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Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is a life-saving procedure in patients with blood cancers, but only 25% of transplant candidates have a sibling donor. A matched unrelated donor can be found for 60% of patients but this number is lower for non-Caucasians. Cord blood (CB), another source of stem cells, has major advantages over unrelated donors including immediate availability, better permissiveness in immune mismatches between donor and transplant recipient, better availability for non-Caucasians, and less graft versus host disease, a complication frequently seen after transplant which negatively affects quality of life. Unfortunately, the use of CB is still limited in adults because of the small number of stem cells. UM171, a molecule with hematopoietic stem cell expansion properties, has been shown to increase cord blood stem cells 13 fold. In this trial, Investigators will use UM171 treated CB in patients who need a transplant but lack an acceptable donor.This protocol seeks to test the safety of CB cells expanded with UM171, and to determine the kinetics of engraftment as well as the minimal cord blood unit cell dose that when expanded achieves prompt engraftment.
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Investigators are proposing a phase I-II, Canadian multi-center, open-label study of UM171 ex vivo expanded CB transplant in 25 patients who need an allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) but lack a Human Leucocyte Antigen (HLA) matched donor.
Investigators key primary and secondary objectives include:
Methodology:
Patients with a hematologic malignancy and an indication for allogeneic HSCT who lack a matched unrelated donor will receive a myeloablative or submyeloablative conditioning regimen followed by infusion of UM171 expanded CB graft. Accrual is expected to last 18 months and patients will be followed for 3 years.
Expected benefits:
Investigators expect that expansion with UM171/fed-batch will be safe and lead to both rapid and sustained engraftment. This will likely decrease the high early morbidity/mortality of CB HSCT and improve access to transplant, especially ethnic minorities. In addition, if low cell dose is solved, patients will benefit from CB's lower risk of chronic (graft versus host disease) GVHD, a major cause of morbidity.
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3-64 years old (Pediatric patients will become eligible only after 5 adult patients have been enrolled in the study and received the UM171 expanded product).
Weight ≥ 12kg
Underlying hematologic malignancy excluding primary myelofibrosis requiring an unrelated donor allogeneic HSC transplant (as defined by the transplant center) but patient lacks an 8/8 HLA identical donor or disease requires an urgent transplant and cannot wait the required time to identify an unrelated donor.
Availability of at least 3 cord bloods with HLA match ≥ 4/6 and ≥4/8 and meeting the following requirements:
Left ventricular ejection fraction > 40%.
Karnofsky score ≥ 70%
Forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) and diffusing capacity corrected for hemoglobin (DLCOc) ≥ 50% of predicted
Bilirubin < 2 x upper limit of normal (ULN) unless felt to be related to Gilbert's disease or hemolysis; AST (aspartate aminotransferase) and ALT (alanine aminotransférase) ≤ 2.5 x ULN; alkaline phosphatase ≤ 5 x ULN.
Measured or estimated creatinine clearance ≥ 60 ml/min/1.73m2.
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25 participants in 3 patient groups
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