Status:

COMPLETED

Rituximab and Cyclophosphamide Followed by Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Relapsed Hodgkin Lymphoma

Lead Sponsor:

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Conditions:

Lymphoma

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-120 years

Phase:

PHASE1

PHASE2

Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Monoclonal antibodies, such as rituximab, can block cancer growth in different ways. Some block the ability of cancer cells to grow and spread. Others find cancer cells and help kill them o...

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES: Primary * Determine the safety and tolerability of rituximab and high-dose cyclophosphamide followed by vaccine therapy comprising an allogeneic vaccine that expresses Hodgkin's tumor an...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
  • Histologically confirmed classical Hodgkin's lymphoma
  • Relapsed disease with achievement of at least a partial response or a metabolic response to most recent salvage therapy
  • No primary induction failure, defined as disease progression during or within 2 months after completion of first-line therapy
  • PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
  • Age
  • 18 and over
  • Performance status
  • ECOG 0-1
  • Life expectancy
  • Not specified
  • Hematopoietic
  • Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,000/mm\^3
  • Platelet count ≥ 75,000/mm\^3
  • Hepatic
  • Bilirubin ≤ 2.0 mg/dL\* NOTE: \*Unless due to lymphoma or Gilbert's syndrome
  • Renal
  • Creatinine ≤ 2.0 mg/dL
  • Cardiovascular
  • Ejection fraction ≥ 45% by echocardiogram or MUGA
  • Pulmonary
  • DLCO ≥ 50% of predicted (corrected for alveolar volume)
  • Immunologic
  • No known HIV positivity
  • No active infection requiring oral or IV antibiotics
  • No autoimmune or other disease requiring long-term systemic steroids or other long-term immunosuppressants
  • Other
  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception
  • Able to tolerate high-dose therapy
  • No other malignancy within the past 3 years except basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer or carcinoma in situ of the cervix
  • PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
  • Biologic therapy
  • Not specified
  • Chemotherapy
  • No prior bone marrow transplantation
  • Endocrine therapy
  • Not specified
  • Radiotherapy
  • Concurrent radiotherapy for disease progression after high-dose cyclophosphamide allowed at the discretion of the principal investigator
  • Surgery
  • Not specified

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    November 1 2005

    Trial Type :

    INTERVENTIONAL

    Allocation :

    ACTUAL

    End Date :

    January 1 2013

    Estimated Enrollment :

    31 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT00134082

    Start Date

    November 1 2005

    End Date

    January 1 2013

    Last Update

    February 26 2019

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    Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

    Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21231-2410