Project description:This series represents leukemic samples obtained from pediatric AML patients at diagnosis and control normal bone marrow samples. Keywords: other
Project description:This phase II trial studies how well giving fludarabine phosphate, cyclophosphamide, tacrolimus, mycophenolate mofetil and total-body irradiation together with a donor bone marrow transplant works in treating patients with high-risk hematologic cancer. Giving low doses of chemotherapy, such as fludarabine phosphate and cyclophosphamide, and total-body irradiation before a donor bone marrow transplant helps stop the growth of cancer cells by stopping them from dividing or killing them. Giving cyclophosphamide after transplant may also stop the patient’s immune system from rejecting the donor’s bone marrow stem cells. The donated stem cells may replace the patient’s immune system cells and help destroy any remaining cancer cells (graft-versus-tumor effect). Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can also make an immune response against the body’s normal cells. Giving tacrolimus and mycophenolate mofetil after the transplant may stop this from happening
Project description:RATIONALE: Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to damage cancer cells. Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop cancer cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining chemotherapy with bone marrow transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more tumor cells.
PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of bone marrow transplantation in treating patients who have hematologic cancer.
Project description:Multiple Myeloma primary myeloma cells of 131 patients, 10 human myeloma cell lines, bone marrow stromal cells of 5 myeloma patients, bone marrow CD3 cells of 5 myeloma patients, bone marrow CD14 cells of 5 myeloma patients, bone marrow CD15 cells of 5 myeloma patients, in vitro generated osteoclastic cells of 7 myeloma patients, 7 normal plasmablasts and 6 normal memory B cells.
