Rituximab in Treating Patients With Refractory or Relapsed Primary CNS Lymphoma

NCT ID: NCT00072449

Last Updated: 2013-08-28

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

TERMINATED

Clinical Phase

PHASE2

Total Enrollment

12 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2004-05-31

Study Completion Date

2010-06-30

Brief Summary

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RATIONALE: Monoclonal antibodies, such as rituximab, can locate cancer cells and either kill them or deliver cancer-killing substances to them without harming normal cells.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of rituximab in treating patients who have refractory or relapsed primary CNS lymphoma.

Detailed Description

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OBJECTIVES:

Primary

* Determine the radiographic response proportion in patients with refractory or recurrent primary CNS lymphoma treated with rituximab.

Secondary

* Determine the progression-free and overall survival of patients treated with this drug.
* Determine the toxicity profile of this drug in these patients.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study.

Patients receive rituximab IV on days 1, 8, 15, and 22. Treatment repeats every 28 days for 2 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients may receive additional courses of rituximab off study at the discretion of the treating physician.

Patients are followed every 2 months.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 15-25 patients will be accrued for this study within 5-9 months.

Conditions

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Lymphoma

Keywords

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primary central nervous system non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Rituximab monotherapy

Rituximab administered at a dose of 375mg/m2 as a single IV infusion every week for up to 8 weeks

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

rituximab

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

Interventions

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rituximab

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

* Histologically confirmed primary CNS lymphoma based on 1 of the following:

* Histologically confirmed non-Hodgkin's B-cell lymphoma by brain biopsy or resection
* Positive cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) cytology or immunohistochemical diagnosis of CSF monoclonality with or without measurable intracranial disease
* Histologically confirmed vitreal lymphoma with measurable intracranial tumor
* CD20 positive by brain biopsy
* Measurable (greater than 1 cm in diameter) tumor by CT scan or MRI
* Progressed during first-line chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy OR relapsed after initial successful treatment
* No systemic lymphoma by CT scan of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis with contrast
* No leptomeningeal lymphoma by lumbar puncture for CNS cytology/flow cytometry
* No ocular lymphoma by slit lamp examination

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

* 18 and over

Performance status

* Karnofsky 60-100%

Life expectancy

* Not specified

Hematopoietic

* Absolute neutrophil count at least 1,500/mm\^3
* Platelet count at least 100,000/mm\^3
* Hemoglobin at least 9.0 g/dL

Hepatic

* Bilirubin less than 1.5 mg/dL
* Transaminases less than 4 times upper limit of normal

Renal

* Creatinine less than 1.5 mg/dL

Other

* Not pregnant or nursing
* Negative pregnancy test
* Fertile patients must use effective contraception during and for 1 year after study participation
* HIV negative
* Mini mental status examination score at least 15
* No concurrent serious infection
* No other medical illness that would preclude study treatment
* No other malignancy within the past 5 years except curatively treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer or carcinoma in situ

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

* More than 90 days since prior biologic therapy
* No prior rituximab
* No concurrent prophylactic growth factors (e.g., filgrastim \[G-CSF\] or sargramostim \[GM-CSF\])

Chemotherapy

* See Disease Characteristics
* At least 3 weeks since prior chemotherapy (6 weeks for nitrosoureas)

Endocrine therapy

* Not specified

Radiotherapy

* See Disease Characteristics
* At least 3 months since prior radiotherapy

Surgery

* Not specified

Other

* Recovered from prior therapy
* More than 90 days since prior investigational drugs
* More than 90 days since prior use of a therapeutic device
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Tracy Batchelor, MD, MPH

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

Massachusetts General Hospital

Locations

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Lurleen Wallace Comprehensive Cancer at University of Alabama - Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Site Status

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute at University of South Florida

Tampa, Florida, United States

Site Status

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Site Status

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Site Status

Massachusetts General Hospital

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status

Josephine Ford Cancer Center at Henry Ford Hospital

Detroit, Michigan, United States

Site Status

Wake Forest University Comprehensive Cancer Center

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Site Status

Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Site Status

Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Batchelor TT, Grossman SA, Mikkelsen T, Ye X, Desideri S, Lesser GJ. Rituximab monotherapy for patients with recurrent primary CNS lymphoma. Neurology. 2011 Mar 8;76(10):929-30. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e31820f2d94. No abstract available.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 21383331 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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U01CA062475

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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NABTT-2201

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

NABTT-2201 CDR0000339737

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id