Low-toxic myeloablative conditioning regimen in haploidentical hematopietic stem cell transplantation for elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

Authors

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Cynthia Aristei

Radiation Oncology Section, Department of Surgery and Biomedical Sciences, University of Perugia and Perugia General Hospital, Perugia, Italy

Cynthia Aristei , Valentina Lancellotta , Claudio Zucchetti , Simonetta Saldi , Lucia Amico , Martina Iacco , Andrea Velardi , Massimo Fabrizio Martelli

Organizations

Radiation Oncology Section, Department of Surgery and Biomedical Sciences, University of Perugia and Perugia General Hospital, Perugia, Italy, Department of Medical Physics, Medical Physics Unit, Santa Maria della Misericordia Hospital, Perugia, Italy., Perugia, Italy, Radiation Oncology Section, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy., Perugia, Italy, Division of Hematology and Clinical Immunology and Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Department of Medicine, Perugia General Hospital and University, Perugia, Italy., Perugia, Italy

Research Funding

Other

Background: Elderly candidates for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) cannot tolerate myeloablative conditioning regimens because of regimen-related toxicity and mortality rates. To lower them in elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who underwent 1-haplotype mismatched (haploidentical) HSCT, we designed a conditioning regimen with total marrow/total lymphoid irradiation (TMI/TLI) and low chemotherapy doses. The graft contained, as adoptive immunotherapy, a ratio of conventional T cells (Tcons) and T regulatory cells (Tregs) that induce a Graft versus Leukemia effect with a low incidence of Graft versus Host Disease (GvHD). Methods: July 2015-October 2017: 14 AML patients (median age 62 years, 6 in 1th and 7 in 2nd complete remission, 1 in partial remission) underwent haploidentical HSCT. Composite comorbidity/age scores were 1/2 in 7 patients and 3/4 in 8. TMI/TLI target volumes were skeletal bones, major lymph node chains and spleen. TMI/TLI was delivered from day -7 to day -4, in 2 daily fractions of 1.5 Gy (TMI) and 1.3 Gy (TLI) (total doses 13.5Gy and 11.7Gy respectively). Chemotherapy: tiothepa 2.5 mg/kg on days -10 and -9; fludarabine 30 mg/m2 from days -10 to -6; cyclophosphamide 15 mg/kg on days -8 and -7. Haploidentical grafts consisted of 10x106/kg purified CD34+cells, 1x106/kg Tcons, 2 x106/kg freshly isolated Tregs. No post-transplant immunosuppression was given. Results: All patients sustained primary full-donor type engraftment and 11/14 are alive and relapse-free at a median follow-up of 18 months. Grade II-IV acute GvHD developed in 6 patients (43%) and chronic GvHD in none. Transplant-related causes of death were veno-occlusive disease (1), sepsis (1) and acute GvHD (1). Immune reconstitution was good, with peripheral blood T cells rapidly increasing. Conclusions: This innovative TMI/TLI-based conditioning with low dose chemotherapy and adoptive immunotherapy with Tcons and Tregs was efficacious as there have been no relapses to date. It was associated with low regimen-related toxicity and mortality. This exploratory analysis needs to be confirmed in a larger cohort of patients enrolled in a clinical trial.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2018 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Hematologic Malignancies—Leukemia, Myelodysplastic Syndromes, and Allotransplant

Track

Hematologic Malignancies—Leukemia, Myelodysplastic Syndromes, and Allotransplant

Sub Track

Acute Leukemia

Citation

J Clin Oncol 36, 2018 (suppl; abstr 7038)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2018.36.15_suppl.7038

Abstract #

7038

Poster Bd #

98

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