IBER Salvage Treatment Followed by Ibrutinib Maintenance for Relapsed or Refractory PCNSL

Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma Clinical Trial

Official title:

Clinical Efficacy and Safety of IBER Salvage Treatment Followed by Ibrutinib Maintenance for Transplant-ineligible Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma (PCNSL): a Multicenter, Single-arm, Prospective Phase II Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04066920
• Other study ID #: IBER
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: October 1, 2019
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: August 2019
• Source: Chonnam National University Hospital
• Contact: Deok-Hwan Yang, M.D., Ph.D.
• Phone: +82-61-379-7636
• Email: drydh1685[@]hotmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This is a multicenter, single-arm, prospective phase II study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a novel combination regimen for relapsed/refractory PCNSL. Specifically, ibrutinib will be administered in combination with ifosfamide, etoposide and rituximab (IBER) as a salvage chemotherapy, which is followed by maintenance ibrutinib monotherapy of fixed duration.

Description:

Given the limited activity of salvage therapy with high-dose methotrexate re-treatment and/or alkylator-based treatment in patients with relapse or refractory PCNSL, the development of novel salvage chemotherapy regimen remains an area of clinical unmet need.

Ibrutinib, an oral inhibitor of bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK), is known to induce death of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) cells with dysregulated B-cell receptor (BCR) signaling and has shown promising activity in patients with a variety of B-cell malignancies. Recently, several studies reported that ibrutinib may have an excellent single-agent clinical activity against relapsed or refractory PCNSL. Furthermore, proven pharmacokinetic data suggested that ibrutinib successfully penetrated the BBB and reached the achievable concentration in cerebrospinal fluid. When ibrutinib is administered in combination with BBB-destructing chemotherapeutic agents (such as, temozolomide or etoposide) for salvage treatment of PCNSL, therefore, anti-lymphoma activity of ibrutinib could be maximized.

In this context, this phase II study is designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of IBER salvage chemotherapy followed by ibrutinib maintenance for transplant ineligible patients with relapsed or refractory PCNSL.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: September 30, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: September 30, 2021
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 20 Years to 79 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Histologically confirmed PCNSL of CD20+ diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL)

• PCNSL relapsed or refractory after frontline methotrexate-based chemotherapy (with or without radiation therapy)

• At least one measurable lesion, which is defined as longest diameter of lesion > 0.5 cm, by contrast-enhanced MRI

• ECOG performance status 0-2

• Normal function of major organs

Exclusion Criteria:

• PCNSL other than DLBCL

• Primary ocular lymphoma

• PCNSL accompanied by systemic involvement

• Active infection with hepatitis B or C virus

• Known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection

• Therapy with myelosuppressive chemotherapy or biologic therapy < 21 days prior to registration

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Lymphoma
• Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma

Intervention

Drug:
• IBER salvage chemotherapy followed by ibrutinib maintenance therapy
Induction therapy with IBER (up to 6 cycles) [ Ibrutinib 560 mg/d on D1-21 + Rituximab 375 mg/m2 on D1 (on D1/8/15 in C1) + Ifosfamide 3.75 g/m2 on D2 + Etoposide 100 mg/m2 on D2-4 ], followed by ibrutinib 560 mg/d maintenance therapy for up to 6 months

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Korea, Republic of	Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital	Hwasun	Jeollanam-do

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Deok-Hwan Yang

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Korea, Republic of, 

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Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Overall response rate	The percentage of patients with a complete response (CR) or a partial response (PR)	From date of starting the study treatment until the date of finishing the study treatment for any reason, assessed up to 10 months
Secondary	Safety and tolerability of the study treatment	Treatment-emergent adverse events graded according to the NCI-CTCAC version 4.0	From the first day of the first cycle of IBER induction chemotherapy to 30 days after the last dose of study drug, assessed up to 12 months