Clinical Trial: Combination Chemotherapy Followed By Donor Stem Cell Transplant in Treating Patients With Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis

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

Official Title: Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis

Brief Summary:

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy work in different ways to stop the growth of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving more than one drug (combination chemotherapy) may kill more hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis cells. A donor stem cell transplant may be able to replace blood-forming cells that were destroyed by chemotherapy. Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can make an immune response against the body's normal cells. Cyclosporine and methotrexate may stop this from happening.

PURPOSE: This phase III trial is studying how well combination chemotherapy followed by a donor stem cell transplant works in treating patients with hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis.


Detailed Summary:

OBJECTIVES:

Primary

  • Provide and evaluate revised induction and maintenance therapy comprising etoposide, dexamethasone, and cyclosporine, in terms of achieving and maintaining an acceptable clinical condition in order to perform a curative allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT), in patients with primary inherited or severe and persistent secondary hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH).
  • Evaluate and improve the outcome of AHSCT with various types of donors.
  • Determine the prognostic importance of the state of remission at the time of AHSCT.
  • Evaluate the neurological complications, in terms of early neurological alterations and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) findings, in patients treated with this regimen.

Secondary

  • Improve the understanding of the pathophysiology of HLH by conducting biological studies of genetics and cytotoxicity in these patients, including genotype-phenotype studies and the prognostic value of natural killer (NK) cell activity subtyping.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.

  • Induction therapy (weeks 1-8): Patients receive etoposide IV over 1-3 hours twice weekly in weeks 1 and 2 and then once weekly in weeks 3-8. Patients also receive dexamethasone IV or orally once daily and cyclosporine IV or orally twice daily in weeks 1-8. Patients with clinically evident, progressive neurological symptoms or an abnormal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) (cell count and protein) that has not improved
    Sponsor: Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group

    Current Primary Outcome: Survival

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    Information By: National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    Dates:
    Date Received: June 7, 2006
    Date Started: March 2006
    Date Completion:
    Last Updated: September 16, 2013
    Last Verified: June 2009