New hope for fanconi anemia: safer stem cell transplant trial opens

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients must have a diagnosis of Fanconi anemia * Patients must have one of the following hematologic diagnoses: 1. Severe Aplastic Anemia (SAA), with bone marrow cellularity of \<25% OR Severe Isolated Single Lineage Cytopenia and at least one of the following features: 1. Platelet count \<20 x 109/L or platelet transfusion dependence\* 2. ANC \<1000 x 109/L 3. Hgb \<8 gm/dl or red cell transfusion dependence\* 2. Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) (based on WHO or IPSS Classification 3. Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (untreated, in remission or with refractory or relapsed disease) * Donors will be either human leukocyte antigen (HLA) compatible unrelated or HLA-genotypically matched related donors (no fully matched sibling donor). * Patients and donors may be of either gender or any ethnic background. * Patients must have a Karnofsky adult, or Lansky pediatric performance scale status \> 70%. * Patients must have adequate physical function measured by: 1. Cardiac: asymptomatic or if symptomatic then 1) left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) at rest must be \> 50% and must improve with exercise or 2) Shortening Fraction \> 29% 2. Hepatic: \< 5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) alanine transaminase (ALT) and \< 2.0 mg/dl total serum bilirubin. 3. Renal: serum creatinine \<1.5 mg/dl or if serum creatinine is outside the normal range, then CrCl \> 50 ml/min/1.73 m2 4. Pulmonary: asymptomatic or if symptomatic, DLCO \> 50% of predicted * Each patient must be willing to participate as a research subject and must sign an informed consent form. * Female patients and donors must not be pregnant or breastfeeding at the time of signing consent. Women must be willing to undergo a pregnancy test prior to transplant and avoid becoming pregnant while on study. Exclusion Criteria: * Active CNS leukemia * Female patients who are pregnant (positive serum or urine HCG) or breast-feeding. * Active uncontrolled viral, bacterial or fungal infection * Patient seropositive for HIV-I/II; HTLV -I/II