A Trial to Compare Ibrutinib Versus Lenalidomide in Combination With MRE-chemotherapy for Adult Patients With Recurrent/Refractory Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma (PCNSL)

NCT ID: NCT04129710

Last Updated: 2021-07-16

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

PHASE2

Total Enrollment

120 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-01-01

Study Completion Date

2025-12-31

Brief Summary

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This is a open-label,multicenter, randomised, three-arm, phase II efficacy and safety study of ibrutinib in combination with MRE(methotrexate,rituximab,etoposide)-chemotherapy versus lenalidomide in combination with MRE-chemotherapy given to adult patients who have recurrent/refractory primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL)

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Recurrent/RefractoryPrimary Central Nervous System Lymphoma (PCNSL)

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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I-MRE

Ibrutinib 560 mg/day daily (starting dose) between days 4 and 28 of each cycle for six cycles. Then Ibrutinib is continued until disease progression, intolerable toxicity, death or up to two years.

Methotrexate (standard hydration/leucovorin support) 3.5 g/m2 (0.5 g/m2 in 15 min+ 3 g/m2 in 3-hr infusion) d2.

Rituximab 375 mg/m2 conventional infusion d1.Etoposide 250 mg/m2 over 3 hours on day3.

Every 4 weeks for 1 cycle, 6 cycles will be prescribed as protocol.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Ibrutinib

Intervention Type DRUG

Ibrutinib 560 mg/day daily (starting dose) between days 4 and 28 of each cycle for six cycles. Then Ibrutinib is continued until disease progression, intolerable toxicity, death or up to two years.

Methotrexate

Intervention Type DRUG

Methotrexate 3.5 g/m2 (0.5 g/m2 in 15 min + 3 g/m2 in 3-hr infusion) on day 1

Rituximab

Intervention Type DRUG

Rituximab 375 mg/m2 conventional infusion on day 1

Etoposide

Intervention Type DRUG

Etoposide 250 mg/m2 over 3 hours on day3

PEGylated recombinant human granulocyte colony

Intervention Type DRUG

PEGylated recombinant human granulocyte colony 100 ug/kg subcutaneous injection on day 5.

L-MRE

Oral lenalidomide 25mg/day (starting dose) between days 4 and 24 of each cycle for six cycles.Then lenalidomide is continued until disease progression, intolerable toxicity, death or up to two years.

Methotrexate (standard hydration/leucovorin support) 3.5 g/m2 (0.5 g/m2 in 15 min+ 3 g/m2 in 3-hr infusion) d2.

Rituximab 375 mg/m2 conventional infusion d1.

Etoposide 250 mg/m2 over 3 hours on day3.

Every 4 weeks for 1 cycle, 6 cycles will be prescribed as protocol.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Lenalidomide

Intervention Type DRUG

Oral lenalidomide 25mg/day between days 4 and 24 of each cycle for six cycles. Then lenalidomide is continued until disease progression, intolerable toxicity, death or up to two years.

Methotrexate

Intervention Type DRUG

Methotrexate 3.5 g/m2 (0.5 g/m2 in 15 min + 3 g/m2 in 3-hr infusion) on day 1

Rituximab

Intervention Type DRUG

Rituximab 375 mg/m2 conventional infusion on day 1

Etoposide

Intervention Type DRUG

Etoposide 250 mg/m2 over 3 hours on day3

PEGylated recombinant human granulocyte colony

Intervention Type DRUG

PEGylated recombinant human granulocyte colony 100 ug/kg subcutaneous injection on day 5.

MRE

Methotrexate (standard hydration/leucovorin support) 3.5 g/m2 (0.5 g/m2 in 15 min+ 3 g/m2 in 3-hr infusion) d2.

Rituximab 375 mg/m2 conventional infusion d1.

Etoposide 250 mg/m2 over 3 hours on day3.

Every 4 weeks for 1 cycle, 6 cycles will be prescribed as protocol.

