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Combination Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients Who Are Undergoing an Autologous Stem Cell Transplant for Relapsed or Refractory Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Risk-Adapted High Dose Chemoradiotherapy and Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation for Patients With Relapsed and Primary Refractory Hodgkin's Lymphoma

Status
Completed
Phases
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT00255723
Enrollment
98
Registered
2005-11-21
Start date
2004-04-30
Completion date
2012-07-31
Last updated
2016-02-01

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Lymphoma

Keywords

adult lymphocyte depletion Hodgkin lymphoma, adult mixed cellularity Hodgkin lymphoma, adult nodular sclerosis Hodgkin lymphoma, recurrent adult Hodgkin lymphoma

Brief summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Giving more than one drug (combination chemotherapy) may kill more cancer cells. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill cancer cells. Giving combination chemotherapy and radiation therapy with an autologous stem cell transplant, using peripheral stem cells or bone marrow from the patient, may allow more chemotherapy to be given so that more cancer cells are killed. Giving combination chemotherapy together with radiation therapy before an autologous stem cell transplant may be an effective treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well combination chemotherapy and radiation therapy work in treating patients who are undergoing an autologous stem cell transplant for relapsed or refractory Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Detailed description

OBJECTIVES: Primary * Determine whether event-free survival of patients with low to high-intermediate risk, relapsed or refractory Hodgkin's lymphoma can be improved when treated with cytoreductive combination chemotherapy followed by radiotherapy, high-dose combination chemotherapy, and autologous stem cell transplantation. Secondary * Determine the toxic effects of this regimen in these patients. OUTLINE: Patients are stratified according to risk factors (low or low-intermediate risk \[0-1 risk factor\] vs high-intermediate risk \[2 risk factors\]). * ICE-based cytoreductive chemotherapy: Patients are assigned to 1 of 2 treatment groups. * Group I (patients with low or low-intermediate risk disease): Patients receive ICE comprising ifosfamide IV and carboplatin IV once on day 2 and etoposide IV over 1 hour once daily on days 1-3. Patients then receive ifosfamide IV twice on day 15, carboplatin IV once on day 17 and etoposide IV over 1 hour twice daily on days 15-17. * Group II (patients with high-intermediate risk disease): Patients receive ifosfamide IV twice on days 1 and 17, carboplatin IV once on days 3 and 19, and etoposide IV over 1 hour twice daily on days 1-3 and 17-19. In both groups, patients undergo stem cell collection after either the first or second OR first and second courses of ICE. * Stem cell mobilization and collection: Patients receive filgrastim (G-CSF) subcutaneously (SC) beginning on day 5 and continuing until stem cell collection is completed. Patients undergo a maximum of 5 daily apheresis sessions. Patients who mobilize fewer than the required minimal number of stem cells repeat apheresis with high-dose G-CSF alone or undergo bone marrow harvest. Patients then proceed to radiotherapy, high-dose chemotherapy (HDC), and autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT) OR noncross-resistant chemotherapy based on response to ICE-based cytoreductive chemotherapy. * Restaging studies: Patients undergo restaging studies with CT scan and positron emission tomography (PET). Patients who are chemosensitive with a normal PET scan proceed to radiotherapy, HDC, and ASCT. Patients who progress on ICE, or who respond but have an abnormal PET scan, proceed to noncross-resistant chemotherapy comprising gemcitabine hydrochloride, vinorelbine, and doxorubicin HCl liposome (GND). * GND chemotherapy: Patients receive gemcitabine hydrochloride IV, vinorelbine IV, and doxorubicin HCl liposome IV on days 1, 15, 29, and 43. Patients then proceed to radiotherapy, HDC, and ASCT in the absence of disease progression. * Radiotherapy: Within 2 weeks after completion of the ICE or GND regimen, patients who have no history of prior radiotherapy receive radiotherapy according to stratification by disease extent (isolated lymph nodes vs ≥ 2 contiguous nodal-based masses with or without extensive small-volume lymphadenopathy vs extensive small-volume lymphadenopathy). These patients undergo either involved-field radiotherapy (IFRT) twice daily over 1-2 weeks, total lymphoid irradiation (TLI) twice daily over 1 week, or both concurrently. * HDCT: Patients who undergo TLI only OR IFRT and TLI receive high-dose cyclophosphamide IV twice daily and etoposide IV once daily on days -5 and -2. Patients who undergo IFRT only OR do not undergo radiotherapy receive high-dose cyclophosphamide IV twice daily and etoposide IV once daily on days -6 and -3 and carmustine IV once on day -2. * ASCT: Patients undergo ASCT or reinfusion of bone marrow, if harvested, on day -1 or 0. Patients then receive G-CSF beginning on day 5 and continuing until blood counts recover. After completion of study treatment, patients are followed periodically for 15 months.

