Ibrutinib With Rituximab and Lenalidomide for Patients With Recurrent/Refractory Primary or Secondary Central Nervous System Lymphoma (PCNSL/SCNSL)

NCT ID: NCT03703167

Last Updated: 2025-12-02

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: PHASE1
• Total Enrollment: 25 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2019-01-22
• Study Completion Date: 2026-11-30

Brief Summary

The investigator's want to find out if treatment with ibrutinib, rituximab, and lenalidomide are safe and better than the usual approach in patients with recurrent or refractory central nervous system lymphoma.

Conditions

Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma (PCNSL); Secondary Central Nervous System Lymphoma (SCNSL)

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

ibrutinib in combination with rituximab and lenalidomide

Ibrutinib will be given day 1-28; Lenalidomide will be given day 1-21; Rituximab will be given on day 1. Rituximab is given for 6 cycles; Lenalidomide is given for 12 cycles; Ibrutinib is continued until disease progression, intolerable toxicity or death.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Ibrutinib

Intervention Type: DRUG

Oral ibrutinib will be given between days 1 and 28 of each 28-day cycle and will be continued daily after completion of rituximab and lenalidomide. The starting dose of ibrutinib is 560 mg/day (dose level 1) and (dose level 2 ibrutinib: 840 mg daily).

Lenalidomide

Intervention Type: DRUG

Oral lenalidomide will be given between days 1 and 21 of each 28-day cycle for a maximum of 12 cycles. The starting dose of lenalidomide is 10 mg/day (dose level 1 \& 2) lenalidomide: 15 mg daily (dose level 3) and lenalidomide: 20 mg daily (dose level 4).

Rituximab

Intervention Type: DRUG

Intravenous rituximab (500mg/m2) will be given on day 1 of all cycles (+/- 3 days), for up to 6 cycles.

Interventions

Ibrutinib

Oral ibrutinib will be given between days 1 and 28 of each 28-day cycle and will be continued daily after completion of rituximab and lenalidomide. The starting dose of ibrutinib is 560 mg/day (dose level 1) and (dose level 2 ibrutinib: 840 mg daily).

Intervention Type: DRUG

Lenalidomide

Oral lenalidomide will be given between days 1 and 21 of each 28-day cycle for a maximum of 12 cycles. The starting dose of lenalidomide is 10 mg/day (dose level 1 \& 2) lenalidomide: 15 mg daily (dose level 3) and lenalidomide: 20 mg daily (dose level 4).

Intervention Type: DRUG

Rituximab

Intravenous rituximab (500mg/m2) will be given on day 1 of all cycles (+/- 3 days), for up to 6 cycles.

Intervention Type: DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Participants must be able to understand and be willing to sign a written informed consent document.
• Men and woman who are at least 18 years of age on the day of consenting to the study.
• Histologically documented PCNSL or histologically documented systemic diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
• Patients must have relapsed/refractory PCNSL or relapsed/refractory SCNSL
• All patients need to have received at least one prior CNS directed therapy. There is no restriction on the number of recurrences.
• Patients with parenchymal lesions must have unequivocal evidence of disease progression on imaging (MRI of the brain or head CT) 21 days prior to study registration. For patients with leptomeningeal disease only, CSF cytology must document lymphoma cells and/or imaging findings consistent with CSF disease 21 days prior to study registration (at the discretion of the investigator).
• Participants must have an ECOG performance status of 0, 1, or 2.
• Participants must have adequate bone marrow and organ function shown by:

• Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1.0 x 10^9/L
• Platelets ≥ 75 x 10^9/L and no platelet transfusion within the past 21 days prior to study registration
• Hemoglobin (Hgb) ≥ 8 g/dL and no red blood cell (RBC) transfusion within the past 21 days prior to study registration
• International Normalized Ratio (INR) ≤ 1.5 and PTT (aPTT) ≤ 1.5 times the upper limit of normal
• Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 3 times the upper limit of normal
• Serum bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times the upper limit of normal; or total bilirubin ≤ 3 times the upper limit of normal with direct bilirubin within the normal range in patients with well documented Gilbert Syndrome.
• Serum creatinine ≤ 2 times the upper limit of normal
• Escalation: calculated creatinine clearance(CrCl) ≥ 60ml/min using the Cockcroft-Gault equation (Men: CrCl (min/ml) = (140-age) X (actual weight in kg) / 72 X serum creatinine (mg/dL); Women: CrCl (ml/min) = (140-age) X (actual weight in kg) X 0.85 / 72 X serum creatinine (mg/dL))
• Extension: calculated creatinine clearance(CrCl) ≥30ml/min using the Cockcroft-Gault equation (Men: CrCl (min/ml) = (140-age) X (actual weight in kg) / 72 X serum creatinine (mg/dL); Women: CrCl (ml/min) = (140-age) X (actual weight in kg) X 0.85 / 72 X serum creatinine (mg/dL))
• Woman of reproductive potential must agree to use highly effective methods of birth control during the period of therapy and for 30 days after the last dose of the study drug. Men who are sexually active must agree to use highly effective contraception during the period of therapy and for 3 months after the last dose.
• Female subjects of childbearing potential must have a negative plasma pregnancy test upon study entry. See section on Pregnancy and Reproduction.
• Patients must be able to tolerate MRI/CT scans.
• Patients must be able to tolerate lumbar puncture and/or Ommaya taps.
• Participants must have recovered to grade 1 toxicity from prior therapy.
• Participants should be able to submit up to 20 unstained formalin-fixed, paraffinembedded (FFPE) slides from the initial tissue diagnosis prior to study registration for confirmation of diagnosis and correlative studies
• All study participants must be registered into the mandatory Revlimid REMS® program, and be willing and able to comply with the requirements of the REMS® program.
• Females of reproductive potential must adhere to the scheduled pregnancy testing as required in the Revlimid REMS® program.