Patients who will not achieve SD or better after the 4th course, as well as those who will experience Progressive Disease (PD) at any time will be randomly allocated to the Experimental groups.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Methotrexate

Intervention Type DRUG

Methotrexate 3.5 g/m2 (0.5 g/m2 in 15 min + 3 g/m2 in 3-hr infusion) on day 1

Rituximab

Intervention Type DRUG

Rituximab 375 mg/m2 conventional infusion on day 1

Etoposide

Intervention Type DRUG

Etoposide 250 mg/m2 over 3 hours on day3

PEGylated recombinant human granulocyte colony

Intervention Type DRUG

PEGylated recombinant human granulocyte colony 100 ug/kg subcutaneous injection on day 5.

Interventions

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Ibrutinib

Ibrutinib 560 mg/day daily (starting dose) between days 4 and 28 of each cycle for six cycles. Then Ibrutinib is continued until disease progression, intolerable toxicity, death or up to two years.

Intervention Type DRUG

Lenalidomide

Oral lenalidomide 25mg/day between days 4 and 24 of each cycle for six cycles. Then lenalidomide is continued until disease progression, intolerable toxicity, death or up to two years.

Intervention Type DRUG

Methotrexate

Methotrexate 3.5 g/m2 (0.5 g/m2 in 15 min + 3 g/m2 in 3-hr infusion) on day 1

Intervention Type DRUG

Rituximab

Rituximab 375 mg/m2 conventional infusion on day 1

Intervention Type DRUG

Etoposide

Etoposide 250 mg/m2 over 3 hours on day3

Intervention Type DRUG

PEGylated recombinant human granulocyte colony

PEGylated recombinant human granulocyte colony 100 ug/kg subcutaneous injection on day 5.

Intervention Type DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

1. Participants must be able to understand and be willing to sign a written informed consent document.
2. Men and woman who are 18-75 years old on the day of consenting to the study.
3. Histologically documented PCNSL and histologically documented systemic diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
4. Patients must have relapsed/refractory PCNSL or relapsed/refractory SCNSL
5. All patients need to have received at least one prior CNS directed therapy. There is no restriction on the number of recurrences.
6. 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.
7. Participants must have an ECOG performance status of 0-3.
8. Participants must have adequate bone marrow and organ function shown by:

1. Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1.0 x 10\^9/L
2. Platelets ≥ 75 x 10\^9/L and no platelet transfusion within the past 21 days prior to study registration
3. Hemoglobin (Hgb) ≥ 8 g/dL and no red blood cell (RBC) transfusion within the past 21 days prior to study registration
4. International Normalized Ratio (INR) ≤ 1.5 and PTT (aPTT) ≤ 1.5 times the upper limit of normal
5. Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 3 times the upper limit of normal
6. 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.
7. Serum creatinine ≤ 2 times the upper limit of normal
9. 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.
10. Patients must be able to tolerate MRI/CT scans.
11. Participants must have recovered to grade 1 toxicity from prior therapy.
12. 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
13. 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

1. Patients with SCNSL actively receiving treatment for extra-CNS disease are excluded.
2. 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.
3. Patient has received external beam radiation therapy to the CNS within 21 days of the first dose of the study drug.
4. Patient requires more than 8 mg of dexamethasone daily or the equivalent
5. Patient has an active concurrent malignancy requiring active therapy
6. The patient has been treated with radio- or toxin-immunoconjugates within 70 days of the first Patient is allergic to components of the study drug.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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,
11. Patient has a known bleeding diathesis (e.g. von Willebrand"s disease) or hemophilia.
12. Patient is known to have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
13. 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.
14. Patient is known to have an uncontrolled active systemic infection.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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)
19. Patient has undergone prior allogenic stem cell transplant (autologous stem cell transplant is NOT an exclusion)
20. The patient is unwell or unable to participate in all required study evaluations and procedures
21. Known hypersensitivity to ibrutinib, thalidomide or lenalidomide
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

75 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Ruijin Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Fujian Medical University Union Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

RenJi Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Shanghai Tong Ren Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Shandong Provincial Hospital

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

Cancer Hospital of Guangxi Medical University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Ningbo Medical Center Lihuili Hospital

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

Yinzhou Hospital Affiliated to Medical School of Ningbo University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Zhejiang University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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Department of Hematology, the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine

Hangzhou, China/Zhejiang Province, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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China

Central Contacts

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Xiaohong Zhang

Role: CONTACT

+8657189713673

Facility Contacts

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Xiaohong Zhang, MD

Role: primary

+8657189713673

Other Identifiers

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I2019001413

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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