Awardee OrganizationCITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
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The goal of our study is to improve disease-free survival and overall
survival in patients with hematologic malignancies through the use of high
dose therapy and autologous stem cell grafting. It is the intent to
introduce novel approaches designed to increase the efficacy and potential
safety of high dose chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy and stem cell support
for patients who are undergoing treatment for refractors B cell lymphoma,
Hodgkin's disease and leukemia.
These innovations include using high dose sequential chemotherapy for the
treatment of relapsed Hodgkin's disease and the use of yttrium labeled
monoclonal antibodies to the CD20 antigen as part of the preparatory
regimen for patients undergoing autologous bone marrow transplantation
(BMT) for B cell lymphoma. We will also study the feasibility,
effectiveness and toxicity of adding yttrium labeled monoclonal antibodies
to either the CD33 or CD45 antigen in patients undergoing autologous BMT as
treatment for acute myelogenous leukemia and Philadelphia chromosome
positive (Ph+) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). In addition, in this
project we will investigate the use of a nw vector, an adeno-associated
virus for efficient transduction of hematopoietic stem cells. This
approach is designed to elucidate the pattern and degree of hematopoietic
and immune reconstitution, as well as the potential cause of relapse that
occurs after autologous BMT for patients undergoing treatment for low grade
lymphoma following radiation and non-radiation containing regimens. We
will also study the use of a ribozyme designed to cleave the hybrid RNA
that results from the t (9;22) chromosome translocation of Ph+ ALL with
the goal to purge peripheral blood stem cells of leukemia in patients
undergoing autologous BMT for this disorder.
These studies will test novel methods designed to decrease the major
problem of relapse, which is the greatest obstacle to successful use of
autologous stem cell transplant for treatment of malignant lymphomas,
Hodgkin's disease, and acute leukemia. The project focuses on modifying
the preparatory regimen to treat the residual body burden of malignancy, a
well as developing molecular methods designed to purge the stem cell
product of contaminating leukemia cells. Finally, Project 2 will serve as
a clinical resource for experimental Projects.
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