical trial. Further evaluation with a medical professional is required.

Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients must have a diagnosis of Fanconi anemia
* Patients must have one of the following hematologic diagnoses:

1. Severe Aplastic Anemia (SAA), with bone marrow cellularity of \<25% OR Severe Isolated Single Lineage Cytopenia and at least one of the following features:

1. Platelet count \<20 x 109/L or platelet transfusion dependence\*
2. ANC \<1000 x 109/L
3. Hgb \<8 gm/dl or red cell transfusion dependence\*
2. Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) (based on WHO or IPSS Classification
3. Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (untreated, in remission or with refractory or relapsed disease)
* Donors will be either human leukocyte antigen (HLA) compatible unrelated or HLA-genotypically matched related donors (no fully matched sibling donor).
* Patients and donors may be of either gender or any ethnic background.
* Patients must have a Karnofsky adult, or Lansky pediatric performance scale status \> 70%.
* Patients must have adequate physical function measured by:

1. Cardiac: asymptomatic or if symptomatic then 1) left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) at rest must be \> 50% and must improve with exercise or 2) Shortening Fraction \> 29%
2. Hepatic: \< 5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) alanine transaminase (ALT) and \< 2.0 mg/dl total serum bilirubin.
3. Renal: serum creatinine \<1.5 mg/dl or if serum creatinine is outside the normal range, then CrCl \> 50 ml/min/1.73 m2
4. Pulmonary: asymptomatic or if symptomatic, DLCO \> 50% of predicted
* Each patient must be willing to participate as a research subject and must sign an informed consent form.
* Female patients and donors must not be pregnant or breastfeeding at the time of signing consent. Women must be willing to undergo a pregnancy test prior to transplant and avoid becoming pregnant while on study.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Active CNS leukemia
* Female patients who are pregnant (positive serum or urine HCG) or breast-feeding.
* Active uncontrolled viral, bacterial or fungal infection
* Patient seropositive for HIV-I/II; HTLV -I/II

Additional Trial Information

Phase 2

Enrollment: 70 patients (estimated)

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Ohio

Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati, OH

Open and Accepting

Washington

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center University of Washington Cancer Consortium / SCCA

Seattle, WA

Open and Accepting
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