Fludarabine and Alemtuzumab or Cyclophosphamide Followed by Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplant or Alemtuzumab in Treating Patients With Advanced or Progressive Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2011-06-01

Summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as fludarabine and cyclophosphamide, work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Monoclonal antibodies, such as alemtuzumab, can block cancer growth in different ways. Some block the ability of cancer cells to grow and spread. Others find cancer cells and help kill them or carry cancer-killing substances to them. A peripheral stem cell transplant using stem cells from the patient or a donor may replace the patient's immune cells that were destroyed by chemotherapy.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well giving fludarabine together with alemtuzumab or cyclophosphamide followed by peripheral blood stem cell transplant or alemtuzumab works in treating patients with advanced or progressive chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

• Phase: Phase 2

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Gruppo Italiano Malattie EMatologiche dell'Adulto
• Treatments: Alemtuzumab; Fludarabine; Fludarabine phosphate; Vidarabine