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Total-Body Irradiation for Myelodysplastic Syndrome

Phase 2
Waitlist Available
Led By H. Joachim Deeg
Research Sponsored by Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
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Must have
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up at 6 months post-transplant
Awards & highlights
All Individual Drugs Already Approved
Approved for 5 Other Conditions
No Placebo-Only Group

Summary

This trial is testing treosulfan and fludarabine phosphate with or without total-body irradiation before a donor stem cell transplant for myelodysplastic syndrome or acute myeloid leukemia.

Eligible Conditions
  • Cancer
  • Myelodysplastic Syndrome
  • Acute Myeloid Leukemia
  • Myelodysplastic/Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
  • Myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative neoplasm
  • Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~at 6 months post-transplant
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and at 6 months post-transplant for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Study objectives can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary study objectives
Number of Participants That Did Not Progress Within 6 Months
Secondary study objectives
Change in Gene Expression Profiles
Relapse Risk as Measured by Degree of Change in Gene Expression Profiles

Side effects data

From 2014 Phase 3 trial • 87 Patients • NCT00075478
23%
Blood/Bone marrow
11%
Cardiovascular
9%
Pulmonary
7%
Gastrointestinal
7%
Hepatic
5%
Graft versus host disease with infection and organ failure
2%
Dermatology/Skin
2%
respiratory failure
2%
Hemorrhage
2%
subdural hematoma
2%
thrombosis
2%
Renal/Genitourinary
2%
Metabolic/Laboratory
100%
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
Study treatment Arm
Arm II (TBI, Transplant, GVHD Prophylaxis)
Arm I (Chemotherapy, TBI, Transplant, GVHD Prophylaxis)

Awards & Highlights

All Individual Drugs Already Approved
Therapies where all constituent drugs have already been approved are likely to have better-understood side effect profiles.
Approved for 5 Other Conditions
This treatment demonstrated efficacy for 5 other conditions.
No Placebo-Only Group
All patients enrolled in this study will receive some form of active treatment.

Trial Design

2Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Group I: Arm BExperimental Treatment5 Interventions
Arm B: Treosulfan, Fludarabine Phosphate, TBI Treosulfan and fludarabine phosphate as in Arm A and undergo low -dose total-body irradiation (TBI) on day 0
Group II: Arm AExperimental Treatment6 Interventions
Arm A: Treosulfan, Fludarabine Phosphate Treosulfan intravenously (IV) over 2 hours on days -6 to -4 and fludarabine phosphate IV over 30 minutes on days -6 to -2.
Treatment
First Studied
Drug Approval Stage
How many patients have taken this drug
Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation
2009
Completed Phase 2
~530
Fludarabine
FDA approved
Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation
1997
Completed Phase 3
~1330
Total-Body Irradiation
1997
Completed Phase 3
~1180
Treosulfan
FDA approved

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research CenterLead Sponsor
443 Previous Clinical Trials
147,892 Total Patients Enrolled
Fred Hutchinson Cancer CenterLead Sponsor
569 Previous Clinical Trials
1,342,027 Total Patients Enrolled
National Cancer Institute (NCI)NIH
13,907 Previous Clinical Trials
41,012,042 Total Patients Enrolled
~8 spots leftby Nov 2025