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NCT Number: NCT06083129

Phase III Study Comparing GVHD Prophylaxis With ATG-thymoglobulin to ATLG-grafalon in Elderly Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia or Myelodysplasic Syndrome and Receiving an Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation With a 10/10 HLA Matched Unrelated Donor

Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) remains the only curative therapy in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS). Most of the patients requiring an allo-HSCT are above 50 years of age and are transplanted with a reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) regimen. The optimal RIC and Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) prophylaxis regimen allowing a good control of the disease while preventing GVHD remains to be determined for elderly patients. A phase III trial comparing the conventional RIC fludarabine-busulfan 2 days to fludarabine-treosulfan demonstrated an advantage for the flu-treosulfan arm in terms of event free survival (EFS), that should therefore be considered as the new standard of RIC regimen for AML and MDS. GVHD prevention has a crucial role in post-transplant outcomes by potentially interfering with the graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) effect and immune reconstitution. Anti-thymocyte globulins (ATG) are recommended to reduce the risk of acute and chronic GVHD in transplants performed with matched unrelated donors. However, the optimal type of ATG between the 2 approved brands (ATG-thymoglobulin and ATLG-grafalon) displaying distinct characteristics and the optimal dose of ATG are still unknown. In a retrospective study of patients transplanted mainly with RIC with matched related and unrelated donors for haematological malignancies, Anti-T lymphocyte globulin (ATLG) was associated with a reduction of grade II-IV acute GVHD in comparison to ATG without increasing the incidence of relapse.

This phase III randomised study propose to compare GVHD prevention with ATG versus ATLG in AML and MDS patients above 50 years of age transplanted with a matched unrelated donor following a fludarabine-treosulfan RIC, with the hypothesis that ATLG would better control GVHD in this population of patients thus limiting the risk of morbidity and mortality of the procedure.

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Key information

Conditions

Age range

50 year–70 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 3

Primary location

CHU Amiens, Amiens, France

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Age ≥ 50 and ≤ 70 years
  • Patient between 50 and 55 years should be unfit for a myeloblative conditioning (SORROR score ≥2)
  • AML requiring allogeneic stem cell transplantation (intermediate or high-risk AML) in complete cytologic response (CR1 or above) or MDS requiring allogeneic stem cell transplantation (IPSS≥ 1.5 or IPSS-R > 4.5 or IPSS-R > 3-4.5 with risk features [rapide blast increase, life-threatening neutropenia (<0.3 G/L) or thrombopenia (<30G/L) or high transfusion needs (>2/month for 6 months)]
  • Without an HLA matched related donor
  • Having an identified matched HLA 10/10 unrelated donor
  • With usual criteria for HSCT:
  • ECOG performans status ≤ 2
  • No severe and uncontrolled infection
  • Cardiac left ventricular ejection fraction ≥50%
  • Lung DLCO > 40%
  • Adequate organ function: ASAT and ALAT ≤ 3N, total bilirubin ≤ 2N, creatinine clearance ≥ 50 mL/min (except if those abnormalities are linked to the hematological disease)
  • With health insurance coverage
  • Having signed a written informed consent
  • Contraception methods must be prescribed during all the duration of the research

NB: The authorized contraceptive methods are:

  • For women of childbearing age and in absence of permanent sterilization: oral, intravaginal or transdermal combined hormonal contraception, oral, injectable or transdermal progestogen-only hormonal contraception, intrauterine hormonal releasing system (IUS), sexual abstinence (only if this the preferred and usual lifestyle of the participants).
  • For man in absence of permanent sterilization: sexual abstinence, condoms