Interventions

DRUGcarboplatin

Given IV

DRUGetoposide

Given IV

DRUGifosfamide

Given IV

Sponsors

National Cancer Institute (NCI)
CollaboratorNIH
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 72 Years
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Histologic diagnosis of Classical Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Lymphocyte predominant histology will be excluded. * Primary refractory or relapsed disease proven by biopsy or fine needle aspiration (cytology) of an involved site * Failure of doxorubicin or nitrogen mustard containing front-line therapy * 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-PET scan demonstrating PET avid disease * Cardiac ejection fraction of greater than 45%, measured since last chemotherapy. * Adjusted diffusing capacity of greater than 50% on pulmonary function testing, measured since last chemotherapy * Serum creatinine \< than or = to 1.5 mg/dl; if creatinine \>1.5 mg/dl then the measured 12- or 24-hour creatinine clearance must be \>60 ml/minute. * ANC\>1000/μl and Platelets\>50,000/μl * Total bilirubin \< than or = to 2.0 mg/dl in the absence of a history of Gilbert's disease. * Females of childbearing age must be on an acceptable form of birth control. * Age between 18 and 72 * HIV I and II negative. * Patients or their guardians must be capable of providing informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

Histology for Lymphocyte predominant subtype Hodgkin's Lymphoma * Prior treatment with carboplatin, cisplatin, ifosfamide, gemcitabine, or vinorelbine * Hepatitis B surface antigen positive. * Known pregnancy or breast-feeding. * Medical illness unrelated to Hodgkin's Lymphoma, which, in the opinion of the attending physician and/or principal investigator, will preclude administering chemotherapy safely. * History of any malignancy for which the disease-free interval is \<5 years, excluding curatively treated cutaneous basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma and carcinoma in-situ of the cervix

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Overall Objective Response3 yearsOverall objective response to therapy Complete remission/unconfirmed (CRu) This includes patients who meet criteria for CR with the following exceptions: 1\. A residual lymph node mass \> 1.5 cm in the short axis with normalization of 18Ffluorodeoxyglucose- PET scan Partial remission/minimal response (PR and MR) 1. Any decrease in lymph nodes and nodal-based masses 2. Any decrease in PET avidity (however, residual FDG uptake is present) 3. Involving organs involved prior to therapy must have diminished in size. 4. No new sites of disease Stable disease Response is less than that which constitutes a PR and disease does not meet criteria for progressive disease Progressive disease 1\. Increase in lymph nodes or nodal-based masses, or other measurable disease from pretreatment observations. 2. Appearance of any new lesion at the end of therapy

Countries

United States

Participant flow

Participants by arm

ArmCount
Arm A
Standard dose ICE x 1 cycle, followed by augmented ICE x 1 cycle (0-1 risk factors)
56
Arm B
Augmented ICE x 2 cycles (2 risk factors)
41
Total97

Withdrawals & dropouts

PeriodReasonFG000FG001
Overall StudyAdverse Event11
Overall StudyDeath01
Overall StudyResponse Data Not Available10

Baseline characteristics

CharacteristicArm AArm BTotal
Age, Categorical
<=18 years
1 Participants0 Participants1 Participants
Age, Categorical
>=65 years
0 Participants3 Participants3 Participants
Age, Categorical
Between 18 and 65 years
55 Participants38 Participants93 Participants
Sex: Female, Male
Female
35 Participants21 Participants56 Participants
Sex: Female, Male
Male
21 Participants20 Participants41 Participants

Adverse events

Event typeEG000
affected / at risk
EG001
affected / at risk
deaths
Total, all-cause mortality
— / —— / —
other
Total, other adverse events
56 / 5641 / 41
serious
Total, serious adverse events
8 / 5618 / 41

Outcome results

Primary

Overall Objective Response

Overall objective response to therapy Complete remission/unconfirmed (CRu) This includes patients who meet criteria for CR with the following exceptions: 1\. A residual lymph node mass \> 1.5 cm in the short axis with normalization of 18Ffluorodeoxyglucose- PET scan Partial remission/minimal response (PR and MR) 1. Any decrease in lymph nodes and nodal-based masses 2. Any decrease in PET avidity (however, residual FDG uptake is present) 3. Involving organs involved prior to therapy must have diminished in size. 4. No new sites of disease Stable disease Response is less than that which constitutes a PR and disease does not meet criteria for progressive disease Progressive disease 1\. Increase in lymph nodes or nodal-based masses, or other measurable disease from pretreatment observations. 2. Appearance of any new lesion at the end of therapy

Time frame: 3 years

ArmMeasureGroupValue (NUMBER)
Arm AOverall Objective ResponseComplete Remission45 participants
Arm AOverall Objective ResponsePartial Remission (PR)6 participants
Arm AOverall Objective ResponseProgression of Disease (POD)3 participants
Arm BOverall Objective ResponseComplete Remission31 participants
Arm BOverall Objective ResponsePartial Remission (PR)1 participants
Arm BOverall Objective ResponseProgression of Disease (POD)7 participants

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 8, 2026