A Phase I, Multicenter, Dose Escalation Study of CAT-8015 in Participants with Chronic Leukemia

Exclusion Criteria

• - History of allogeneic bone marrow transplant.
• - Documented and ongoing central nervous system involvement with their malignant disease [history of central nervous system (CNS) involvement is not an exclusion criterion]
• - Pregnant or breast-feeding females
• - Participants who plasma contains either a significant level of antibody to CAT-8015 as measured by ELISA, or antibody that neutralizes the binding of CAT-8015 to CD22 as measured by a competition ELISA.
• - HIV positive serology (due to increased risk of severe infection and unknown interaction of CAT-8015 with antiretroviral drugs)
• - Hepatitis B surface antigen positive
• - Uncontrolled, symptomatic, intercurrent illness including but not limited to: infections requiring systemic antibiotics, congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, cardiac arrhythmia, psychiatric illness, or social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
• - Hepatic function: Serum transaminases [either alanine aminotransferase (ALT) or aspartate aminotransferase (AST)] or direct bilirubin greater than or equal to Grade 2, unless bilirubin is due to Gilbert's disease
• - Renal function: Serum creatinine clearance is less than or equal to 60 millilitre per minute (mL/min) as estimated by Cockcroft-Gault formula
• Hematologic function:
• - The ANC less than 1000/cubic millimeter (cmm), or platelet count less than 50,000/cmm, if these cytopenias are not judged by the investigator to be due to underlying disease (that is, potentially reversible with anti-neoplastic therapy).
• - A participant will not be excluded because of pancytopenia greater than or equal to Grade 3, or erythropoietin dependence, if it is due to disease, based on the results of bone marrow studies.
• - Baseline coagulopathy greater than or equal to grade 3 unless due to anticoagulant therapy
• Pulmonary function:
• - Participants with less than 50 percent (%) of predicted forced expiratory volume (FEV-1) or less than 50% of predicted diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (DLCO) corrected for hemoglobin concentration and alveolar volume. Note: Participants with no prior history of pulmonary illness are not required to have pulmonary function test (PFTs). FEV1 will be assessed after bronchodilator therapy.
• Recent prior therapy:
• - Cytotoxic chemotherapy, corticosteroids (except stable doses of prednisone), whole body electron beam radiation therapy, hormonal, biologic or other standard or any investigational therapy of the malignancy for 3 weeks prior to entry into the trial.
• - Less than or equal to 1 month prior monoclonal antibody therapy (that is, rituximab)
• - Participants who are receiving or have received radiation therapy less than 3 weeks prior to study entry will not be excluded providing the volume of the bone marrow treated is less than 10% and also the participant has measurable disease outside the radiation report.
• - Any history of prior pseudomonas - exotoxin immunotoxin administrator