Exclusion criteria

  • Cancer in the last 5 years (except basal cell carcinoma of the skin or "in situ" carcinoma of the cervix)
  • Uncontrolled infection
  • Seropositivity for HIV or HTLV-1 or active hepatitis B or C
  • Yellow fever vaccine and all others live virus vaccines within 2 months before transplantation
  • Heart failure according to NYHA (II or more) or Left ventricular ejection fraction < 50%.
  • Lung DLCO ≤ 40%
  • Preexisting acute hemorrhagic cystitis
  • Renal failure with creatinine clearance < 50ml / min
  • Pregnancy (β-HCG positive) or breast-feeding
  • Patients with any debilitating medical or psychiatric illness, which would preclude the realization of the SCT or the understanding of the protocol
  • Patient under state medical aid
  • Patient under legal protection (protection of the court, or in curatorship or guardianship).
  • For Grafalon: Hypersensitivity to the active substance or to any of the excipients
  • For Thymoglobulin: Hypersensitivity to rabbit proteins or to any of the excipients
  • Participation in other interventional clinical trials
  • Any contraindication mentioned in the SmPC of all auxiliary medicinal products planned to be used in the trial: cyclosporine, mycophenolate mofetil, fludarabine, treosulfan

Treatment and study plan

Grafalon

Drug

10 mg/Kg/day IV for 3 consecutive days (day-3 to -1 before transplantation)

Thymoglobulin

Drug

2.5 mg/Kg/day IV for 2 consecutive days (day-3 and -2 before transplantation)

Primary outcomes

  1. Incidence of grade II-IV acute Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) according to the Mount Sinai Acute GVHD International Consortium (MAGIC) classification

    Time frame: At day 100 post-transplantation

    Acute GVHD MAGIC classification permit to diagnose and score the severity of acute GVHD.

    MAGIC score varies from Grade 0 to Grade 4. The higher the score the more severe the damage.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Number of patients with at least 3 consecutive days with neutrophils > 0.5 G/L and platelets > 20 G/L

    Time frame: Up to 24 months

    Hematopoietic recoveries

  2. T, B, NK, regulatory T cell and gammaglobulin levels in the peripheral blood

    Time frame: 1 month after transplantation

    Immune reconstitution

  3. T, B, NK, regulatory T cell and gammaglobulin levels in the peripheral blood

    Time frame: 100 days after transplantation

    Immune reconstitution

  4. T, B, NK, regulatory T cell and gammaglobulin levels in the peripheral blood

    Time frame: 6 months after transplantation

    Immune reconstitution

  5. T, B, NK, regulatory T cell and gammaglobulin levels in the peripheral blood

    Time frame: 12 months after transplantation

    Immune reconstitution

  6. T, B, NK, regulatory T cell and gammaglobulin levels in the peripheral blood

    Time frame: 24 months after transplantation

    Immune reconstitution

  7. Percentage of chimerism

    Time frame: 1 month after transplantation

  8. Percentage of chimerism

    Time frame: 100 days after transplantation

  9. Percentage of chimerism

    Time frame: 6 months after transplantation

  10. Percentage of chimerism

    Time frame: 12 months after transplantation

  11. Incidence of grade I acute GVHD

    Time frame: Up to 24 months

    Treatments for acute GVHD will be described : first line treatment, response to steroids, treatment courses for refractory acute GVHD

  12. Incidence of chronic GVHD

    Time frame: 12 months after transplantation

    Incidence of chronic GVHD according to National Institutes of Health (NIH) classification. The gradation of chronic GvHD is defined by the number and score of affected organ. The higher the score of each organ and the higher the number of organs affected, the more severe the damage.

  13. Incidence of chronic GVHD

    Time frame: 24 months after transplantation

    Incidence of chronic GVHD according to National Institutes of Health (NIH) classification. The gradation of chronic GvHD is defined by the number and score of affected organ. The higher the score of each organ and the higher the number of organs affected, the more severe the damage.

  14. Incidence of relapse

    Time frame: 12 months after transplantation

    Relapse will be defined by the reappearance of leukemic cells or MDS features after allo-HSCT in the bonne marrow (cytology +/- cytogenetic analysis from bone marrow aspiration) or extra-medullary sites (proven by a biopsy).

