Description
PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:
I. Evaluate the anti-lymphoma activity of the aTac-carmustine (BCNU), etoposide, cytarabine (cytosine arabinoside), and melphalan (BEAM) regimen as conditioning for autologous hematopoietic cell transplantation (AHCT); assessed by 2-year progression-free survival (PFS).
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. Estimate the overall survival (OS) probability and cumulative incidence of relapse/progression, and non-relapse mortality (NRM) at 100-days, 1-year and 2-years.
II. Summarize toxicities by type, frequency, severity, attribution, time course and duration.
III. Evaluate short and long-term complications, including: delayed engraftment (neutrophil and platelet), infection, and myelodysplasia (MDS).
EXPLORATORY OBJECTIVES:
I. Evaluate potential changes in Hodgkin lymphoma biological markers of patients treated with 90Y basiliximab BEAM via analyses of serial blood samples.
II. Assess the potential association between pre-AHCT CD25 expression levels and post-AHCT outcomes.
OUTLINE:
Patients receive ‘cold’ basiliximab intravenously (IV) followed by yttrium Y 90 basiliximab IV on day -14. Patients also receive carmustine IV on over 4 hours day -6, etoposide IV over 1 hours once daily (QD) and cytarabine IV over 2 hours twice daily (BID) or QD on days -5 to -2, and melphalan IV over 1 hours on day -1. Patients then receive hematopoietic progenitor cell apheresis (HPC-A) product via infusion on day 0. Beginning day 5, patients receive granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) (or biosimilar) subcutaneously (SC) or IV until absolute neutrophil count (ANC) > 500 for 3 consecutive days or according to the treating physician’s best clinical judgement.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 30 days, up to 2 years for response, and up to 5 years for survival.