NOTE: Prior autologous stem cell transplant as well as prior radiation to the CNS does NOT prevent patients from enrollment into the trial.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients with SCNSL actively receiving treatment for extra-CNS disease are excluded.
• Patient is concurrently using other approved or investigational antineoplastic agents.
• Patient has received chemotherapy, monoclonal antibodies or targeted anticancer therapy ≤ 4 weeks or 5 half-lives, whichever is shorter, or 6 weeks for nitrosourea or mitomycin-C prior to starting the study drug, or the patient has not recovered from the side effects of such therapy.
• Patient has received external beam radiation therapy to the CNS within 21 days of the first dose of the study drug.
• Patient requires more than 8 mg of dexamethasone daily or the equivalent
• Patient has an active concurrent malignancy requiring active therapy
• The patient has been treated with radio- or toxin-immunoconjugates within 70 days of the first dose of the study drug.
• Patient is allergic to components of the study drug.
• Patient is using warfarin or any other Coumadin-derivative anticoagulant or vitamin K antagonists. Patients must be off warfarin-derivative anticoagulants for at least seven days prior to starting the study drug. Low molecular weight heparin is allowed. Patients with congenital bleeding diathesis are excluded.
• Patient is taking a drug known to be a moderate and strong inhibitor or inducers of the P450 isoenzyme CYP3A. Participants must be off P450/CYP3A inhibitors and inducers for at least two weeks prior to starting the study drug.
• Patient is using systemic immunosuppressant therapy, including cyclosporine A, tacrolimus, sirolimus, and other such medications, or chronic administration of > 5 mg/day or prednisone or the equivalent. Participants must be off immunosuppressant therapy for at least 28 days prior to the first dose of the study drug.
• Patient has significant abnormalities on screening electrocardiogram (EKG) and active and significant cardiovascular disease such as uncontrolled or symptomatic arrhythmias, congestive heart failure, hypertension, valvular disease, pericarditis, or myocardial infarction within 6 months of screening,
• Patient has a known bleeding diathesis (e.g. von Willebrand"s disease) or hemophilia.
• Patient is known to have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
• Patient is known to have a history of active or chronic infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) or hepatitis B virus (HBV) as determined by serologic tests.
• Patient is known to have an uncontrolled active systemic infection.
• Patient underwent major systemic surgery ≤ 4 weeks prior to starting the trial treatment or who has not recovered from the side effects of such surgery, or who plan to have surgery within 2 weeks of the first dose of the study drug.
• Patient is unable to swallow capsules or has a disease or condition significantly affecting gastrointestinal function, such as malabsorption syndrome, resection of the stomach or small bowel, or complete bowel obstruction.
• Patient has poorly controlled diabetes mellitus with a glycosylated hemoglobin >8% or poorly controlled steroid-induced diabetes mellitus with a glycosylated hemoglobin of >8%. (for patients who received a short-term, high-dose dexamethasone treatment course prior to enrollment (<7 days), the HbA1c value can be rounded to the nearest whole number).
• Patient has a life-threatening illness, medical condition, or organ system dysfunction that, in the opinion of the investigator, could compromise the subject"s safety or put the study outcomes at undue risk.
• Women who are pregnant or nursing (lactating), where pregnancy is defined as a state of a female after conception until the termination of gestation, confirmed by a positive serum hCG laboratory test of > 5 mIU/mL (See section on Pregnancy and Reproduction)
• Patient has undergone prior allogenic stem cell transplant (autologous stem cell transplant is NOT an exclusion)
• The patient is unwell or unable to participate in all required study evaluations and procedures
• Known hypersensitivity to ibrutinib, thalidomide or lenalidomide
• Females who are pregnant.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Pharmacyclics LLC.

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Christian Grommes, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Locations

Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge

Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States

Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth

Middletown, New Jersey, United States

Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen

Montvale, New Jersey, United States

Memorial Sloan Kettering Commack

Commack, New York, United States

Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester

Harrison, New York, United States

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

New York, New York, United States

Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau

Uniondale, New York, United States

Countries

United States

References

Schaff LR, Piotrowski AF, Pentsova E, Gavrilovic IT, Lin A, Kaley TJ, Wongchai V, Emadi-Paramkouhi L, Madzsar J, Quinn L, Gonzalez A, Breakey L, Tang SS, Mendez JS, Malani R, Nolan C, Hatzoglou V, Young RJ, DeAngelis LM, Reiner AS, Panageas KS, Francis JH, Mellinghoff IK, Grommes C. Phase Ib study with expansion of ibrutinib, lenalidomide, and rituximab in patients with relapsed/refractory central nervous system lymphoma. Neuro Oncol. 2025 Sep 17;27(8):2107-2116. doi: 10.1093/neuonc/noaf104.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 40269592 (View on PubMed)

Related Links

http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/44.cfm

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Other Identifiers

18-432

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id