Study on MGTA-456 for Patients with High-Risk Cancer

Age, Unit Cell Dose and HLA Match Criteria

• Subjects must be ≤55 years of age
• Subjects must weigh >11 kg
• Subjects must have a partially HLA matched UCB unit with a pre-cryopreserved TNC dose >1.0 x 107 per kilogram recipient weight. HLA matching is initially based on a minimum of 5 of 8 HLA alleles at high resolution A, B, C, DRB1 typing; searches will be performed according to the current Magenta Cord Blood Search Algorithm.

Eligible Diseases:

• Acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) in morphological complete remission with:

  • Minimal residual disease (MRD) by flow cytometry, or

  • Intermediate to high risk leukemia in first (CR1) based on institutional criteria, eg. not favorable risk AML which is defined as having one of the following:

    • t(8,21) without cKIT mutation
    • inv(16) or t(16;16) without cKIT mutation
    • Normal karyotype with mutated NPM1 but FLT3-ITD wild type
    • Normal karyotype with double mutated CEBPA
    • Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) in first molecular remission at the end of consolidation

  • Any second or subsequent CR, or

  • Secondary AML with prior malignancy that has been in remission for at least 12 months.

    • Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) at the following stages:

    • High risk first morphological, cytogenetic and molecular CR with:

      • MRD by flow cytometry, or
      • Diagnosis of Philadelphia chromosome (Ph)+ ALL, or
      • MLL rearrangement at diagnosis with slow early response at Day 14, or
      • Hypodiploidy (< 44 chromosomes or DNA index < 0.81) at diagnosis, or
      • End of induction M3 bone marrow, or
      • End of induction M2 with M2-3 at Day 42.

    • High risk second CR based on institutional criteria (eg, for children, bone marrow relapse <36 months from induction or T-lineage bone marrow relapse or very early isolated central nervous system (CNS) relapse <6 months from diagnosis, or slow re-induction (stage M2-3 at day 28 after induction) regardless of length remission. All patients with MRD by flow cytometry.

    • Any third or subsequent CR.

  • Secondary ALL

  • Biphenotypic/undifferentiated leukemia in morphological, cytogenetic and molecular CR .

  • Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) in high risk first chronic phase (failure of two tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) or TKI intolerance), accelerated phase or second chronic phase.

  • Myelodysplasia (MDS) IPSS Int-2 or High risk (i.e. RAEB, RAEBt <5% blasts) or other high risk features, including multiple cytopenias, high risk cytogenetics or lack of response to standard therapy..

  • Relapsed large-cell lymphoma, mantle-cell lymphoma and Hodgkin lymphoma that is chemotherapy sensitive and ineligible for an autologous transplant.

  • Burkitt's lymphoma in CR2 or subsequent CR.

  • Relapsed T-cell lymphoma that is chemotherapy sensitive in CR/PR that is ineligible for an autologous transplant.

Organ Specific Inclusion Criteria

• Karnofsky score ≥70 (16 years and older), Lansky play score >50 (children 2-16 years, or 'adequate' score for children <2 years, as detailed in Appendix II.

• Adequate organ function defined as:

  • Renal: Serum creatinine within normal range for age, or if serum creatinine outside normal range for age, then creatinine clearance >40 ml/min or GFR ≥70 mL/min/1.73 m2.normal for age
  • Hepatic: Bilirubin <3x upper limit of normal (ULN) and AST, ALT and alkaline phosphatase <5x ULN.
  • Pulmonary function: DLCO, FEV1, FEC (diffusion capacity) >5030% of predicted (corrected for hemoglobin); if unable to perform pulmonary function tests, then O2 saturation >95% on room air.

• Cardiac: No uncontrolled arrhythmia and left ventricular ejection fraction at rest must be >3545%.

• Available 'back-up' HSPC graft (e.g, second UCB unit, haploidentical related donor).

• Females of child bearing potential and sexually active males must agree to use adequate birth control during study treatment.

• Voluntary written consent signed (adult or parental) before performance of any study-related procedure not part of normal medical care.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients with a HLA matched sibling donor or a HLA matched unrelated donor who is available for marrow or peripheral blood stem cell collection at the desired time of transplant.
• Pregnant or breast feeding. The agents used in this study may be teratogenic to a fetus and there is no information on the excretion of agents into breast milk. Females of childbearing potential must have a blood test or urine study within 14 days prior to study enrollment to rule out pregnancy.
• Evidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or known HIV positive serology.
• Active bacterial, viral or fungal infection (currently taking medication and persistence of clinical signs and symptoms) with a minimum of 4 weeks of anti-fungal treatment
• Prior autologous or allogeneic transplant.
• Other active malignancy.
• Subjects >2 3 years of age unable to receive TBI 1320 cGy due to extensive prior therapy including >12 months alkylator therapy or >6 months alkylator therapy with extensive radiation, or prior Y-90 ibritumomab (Zevalin) or I-131 tostumomab (Bexxar), as part of their salvage therapy.