  15. Incidence of relapse

    Time frame: 24 months after transplantation

    Relapse will be defined by the reappearance of leukemic cells or MDS features after allo-HSCT in the bonne marrow (cytology +/- cytogenetic analysis from bone marrow aspiration) or extra-medullary sites (proven by a biopsy).

  16. Progression free survival

    Time frame: 12 months after transplantation

  17. Progression free survival

    Time frame: 24 months after transplantation

  18. Number of severe infections

    Time frame: 100 days after transplantation

    Severe infections correspond to grade 3-4 according to Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events

  19. Number of severe infections

    Time frame: 12 months after transplantation

    Severe infections correspond to grade 3-4 according to Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events

  20. Incidence of CytoMegaloVirus (CMV) reactivation

    Time frame: 100 days after transplantation

  21. Incidence of CytoMegaloVirus (CMV) reactivation

    Time frame: 6 months after transplantation

  22. Incidence of CytoMegaloVirus (CMV) reactivation

    Time frame: 12 months after transplantation

  23. Incidence of Ebstein Barr Virus (EBV) reactivation

    Time frame: 100 days after transplantation

  24. Incidence of Ebstein Barr Virus (EBV) reactivation

    Time frame: 6 months after transplantation

  25. Incidence of Ebstein Barr Virus (EBV) reactivation

    Time frame: 12 months after transplantation

  26. Non-relapse mortality

    Time frame: 6 months after transplantation

  27. Non-relapse mortality

    Time frame: 12 months after transplantation

  28. Non-relapse mortality

    Time frame: 24 months after transplantation

  29. Overall survival

    Time frame: 12 months after transplantation

  30. Overall survival

    Time frame: 24 months after transplantation

  31. GVHD and relapse free survival (GRFS)

    Time frame: Up to 24 months after transplantation

    Defined by being alive without disease relapse and without having developed acute grade III-IV or severe chronic GVHD

  32. Health-related Quality of life

    Time frame: At inclusion

    Assessed by using the FACT-BMT-v4 questionnaire. It is a 50 items score. The score varies between 0 to 200. The higher the score the lower the quality of life.

  33. Health-related Quality of life

    Time frame: 100 days after transplantation

    Assessed by using the FACT-BMT-v4 questionnaire. It is a 50 items score. The score varies between 0 to 200. The higher the score the lower the quality of life.

  34. Health-related Quality of life

    Time frame: 6 months after transplantation

    Assessed by using the FACT-BMT-v4 questionnaire. It is a 50 items score. The score varies between 0 to 200. The higher the score the lower the quality of life.

  35. Health-related Quality of life

    Time frame: 12 months after transplantation

    Assessed by using the FACT-BMT-v4 questionnaire. It is a 50 items score. The score varies between 0 to 200. The higher the score the lower the quality of life.

  36. Number of days of hospitalization for the transplant and after the hospitalization for transplantation related complications

    Time frame: Up to 12 months after transplantation

  37. Incidence and severity of veino-occlusive disease (VOD)

    Time frame: 100 days after transplantation

  38. Lymphocyte counts on standard blood counts before conditioning

    Time frame: 7 days before transplantation

  39. Number of late acute GvHD, overlap syndromes and chronic GvHD

    Time frame: from day 100 to day 120 after transplantation

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Jérôme Lambert, Dr

CONTACT

[email protected]

+33142499742

Régis Peffault de Latour, Pr

CONTACT

[email protected]

+33142385073

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

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Registry information

Official study title

Phase III Study Comparing GVHD Prophylaxis With ATG-thymoglobulin to ATLG-grafalon in Elderly Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia or Myelodysplasic Syndrome and Receiving an Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation With a 10/10 HLA Matched Unrelated Donor Following a Reduced Intensity Conditioning Regimen by Fludarabine-treosulfan

Acronym: OPTISAGE

Important dates

Study start
2023
Primary completion
2028
Study completion
2028
First posted
Oct 13, 2023
Registry last updated
Apr 27, 2026

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