OBJECTIVES:
Primary
- Determine the safety of rituximab, yttrium Y 90 ibritumomab tiuxetan, high-dose melphalan, and autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation in patients with previously treated multiple myeloma.
- Determine the effect of rituximab and yttrium Y 90 ibritumomab tiuxetan on the clonotypic B-cells at baseline and at B-cell recovery in these patients.
Secondary
- Determine the response rate and progression factors (time to progression, progression-free survival, and duration of response) in patients treated with this regimen.
- Determine the effect of rituximab and yttrium Y 90 ibritumomab tiuxetan on the clonal plasma cells in the blood and marrow prior to high-dose melphalan.
OUTLINE: This is a dose-escalation study of yttrium Y 90 ibritumomab tiuxetan.
Patients receive rituximab IV followed by a dosimetry dose of indium In 111 ibritumomab tiuxetan IV over 10 minutes on day -22. Patients with acceptable biodistribution receive rituximab IV followed by yttrium Y 90 ibritumomab tiuxetan IV over 10 minutes on day -14, high-dose melphalan IV over 1 hour on days -2 and -1, and undergo autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation on day 0. Patients also receive sargramostim (GM-CSF) subcutaneously beginning on day 0 and continuing until blood counts recover.
Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses of yttrium Y 90 ibritumomab tiuxetan until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which 2 of 3 or 2 of 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity.
Bone marrow, blood, and urine samples are collected at baseline and then periodically during study for biomarker correlative studies.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed every 3 months for 5 years.
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
- Diagnosis of multiple myeloma
- Previously treated disease
- Candidate for high-dose chemotherapy with melphalan and autologous stem cell transplantation
- No definite evidence of myelodysplasia on pretreatment bone marrow by morphology or by chromosome analysis (e.g., monosomy 7)
- Chromosome abnormalities from the myeloma clone allowed
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- ECOG performance status 0-2
- ANC ≥ 1,500/mm³
- Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm³
- Bilirubin ≤ 2.0 mg/dL
- Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 3 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
- AST ≤ 3 times ULN
- Creatinine ≤ 2 times ULN
- LVEF ≥ 45%
- Corrected pulmonary diffusion capacity ≥ 50%
- No uncontrolled infection
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
- No other active malignancy (with the exception of nonmelanoma skin cancer) that requires myelosuppressive chemotherapy or radiation therapy
- No HIV positivity
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- More than 3 weeks since prior myelosuppressive chemotherapy, except cyclophosphamide pulsing for stem cell collection)
- No other concurrent immunotherapy, radiotherapy, chemotherapy or antimyeloma therapy
- Concurrent chronic corticosteroids at doses of prednisone ≤ 20 mg per day (or equivalent) allowed
- Concurrent adjuvant hormonal therapy (e.g., tamoxifen citrate or leuprolide acetate) allowed
Last updated: 03/26/2012
NCT ID: NCT00477815
IRB Number:449-05
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